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Yep. Often, the only way to de-escalate a situation is a demonstrate a superior level of force. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

I've had that sort of experience. It's almost surreal. Feels kind of odd trying to describe it to people because it's so rare and unexpected.

I feel shame when I'm out with someone and I see they don't tip well, and then I don't spend time with them anymore. This is not indicative of me being better than average, in the world I was raised in this is the average. It's expected. It's not tooting one's own horn to say that one pays a basic, expected societal courtesy that they should have been observing/learning from birth if their guardians had any social grace or semblance of pride.

Gotcha. If gratuity is included in my bill I often don't add anything. I always tip whole numbers so those 10%-15%-20% options are generally useless to me. And as I stated above, I find it acceptable to dock a tip (heavily, even) when service is *****. I then never go back to that establishment. The two places I remember doing that at are now out of business.

Now you're being forced to tip if there's a tip jar? JFC, if you really feel that way about it you're not forced to go there to begin with, exercise that choice.

I've had all sorts of service jobs in my time, including serving and bartending. I understand the differences. I guess I just don't get how a tip jar automatically means the worker was "expecting" or "demanding" a tip. Maybe someone can explain that one to me.

I hardly ever get takeout. I don't even really eat pizza much anymore, to be honest. Everything I get is delivered, sat down for, or prepared in front of me. I got a burrito for takeout from a tiny Mexican grocery a month ago, I think I tipped a dollar just because it's basically a one-woman operation and it amused me that she was like 4'5".

I'm sure the server will enjoy the food that your lecture on how the tipping system has failed puts on their table. I eat out a lot (job hazard). The places I frequent, I get impeccable service. Tell me again how it's not working for me.

I tip everywhere that has a way to receive it. If there's a tip jar or one of those POS systems with the flip around iPad something gets added on top. Ice cream shop, maybe $1 unless I get a cappuccino there too, then $2. Italian deli where the pretty girl makes my sandwich and cashes me out with her college fund tip jar sitting there, $2 plus whatever coins were in my change. If I get water or club soda at the bar, $1 for the bartender per drink even though it's free. Picking up a pizza at my favorite joint and the folks are polite as always, they get a dollar. A few singles left on the golf cart for the guy hosing it down after a round. Tip the hotel concierge or front desk attendant for a dinner reservation/recommendation. If their driving wasn't ridiculous, Uber/Lyft drivers get a minimum $3 tip. 20% BARE MINIMUM if I sit down to eat and be served somewhere unless the service (and really, the service, not the kitchen) really sucks. $5 to the girl who cuts my hair to make it an even 20. A fiver to the delivery guy. All get increased if it's the holidays. Tipping well is a mark of good character and good social graces. People who suck at tipping suck at life. End of story.

What the hell did I just look at? What's the market for this movie, Subaru drivers? Why Hollywood insists on destroying the legacies of good movies is beyond me.

Swank? Duh

I bear witness. @Gugny has understated his case in the title, to his great shame, and I demand answer!

God created man. Samuel Colt made men equal. And that's nice and all, too bad Raygun was a gun-grabbing phony.

Interesting. I've never heard of anybody having that sort of reaction to pineapple before. Kind of sounds like how some people are with cilantro.

Pineapple does not belong anywhere near pizza but bro the hate in this post

GoddAMN Josh Allen looks good in shorts

You're a monster.

As I said in the shoutbox, if the crust isn't good, the pizza isn't good. But, there's no reason to say the outer crust is the best/most important part. ***** Hawaiians, who invited them?

You forgot to log in to your @Blokestradamus account before posting this.

My gripe for today:

Don't Lean In, Josh.

I laughed pretty good at me as a golf coach. The situation is somewhat reversed, but it still applies. I don't deny that adverse life circumstances can affect standardized test scores. I deny the idea that these factors affect all people in the same, measurable way. We can throw statistics around all we want but growing up poor and going to a high school with no AP curriculum doesn't bring the same amount of "adversity" to each person, just like being ugly or pretty doesn't affect everyone the same way. Kids of the same age can grow up next door to each other, each in a four person family that includes a single mom who is chronically unemployed, and not experience the same amount of "adversity." Yet according to the chart in the article they would receive the same "adversity score." The other issue with this is that it's really just a preening virtue signal from College Board. Colleges can ignore it if they want, they can use it if they want, but at the end of the day it has no effect on your actual combined SAT score (similar to the writing portion they added some time ago), just like it won't have any effect on your ability to do well in college. Colleges also already have ways of capturing this information in their application process (like they capture writing ability with the admissions essay). College Board doesn't care if a poor black child gets into Harvard, they care about their image in our hyper-PC culture. If they cared that much, they'd give away their SAT prep books by the dozens at "undermatching" high schools. One's math and reading scores on the SAT and one's ability to do well at university both come down to three things, in my estimation: brain power, willingness to prepare/put in the work, and quality of previous education. Exactly one of these is up to the student. Sucks to suck, life isn't fair; but adversity, measurable or not, doesn't prepare you for the academic rigor of higher education, and it certainly doesn't prepare you to pay off the massive debt that comes after you flunk out.

"It was then that Diana Moon Clampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun."

She just takes all the civilian boys she didn't kill and castrates them for the photo op.

If I didn't know that PTR was a giant I'd say you were short. Well, you're still short, but not as much as the picture implies.