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http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=172593

Jerks. Hey, if a customer gives you a tip, it should be yours.

I think the store has that policy because they want to keep any and all money that comes in the door. If somehow, money magically accrues to a worker, it's somehow confiscated by the store.

All this over $50? Let me guess, this girl lives in a trailer park and one of her names is "Brandine."

No shit. It's not like she was accepting a bribe or something.

Maybe Sears should be put in charge of Congress. "No, you may not accept that trip to the bahamas from the lobbyist. It's against Sears policy."

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=172593

Jerks. Hey, if a customer gives you a tip, it should be yours.

I think the store has that policy because they want to keep any and all money that comes in the door. If somehow, money magically accrues to a worker, it's somehow confiscated by the store.

GREEDY BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They should be punished!

All this over $50? Let me guess, this girl lives in a trailer park and one of her names is "Brandine."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton%2C_Massachusetts#Demographics

Doesn't seem so, based on the demographics of the area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton%2C_Massachusetts#Demographics

Doesn't seem so, based on the demographics of the area.

“I started to cry. I didn’t know people like that still existed,” Jessica Paiva, a 16-year-old junior at Taunton High School, marveled [sic!] of the $50 tip a stranger gave her Friday night at the Silver City Galleria Sears store.

Must have been one of those 10% below the poverty line people...

“I started to cry. I didn’t know people like that still existed,” Jessica Paiva, a 16-year-old junior at Taunton High School, marveled [sic!] of the $50 tip a stranger gave her Friday night at the Silver City Galleria Sears store.

Must have been one of those 10% below the poverty line people...

Um.... 16-year-olds frequently have little perspective. (I know, I was one until September.) For some of them $50 can be a lot of money. Especially if they're used to receiving <$20 in general.

“I started to cry. I didn’t know people like that still existed,” Jessica Paiva, a 16-year-old junior at Taunton High School, marveled [sic!] of the $50 tip a stranger gave her Friday night at the Silver City Galleria Sears store.

Must have been one of those 10% below the poverty line people...

People don't tip $50 in the US when at the Sears store, unless they've been hit in the head with a Waring blender.

It is quite unusual.

To get a tip like that if you were a waitress would also be unusual, unless the total bill was quite large (50$ being 15 to 20% of the total bill).

So, they commonly tip the equivalent of $50 dollars in Sweden at the local stores?

“I started to cry. I didn’t know people like that still existed,” Jessica Paiva, a 16-year-old junior at Taunton High School, marveled [sic!] of the $50 tip a stranger gave her Friday night at the Silver City Galleria Sears store.

Must have been one of those 10% below the poverty line people...

She's sixteen and earns $7.50 an hour. That's nearly a day's wages, and untaxed. When I was 16 that'd've been worth getting upset about to me, too.

“I started to cry. I didn’t know people like that still existed,” Jessica Paiva, a 16-year-old junior at Taunton High School, marveled [sic!] of the $50 tip a stranger gave her Friday night at the Silver City Galleria Sears store.

Must have been one of those 10% below the poverty line people...

Come on! Most everybody with a salary of under 1,100$ or at least 10% above the poverty line would react in one way in another to being handed 50 bucks by a stranger in public!

Must have been one of those 10% below the poverty line people...
Or maybe she was spicing up the story?
"I mumbled, 'Uh, ok. Whatever.' I didn't know if he was a pervert or crazy." Jessica Paiva, a 16-year-old junior at Taunton High School, spent the next couple minutes trying to figure out how much Smirnoff Ice she could buy with the $50 tip a stranger gave her Friday night at the Silver City Galleria Sears store.

So, they commonly tip the equivalent of $50 dollars in Sweden at the local stores?

Tipping in stores in not accepted. Nevertheless, you'd have to be pretty damn poor - and I mean "homeless in the gutter giving handjobs for crack" poor - to "cry" and "marvel" at 350kr. That's not even enough money to actually buy a piece of clothing in a store.

Tipping in stores in not accepted. Nevertheless, you'd have to be pretty damn poor - and I mean "homeless in the gutter giving handjobs for crack" poor - to "cry" and "marvel" at 350kr. That's not even enough money to actually buy a piece of clothing in a store.

Here in the US, you can buy a really nice men's dress shirt for 50 dollars.

Maybe there's something wrong with Sweden.

Here in the US, you can buy a really nice men's dress shirt for 50 dollars.

European standards for "really nice dress shirt" are a lot higher than US ones. Tends to be true for most pieces of clothing, what with taste not being all that a rarity on our side of the pond...

Maybe there's something wrong with Sweden.

And maybe, just maybe, you're giving that stupid yokel of a girl too much credit.

European standards for "really nice dress shirt" are a lot higher than US ones. Tends to be true for most pieces of clothing, what with taste not being all that a rarity on our side of the pond...

I think it's your taxes. I can get a Bruli shirt made in Switzerland for 50 dollars.

Looks like it would cost three times that much in Sweden.

Tipping in stores generally is not permitted, and, while not having a rule specifically dealing with cash, Sears does have a rule about gifts worth $50 or more.

Sears was right in its actions.

Twenty quid ain't a throw-away amount of money. You can have a meal out, or get two or more DVDs, a brand new game... I wouldn't waste it on clothing, but you can do a lot with £20 if you're careful.

European standards for "really nice dress shirt" are a lot higher than US ones. Tends to be true for most pieces of clothing, what with taste not being all that a rarity on our side of the pond...



And maybe, just maybe, you're giving that stupid yokel of a girl too much credit.

Maybe you're just being a bit of an ass by ragging on a 16 year old girl who was happy about getting a tip.

I think it's your taxes. I can get a Bruli shirt made in Switzerland for 50 dollars.

Bruli? You've some very low expectations on the "really nice"...

Looks like it would cost three times that much in Sweden.

I hope no one would be seen dead in a Bruli shirt they claim to be "really nice" here.

Maybe you're just being a bit of an ass by ragging on a 16 year old girl who was happy about getting a tip.

Being 16 does not excuse white trash behaviour.

Maybe there's something wrong with Sweden.
There is . . .
It's home to Fass.

Speaking as someone who always bends down for pennies, I can perfectly understand this girl's distress. Its grossly snobbish to begrudge her a $50 tip.

I'd like to point out that this is a fairly common policy in the service industry. Probably the only exception would be resteraunts. It's a stupid policy.

Speaking as someone who always bends down for pennies, I can perfectly understand this girl's distress. Its grossly snobbish to begrudge her a $50 tip.

It is also against company policy. And this is coming from someone who works for tips.

My employers have rules about what I can and cannot accept as tips. If it is against the rules for me to accept something, then I cannot. That simple.

Being 16 does not excuse white trash behaviour.

Being a twenty something Swedish white boy doesn't excuse insolent name calling either, your disparaging haughtiness is reprehensible and quite ugly to observe.

Being a twenty something Swedish white boy doesn't excuse insolent name calling either,

No, it foments and perfects it into a fine art praised by the astute.

your disparaging haughtiness is reprehensible and quite ugly to observe.

It must be so awful for you, being forced to read it. Poor bugger, you are, that way.

No, it foments and perfects it into a fine art praised by the astute.
What should I be praising, oh great and mighty one?
So far, you've said nothing in this thread that couldn't have been accomplished equally well by posting a picture of yourself wearing a top hat and monocle with a caption below it saying:
"LOOK AT ME, I SAY! LOOOOOOOK AT MEEEEE!!"

What should I be praising, oh great and mighty one?

Nothing, since you're not astute.

"LOOK AT ME, I SAY! LOOOOOOOK AT MEEEEE!!"

Now, that's more like you and your laboured posts.

Nothing, since you're not astute.
Oh, I see, people are astute when they praise you, and not astute when they recognize you as a jack ass.
Now, that's more like you and your laboured posts.
Anyone posting in a public place is trying to obtain attention; I was referring to the clichéd and rather lazy manner with which you are pursuing an affectation of upper-class snobbery. Hence, the top hat and monocle.
And as to my labors? Well, at least I don't feel the need to turn the thesaurus tool on every post I make just to fool others into believing I'm clever.

Oh, I see, people are astute when they praise you, and not astute when they recognize you as a jack ass.

Oh, no, the latter would make them quite astute. What robs those of your ilk of it though is this presumption that anything else is intended, and that the recognition in and of itself somehow would invalidate the point of the acerbity.

Anyone posting in a public place is trying to obtain attention; I was referring to the clichéd and rather lazy manner with which you are pursuing an affectation of upper-class snobbery. Hence, the top hat and monocle.
And as to my labors? Well, at least I don't feel the need to turn the thesaurus tool on every post I make just to fool others into believing I'm clever.

Hmm, that reminds me; what is the English word for "foglossning?" *turns to dictionary* Oh, symphysiolysis. You should probably have some ibuprofen or something similar.

Oh, no, the latter would make them quite astute. What robs those of your ilk of it though is this presumption that anything else is intended, and that the recognition in and of itself somehow would invalidate the point of the acerbity.

Hmm, that reminds me; what is the English word for "foglossning?" *turns to dictionary* Oh, symphysiolysis. You should probably have some ibuprofen or something similar.
I'm tempted to simply repost my comment about your use of a thesaurus, but I don't suppose even that would cover your confusing belief that I have an infection in my symphysis pubis.
Are you sure you aren't feeling a bit ill today? You're normally capable of, at least, pretending to be clever in your attacks, but it is like you're not even trying now.

Along with the cash, Paiva was handed a copy of Sears’ rules. While not addressing monetary tips, they state, “Non-cash gifts of nominal value less than $50, which you have not requested or encouraged, are permissible.” It states in the Policy that NON-CASH gifts less than $50 are permissible.

guess they will be adding something about Monetary Tips...

I'm tempted to simply repost my comment about your use of a thesaurus, but I don't suppose even that would cover your confusing belief that I have an infection in my symphysis pubis.

Perhaps you should buy yourself a thesaurus, or at least a dictionary? That way you'd learn that symphysiolysis isn't an infection, but something that most often afflicts women gone, going or about to go through labour. Apropos your posts...

Are you sure you aren't feeling a bit ill today? You're normally capable of, at least, pretending to be clever in your attacks, but it is like you're not even trying now.

Gone are the days I hurl my pearls before swine, especially illiterate ones.

I rate the girl as dumb. You're not supposed to tell anyone when you get a tip.

I rate the girl as dumb. You're not supposed to tell anyone when you get a tip.
Full agreement.

“I started to cry. I didn’t know people like that still existed,” Jessica Paiva, a 16-year-old junior at Taunton High School, marveled [sic!] of the $50 tip a stranger gave her Friday night at the Silver City Galleria Sears store.
hate to burst your haughty wee bubble here, but marveled is indeed correctly spelled and used correctly (as an intransitive verb) here.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/marveled

whoops.
Looks like your favourite means of attacking someone through highlighting poor spelling fails in this instance.

nevermind, eh? I'm sure you'll quickly find something else to spend your time feeling smugly superior about.

Awww, I never get tips. All I get are religious fundies giving me pamphlets telling me to hate gays and non-christians. :(

Awww, I never get tips. All I get are religious fundies giving me pamphlets telling me to hate gays and non-christians. :(
tell them you will for $50.

hate [sic!] to burst your haughty wee bubble here, but marveled is indeed correctly spelled and used correctly (as an intransitive verb) here.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/marveled

(especially British) -velled

I don't accept US spellings as correct spellings. I speak Her Majesty's English, not George Dubya's "nukular" "American".

whoops. [sic!]
Looks like your favourite means of attacking someone through highlighting poor spelling fails in this instance.

You do understand that the article was not written by this girl, don't you? That the parts not quoted are someone else's conjecture?

Are we to assume you claim that I am "attacking" the person who wrote the article? Would you care to elucidate as to my motive for this "attack"?

nevermind [sic!], eh? I'm sure you'll quickly find something else to spend your time feeling smugly superior about.

I don't need to search for things to make me feel so at all, quite frankly.

Perhaps you should buy yourself a thesaurus, or at least a dictionary? That way you'd learn that symphysiolysis isn't an infection, but something that most often afflicts women gone, going or about to go through labour. Apropos your posts...
Oddly enough, I don't keep a medical dictionary by my desk, nor do most people who don't feel a constant need to try and make their juvenile insults appear clever through the use of big words.
Gone are the days I hurl my pearls before swine, especially illiterate ones.
And yet, the first thing you did upon logging onto Genderal was dig through the forums to find this thread (which had been idle for about 10 hours) and respond to my post.

Are we to assume you claim that I am "attacking" the person who wrote the article? Would you care to elucidate as to my motive for this "attack"?

Ah, you despise the US, despise Americans, and think of them as low-life trailer-trash slack-jawed beady-eyed mouth-breathers who sit around praising Baby Jesus?

Ah, you despise the US, despise Americans, and think of them as low-life trailer-trash slack-jawed beady-eyed mouth-breathers who sit around praising Baby Jesus?

That pretty much sums it up.

He is an aristocrat,after all.

(especially British) -velled

I don't accept US spellings as correct spellings. I speak Her Majesty's English, not George Dubya's "nukular" "American".
Unless the paper is from Boston in Lancashire it's an American paper, an observation held out by their use of dollars as currency; thus, you can reasonably expect American spellings to be used. Not accepting them from such a source will do nothing but cause you unnecessary upset.

Or maybe we should start complaining about the BorkBork Times publishing in Swedish?

Yeah, we Americans are a pretty inbred lot. You know, with our reduced brain capacity and our ugly slope-headed appearance.

Nothing like the superior Nordic types, who, as you know, are never inbreeding.

Oh wait.

Sexual child abuse in a defined Swedish area 1993-97: a population-based survey.

* Carlstedt A,
* Forsman A,
* Soderstrom H.

Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Goteborg University, Sweden. anita.carlstedt@rmv.se

Simple solution: Don't tell your boss. If someone tipped me 50 bones and it was against store policy, I sure as hell wouldn't tell anyone. Incidentally, what are the managers going to do with that money, other than put it in their beer fund? That's probably the first time all year anyone working at Sears has been tipped anyways, was that really worth the bad publicity?

therer are many companies with similar policies. if a worker gets a tip and it is not a job where the wages are based on tips the worker is generally supposed to give it to the company. its not enforced in many jobs either though.

Simple solution: Don't tell your boss. If someone tipped me 50 bones and it was against store policy, I sure as hell wouldn't tell anyone. Incidentally, what are the managers going to do with that money, other than put it in their beer fund? That's probably the first time all year anyone working at Sears has been tipped anyways, was that really worth the bad publicity?

Yeah-I'm keeping $50.00 to myslef too- its not like its a reward for a "team" type effort-like bus boys,bartender and waitress.
This is a guy giving a clerk a very nice Christmas gift.

The only time I tip employees in a place where there really isnt a service, is when someone helps me bring something large of bulky to the car.
Or- a few weeks ago at Home Depot- a guy used the forklift to put 25 80lb bags of Quickcrete into the bed of my truck. He didnt have to and he saved me literally a ton of work and strain. It took him two minutes and he didnt want to take the $20.00 but I insisted.

And I'll continue to go to that store,based on that helpful and friendly service.

...
Or- a few weeks ago at Home Depot- a guy used the forklift to put 25 80lb bags of Quickcrete into the bed of my truck. ...

*gets nosey*

WTHeck are you doing with 25 bags of quickcrete? I can't imagine what I would do with that much of it instead of ordering a load brought on a truck...

*gets nosey*

WTHeck are you doing with 25 bags of quickcrete? I can't imagine what I would do with that much of it instead of ordering a load brought on a truck...

footings for 6 X 6's We used over 50 bags over the course of a few days.

Mixing two bags at a time in a wheelbarrow.

And I dug the holes manually with post hole diggers and a hatchet for the roots.

I dont need a gym these days.

Edit: we also couldnt get a truck behind the house-to narrow between neighbor's fence and trees/house.

footings for 6 X 6's We used over 50 bags over the course of a few days.

Mixing two bags at a time in a wheelbarrow.

And I dug the holes manually with post hole diggers and a hatchet for the roots.

I dont need a gym these days.

Edit: we also couldnt get a truck behind the house-to narrow between neighbor's fence and trees/house.

Ah, building a fence then I take it? Good stuff that quickcrete is for that. I was thinking of sidewalks and driveways etc., when I asked.

Ah, building a fence then I take it? Good stuff that quickcrete is for that.

If he had bags of sulfur and lime, and jerrycans of water, you could worry about the holes he's digging.

Ah, building a fence then I take it? Good stuff that quickcrete is for that. I was thinking of sidewalks and driveways etc., when I asked.

Deck footings.

No-I know-I wish it was just a walk or driveway-we would have gotten a truck load.

Oddly enough, I don't keep a medical dictionary by my desk, nor do most people who don't feel a constant need to try and make their juvenile insults appear clever through the use of big words.

So, by saying I went to a Swedish-English dictionary after I had written I had gone to a Swedish-English dictionary you're somehow exposing that I went to a Swedish-English dictionary? Okay, honey...

And yet, the first thing you did upon logging onto Genderal was dig through the forums to find this thread (which had been idle for about 10 hours) and respond to my post.

http://forums3.jolt.co.uk/subscription.php?do=viewsubscription

Now, I know how you'd like to feel special and flatter yourself to think that I dug this thread out just for cute, old, little you, but I subscribe to all threads I've posted to. So, I'm an egotist and just not all that into you. Sorry, baby.

Ah, you despise the US, despise Americans, and think of them as low-life trailer-trash slack-jawed beady-eyed mouth-breathers who sit around praising Baby Jesus?

Yes, so?

Yes, so?

We all thought you were a Euro-elitist snob, and we just needed the confirmation.

Unless the paper is from Boston in Lancashire it's an American paper, an observation held out by their use of dollars as currency; thus, you can reasonably expect American spellings to be used. Not accepting them from such a source will do nothing but cause you unnecessary upset.

If you think typing [sic!] when I quote a poorly spelled post/article is upsetting, I believe you need to look the meaning of the word up.

Or maybe we should start complaining about the BorkBork Times publishing in Swedish?

You do understand that "Times" is not what would be used in a Swedish-speaking paper?

just like walmart, they don't exist in Poland.

You do understand that "Times" is not what would be used in a Swedish-speaking paper?

Yes, we understand that you are a completely humorless individual.

We all thought you were a Euro-elitist snob, and we just needed the confirmation.

No, I believe you wanted to elicit a denial, thinking I'd sort of mind your opinion... but, I still don't see any motive described as to why I would have "attacked" the author of that article.

No, I believe you wanted to elicit a denial, thinking I'd sort of mind your opinion... but, I still don't see any motive described as to why I would have "attacked" the author of that article.

You certainly had no love for the clerk. And you already think the US sucks, so why stop there?

Yes, we understand that you are a completely humorless individual.

As I have written before, I don't have "humor", so you would be correct. Humour, on the other hand, I've plenty of, but the tickling of such would require that "BorkBork Times" be amusing. To those with "humor" it probably is endlessly so, but for people with proper humour, not so much, no.

You certainly had no love for the clerk. And you already think the US sucks, so why stop there?

Oh, Evie, don't let Fass get under your skin. It'll spread to your eyes and you'll get cancer.

Oh, Evie, don't let Fass get under your skin. It'll spread to your eyes and you'll get cancer.

No, I can fart a bit to relieve the stress...

You certainly had no love for the clerk. And you already think the US sucks, so why stop there?

Yes, why? Tell me, please. I do so enjoy smirking at persecution complexes.

So, by saying I went to a Swedish-English dictionary after I had written I had gone to a Swedish-English dictionary you're somehow exposing that I went to a Swedish-English dictionary? Okay, honey...
I am saying that your attempt at an insult was weak. I am saying that the weakness of this insult wasn't at all concealed by the use of a large word not within the common vernacular. I am saying that this incident is hardly unique and is, in fact, demonstrative of your general failure to be anything more than a low rent troll.
However, maybe you managed to miss the subtelties of my comments, being as they are not in your native tongue. Allow me to translate:
"Yuoo eree't helff es smert es yuoo theenk yuoo ere-a. Bork Bork Bork!"
Now, I know how you'd like to feel special and flatter yourself to think that I dug this thread out just for cute, old, little you, but I subscribe to all threads I've posted to. So, I'm an egotist and just not all that into you. Sorry, baby.
Still doesn't explain why you ran to "cute, old, little [sic]" me (By the by, I only accept Her Majesty's clichés, so get your word order right next time) to chat before posting anywhere else, rather than simply letting this thread fall away and vanish.

Yeah-I'm keeping $50.00 to myslef too- its not like its a reward for a "team" type effort-like bus boys,bartender and waitress.
This is a guy giving a clerk a very nice Christmas gift.

The only time I tip employees in a place where there really isnt a service, is when someone helps me bring something large of bulky to the car.
Or- a few weeks ago at Home Depot- a guy used the forklift to put 25 80lb bags of Quickcrete into the bed of my truck. He didnt have to and he saved me literally a ton of work and strain. It took him two minutes and he didnt want to take the $20.00 but I insisted.

And I'll continue to go to that store,based on that helpful and friendly service.

Bingo! I think you want to encourage your employees to go the extra mile. I've tipped people for the same reason, I bought a barbecue and the kid helped me out to my vehicle and helped me wedge the damn thing in because the box was a bit bigger than I thought. It was a pretty heavy box on a hot day and I couldn't have done it without him. I gave him 10 bucks for his help, he seemed to appreciate it (it was at least an hours pay) and I appreciated his assistance and continue to shop at that store. I think that's exactly what an employer would want from their staff.

Yes, why? Tell me, please. I do so enjoy smirking at persecution complexes.

Only an observation of fact - no complex necessary.

Maybe you're upset that I can buy almost any European product at 1/3 to 1/2 the price you can.

damn-thats going to be the fattest troll on NS...




...unless it keep squirting its runny shit everywhere

Only an observation of fact - no complex necessary.

Maybe you're upset that I can buy almost any European product at 1/3 to 1/2 the price you can.

But Sweden has snow and fish.

Bingo! I think you want to encourage your employees to go the extra mile. I've tipped people for the same reason, I bought a barbecue and the kid helped me out to my vehicle and helped me wedge the damn thing in because the box was a bit bigger than I thought. It was a pretty heavy box on a hot day and I couldn't have done it without him. I gave him 10 bucks for his help, he seemed to appreciate it (it was at least an hours pay) and I appreciated his assistance and continue to shop at that store. I think that's exactly what an employer would want from their staff.

Yes- You dont want employees soliciting tips, but if they go that extra mile to help people out, they can expect a gesture of gratitude like a nice tip and continued business.

I am saying that your attempt at an insult was weak. I am saying that the weakness of this insult wasn't at all concealed by the use of a large word not within the common vernacular. I am saying that this incident is hardly unique and is, in fact, demonstrative of your general failure to be anything more than a low rent troll.

You'd wound me, so, but we can't all see critique of one's posts as personal insults like you do.

However, maybe you managed to miss the subtelties of my comments, being as they are not in your native tongue. Allow me to translate:
"Yuoo eree't helff es smert es yuoo theenk yuoo ere-a. Bork Bork Bork!"

Ah, there's that "humor" again. You keep pushing, doll, that labour's got to become less apparent some day. You'll excuse me though if I shan't take all that much notice of the, termed loosely by me, quip about English not being my native language; the shame would lie in it being as poor as that of certain people and it being native to me. Perish the thought!

Still doesn't explain why you ran to "cute, old, little [sic]" me (By the by, I only accept Her Majesty's clichés, so get your word order right next time) to chat before posting anywhere else, rather than simply letting this thread fall away and vanish.

Before posting anywhere else? Did it end up like that? This thread must've been the first thread in the subscription list, then. Nice of you to keep track of me, though. Others might be disturbed by the attention, but egotistic as I am...

Only an observation of fact - no complex necessary.

No, not necessary, but certainly omnipresent nevertheless.

Maybe you're upset that I can buy almost any European product at 1/3 to 1/2 the price you can.

Oh, far be it from me to begrudge you your "really nice" Bruli "shirts".

Well, it's not as amusing as watching the librarian and... whatever the psychologist is nowadays at my school argue, but that's probably just because I know them. In other news, do either of you have any complaints if I make a quick profit by selling popcorn?

In other news, do either of you have any complaints if I make a quick profit by selling popcorn?

Yes, I do. I'd prefer chocolate nuggets.

Well, it's not as amusing as watching the librarian and... whatever the psychologist is nowadays at my school argue, but that's probably just because I know them. In other news, do either of you have any complaints if I make a quick profit by selling popcorn?

*buys popcorn*

As I have written before, I don't have "humor", so you would be correct. Humour, on the other hand, I've plenty of, but the tickling of such would require that "BorkBork Times" be amusing. To those with "humor" it probably is endlessly so, but for people with proper humour, not so much, no.

That's why I'm glad I have humor; because those I cannot laugh with, I can laugh at. :)

That's why I'm glad I have humor; because those I cannot laugh with, I can laugh at. :)

even with humor, if you've read up to here, I'm sure you might be weeping instead of laughing.

You'd wound me, so, but we can't all see critique of one's posts as personal insults like you do.
If I am irrelevant to you, and my comments are irrelevant to you, why are you still here? Is there a man with a gun to your head saying, "Yessss, yessss, more, more, respond. Respond again. Now, wait, wait with baited breath."
Trust me, though, if your words were actually wounding me, I'd deal with them like I deal with all my other problems: by avoiding you and drinking.
Ah, there's that "humor" again. You keep pushing, doll, that labour's got to become less apparent some day.
How's that old saw working out for you? Still not cutting? Ah, well maybe if you try the same insult again a few dozen more times it will have effect.
Before posting anywhere else? Did it end up like that? This thread must've been the first thread in the subscription list, then. Nice of you to keep track of me, though. Others might be disturbed by the attention, but egotistic as I am...
I was simply curious upon noting the fact that this thread had lain idle for about 10 hours before you resuscitated it. I am happy to assuage your ego a bit, though, given that you are doing the same for me by the prompt and carefully typed replies you’re each of my quips, I've had earnest debates here that were far less professional.

Can't we all just get along?

I have nothing else to say to you two.

I have nothing else to say to say to you two.

OMG! Spiderman posts on NS?!

I have nothing else to say to you two.
i have no idea what you are talking about, so here is a bunny with a pancake on its head... wait, i don't have one.

i have no idea what you are talking about, so here is a bunny with a pancake on its head... wait, i don't have one.

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OMG! Spiderman posts on NS?!

Yeah. He just does that in his spare time.

Are we to assume you claim that I am "attacking" the person who wrote the article? Would you care to elucidate as to my motive for this "attack"?
your motive? You're the only one who can answer that. My assumption is that nitpicking someone's english makes you feel smugly superior in some way.

Oh, and as for your attempts to critique my posting:
nevermind [sic!]
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whoops. [sic!]
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whoops, they are both accepted words. Nevermind. I'm certain your pernickety skills will soon uncover something which will help your amble along in your popinjay ways.

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awww that's just cute! :D Damn you LG, you know my weakness is cute furry things.

Jerks. Hey, if a customer gives you a tip, it should be yours.

I think the store has that policy because they want to keep any and all money that comes in the door. If somehow, money magically accrues to a worker, it's somehow confiscated by the store.Aren't you one of those people who thinks employers can set pretty much any rule they want to?

Sears must be doing something right.

Link
(http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.aspx?D4=1&ViewType=0&D5=0&CP=0&PT=5&CE=0&C7=12&ComparisonsForm=1&C6=2006&3=0&PeriodType=5&C9=0&DisplayForm=1&&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&C5=12&Symbol=SHLD&C8=2006)

Being 16 does not excuse white trash behaviour.
I don't think being happy with a $50 tip or trying to get it back from a store is "white trash behaviour". Hell, I'm 23 and a broke university student, if someone gave me $50 for doing nothing I'd be fucking overjoyed.

Sears must be doing something right.

Link
(http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.aspx?D4=1&ViewType=0&D5=0&CP=0&PT=5&CE=0&C7=12&ComparisonsForm=1&C6=2006&3=0&PeriodType=5&C9=0&DisplayForm=1&&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&C5=12&Symbol=SHLD&C8=2006)

Well, stock markets aren't really known for their attention to human struggle and the plight of the common clerk.

My work does not allow us to take tips. The people we need to help most (handicapped, elderly, new parents) tend to have the least tip money available, and management doesn't want us to ignore them to get money from someone who can afford to tip generously.

If we get caught, we get in trouble, but keep the tip money.

Tipping in stores in not accepted. Nevertheless, you'd have to be pretty damn poor - and I mean "homeless in the gutter giving handjobs for crack" poor - to "cry" and "marvel" at 350kr. That's not even enough money to actually buy a piece of clothing in a store.

Well Sweden is fucked up then. That tip is a third of what she makes a week. Seeing as her entire check is probably gone by the end of the weekend, getting $50 is huge. I know I would shit if I got a fifty dollar tip. I would threaten to leave work (and with my work ethic, that would be a threat) if my store threatened to confiscate a ten dollar tip.

Oh, far be it from me to begrudge you your "really nice" Bruli "shirts".

Tell me, do you enjoy looking at people so much that you have to see them twice? I am forced to conclude that the explanation for your perpetually cross-eyed glances down your nose is that you must truly enjoy ogling those you would like to view as poor, puny plebians.

Then again, I'm a big fan of the "really nice" cheap-ass "T-shirt". After all, I have yet to see a reason to waste perfectly good money on something as stupid as "nice" clothing (outside of the fact that I do have to wear it to concerts to make your snobby American counterparts happy).

Well, stock markets aren't really known for their attention to human struggle and the plight of the common clerk.

No, but they are often a fair indicator as to whether or not a company is well run.

I'm agnostic about the no tipping rule: there are pros and cons on either side. They probably should have made it clearer to the girl however, if taking away tips really is the policy.

Ah, you despise the US, despise Americans, and think of them as low-life trailer-trash slack-jawed beady-eyed mouth-breathers who sit around praising Baby Jesus?

Sign me up.