No one is saying believing in God is unintelligent, unless by “God” you mean “Dr. Oz.” I couldn’t care less about Oprah’s religious beliefs, but the fact that her understanding of science is poor enough that she eagerly promotes all sorts of snake oil and snake oil salesmen was a problem when she was just encouraging…
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That has nothing to do with intelligence.
I admit, I have a real problem with that anecdote about her leaving money all over the place like an adult version of “SCRAMBLE!!!” It was a game to her. The women she was purportedly leaving the money for, and who have time restrictions on how long they need to spend cleaning a room, are now having to grub for bills…
hard work + luck for some (including Oprah), privilege for most, when they have that level of success and wealth.
Yep. I’ve never worked in a hotel, and my clients tip like normal people, but as a housekeeper, any loose money not designated specifically for me goes into a pile on a surface in the house and stays there. If one of my clients were loony enough to say that my tip was hidden around the house, I would be pissed and…
My first thought after reading that was those workers are gonna have to report finding a whole lot of random lost money instead of collecting an obvious tip. Oprah, no.
As someone who has worked for tips, fuck you, Oprah.
I honestly...I get what she was trying to do? But don’t turn my work day into an Easter egg hunt. If I found money all over a room I don’t know what I’d think, but I wouldn’t assume it was my tip. In fact, my first thought might be that this was a trick to see if I’d turn it in and if I didn’t I’d be fired.
Oprah seems kind of clueless with this escapade.
It’s degrading. Housekeeping staff are already working hard to earn a paycheck. Making them go on a treasure hunt for tips may seem “fun” to the giver but is really kinda cruel and clueless. “Oh, you’ve cleaned 20 filthy rooms and have 20+ more to go, can you find all of the tips I’ve hidden, whee!”
Exactly. The whole “tip treasure hunt” thing just stinks of “sing for your supper, peasant.” Marie Antoinette’s like, “Damn! Wish I’d thought of that.”
And every time time she picks up a thing, there’s another. And there’s another. And there’s another. So I did that. I did it all over the room. I put it under the desk. I put it in the bathroom. I put it in the roll of toilet paper. I put it in the shower. I put it underneath the rug. Imagine how happy that person was!
Nixon opened relations with China, got us out of VietNam and was instrumental in creating the EPA. What’s he most remembered for...Watergate.
What, so you’re trying to say that somehow the Toronto Sun is a useless dishrag, written by obnoxious assholes who look to gin up controversy over writing anything interesting or useful and read by sub-neanderthal simpletons?
The gay couple who wanted a cake could have literally gone 100 feet down the street and purchased one there, but they took that to the Supreme Court.
New Top Gear is better than The Grand Tour but not as good as Top Gear when it was in its prime. The season finale of Grand Tour was awful, only matched by the military episode where they kept dying. The “unscripted” episode sucked too.
IIRC there were a lot of accusations being thrown around and he was actually investigated then cleared of everything.
Every once in a while HamNo shifts gears from doing an ill-informed screed on the evils of capitalism to attempt his hand at satire. The problem is, he has a college freshman level understanding of both satire and economics.
It’s called confusion, and probably would have been resolved if Dunaway wasn’t so fucking impatient.