[QUOTE=Throatwarbler Mangrove]
I think tipping is stupid. Albeit, I take a rather more pragmatic approach to it than I use to - if I feel like an eatery is of sufficient quality for me to visit again in the future, I will leave a fairly generous tip to ensure no boogers are in my food next time.
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It’s also pragmatic in that, like feigning interest in cats, it will make you more attractive to the opposite gender. You’ve learned all about the corollary already, anyway. Seriously though, it’s not an issue for me since I’m a serial over-tipper (partly because I’ve worked foodservice, and all anyone could’ve done by ranting about how you’re too high and mighty to help put food on my table was make it harder to resist the temptation to piss in their coffee), but IME tipping is one of those things that some people use to determine on the first date whether or not someone is a “good guy”. I don’t think it’s as black and white as all that, but if you’re gonna play, you might as well score as many points as possible, right?
[QUOTE=DocCathode]
I’ve had a near death experience.
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What’s controversial about that? Are there people who seriously doubt that? I guess all I can say to them is, “Come back when you’ve almost died once.”
It’s not really that. We weren’t on a date ( or even in a restaurant) and I would have been happy to stay friends with her even if that was all, and I can disagree with my friends and not be a curmudgeon about it, but looking back, it was like a real-life pit thread - I was being a vicious asshole over something completely pointless and mundane. Like I say, life imitates dope.
1: I think Cecil is an uncredentialed smartass who just makes up shit based on the first thing Google spits out.
2: I believe there is some weird shit going on in Area 51, I know because my friend told me, you’ll just have to believe me because I can’t give you his name.
3: I know God exists because I met Him in a near-death experience.
[QUOTE=Cosmic Relief]
One of these is true and one is false, is it:
1: I think Cecil is an uncredentialed smartass who just makes up shit based on the first thing Google spits out.
2: I believe there is some weird shit going on in Area 51, I know because my friend told me, you’ll just have to believe me because I can’t give you his name.
3: I know God exists because I met Him in a near-death experience.
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Astonishing Cecil was able to write his column for more than two decades before google existed.
Seriously though, it’s not an issue for me since I’m a serial over-tipper (partly because I’ve worked foodservice, and all anyone could’ve done by ranting about how you’re too high and mighty to help put food on my table was make it harder to resist the temptation to piss in their coffee), but IME tipping is one of those things that some people use to determine on the first date whether or not someone is a “good guy”. I don’t think it’s as black and white as all that, but if you’re gonna play, you might as well score as many points as possible, right?