Lap Dancing Clubs

[Furrowed Brow]

Ok just had a night out on the town.

Questions:

Is it immoral to be a dancer in lap dancing club?
Is it immoral tol be a waitress or waiter or doorman for a lap dancing club?
Is it immoral to be a punter in a lap dancing club?

[Cathar1950]

No, but what is a "punter"?

I think it's Britspeak for a bouncer.

We call them security when I was a "bouncer" some 30 years ago.
I have been to places were the bouncer starts fights and where I worked you were suppose to prevent them even if you had to buy a drink or two. The last thing a place needs is a guy beating up the customers.

[Coyotero]

Huh, guess I was wrong.

From wikipedia:
The word punter may refer to:

* A British, Australian and Hiberno (Irish) English colloquial term for a paying guest or customer, especially
o a patron of a public house
o a patron of a brothel
o a gambler, particularly an amateur betting on horse racing or a player in the game of Baccarat
o a beginner skier or snowboarder, especially one with particularly bad style
o a speculator in the stock market
* a slang term for small barking dog about the size of a football
* Someone who uses a punt (boat)
* Punter (American football), a position in American or Canadian football
* The Punters, a traditional Newfoundland music group
* Punter (protocol), a file-transfer protocol
* Ricky Ponting, nicknamed Punter, an Australian cricketer

[VermilionUK]

I know we're massively floating off-topic, but here in the UK we say "punter" to mean a customer at a: bar/pub/club/cinema/eating place.
Strange, of all the avenues that a discussion about morals can go down, I never thought we'd end up going grammatical

[McCulloch]

Strange, of all the avenues that a discussion about morals can go down, I never thought we'd end up going grammatical

There are some of us who think that is not so strange. To us grammar and syntax are moral issues.

Just kidding.


Maybe.

[Ink]

As an Aussie I know a 'punter' to be a gambler, like betting on horses, dogs, and poker machines. But a 'punt' is kicking a football.

[VermilionUK]

As an Aussie I know a 'punter' to be a gambler, like betting on horses, dogs, and poker machines. But a 'punt' is kicking a football.

Oh, well seeing as we're going down the grammar route - does anyone know the origin of the words "Punter" and "Punt"?

[JBlack]

As an Aussie I know a 'punter' to be a gambler, like betting on horses, dogs, and poker machines. But a 'punt' is kicking a football.

Oh, well seeing as we're going down the grammar route - does anyone know the origin of the words "Punter" and "Punt"?

From podictionary.com:

Punt itself isn’t that popular a word.

According to a tool called wordcount (recently pointed out to me) punt is the 23,464th most popular word in English.

According to another tool (I am not yet at liberty to unveil) punt is a word you’re likely to come across about once a month.

This despite the fact that Merriam-Webster lists seven different meanings for the word, and The Oxford English Dictionary comes up with nine different meanings.

Perhaps the most popular, at least during football season, is punt meaning “kick.�

This is a word that the dictionaries only guess at an origin for. Perhaps a variation of bunt, they say. Maybe related to a dialect word meaning “to hit.�

Now I’ve heard people, when asked a question they can’t answer, to say “I’ll punt,� meaning “let’s move to the next question,� or “I hope the next guy can answer that, ‘cause I can’t.� This rings to me with “scoring possibilities are minimal� so you’d want to punt that question.

The oldest meaning of the word punt is a small kind of boat. Though older, this boat name does have a traceable etymology and is related to pontoon, the word that refers to those floats that are fastened to the bottom of airplanes to enable them to land on lakes.

While the football punt didn’t appear until the mid 1800s, the boat punt has been with us for more than 1000 years and so is from Old English. It has apparent ancestor words in both Latin and Germanic languages but mysteriously disappeared as an English word throughout the Middle English period. The OED speculates that this may be because it was a highly local word used only by people living in places where flat bottomed boats were practical.

But if the etymology I mention in my book History of Wine Words is accurate the punt likely began earlier, as a byproduct of the manufacturing process.

Shakespeare was dead before glass bottles appeared on the scene. At first they were all made by hand. The glass blower stuck a blob of molten glass on an iron pole to poke it into the furnace and heat it up in order to be able to work it.

The pole was called a pontil from French meaning “little point.�

The word punt very likely evolved from the name of the iron rod.

Since it formed a scar on the glass when work was finished, and it was desirable that the bottle sit fairly stable on a table, the area where the pontil held the glass was pushed in a bit. That way the bottle didn’t wobble.

Of course it’s possible that this wasn’t the etymology at all. The earliest citation for the punt in the bottom of a bottle was from the early 1800s, roughly the same time that footballs began to be punted, and an alternative to the punt as a name for this bottle indent is the kick.

[Megaboomer]

I definitely think it is wrong and that it should be outlawed because it is immoral and God said so.

Proverbs 5:3-5: For the lips of an immoral women drip honey and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword her feet go down to death her steps lay hold of hell.

besides the fact that it's as much of a waste of money as cigarettes.

[JoeyKnothead]

I definitely think it is wrong and that it should be outlawed because it is immoral and God said so.

Proverbs 5:3-5: For the lips of an immoral women drip honey and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword her feet go down to death her steps lay hold of hell.

besides the fact that it's as much of a waste of money as cigarettes.

You gotta quit going to the ones with the ugly chicks.

Actually, a book seems to have "said so". There's no evidence to show the Bible is an accurate reflection of the wants or wishes of a god.

[Jakeypoo]

A punter is a gambler here in Australia.

And no to all, personally. At the same time, I'm not entirely into paying girls to rub their bodies on me. They should be paying me for the pleasure... or not.