Posted on 10/08/2015 6:09:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
1. Customer service is either so warm it’s like you’ve made a new friend for life or so brusque you feel as though you’ve just been ordered back into your cell after your five-minute phone call with your lawyer. There’s no middle ground.
2. You need to tip for everything. If you think maybe you should tip, you should tip. You should be tipping me for this article.
3. If you don’t tip in a restaurant, the waiter or waitress will make a smart remark and your evening will be ruined. I’ve seen it happen.
4. People tip because the waiting staff are paid low hourly rates.
5. The waiting staff are paid low hourly rates because employers have successfully tricked their customers into taking on a significant portion of their staffing costs. If you don’t like the sound of that, all is not quite lost – there is a socialist running for president this time.
6. You can have anything you want, as long as you can pay for it.
7. And as long as you tip.
8. You can fill up your car at a petrol station using a couple of nickels and an old button.
9. Something as tiny and insignificant as a bicycle could never be considered remotely comparable to a car, and to expect it to abide by the same rules of the road is considered utterly absurd by cyclists, pedestrians and drivers alike.
10. Coins have become so worthless that restaurants sometimes refuse to take them - even thieves have been known to turn their noses up at some of them.
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BIG mistake!
I just had enough on my mind, that when I placed them on the cover, I turned around and walked off.
I had already carried some large display cases and was just not thinking.
I later found several wheaties that I sold for twice the overall face value of all 4 bags.
I once bought and sold precious coins as an additional income.
But, yeah...huge mistake. One I have never made since.
Oh, and the anti-law-enforcement sentiment and accusations of racism. Maybe not so funny.
By the way, fire escapes are not an open invitation to burglary. Most people outside New York don’t know that the ladder ends way above street level and only descends when a person steps on it from the landing above. Hang on!
These sorts of articles are a good reminder why we decided to stop being Brits, and why we threw out everybody who wanted to be Brits.
The obvious American comparison to Boris Johnson would be our own communist, nitwit, partially brain-damaged, major city mayor, Bill de Blasio, although Trump does share his comically bad hair style.
In the rest of the world the wait staff are paid with bean sprouts by the fairies who live in the woods.
Maybe they just couldn’t lift the bag because they didn’t eat their Wheaties:)
He's not a fag, he's just British.
The remark about coins is well taken. Maybe we should have a $2 coin with a woman on it and leave the $10 bill alone?
Well, well.
Did you know we have *King*? A *Queen*? A *Prince*? A *Princess*? *Castles*? *Bangers* and *Mash*?
Just because you drive on the wrong side of the wrong, don’t get your knickers in a wad.
We also have *Knickers*.
Something as tiny and insignificant as a bicycle could never be considered remotely comparable to a car, and to expect it to abide by the same rules of the road is considered utterly absurd by cyclists, pedestrians and drivers alike.
Oh, this piece of crap. It goes hand in hand with a stupid American posting some other crap about how England is soooo superior to America. The Brits are on a roll these days.
Of course, carrying 4 bucks worth of coins in England would give Hulk Hogan a hernia.
8. is a gag about the relative price of gasoline in the U.S. about $2/gallon out here in the Great Plains and the U.K. about $6/gallon once one converts the price from £/litre.
One huge item socialists always (deliberately) ignore...nobody is forced to work as a waiter/waitress or any other job. They're all free to work other jobs in other places.
If those jobs were so horrible, then the people working them are free to go work someplace else...even places where they aren't tipped. Amazing isn't it?.... all those terribly underpaid people working starvation wages? (snicker)
He does. My mom is still shocked that bikes are allowed to ride around at night without lights.
Wow, why did you do that? You just forgot them or were you doing an experiment?
I don’t know anything about coins, but found this:
25 Most Valuable US Pennies
Here is a cool list that details the top 25 most valuable pennies ever minted in the United States of America (updated: 2015). These coin values / worth’s are not based off common errors like double dies, but rather coins that were issued into circulation as is. Check out the list below, some of these coins are worth a ton of money.
http://cointrackers.com/blog/13/most-valuable-pennies/
Actually, the observations are mostly spot on.
Damien Lewis was the Platoon leader in Band of Brothers. Red headed guy.
Dominic West was the police officer in The Wire. He is in lots of stuff as well.
John Slattery plays Roger Sterling in Mad Men and strangely enough is the only one of the three who was NOT born in England.
I would consider them all quality working actors more than celebrities. They have faces you would know and may even know their characters names, but few people would KNOW who they are. Not ‘D’ list, but not Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie either.
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