Do you write? If you don’t, you should. That was awesome.

Actually, I am basing my statement largely on what’s reported and commented on in Kitchenette. I haven’t read much about tipping being associated with any race or ethnicity, although I have heard that stereotype, but not in a long while.

This is some Nihilist Arby’s/ Welcome To Night Vale commercial shit.

I am blessed to know many service members who are wonderful, but every time someone comes in and yells at me because my store doesn’t offer a military discount (“MY HUSBAND PUTS HIS LIFE ON THE LINE FOR YOUR COUNTRY AND YOU CAN’T GIVE ME 10% OFF MY DRESS?”) I understand, with deep, deep clarity, why they are hated…

SHITTY TIPPING IS NOT A SYMPTOM OF MENTAL ILLNESS.

OK, but since the current system requires tipping, people shouldn’t go out if they can’t afford to tip. Don’t fuck over the person who’s helping you to make a political statement.

You’re surprised he could afford a 25 cent tip, but you’re not surprised he could afford a $60 meal? $60 for one meal as a “grunt” rank suggests his pay must be pretty reasonable. The customer was just being a jerk.

Let’s see, who are notoriously crappy tippers? Church folks, college kids, and military—you’ll notice the common thread is insular communities that tend to foster an “Us vs. Them” mentality. I totally believe Heflin’s assertion. I’m not necessarily a fan of how he handled it.

Or, maybe that base has a culture of stiffing the local working staff at the local restaurants.

Gee, I wonder why people who work and live in heavily military communities often have an unfavorable opinion of the average servicemember, while people 500 miles from the nearest base whose closest relation to the military is their stepbrother’s nephew who did 18 months in the Coast Guard and got an other than…

Buuuut, if you can afford to pay $60 for a tab, you should give more than a quarter for a tip.

If you can’t afford to tip appropriately, you can’t afford to eat out.

Maybe, if we all chant “BCO” as we go to sleep tonight, we’ll get an extra special surprise related to this on Monday.

Can you learn from criticism? Can you offer an alternative perspective without malice, whining, etc.?

“I’ve said before, when you declare yourself politically, you destroy yourself artistically”

Joss was mostly just along for the ride after he filmed it and probably even before he filmed it. Blame the anonymous men in the armani suits that you never see.

The “witty” banter in AoU just sounded obnoxious. I wish filmmakers would spend less time trying to outwit me and more time fleshing out their characters. There’s no story in AoU; there’s simply a string of loosely connected incidents. It’s stupendously boring.

It’s shocking to me how someone whose been involved in a creative field for so long doesn’t get this. This was the primary lesson of my first creative writing class in high school: YOU CAN’T DEFEND THE WORK AGAINST IT’S READERS. Readers are going to read, and interpret, and there is no one Right Meaning and there is…

PS: Being an ally doesn’t get anyone a free pass. At the end of the day, we are and should be held accountable for all that we do and say. Being an ally is being a decent human being, and that should be reward enough.

I think that when you’re ridiculously privileged what with being white, male and super wealthy, you might pull up your socks and get over yourself.