^Nobody can love their job that much. That's like saying raising a family isn't work.

Sometimes no matter how much you "love" something, it'll get on your nerves.

This is just more capitalist propaganda to make people not be pissed about being wage slaves.

I can understand why with large parties there is a mandatory gratuity.

It comes down to one simple factor, people are a-holes.

Be it the jerks who run a server ragged for hours, tying up tables that could be send several groups through, and then leaving 5% because 10$ on a 200$ tab is "fair" or restaurant management who think that the majority of a server's income should be from gratuities. By no means should these or situations like them occur. Sub minimum wage salaries should be outlawed. That there are laws allowing them is shamefully representative that the restaurant industry has too much pull with our lawmakers. Minimum wage should be the bare minimum for unskilled, base level jobs. A server is neither a unskilled, nor an entry level position.

A gratuity should be a bonus for a job well done, and as encouragement to repeat quality performance. As a person who works in the service/repair industry, I occasionally get a tip, usually a few bucks as an added "thank you" for doing my job, as it should be.

And remember people, always be nice to your server and tip well if you ever plan to return. These people handle your food and you never know where it could have been prior to arriving at your table.

@ilandrah:

Waist measurements(for any particular height) would be much better than a weight or BMI measurement because neither of those account for things like bone density or muscle mass.

So where's our Bacteroidetes pills so we can gut load ourselves to a fit and trim physique?

You know how to encourage people to take the stairs?

TURN OFF THE ESCALATOR.

Defending freedom!

...for mega corporations to make billions.

GO USA!!

Maybe the problem isn't the placebos, but the test pool. If you have a large number of incorrectly diagnosed hypochondriacs in your test pool, of course the placebo is going to work on them as well as the drug you're testing.

So I thought the great barrier reef has been around for millenia? CO2 levels have been much higher in the past and it survived them then, so why should it be dying now?

Perhaps what is affecting the reefs isn't CO2, but something else?

@Eni: Not everyone, myself included, suffers from pareidolia.

@ Sonny: Because they don't have any possibility of a chance in hell of winning that case.

Is that really necessary? Is anyone really going to confuse a porn site from a "legitimate" university? Oh wait, they're from Minnesota and South Dakota, that explains everything.

Shouldn't be too hard to understand, we hear the exact same arguments against gay marriage today.

Ignorant people always seem to be able to pass retarded laws to inflict their stupidity upon the world.

@Maharoc: Did you watch the video in the link, it shows all ten digits. I personally don't care for how they handle 1, 4, and 7.

Tweed jacket and tie are optional.

I dare say, they are not. Anytime one goes about the countryside, one should be properly attired in a manner befitting their conveyance.

Next thing you know we'll be having to endure people driving their motorcars without gloves or scarf!

Well! I'll have none of that, thank you.

Next thing you know he'll be complaining because women are wearing trousers, and men don't wear proper hats anymore.