It's a bad sample. You can check restaurant trade publications and see where the best tippers are by city. I have bartended in NYC, SF, LA and Philly as well as some resort towns and this Square data is silly. Doesn't match up to my experience or the experience of people I have known in the business. In general, NYers…

This, sorry but it really is, is a stupid point that lots of brits and others I have known make and they always fob it off with the - why don't we americans pay servers etc a decent wage. We just don't, it's like arguing why we drive on the opposite side of the road. Oddly, folks seem to figure out not to drive as…

If you have lived here since you were five, you have no excuse. The fact that your mom thinks 15% is a great tip doesn't mean much if she didn't work in the states.

Right and because they have those tools readily, NOWADAYS, they do record everything instead of enjoying what's in front of them. Which is what the guy he was responding to him was saying. Simple as that. The problem in the parks and elsewhere is not one that existed at Lascaux, it is a new thing and this Innate…

You are still missing the point. If you didn't have a device with which to do it before, you weren't able to hold up ipads at concerts or fly drones through parks, etc.

I am not missing the point, it's a silly point. New technologies bring new abilities and they alter the quality of the events they interact with. Going to a concert now is a decidedly different experience than ten years ago because everyone is recording it, regardless of the impact it has on those around them.

This is completely needless even handedness on your part. There is obviously much more recording on more devices going on now. Do you really think at every event, concert, crime or accident scene in the past, the majority of the people there had an easel and paints that they carried around with them?

My brother is a teacher in an area where there is a little gang activity. More so that the kids sorta think they are tough and there are gangs in the town. He can talk anyone down but he won't do it any more. He will just leave the room and go get the school cop. Won't even call for them, just leaves the class. He…

Chess has the same visa as athletes for travel and for tax purposes. Gamers and chess players are not athletes. What decision makers are you even talking about - gamers, fans and marketing departments? That's like saying mushrooms are now meat because every one who likes, grows and sells mushrooms agrees. It's beyond…

What kind of hell did you crawl out of?!! The nerve of tentatively suggesting something like that. You hate kitties!

Well, she is functioning at a certain level. Got an MD. One might hope getting meds might change her political outlook but I dunno.

Can the martyr act, you said something bizarre and stupid and people called you on it. News goes in cycles, when the next big thing comes up it won't be to bury the Sterling case.

Yeah, the whole media is covering up that case... Sure.

Having disorders does not preclude being an asshole.

The franchise is lucrative, that's why they don't do anything. To be fair, if he is known for being this crusty old man who pushed the envelope, getting fired or such seems odd.

Clarkson is an asshole. His surly bastard schtick just isn't that funny and seems to have at least a little actual malice behind it, unlike someone like Howard Stern for example.

No, all of your points are silly.

The dude NEVER gets his bell wrung. He never had a fight like Ali did with Frazier, Foreman, etc. Mayweather has been down like twice in his career - once was when he broke his hand and took a knee. The only time he has been hurt was on the ropes once. NEJM did not do a study of people who fight like Mayweather does -…

I always knew weird. Eccentric. Ego driven. This, though, is getting into Caligula territory.

This is why he carries his roofies in sugar cube form, so they can eat it out of his palm.