Search results

I agree on cooks fucking things up. In my restaurant experience the vast majority of the mistakes with peoples' food was the fault of the cooks not paying attention and/or not being able to read the directions we typed into the computer and which were printed out on the ticket. I always hated...

No dead girlfriends. Aychamo's story is disappointing. *edit* although given his insane obsession we might get a story about a dead Yvonne Strahovski in a few months. Psycho.

Bartenders doing that kind of stuff is accepted by management pretty much everywhere. All bartenders do it for their regulars, and management knows about it but turns a blind eye because it keeps business coming in. As long as the bartender isn't actually costing the restaurant money by giving...

There are some really cool stories buried in the Bible. I'm hoping they rip out the heavy-handed Christian overtones (i.e don't try to teach any lessons, but references to God and divine powers are fine) and mainly portray the drama and action. David and Goliath. The battle of Jerhico. Noah's...

That's interesting. I worked at Olive Garden (well-known for their unlimited soup and salad) and in the beginning I did just what the server in your story did: when I saw my customers were low on salad, soup, or bread, I'd bring out more automatically. I got in trouble for doing this because...

Will dating a girl who is saving herself for marriage turn me into Aamina?

I read over the article but I didn't see anything about whether warnings will expire or not. For example, if I get 2 warnings this month, but then go till December till getting another warning, will that be warning 3 or will I start again at warning 1 after a certain amount of time? I got a...

I'm curious what you consider going "above and beyond" which would warrant a higher tip? i.e what did that one server do to get 20 on a 14 dollar check?

This is how I envisioned it as well when Djay introduced the idea. I like it. I'm shocked that I've managed to hang onto 4th place thus far. I really don't want to get dropped down a division! I'm quite surprised at how competitive all of the divisions look, with the exception for a few...

Except my dwarfs, who are seemingly made of glass. I foresee many SPPs coming to Djay.

Yeah it really depends on where you work. Even in the aforementioned ghetto area where I worked I was able to pull in $150ish for an 8 - 9 hour shift. Sometimes more if I were lucky and got sat mostly white folk in my section.

If my girlfriend were to read through my texts without telling me I'd consider that a big red flag of jealousy. I doubt the relationship would last much longer. I'd never read through a girlfriend's texts unless she had given me some other big reason to stop trusting her. *edit* I should...

Are you really asking a question like that? Do you have ass burgers or something? I understand asking about things specific to office environments (i.e meetings, cubicles, etc.) but the bolded question makes it sound like you have no experience with basic human interaction whatsoever...

Not tipping (without reason) is stupid, but chasing someone because they didn't tip is also really stupid. If you do this in a chain restaurant nowadays chances are you'll be fired if the manager/corporate get wind of it. I waited tables in a shitty, mixed-income area with mostly blacks and...

Do you say hi / try to talk to admin/reception every day when you walk in the door? What about when you pass people in the halls moving about your business? For both of these I think it's pretty much common courtesy to say "Hi". If you consistantly ignore people they're going to think you're...

Not to point blame, but I've played a couple games with Restless and both of them hadmuchmore lag than the games I've played with anyone else. It might be a problem on his end, perhaps where he's located or something.

Reminds me of 3rd Rock from the Sun. Dacianprick must be an alien. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1ZZWhSvOMI

I'm in a very similar situation as you. I just recently started dating a 3rd year med student who I met via a dating website. Needless to say she's extremely busy, working from 5am to 6pm Mon - Sat and doing studying in the few hours she's able to stay awake after work. That said, she's made...

You really think she'll be killed by the slave army? If anything I'd expect her to be killed by a Roman after discovering her relationship with Crassus. Perhaps his son will kill her as revenge for the death of his friend.

I've always had terrible luck as well with the voice recognition. Each time I used Rosetta Stone I ended up just disabling it. Although in the latest version there is apparently the ability to chat with live people in a Skype-like situation, which could be very useful. I don't know much about...

Go shoot some people for Uncle Sam, slum it in the 3rd world in the Peace Corps, or nepotism. It's pretty hard to get into the government nowadays unless you don't mind starting in the mail room or something. Good luck.

Does anyone sleep on their stomach and not end up with back pain? I tend to sleep on my side or stomach, but I've found that if I sleep on my stomach for more than a night or two in a row my back will start to hurt. Might just be my shitty "bed" aka a 10 year old mattress on the floor.

Yeah it's no problem. I'm available most nights so we'll find a time. Shoot me a pm when you get back into town.

Yeah I have to disagree about not caring about the characters. I really like how Crixus, Gannicus, and Spartacus have developed and I feel a lot more invested in them now than in previous seasons. Regarding Naevia, I think my biggest gripe with her isn't the actress (although that's a close...

I really like the pirates. They provide an extra level of strife within the slave army and explain how Spartacus is (barely) feeding all his people. I'm glad they didn't gloss over that extremely major point. Plus this episode started some sort of a feint or trap against Crassus that Spartacus...

I was surprised at the quality of both of the anthems they created in this last episode. I'm curious how much help they were given in terms of lyrics and ideas. I imagine the producers had a big stake in making the songs at least somewhat marketable.

Insanity? I don't know a ton about it, but I believe it's the next "step", so to speak, after P90X. Or you could try that Diamond Dallas Page Yoga that is so popular in screenshots at the moment. Apparently it can make cripples walk again.

What about continuing teams vs. new teams? I don't mind people starting a new team for a new season, but eventually we're going to run into some massive TV differences between new teams and those that have gone for 2+ seasons.

If anything is going to expose Oliver it will be his little crime fighting gang discussing their secret plans in loud voices at a crowded diner. Seriously though, with shows like this you have to just ignore the little absurdities and enjoy the cheesy, action-filled ride.

Given the history of drama escalation with this community I honestly would not be surprised at something like those examples.

I love this community so much. All the delicious drama over the years...if I were to try and explain half of what went on here to people they'd think it was completely fabricated.

Don't underestimate the stupidity of the average Walmart-going American.

Are you really that busy that you can post on forums yet you can't have Skype or some other random Spanish chatroom open to chat with people in? You can't write an e-mail to a Spanish penpal a couple times a week? Really? That's absurd. Voice is ideal, but you don't have to limit yourself to...

How the hell are any of those "idealistic and utterly impractical"? All of them are just different variations on language partners, which is an extremely tried-and-true method of learning a language. You speak English and, guess what, millions of Hispanics in the USA want to learn it and...

Freaks and Geeks

Cubans are the best tortilla rollers, actually. If you ever stop by a Chipotle staffed by Dominicans, move along. They roll those burritos way too tightly.

This is the main thing about Rosetta Stone. Like I said, it's basically just super expensive flash cards. That's fine as a supplement, but you will not reach any sort of conversational fluency with Rosetta Stone as your only tool.

Rosetta Stone is an enormous waste of money. It's glorified flash cards. Even the theory behind their "learn like a baby" approach, or whatever it's called, is pretty much bullshit in my opinion. If you go through the whole program you'll have a tourist-level understanding of basic Spanish...

Yeah, I kind of agree with you. Although, to be fair, they have portrayed Oliver numerous times as an extremely stubborn individual who only does and believes what he wants. It's not like Diggle doubts the mom's guilt; it's just Oliver refusing to accept it.

Because customers are stubborn idiots and they will bitch and moan until their exact request is fulfulled. It's far easier to simply remove the gratuity (which is the exact request of the customer) than to comp a menu item and then risk the stupid customer not understanding that it's basically...