A sad, constant bid for attention

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
??? I thought chicks hated getting drilled silly at one speed the whole time? Have I been shifting speeds all these years for no reason? I could have just sprinted from the gate and run a straight burn to the finish every time?

oh no!! I was joking.

fwiw, I have not found coke sex to be of the jackhammer/sweaty variety.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by taxwonk
You do it for the same reason most people do it. Traditionally, bartenders, waiters, shoeshine guys, etc. have been tipped, because they provide a service above and beyond simply handing you some merchandise and collecting your money.

Somewhere along the line, counter help started getting the idea that they were entitled to tips, too. Enough people just automatically dropped cash in the cup or jar or whatever that it's becoming more common.

I think it's bullshit. If I were the kind of customer who went to Starbucks, sat at the tables, left my shit for the emloyees to clean up, I'd leave a tip. But I walk in, get a cup of coffee, walk out. What extra value do they provide that justifies a tip?

my daughter finished a job as counter help at a pizza joint a few months ago. I am now free to reveal that hardly anyone tips. she'd get like $6-10 in a 5 hour shift.

Like I bet gilligan would tip, but the professor wouldn't.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Thank you for putting that "Almost Paradise" song from Footloose into my head.

Really.

Thanks.

PS you kinda win on the whole "I think people look like their avatars" thing. Other than you are headless, one-armed and legless.

I was thinking "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," my own self. Especially effective if you replace Chris Farley with Meatloaf in Sebby's original post.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by pony_trekker

Bringing coffee to my table: different story.

and that was the lesson she learned to get to $10.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I have no problem not tipping counter people, but where i get hung up is when i use a credit card and they hand you the sheet with the tip line on it, my moxie dies down somewhere short of crossing through that line.

I put a line straight through it in every circumstance unless I am sitting down and being served.

TM

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
There were no background videos, though there was a bevy of girls in space alien suits on one side of the stage and a cluster of santa clauses on the other side of the stage. There were also a variety of people dressed in super hero costumes wandering around the stage. And a lot of blow up animals. The lead singer poured fake blood on himself in some sort of act of solidarity with Ben Harper, who apparently earlier that day had had a bad nosebleed. He asked for tampon donations to help stop the bleeding.

I was standing with a friend of mine who'd just returned from Burning Man the week before was reduced to tears by "Do You Realize." He may have still had drugs in his system from Burning Man. Or he may have brought some shrooms with him. He said he just really liked the song. It wasn't really that bad, so he probably wasn't on drugs given your previous advice on the subject.

I love the sound painting on Yoshimi. "Do You Realize" sounds unreal in surround sound. Pick up the special cd/dvd edition of Yoshimi. The surround sound edition of DYR is wild, and it has great, senseless graphic to go with it. On a high def LCD panel, its really cool.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
I was thinking "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," my own self. Especially effective if you replace Chris Farley with Meatloaf in Sebby's original post.

My boyfriend does occasionally remind me of Chris Farley. I think I have mentioned this before. But not Meatloaf.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
When you go into a liquor store to buy a bottle of wine do you tip the person who puts it in the bag?

am I underage?

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan



Lord help us all, I think they're expecting people to wear this in a non costume party setting.

It would definitely take a certain body type to pull that look off regardless.

(Isn't gold lame more 70's?)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
oh no!! I was joking.

fwiw, I have not found coke sex to be of the jackhammer/sweaty variety.

You're a hard one to read at times... And fwiw, there'd be nothing wrong with digging a high speed jackhammering. Some people like it mixed, but there's nothing wrong with liking your poison straight up, neat, 150 proof.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You're a hard one to read at times... And fwiw, there'd be nothing wrong with digging a high speed jackhammering. Some people like it mixed, but there's nothing wrong with liking your poison straight up, neat, 150 proof.

Spoken from experience?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No it doesn't because they play such strong zones. I'm not sure about whether there are any rules against what kind of zones they're allowed to play, but they're definitely cutting down on driving by using a zone.

And the widening of the lane and the liberal calling of 3 seconds is HUGE. All of our post players are much bigger, stronger and more athletic and if you move them further from the basket and keep them out of the lane, what the fuck good are they? You need a big man who can play a zone and has great outside shooting skills to succeed. And guess what? That's not what any NBA team is built around. Tell me who would guard Shaq or even Brand if the lane was NBA regulation under FIBA rules.

And just think about how ingrained goal tending is in the NBA. If we could touch the ball once it hit the rim in the NBA and carried this new skill over to international play, it would vastly cut down scoring.

These are major differences. And it's basically a different, jump shooting, stationary-passing game.

TM

I agree with almost all of this. Of course they couldn't guard Shaq, but the key (although if he could only travel he could overcome even this) and the calls kill him. I just think a well-selected team of NBA guys could overcome all that. But we pick the teams based upon what they do in the NBA. Hell T, National play is a good reason to keep JJ Redick in the league for awhile.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
my daughter finished a job as counter help at a pizza joint a few months ago. I am now free to reveal that hardly anyone tips. she'd get like $6-10 in a 5 hour shift.

Like I bet gilligan would tip, but the professor wouldn't.

I tipped her.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
I was thinking "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," my own self.

You bastard.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You're a hard one to read at times

99% of what I say on this board is not serious. That is the guideline.

However, I am telling the truth about certain subjects such as ppnyc making my skin crawl, ncs being the bestest internet gf ever and my boyfriend being well-endowed. Basically the rest is bullshit.