(just in time for New Year’s Eve!
So let’s stagger on with the news:
...that’s because they have less to give, plus they have high standards for service which today’s snowflake yoof can’t provide.
...just out of curiosity: when the fuck did a couple’s sleeping arrangements move into the public domain?
...because of course they are.
In the Dept. of Education:
...and he did, by golly.
News from the Animal World:
...I’m just surprised he didn’t beat it to death with his huge clanging brass balls.
...keyword: Florida (duh).
Immigration News:
...fuck me, when the place is getting too rough for Superman…
And speaking of crime:
...this item sponsored by Captain Obvious breakfast cereal.
In Sex Medicine News:
...burned through that first upgrade already, huh?
Now it’s the turn of link-free INSIGNIFICA:
And in Showbiz News:
...relax, no pics of Gwynnie. Instead, let’s look back at her Mom, Blythe Danner, who always was a hottie:
She was (and still is) classier than her silly daughter.
And she’s still a GILF (in her 80s, FFS):
We should all age that well…
And remember, kids: the Comments are open field in the Roundups. Play nicely.
Apparently the Brits don’t know how to tell boys from girls anymore, given that the teacher was shagging “them”. I didn’t see anything to indicate that “them” was more than one student.
Pity that the English can’t use their own language properly anymore.
Study shows the older people get, the less they give.
That is because the amount of a ‘standard tip’ keeps ratcheting up, and it now seems that everyone has their hand out for a tip, regardless of what they do. I note the article offers both points as something that should become standard in Britain now.
Also, it’s interesting that 10% is still the ‘standard tip’ in Britain.
…when the fuck did a couple’s sleeping arrangements move into the public domain?
When the Good Folk decided that there were too many people on their planet.
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Speaking as an old person, I have to say that it’s not the tipping part that’s the problem. It’s the whole “sit down restaurant” experience. Super high-end restaurants aside, the whole “sit down and be served” concept is a waste of time and an invitation to bad interactions with slow, indifferent, and incompetent servers. Waiting for the check at the end of the meal is particularly annoying.
Perhaps I have been completely co-opted by Texas-style restaurants where you order at the counter, pay, and pickup at the window, or the other main variation where you order at the counter and they bring it to you. Get in, get out, leave when you’re done not when they feel like cashing you out. Perfect.
Regular restaurants with traditional service start to feel like some antiquated tea ceremonies, reserved for very special occasions.
Now, the fact that these Texas-style places still “suggest” that you tip 10, 15, or 20% on their little cash machines at the window … that’s irritating. I’ll tip you, and tip you well, if you serve me in a trad restaurant, but I won’t tip you for running a cash register. I’m not even sorry about it.
Quote of the day:
“…I’m just surprised he didn’t beat it to death with his huge clanging brass balls.”
Exactly. Does the Register Jockey in a grocery or department store get a tip?
I should shut up, somebody might get ideas.
Paltrow’s mother looks like Susan Sarandon or however you spell that rat commie’s name.
I have had enough of places where the workers demand a tip for handing me an item. Tips are for WAITERS and WAITRESSES and Barbers. That’s about it.
JQ
This ‘lets keep Trump off our state ballot’ thing, I don’t think it will work out well for those states. I can not imagine a SCOTUS decision in which that is allowed, or if they manage to delay until after the election, where the electoral votes of such states get to be counted. Given they are all blue states, that works for me. If a few conservative justices had accidents or just decided to John Roberts the decision, I can’t see this ending without the old binary switch being thrown, and since VOTE was short circuited, that just leaves that other thing. Hope not.