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One with the Force
- Nov 2005
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- Polytheist with Pan-/Panen- tendencies.
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- Elk River, MN
- In the darkest recesses of your twisted mind, a G-rated version of me resides.
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." - Ayn Rand
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." - Mark Twain
"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing." - Johnny Depp
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Originally posted by ChainLightning View PostI'm worried about you!Satan is my spirit animal
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Originally posted by perzephone View PostFound a helpful infographic: To Tip or Not To Tip
It's complete & utter b.s., but here in the US, if you work in a 'tip-compliant' field, you're taxed on estimated tips that you may or may not actually receive. The IRS felt that income made through tips was under-reported and therefore under-taxed.
As a night auditor, I'm not tip-compliant, but I always, always over-tip any service people I deal with. My husband gets annoyed by it, but I'm like, "Hey, they pay taxes, too". And even when there's a line at the coffee shop, the baristas have my usual waiting for me before I even hit the register, so there are perks
Also, ever since I accidentally tipped someone badly, I am supremely paranoid about not giving enough. It was an accident -- how, you ask? Ashamedly, I am embarrassingly bad at math. No joke, if you ask me a simple math question and just put me on the spot my chest will tighten up and my cheeks will redden and I simply won't be able to think of how to produce the answer. I got the check, I saw that it was less than the bill that I had, so I threw it down on the table and didn't think twice. As I was leaving, my waiter came screaming after me swearing and whatnot. I was fucking mortified.
So yeah, ever since then I overtip. I know what it's like to work paycheck to paycheck, I gotta spread some of the love around, yanno?No one tells the wind which way to blow.
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Well, my "references" cost me one of the internship openings. But I got the other one, so... maybe it simply wasn't meant to be. Or maybe it's the Universe's way of telling me I'm supposed to sleep sometimes.
Either way, I'm rather peeved at my "friends" and at the department that chose to be extremely snotty regarding their rejection of my application due to my references' inability to respond on time. -.-
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Originally posted by Bjorn View PostAlso, ever since I accidentally tipped someone badly, I am supremely paranoid about not giving enough. It was an accident -- how, you ask? Ashamedly, I am embarrassingly bad at math. No joke, if you ask me a simple math question and just put me on the spot my chest will tighten up and my cheeks will redden and I simply won't be able to think of how to produce the answer. I got the check, I saw that it was less than the bill that I had, so I threw it down on the table and didn't think twice. As I was leaving, my waiter came screaming after me swearing and whatnot. I was fucking mortified.The forum member formerly known as perzephone. Or Perze. I've shed a skin.
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Originally posted by volcaniclastic View PostAs an international traveler who isn't American but gets mistaken for one by people abroad, I can't believe the bad rap you guys get worldwide.
I mean, yeah - I've met some pretty shitty Americans traveling. And I'll admit - when I see a group of slightly overweight, middleaged white people looking at maps, I'm like "Oh god, the American tourists are here" and I usually try to leave, but it's groups like that (and businessmen assholes) that gave you the bad rap traveling.
Most people when they find out I'm Canadian, try to buy me a beer and tell me how polite Canadians are. It's just crazy.
Aside from living in two tourist trap cities over my lifetime, I've worked in tourism briefly on two different occasions. In my personal experience, the Russians were the worst. I worked in a gift shop in the middle of nowhere, and a bus of Russians came in once and in the course of an hour made the entire staff cry. I got yelled at for giving a guy Canadian money in change (this was in Canada, well past the border, nowhere near a bank...we couldn't have that many American coins if we tried!) He just couldn't understand why I wouldn't give him American money, and was very abusive about it. They yelled at other staff members for various, similar reasons.
I used to work in a high end lingerie shop as well for a while. We got a lot of shoppers coming in on shopping trips in Russia...apparently designer clothing is cheaper in Germany than it is in Russia. The women were lovely. The men were horrible. One guy also screamed at me for speaking to him in English. He was struggling with his German and was clearly comfortable with English, so I just switched. He screamed at me, and I said "sorry sir, it's my first language and I thought you might be more comfortable speaking English."
When I worked at the gift shop/hotel, the Chinese drove everyone crazy, but I found that it wasn't out of disrespect or rudeness. They used to yell and push a lot to get help, even when it wasn't crowded. I just think that most people on bus tours haven't left Asia before, and if you don't get pushy in a crowded Asian city, you'll never get help. Therefore, it never bothered me. They were never rude or abusive to anyone on purpose.
Generally, I forgive people for being clueless. It can happen to the best of us when we're in a foreign place. Failure to tip in a country that tips, struggling with "please" and "thank you" because you feel uncomfortable in the local language, and other, more general blunders are no biggie. It's when you're purposely rude, abusive, and demanding to people that's a problem.
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Also, 10-15% tip in Germany...LOL (regarding the infographic)
There are culture clashes about that within the country, but I've never seen a German tip more than 10%. Maybe it's different now in the South. In Berlin a lot of people still give the change of the bill (which was what you did up until about 10 years ago here). So if your bill comes to 39.60, they just pay 40 Euros and say keep the change.
Also, "Dollars are accepted but euros are appreciated." I've never been ANYWHERE that wasn't a tourist trap nightmare around Potsdamer Platz that accepted American dollars. Almost nowhere does, and if you leave the horrible restaurants around main tourist attractions in big cities, people will look at you like you're insane.Last edited by DanieMarie; 02 Aug 2013, 12:24.
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Ok,Damn produce people. I just get into eating salads again,they are good for you right,then the recall cause of some bad bug. This is why I stopped eating salad before. Is there any food I don't have to worry about eating? It is getting to the point that food becomes kinda like Russian roulette as far as being good.MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED
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Originally posted by anunitu View PostOk,Damn produce people. I just get into eating salads again,they are good for you right,then the recall cause of some bad bug. This is why I stopped eating salad before. Is there any food I don't have to worry about eating? It is getting to the point that food becomes kinda like Russian roulette as far as being good.
According to this NPR article, water and a scrub brush can remove about 85 - 98% of microbes on food surfaces. A vinegar-water solution works effectively, too.The forum member formerly known as perzephone. Or Perze. I've shed a skin.
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Do they not teach people how to use wheelchairs before sending them out in them anymore? I swear I see more people half scooting, using their feet more than their hands to move their chair these days. And then, when they ask you to push them, they don't even have the wits to lift their feet up. Well no s**t I ran over your ankles, you didn't pick your feet up idiot. There's only one person I've seen who had a good reason for being in a wheelchair and still using his feet. He had a stroke and can only use one arm so he has to use a foot in order to go straight. And his balance is all screwy because of the stroke. And also, being fat is not enough of a reason to go around in a wheelchair/scooter. This is a huge pet peeve. Seriously. Walk. Ugh.We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now. -Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love.
It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss.
Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.
-Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Curse
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Originally posted by Shahaku View PostDo they not teach people how to use wheelchairs before sending them out in them anymore?http://catcrowsnow.blogspot.com/
But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness.... Which could obviously only be redeemed by passing through the fiery inferno of my digestive tract.
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sea witch
- Oct 2005
- 11651
- relational theophysis and bioregional witchery
- coastal Georgia
- *a little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika*
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Originally posted by Shahaku View PostAnd also, being fat is not enough of a reason to go around in a wheelchair/scooter. This is a huge pet peeve. Seriously. Walk. Ugh.
Those little marine fucktards right out of bootcamp weren't worthy to lick his fucking boots. That's my pet peeve.Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of HistoryPagan Devotionals, because the wind and the rain is our Bible
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There is that difference though isn't there? The people who are so fat that they end up in a wheelchair/scooter, and the people who actually damage themselves, end up in a wheelchair/scooter, and unfortunately get fat.
You just can't tell the difference when they're riding past you down the streetThorSon's milkshake brings all the PF girls to the yard - Volcaniclastic
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I have never been across the way
Seen the desert and the birds
You cut your hair short
Like a shush to an insult
The world had been yelling
Since the day you were born
Revolting with anger
While it smiled like it was cute
That everything was shit.
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- Oct 2005
- 11651
- relational theophysis and bioregional witchery
- coastal Georgia
- *a little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika*
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Originally posted by Heka View PostThere is that difference though isn't there? The people who are so fat that they end up in a wheelchair/scooter, and the people who actually damage themselves, end up in a wheelchair/scooter, and unfortunately get fat.
You just can't tell the difference when they're riding past you down the street
Is it really a difference? I mean...I don't know why someone actually got fat, even if there is nothing else clinically wrong with them. There are so many factors that contribute to obesity--its nowhere as simple as eat less/eat better and excessive more. How much you weigh and how your body treats food is about genetics and the ecology of your gut and the quality of your food and how efficient your body is just as much as it is calories in vs calories out. Yeah, some people eat too much and move too little---and some of those people are skinny. I guarantee that 99% fat people have a story...if people would bother to listen. And I guarantee that some of those stories involve being bullied, being molested, being abused, being injured or ill, being on certain medications, losing the genetic lottery for skinniness, etc....far more that "I ate too much and am lazy".
Is a kid with a genetic propensity to obesity who is never taught good nutrition or how to cook well (because his/her parents never learned how), was born big and never really unable to lose weight, that ends up in a scooter because they get too fat to cart themselves around a wal-mart (which is all they can afford because obesity is connected very strongly to income level) less defensible and less worthy of my compassion than a decorated war vet with cancer?Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of HistoryPagan Devotionals, because the wind and the rain is our Bible
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Originally posted by thalassa View PostIs it really a difference? I mean...I don't know why someone actually got fat, even if there is nothing else clinically wrong with them. There are so many factors that contribute to obesity--its nowhere as simple as eat less/eat better and excessive more. How much you weigh and how your body treats food is about genetics and the ecology of your gut and the quality of your food and how efficient your body is just as much as it is calories in vs calories out. Yeah, some people eat too much and move too little---and some of those people are skinny. I guarantee that 99% fat people have a story...if people would bother to listen. And I guarantee that some of those stories involve being bullied, being molested, being abused, being injured or ill, being on certain medications, losing the genetic lottery for skinniness, etc....far more that "I ate too much and am lazy".
Is a kid with a genetic propensity to obesity who is never taught good nutrition or how to cook well (because his/her parents never learned how), was born big and never really unable to lose weight, that ends up in a scooter because they get too fat to cart themselves around a wal-mart (which is all they can afford because obesity is connected very strongly to income level) less defensible and less worthy of my compassion than a decorated war vet with cancer?
Yes these people aren't so morbidly obese they are in wheelchairs. But I can't make excuses for those people that are 5-20 kg overweight. The majority of those people are just lazy.ThorSon's milkshake brings all the PF girls to the yard - Volcaniclastic
RIP
I have never been across the way
Seen the desert and the birds
You cut your hair short
Like a shush to an insult
The world had been yelling
Since the day you were born
Revolting with anger
While it smiled like it was cute
That everything was shit.
- J. Wylder
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Originally posted by Shahaku View PostThis is a huge pet peeve. Seriously. Walk. Ugh.sigpic
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