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[Xantalos]

Does someone wanna break out the "smallest violin" rant from Reserviour Dogs on this one? The issue is not "should or shouldnt I tip?", it is "How in blue hell do companies get away with paying them such a shitty wage that they need the tips to survive?" I find it hard to believe that its legal to pay them less than minimum based on tips.

I was wondering that myself. How below minimum are we talking here?

[10ebbor10]

As far as I understand it, compagnies are allowed to drop the wage as much as they want as long as the server ends up with more than minimum wage at the end. (IE, with tips factored in).

[Max White]

Well that kind of sucks. Assuming you do a good job, your employer could get away with paying you nothing at all... I find managers much more agreeable when they don't want to loose the staff they have invested in, rather than treating your hours as some sort of benevolent gift and your employment fungible.

[frostshotgg]

Yeah, tipping seems to be one of the things that's only done in America and just seems weird as fuck to the rest of the world. Like using imperial units still. On the flip side, at least it's not a complete dictatorship!

[Graknorke]

Yeah, tipping seems to be one of the things that's only done in America and just seems weird as fuck to the rest of the world. Like using imperial units still. On the flip side, at least it's not a complete dictatorship!

Britain and France, I know, do tip.

Usually it's more out of convenience than actually setting aside extra money though. As in; just not taking change.

[Pnx]

It's also commonly factored into the bill as a "service charge" in many restaurants.

[Onyxjew944]

-Resisting urge to bring up religion-

"I wanna live somewhere warm... maybe a country like Texas"
"Texas isn't a country..."
"No, no. I mean a country in Texas."

Note: Red speaker is a United States citizen in the tenth grade. Blue speaker is a friend of mine.

[Sirus]

Maybe he meant county?

</grasping at straws>

[Haspen]

At least he didn't call Texas a continent.

[Mr Space Cat]

"I wanna live somewhere warm... maybe a country like Texas"
"Texas isn't a country..."
"No, no. I mean a country in Texas."

>Implying Texas can't be mistaken for a small country filled with horse-riding gun-slinging cowboys singing country music.

Now if Texas had countries inside of it, that'd be impressive.

Maybe he meant county?

To be fair, I had trouble telling the difference between counties and countries when I a kid. There's a single letter of difference.

[Devling]

Maybe he is a time traveller, who came from a time when Texas was still independent?

[tomio175]

Maybe he is a time traveller, who came from a time when Texas WILL BE independent?

ftfy

[Slayerhero90]

I would have figured he was talking about the countryside.

[ChairmanPoo]

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/country

noun (plural countries)
1a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory:
the country’s increasingly precarious economic position
Spain, Italy, and other European countries
(the country) the people of a nation:
the whole country took to the streets
2 (often the country) districts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital:
the airfield is right out in the country
[as modifier]:
a country lane
3 [mass noun] an area or region with regard to its physical features:
a tract of wild country
a region associated with a particular person, work, or television programme:
an old mansion in Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ country
4short for country music.

... I don't think his usage is necessarily incorrect..

edit:  ninjaed.

[Onyxjew944]

Alright, I give in. I have too little non-religious material to let this many gems go to waste.

Spoiler: Youtube Dump (click to show/hide)

Why D&D is Demonic
How to Disprove Evolution with Peanut Butter

Spoiler: Pat Robertson Quotes (click to show/hide)

"(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." –Pat Robertson

"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with." –Pat Robertson, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

"It may be a blessing in disguise. ... Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other." –Pat Robertson, on the earthquake in Haiti that destroyed the capital and killed tens of thousands of people, Jan. 13, 2010

To anyone who is about to site that everything above, with the exception of one video, is by the same person, yes. Yes it is.

Edit: Similarly in before "not all Christians are like that". Yes, you are correct. I simply find these two Christians to be absolutely hilarious to laugh at.