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    Team Tuohy here, but did they receive any upfront money?
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    https://t.snapchat.com/G225Eq6i
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    I’m not questioning your experience, but perhaps the American customers who usually tip 20%+ are a bit of an incentive. Regulars in American restaurants who have a reputation of tipping generously are treated very well.
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    If you adopt the Euro or Japanese model, they would be offended by your gravy. I’ve asked my kids who have all waited tables, and they said they would’ve done it for $30/hour, but they would’ve resented the lazy staff if they were getting $25 or even $20.
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    nm
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    Crazy like why isn’t this bear hibernating crazy?
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    You have high standards.
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    That’s looks so much like a RR bridge in my town that I thought that was it until I rewatched it. There is a truck detour that takes large trucks on a different route, but a few times a year, a tractor trailer rig gets the sardine can treatment…and the local paper gets a news story to recycle.
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    Are the patrons of that location notoriously stingy with their tips?
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    My wife and I called in a pickup order to Papa Murphy’s (fuck off, it’s super convenient) from the road as we were returning home this afternoon. They said it would be ready in 20 minutes, but wifey asked if it could be ready sooner. They obliged, so I tipped them a couple-three bucks (also because the lady at the cash register said the workers get 100% of the tips). No biggie, we will survive. They also had the tip choices starting at 15% with no preselected tip, so I wasn’t triggered by any of that nonsense.
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    No family history of prostate cancer, so maybe that makes it standard practice for me. Or, perhaps my simpleton mind interpreted it that way.
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    Three of my kids worked in restaurants, and take-out orders almost always require workers to abandon their tip-earning duties to deal with the take-out orders. They say most of the time they get stiffed, so I always leave a tip. My Gen Z daughter is the only one who didn’t work in restaurants, and she’s the one who always tips 25%, regardless of the effort or quality of service. She doesn’t seem to appreciate the difference, and she chastises me when I leave less at some place that offers less service.
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    Wife and I went out recently to our favorite breakfast place. It’s tourist season, so prices are always a little higher. She orders the granola and fruit bowl (not your everyday granola), and I order the omelette special. We both have coffee. That’s it. The total before tip was $45, but what I didn’t notice was that it included a 5% Living Wage surcharge. There wasn’t even a voluntary option to contribute towards a living wage. I tipped $10 on top of that. The surcharge plus tip are probably equivalent to a 40% tip on what I would expect to pay for that breakfast. For those prices, they could pay their employees a living wage. Odd side note is that their coffee was really good. When I mentioned it to our waiter, he said that it was something Folgers makes for restaurants that is not sold in stores. Imagine that.
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    At least he noticed after $12mil was gone unlike VY who lost closer to $50mil. Yeah, I know VY blew at least $10mil at the Cheesecake Factory.
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    In honor of Bill Little and his love of the comma, I pledge to always use the Oxford comma in all of my future posts.
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    That settles it. I’m going to try some of these compound butter suggestions. I’ve done garlic and blue cheese, but that’s about it.
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    On the prostate exam vs. PSA comments, my doctor stopped the digital exams 8-10 years ago. I thought he forgot one year, but my doctor wife asked him, and he said the PSA was standard now. Regarding exercise, I am also doing higher reps with moderate weights. But, I lose ground much more quickly these days. For example, one thing I was doing fine up until the week of my daughter’s wedding in late July, but then I missed 3 full weeks due to that plus traveling/laziness. I started back this week and experienced at least a 1/3 decrease in reps. That would never happen when I was in my 30s or 40s.
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    As an ex-Austinite, I’m curious what the crowds are really like on Lake Austin these days. Back in the 80s, We used to ski on Saturday and/or Sunday mornings, and it’s not much of an exaggeration to say we had the lake to ourselves until about noon.
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    I bought a 6# ribeye roast and cut it into four >1-1/2” thick, almost 24 ounce (after a bit of trimming) ribeyes. Grilled them over mesquite. 4 hours later, and I’m still stuffed.
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    Harry Freeman had us out to the ranch in 1974, after we moved to SA. I caught my first Texas bass in one of the stock tanks (I still have the spinner bait I used to catch it). If I could identify the pond, I could be buried at sea, and they could study my decomposition in water. Sounds fun.
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    Finally finished this. Now that I’m an old fart, I can rarely read more than 4 or 5 pages in bed before I nod off. Or I forget to bring books with me when I’m away from home. Anyhoo, it’s an amazing true story of the failed Jeannette Expedition in search of the Open Polar Sea which was widely believed to exist. The hardships these 30+ men endured for over two years are hard to fathom. I just started this book about the British deception of the Invasion of Sicily by using a dead man with planted war papers.
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    Where’s the outrage that some fucker honed in on this megathread to start a new hunting thread?
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    In other words, at the world premiere? I was totally shocked that the Tuohys’ compassion was for a prototypical NFL OT and not in a homeless dwarf with rickets and scoliosis.

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