AKA “The Assange Technique”?

If only the AVClub sponsors could tell us some way to date him...

I half expected her to add, “How’s your Mum?”

That’s what I was thinking.  It’s not like they have to go eat all the pigs of Joe Swineherd from five miles out of Winterfell.

So Lyanna is the Marlo of GoT?

It’s not my fault, honest - it’s the pleats on these pants.

A hundred bucks the call doesn’t end this way:

So, that table will magically be occupied by someone that wasn’t otherwise going to be eating at the restaurant?

You never watched The Young Pope.

I’ve had both happen, Capitalist Stooge!

In the situation where you drop Netflix, I guaran-fucking-tee no one getting a reasonable “bonus” is losing a fucking dime. Your decision is cutting a job, not cutting into middle and upper management’s bonuses.

Any town that can claim credit for Jerry Holkins and Louden Swain can’t be all bad.

Taking 10% of the total, doubling it and rounding up is pretty easy too.

Maybe if you are poor and only going out once in a blue moon you should consider waiting for the second blue moon so you have enough to tip as well.

You’re a pleasant dinner companion, I imagine.

But tipping is not a surprise. Just like sales tax is not a surprise.

All the more reason to remove tipping altogether, and just build that into the price of the meal (and employee wages).  You know, like the rest of the civilized world does.

If you can’t afford to tip 20%, you can’t afford to eat out. Taking $2 out of some person’s pocket because you want to take some fake moral high ground is grounds for calling a person a dickhead. YMMV