A lot of people think the Jersey Shore is good television. Doesn't make it good television.
I wouldn't turn down money from having made it even if I knew it wasn't good television.
unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I wouldn't turn down money from having made it even if I knew it wasn't good television.
Really badly worded on my part.Macbeth wrote:
If it wasn't for the income they bring in, I can't find any arguments in favor of having a royal family and some hereditary nobility. I know they have no real government power but the whole thing just looks backwards. It also looks really subservient.
The death threats unfortunately prove some of their points.Macbeth wrote:
These girls make some good points.There are plenty of disturbing things about anti-African American rant by two teen girls from Gainsville, Florida that went viral on YouTube last week. The post received millions of views, thousands of comments, and the girls have been bombarded with death threats and hate mail. They even were expelled from their high school over the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAR2h5aSQO4
Yes, good children. Let the hate flow through you.
That being said, they should probably move to Idaho now -- it doesn't get any whiter than that.
Banker’s Insulting Waitress Tip Incites Class Warfare Between the 1% and the 99%
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-no … 24882.html
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-no … 24882.html
Just when you may have thought the ongoing battle between the 99% and the 1% was dying down, it may have been reignited. A wealthy banker left a $1.33 tip on a $133 lunch at the True Food Kitchen restaurant in Newport Beach, California.
To add insult to injury the word "tip" was circled on the receipt, and the banker wrote "get a real job" on the bill. The picture of the receipt was taken and uploaded to the blog Future Ex-Banker by a person who was dining with the anonymous banker.
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I suppose the my secondary reason would be that there's a group of people who somehow enjoy it. Might as well keep them happy.Macbeth wrote:
unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I wouldn't turn down money from having made it even if I knew it wasn't good television.Really badly worded on my part.Macbeth wrote:
If it wasn't for the income they bring in, I can't find any arguments in favor of having a royal family and some hereditary nobility. I know they have no real government power but the whole thing just looks backwards. It also looks really subservient.
i dont believe in tipping
Tu Stultus Es
liberal
Maybe she gave shitty service?
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
Maybe a he's just a douchebag and there is nothing more to the story?
^Macbeth wrote:
Maybe a he's just a douchebag and there is nothing more to the story?
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Keystone breakthrough may muffle Republican attack on Obama
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/ … 3C20120228
Maybe they'd make better progress if, as a foreign company, they stopped threatening American ranchers with the raw deal of eminent domain and actually disclosed what chemicals they use to thin their crude for pipe transit and the environmental risk level it would be, particularly to land with high water tables?
Why must it be either/or?Macbeth wrote:
Maybe a he's just a douchebag and there is nothing more to the story?
She gave shitty service, he's a douchebag.
Everyone wins.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
The immediate evidence points to him being a douchebag.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/pho … oax-869032The restaurant receipt that a California banker purportedly used to denigrate a waitress--while also leaving her a one percent tip--was wildly “altered and exaggerated,” according to a spokesperson for the Newport Beach restaurant where the businessman supposedly dined earlier this month.
A photo of the receipt (seen at right) has gone viral in the past few days, fueled by a back story claiming that the measly tip was the imperious financier’s way of provoking a member of the lowly “99%” who was not sufficiently solicitous. The claim about the tip--and a photo of the receipt--first appeared last week on a blog that is now offline (along with a related Twitter account).
In fact, a spokesperson for True Food Kitchen in Newport Beach told TSG that the eatery was able to locate the actual “merchant copy” of the February 16 credit card receipt and it reveals that the online version has been Photoshopped.
In response to e-mailed questions, spokesperson Jami Reagan reported that the original receipt does not contain the notation “Get A Real Job.” Nor does it have an arrow pointing to those words from the “Tip” line.
The amount on the actual receipt is $33.54, Reagan said, not $133.54 as seen on the altered receipt. And while the tip on the online receipt claims that the server was left $1.33 (or one percent of the bill), the actual tip was more than $7 on the $33.54 tab.
The “Future Ex Banker” blog, now AWOL, claimed to be authored by someone who worked in “the corporate office of a major bank for a boss who represents everything wrong with the financial industry: blatant disregard and outright contempt for everyone and everything he deems beneath him. On top of that, he’s a complete and utter tool.”
Gilding the lily, the anonymous blogger also noted, “Mention the ‘99%’ in my boss’ presence and feel his wrath. So proudly does he wear his 1% badge of honor that he tips exactly 1% every time he feels the server doesn’t sufficiently bow down to his Holiness. Oh, and he always makes sure to include a ‘tip’ of his own.”
It was a hoax.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Hmmm. So I guess the douchebaggery was on the other side...
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
Yup. Someone's still a douche.
The article says the picture was taken by someone dining with the banker, not the waitress
We could just reach a compromise and say that everyone is a douchebag.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
Stockton could become biggest city to go bankrupt.
if you've ever been to Stockton, you knew it was just a matter of time . . .
if you've ever been to Stockton, you knew it was just a matter of time . . .
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
so you can be environmentally friendly and save the earth!
And some more money on the side to cope with the businesses coping with businesses that raise their prices to cope with higher gas prices by raising their prices.Cybargs wrote:
give them more money to cope with higher gas prices!RTHKI wrote:
what about the poor people
tax breaks to make up for everything!unnamednewbie13 wrote:
And some more money on the side to cope with the businesses coping with businesses that raise their prices to cope with higher gas prices by raising their prices.Cybargs wrote:
give them more money to cope with higher gas prices!RTHKI wrote:
what about the poor people
ze perfect plan.