how to tip a bartender
In light of the mojito gag, I rather like this list, particularly the tipping scheme:
Tip $1 per drink as a baseline, lacking anything better to go on, even if the only visible drink preparation involved is opening a bottle of beer. This will vary, depending on the kind of bar you’re in. This is why crowd assessment matters. A tip of $1 per drink is often an “acceptable” tip. On complicated orders, a bit more is always deeply appreciated. Typically $1 is an acceptable tip for a beer (draft or bottle), but tip $2 for mixed drinks. More if its a complicated mixed drink.
And I learned something new with rule number 7:
Tipping for the whole night at the beginning of the night is very common, this is especially seen among people who work in the hospitality industry and go to the same bars a lot. Be sure however that your bartender is not going to be cut and replaced before you are ready to go, also make sure that the people with you are planning on staying somewhere as long as you are. The typical beginning of the night tip is $100.00 folded in your hand and given to the bartender as you are shaking hands. The person who gives this $100 is off the hook for tipping the rest of the night and as long as they are paying for drinks this tip will cover up to 3 additional people. Any drinks bought by the additional 3 people are expected to be tipped.
The Dark Side
Weekly Picture 188
Adams Canyon Distortion 9936, 2010
mojito
Moral of the story: if you are ordering one, you better be tipping damn well. (via)
dear clusterflock
What band, author, director, artist, etc. would you erase from the public record?
‘you were dial-up when I met you.’
Dave Pell calls the internet in the style of Mel Gibson.
White men can’t jump and black men can’t swim…
…but it’s not quite because of race:
Our approach is to study phenotypic (somatotypic) differences … which we consider to have been historically misclassified as racial characteristics. These differences represent consequences of still not well-understood variable environmental stimuli for survival fitness in different parts of the globe during thousands of years of habitation. Our study does not advance the notion of race, now recognized as a social construct, as opposed to a biological construct. We acknowledge the wide phenotypic and genotypic diversity among the so-called racial types.
The “social construct vs. biological construct” approach, though deceptively simple, could be profoundly important in advancing how we think about race and gender.
I-dosing
Videos of teenagers trying digital drugs are all over YouTube, leaving parents, educators and law enforcement officials with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs concerned.
Again, not satire.
(via marginal revolution)
Square Magazine Issue 2
I was lucky enough to get some of my images published in this great on-line magazine which is dedicated to the square photographic image.
Dignity & Respect: The U.S. Army Training Guide On Homosexual Conduct Policy
From a 2001 Army field guide explaining Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.
the line from Hart Stephen Crane I was trying to remember yesterday
In the Desert
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter – bitter,” he answered,
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
(thanks, Renner)
Politicians & the Media
Sharron Angle seems to have revealed something in her exchange with CBN reporter, David Brody:
David Brody: Not to harp on the point but when you’re on Fox News or talking to more conservative outlets but maybe not going on “Meet the Press” or a “This Week”, those type of news shows, then the perception and the narrative starts to be like you are avoiding those mainstream media outlets.
Sharron Angle: Well, in that audience will they let me say, “I need $25 dollars from a million people, go to Sharron Angle.com, send money?” Will they let me say that?
No, I suppose not.
It feels a bit ironic that Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network is the media entity willing to push politicians this election season.
Pre-historic creatures below the Barrier Reef
“Some of the creatures that we’ve seen we were sort of expecting, some of them we weren’t expecting, and some of them we haven’t identified yet,” said Marshall, from the University of Queensland.
“There was a shark that I really wasn’t expecting, which was a false cat shark, which has a really odd dorsal fin.”
The team used a tuna head on a stick to attract the creatures, which live beyond the reach of sunlight.
something, 51
She blew Robert “Bob” Zimmerman. When she asked herself was it gross, she said, “People are like tits, you take care of them, they take care of you.”
Quote Out of Context
In July 2009 a man living near Blanco, Texas, found a strange dead animal. It weighed about 80 pounds, had four legs and a tail, and resembled a coyote except for its dark chocolate color and the fact that it was mostly hairless. It, too, was thought to be a chupacabra, and even exhibited as one in a creationist museum.
Dear Clusterflock
Any Flockers living near Philadelphia? Because we’re moving East.
quote out of context
Mrs. Fernández would sometimes throw a piece of shoulder at a friend across the conveyor and wave good morning.
if you love where you live
via J.M. Harper
Is your city huggable?
Michelob Ultra
Are you a douche? Have we got a beer for you.
A Little Cranky
Ok, so unless you are running an actual boutique, please don’t characterize your business as being a boutique. We hates that shit forever.
spam name
Wong Tang.
Your honor, the word you are looking for is “clusterflock”
“By prohibiting all ‘patently offensive” references to sex, sexual organs, and excretion without giving adequate guidance as to what ‘patently offensive’ means, the FCC effectively chills speech, because broadcasters have no way of knowing what the FCC will find offensive,” Judge Pooler wrote.
- Law.com
Superhero at dusk
Since we’re on the topic lately, reminds me of those Sprint commercials from a few years back.
(via Gizmodo)
Q. and A. Freighter Cruise Guide
What will my fellow passengers be like?
They have spent quite enough time in crowds and they can take lengthy periods of time off. Now they make their choices based upon a wished for experience, rather than on factors such as the price of packages, glitzy entertainment, or extravagant amenities.
They are often an affluent but unpretentious lot who relax on board in shorts and sandals, lie reading a book in a deck chair, hearing nothing but sea gulls and waves. Ashore, they visit places they have read about and dine quietly in the fresh-fish restaurants.
Fresh-fish restaurants. Where Amy might see some type of fish.
Carl Safina on TEDxOilSpill
This talk is unsettling but important to contemplate. Safina’s main point is that the situation in the Gulf is not at all an accident, but rather a systemic failure of government. One of many money quotes:
Personally, I think that the dispersants are a major strategy to hide the body, because we put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.
We discussed here whether we were smart enough to understand all those big words the president was throwing at us, but Safina seems pretty sure we weren’t meant to.
