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Rufus, Moby, Sean Lennon - Across The Universe
Rufus sure has gotten long hair.


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One Girl, 12 Cups
Did no one see the gorilla dancing by at 0:45?


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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
Tippars r fags. Youtubed.


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Jimmy Carr: Audience doesn't "get it" on The Late Late Show
Humor is a funny thing.


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Bryce, Brycewi19 got his ruby - baby (Happy Talk Post)


Congrats bryce!


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"An internal server error occurred. Please try again later." (Sift Talk Post)
Good thing you got it fixed, lucky. Here's to ya. *drinks malt liquor*


written by gwiz665  | 11 hours 50 minutes 13 seconds ago | CH
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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
>> ^blankfist:
It's easy to complain about a business when you've never invested money in a venture yourself. Most business owners are NOT billionaire fat cats with top hats and monocles. Most are working to make a living, and a lot of restauranteurs make less than the servers because of the debt and having to pay worker salaries first before paying theirs.

That aside, when these customers sat down to order they agreed to the mandatory tip. It would've been wise for the restaurant to comp them when they complained, but they certainly are not obligated to do so.

I rarely tip less than 20% unless the service is terrible. Even when mandatory I tend to add to it. I suppose I should move to Europe where they "make better society" and then I'd never have to reward people for their good work.


Blah blah de blah blah. It's easy to make personal attacks instead of a cogent argument.

That last part is just bullshit. We pay tips in Europe, or Denmark at least, but only if the service was over average. Our restaurant industry is better, because if you don't get a tip, you don't starve. You are rewarded for good work, not punished for bad work.

>> ^poolcleaner:
>> ^gwiz665:
I have no problem with a restaurant adding an extra fee if you are a big group, but I have a problem when they try to call it a tip or gratuity. That's the whole issue, it's not gratuity, it's a bill. I pay tips in restaurants when I've gotten good service, or we had difficult orders or whatever - but I CHOOSE to pay it, I'm not forced to it.


Your opinion is skewed because 1) You don't live in America, and 2) You didn't work in the terrible food industry of America.

Before you start downvoting me and before you stop reading what I have to say, let me explain: I'm not against you not being American, (because that's a simple-minded way to go about judging people) but the food industry here is bullshit and the system (for lack of an actual person to blame) forces workers into this reality. When a tip is not paid by a customer, it's akin to docking a worker's pay. I know it doesn't make that much sense, but it's how things turned out over here. And it's as simple as that from a restaurant worker's perspective.

My next point is also important to your understanding: The total tips that a waiter/server makes at the end of the day is split up amongst the food runners, bussers, and barback, so not tipping has a trickle down effect to people who may have done their share of work yet who rely on the waiter to make their fair share.

It really is a shitty shitland of shit for the workers who live by these rules. I fault your ignorance of our food culture, not your ability to reason. I'd love to adopt the system you envision, but that means nothing in the short term and isn't too realistic.


You say that as if I don't know it. I do. Your system is shitty, everyone knows it. I would refuse to play into a shitty system (food industry). If these people saw that there was a mandatory extra fee and chose to eat there anyway, then they are in the wrong. Of course. But to call it a gratuity or tip is deceitful. I have no problem docking a waiter's pay if he provides shitty service, if his pay is partly what he wants me to donate. It is obviously obfuscating the terms, so it doesn't feel like an extra bill, but it still is.

The problem is that (all) customers are being blamed for the poor pay that waiters have. It is not the customers' fault, it is the business owners and the industry's fault.

[edit: forgot I already had replied to that last part..]


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Mobile VideoSift Now Available on Droids and iPhones (Sift Talk Post)
Ah, the pictures are stored on bayimg. That's blocked in denmark and sweden along with thepiratebay.


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Mobile VideoSift Now Available on Droids and iPhones (Sift Talk Post)
I don't see the pictures. Other than that, excellent. This is what videosift has been needing for a while.


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Obama on Palin's Rating of his Presidency
>> ^TangledThorns:
Obama better wise up as his actual approval polls are hitting below 50% while Sarah Palin's are rising. The way this fool is running the country into the ground I expect a President Sarah Palin to save us from his huge mistakes.


Aaahahahahaa.

Oh wait, you were serious? Let me laugh even harder.

AAAHH HA HAHAHAHA!!


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CCTV: King County sheriff's deputy assaulting 15 yr old girl
I agree with marinara, it's a shame that there was dupeof in this instance. It's impossible to reinstante the votes as they were now, but at least the other one could be unkilled and go by its own merits. Alternatively, you can post it again, marinara.


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No Country For Old Men - The Ending Scene
^The man speaks the truth! A Serious Man feels a lot like No Country... but Jewish.


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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
Blankfist, you keep coming back to "the agreed upon cost" as if they had a contract that they had to pay the mandatory tip. That's not the issue for me at all. If it said loud and clear on the menu, or they told me when I got in, that there was the extra fee of 20 %, I would just leave again immediately. I would not have my food and THEN refuse to pay the tip, then you are right, I would be in the wrong. That's not my argument. My argument is when NOTHING is mentioned and when the bill comes, it's 20 % more than what you could figure out from the item prices. That is deceitful.


written by gwiz665  | 14 hours 7 minutes 42 seconds ago | CH
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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
>> ^poolcleaner:
>> ^gwiz665:
I have no problem with a restaurant adding an extra fee if you are a big group, but I have a problem when they try to call it a tip or gratuity. That's the whole issue, it's not gratuity, it's a bill. I pay tips in restaurants when I've gotten good service, or we had difficult orders or whatever - but I CHOOSE to pay it, I'm not forced to it.


Your opinion is skewed because 1) You don't live in America, and 2) You didn't work in the terrible food industry of America.

Before you start downvoting me and before you stop reading what I have to say, let me explain: I'm not against you not being American, (because that's a simple-minded way to go about judging people) but the food industry here is bullshit and the system (for lack of an actual person to blame) forces workers into this reality. When a tip is not paid by a customer, it's akin to docking a worker's pay. I know it doesn't make that much sense, but it's how things turned out over here. And it's as simple as that from a restaurant worker's perspective.

My next point is also important to your understanding: The total tips that a waiter/server makes at the end of the day is split up amongst the food runners, bussers, and barback, so not tipping has a trickle down effect to people who may have done their share of work yet who rely on the waiter to make their fair share.

It really is a shitty shitland of shit for the workers who live by these rules. I fault your ignorance of our food culture, not your ability to reason. I'd love to adopt the system you envision, but that means nothing in the short term and isn't too realistic.


Whether it actually is that way or not is not in question. Whether it is a bad thing is. And it is a bad thing. Like I said earlier, make a better system.

If they merely called it "staff fee" or something, then everyone would know what it was, but to disguise it as something nice, a tip, a donation, is deceitful. I don't blame this particular restaurant, I blame the system. Hence my, make a better society.

Just because some countries have sweatshops doesn't mean they should.


written by gwiz665  | 14 hours 10 minutes 12 seconds ago | CH
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No Country For Old Men - The Ending Scene
*quality


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demon_ix (Member Profile)
You, my boy, need to be a faster sifter.
If it sifts, I promise you a quality of your choice. Seems only fair.

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RUDE!

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http://www.videosift.com/video/CURSES



written by gwiz665  | 16 hours 28 minutes 25 seconds ago | CH
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There's the Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Max Power Way
German is bullshit. When someone posts this with English speech, it's not a dupe of this.. remember that.


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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
I have no problem with a restaurant adding an extra fee if you are a big group, but I have a problem when they try to call it a tip or gratuity. That's the whole issue, it's not gratuity, it's a bill. I pay tips in restaurants when I've gotten good service, or we had difficult orders or whatever - but I CHOOSE to pay it, I'm not forced to it.


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Crane bisects house FAIL
Evacuating the neighbors? Isn't that a bit extreme?


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No Country For Old Men - The Ending Scene
*dark *talks


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