No problem, I get that most of the people on here are Americans and that the discussion is largely about the US context.

Where I live the shoe guy is making probably about the same hourly as the server but without tips on top of it.

Shoe guy gets paid the same as servers where I live $12.65 minimum.

I was specifically talking about buffet work rather than full service. I should also clarify that where I live the minimum wage for servers is either $12.65 or $11.40 if you serve alcohol. When you combine that with average tips in the 15-20% range servers make WAY more money than retail workers. Which is fine given…

Where I live minimum wage is $12.65 or $11.40 if you’re serving alcohol.

Right? If I go to a shoe store I don’t tip the sales person even though they presumably did a bunch of general work setting up displays, working the till etc. and provided me with some direct service as well.  

If I had the money I’d love to do a conversion on a Hiace. It was out of my price range but I was barely able to restrain myself on this BaT auction:

Yeah, I’d love to get a Pajero/Montero for backroading and camping. 

I’m sure there’s a jalopnik staff slashfic thread somewhere.

Also why Mitch McConnell has never run nationally.

That shooting must have been pretty fucking bad for a cop to do time for it at all.

Normal for Spanish at least. In english most people don’t tap their Rs.

There’s definitely a line to walk between butchering the original language and sounding like a pretentious dick.

Yep, that’s a tap R not a trilled R.

I hadn’t noticed them before, but I really like those cuffs as well. 

No no no, these things will be positioned around the schools at all times so that in the case of a fire they can be deployed quickly.

If you listen to these Fox News assholes, all teachers would be 18Bs if we only gave them some weapons.

Yeah, the Catholics complaining have (according to their doctrine at least) eaten the actual body and drank the actual blood of Christ. This is just a cake, lighten up.

I was going to say maybe a RHD import would be more convenient for someone without a right arm, but this is even better. 

That is certainly a theory in modern poli sci that seems to have some truth to it (if for no other reason than making war more expensive makes it less appealing), but that theory is talking about between states. The roman empire was characterized much more by internal rather than international trade.