Oh hell yeah, they do. Some guy tried it on my once back in my waitressing days, stacking the money on the edge of the table and telling me, in front of his date, that if I played my cards right, it was mine, but he would be deducting for poor service. I slid it back to him and told him he should just keep it and what…

Ugh. Had a first date try to do this once. I saw the pile of ones come out and asked if it was for that purpose. He said yes let them earn it (it wasn’t a very big pile...). I tipped the waitress and bartender for my drink generously and walked out. No fucking way am I going to be a part of that and it’s a giant…

Putting your cash tip on the table and visibly docking it every time the server displeases you

From the amount of criticism I’ve been reading about VAG cars, specially Volkswagens, on Jalopnik and on Oppo I’m beginning to suspect US market and Brazilian market VWs are fundamentally different.

You’re just waking up to this, mate? Got any news on the Hindenburg?

If the person who can fire you begins a statement with “I hope you can” 99.9% of the population knows that really means “Do this or you’re fired” and we know this is what Trump meant BECAUSE THEN HE FIRED HIM FOR NOT DOING IT.

Yeah brah. We do salaries per year in the States, not per month like in Europe. High side of that is 620k/12, so $52k per month. That’s a quarter of your math.

what someone needs to explain to that surgeon is- US Doctors make a lot of money from drug companies. A very big issue as to why we have such a problem with prescription drugs is because the MD’s are very willing to push anything the drug companies want sold. That and the number of general practitioners has decrease…

It does pay...in spades. Everyone should strive for excellence, that’s not a “white” value it’s a human value. Speaking properly without give-away intonations, expressions and speech patterns which allow people to automatically discriminate against you before they even see you is important. It will certainly get you…

Wait. Are you telling me there are people who get on a plane and immediately throw their shit into the first overhead bin they see? Simply because they don’t want to carry their carry on to the back of the plane? That’s fucking loony toons. Your carry on should go as close to directly above you as possible. You’re…

Succinctly demonstrating that you don’t actually give a shit about this issue beyond the page views. Nothing in that comment was worthy of a LOL.

“that fool”? really? You’re the author of the article, grow up.

They needed to jump start car buying and wanted to get some fuel inefficient cars off the road. Both of which happened. Just because something has a negative consequence doesn’t negate the positive ones.

You might be right on this. I had 3x VW so far and none of them had issue. But I am a European living in Canada and yes I diligently follow the book, do not push my car when then engine is cold...etc. And I think I can speak for my compatriots back home, I don’t know who will not follow the book by the rule. I mean, a…

I’m not sure about the rest of the continent, but here in the Netherlands the Outlander only sells as a PHEV. And only because it’s a PHEV, which electric car tax breaks makes it as cheap as a nice compact under certain circumstances. The Tesla Model S is the most common American car here for a reason (excluding Opel…

Good comment.

I’m afraid that much of it falls to the owners. The typical European drives and maintains their cars according to “the book”. If it says to change the oil every 10K miles using a certain oil, they do it. If the book says to change your timing belt every 100K miles, they do it. Due to speed cameras, more driver…

Misread the Disease as VWIltis

In surprising news, Citroen don’t really do expensive or weird these days, neither are they especially unreliable. The Cactus (which is a slow seller) is an absolutely conventional car with sticky on bits on the side.

I think the larger question is about the implicit assumption that 3 years in the TA makes anyone an expert in anything. Much like the US Army Reserves, it amounts to two weeks a year plus monthly meetings.