I think you’re in the wrong about those hundreds. Totally understand where you’re coming from, but it’s one of those things that I consider to be separating the service industry of ‘first-world’ countries from its less developed cousins.

Not outside US though. There are lots of dollars circulating in the rest of the world and they are almost exclusively hundreds.

Yeah well. Could you explain why should the items cost more than the sign says? I do understand how the tax works, but why do US/Canada shops insist on quoting before-tax prices? Most of the world would give you the final price, taxes included. And you can even return VAT at the border if you shop abroad, that’s…

5% might have been OK that long ago.

The waiters aren’t doing a particularly different amount of work whether you order a $50 burger of finest Kobe beef with truffles or the cheapest probably de-frozen one(provided they are in the same joint). All this ‘tip as a percentage of check total’ is getting more and more ridiculous, double so if you read BCO…

Sacramento does call its light rail a light rail, too.

Well, tax included in price is not something specific to Australia. In fact, every country I’ve been to except for the US lists the final price.

I haven’t seen the second season of Gotham yet, but I can’t trust this. There’s simply no such thing currently on TV that can be better than Gotham’s first season, even so slightly.

This reminds me how I started an attempt to recreate the Siege of Alesia by Caesar in Lego when I got some Roman minifigures. But a month into it I realized how many resources that would have needed and abandoned the project.

One of the things that really amazed me in the United States when I first visited and made me understand how this country works better is people with dreadlocks. Police officers in full uniform could wear dreadlocks. Bank staff which is only allowed to wear business casual on Fridays could have dreadlocks. Hell, I…

1 time a year. That’s what you get for being number 1 economy in the world, huh. If I could use all of my 34 paid vacation days at once I might as well leave the job because they are fine without me.

No, not really. In fact, I have found it work most reliably when I find a spot with max cell reception and share LTE connection from my phone to Vita. Certainly better than at home where it would occasionally stumble. Crazy, huh? Well maybe because I only play 10 to 20 minutes when in the office compared to maybe…

I look out of my office window(building constructed in 1780s, last remodelled in 2008) and see the palace that was constructed in 1762 and is a museum and a cathedral build in 1907 so I think you are very wrong. However, we already have flood defences.

Seeing as white chocolate is often gross while sour cream is usually awesome, I totally understand the blondie guy.

I kind of snapped and got myself a mid-tier $1500 MBP three weeks ago and I’m too happy with it to regret not waiting for this Surface thing despite being a Windows person. If only a bit appalled by the lack of proper zip support in file browser.

Voice actors do an important job but I don’t see much correlation between sales and quality of voice acting. Never heard of a game that failed due to poor voice acting; hell, Zelda still sells loads without any voice acting at all like it’s still 1998.

I’m also amazed at this usage and can’t comprehend if this is extreme literacy or lack thereof.

Why do people talk about ‘drag me to hell’ as if it was something special? Apart from the talking goat it was just standard fare horror movie.

I’d guess if it weren’t for that excellent sentence the story wouldn’t have made it to BCO. It’s king of rude and almost involves poop.

That’s why it’s kind of strange to see this in ‘dumb customers’ and not in ‘smart waiters’ section. Kind of insulting to Cara Sloane, too.