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Old 01-29-2013, 09:40 PM   #581
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Old 01-29-2013, 09:49 PM   #582
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Unpopular opinion:

Children and "the next generation" are are not stupid/worse/spoiled/lazy/######ed any more than we were when you/we were when old/older people said the same thing about you/us.

People have been saying that forever. Were they right? We sound just like them. If they were right (and who can disagree with Grandpa's wisdom?) then we are too stupid and lazy to to judge the next generation in the first place.
I agree , I think every generation goes through a stupid / ######ed stage when they are young. I know me and my friends did a lot of dumb things as teens, as did our parents, the same with the kids of this generation.
But when it comes to lazy/spoiled I think there is no doubt this generation is lazier and more spoiled than the last.... just as ours was compared to our parents and grandparent's era, with technology its unavoidable.
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Old 01-29-2013, 09:55 PM   #583
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Workers shouldn't have to take drug tests in order to work.

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Unless the job is somewhat dangerous, requires concentration for safety or involves sharp moving parts.

Now that my friends is an unpopular opinion especially considering that this board is filled with a bunch of you lazy pot smoking young people with your crank and crystal smack and all of that stuff.

Oh and young people suck
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Old 01-29-2013, 10:01 PM   #584
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I think a tip should be something a waiter/waitress should earn and not just expect. I don't get my bonus at work unless I earn it, niether should you.
Except tips do not equate to bonuses.

At most serving jobs I've worked tips equate to about half your income. What % of your income is your bonus?

If somebody doesn't tip you, you still have to tip out the bartender, hostess and kitchen/house so you actually lose money on that table. If somebody tips 5% I basically make zero money on the table as I have to tip out 5% to others.

Tips are part of a servers income. I can understand that people don't like the system. But most people wouldn't work minimum wage to serve without the tips so the restaurant would have to increase prices on food/drinks if the tipping system wasn't in place.

So yeah.
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Old 01-29-2013, 10:08 PM   #585
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I have both Flames and Stampeders tickets. Over the last 6-7 years I have been far more excited to see the next Stampeders game as opposed to the Flames. It isn't even in the same ball park.

I also lived in Denver for 4 years and was lucky enought to have a friend with Bronco season tickets and got to go to 3-4 games every year. Other than the crazy number of people at Bronco games, there was nothing else about the experience that was more exciting than a Stampeders game.
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Old 01-29-2013, 10:09 PM   #586
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Except tips do not equate to bonuses.

At most serving jobs I've worked tips equate to about half your income. What % of your income is your bonus?

If somebody doesn't tip you, you still have to tip out the bartender, hostess and kitchen/house so you actually lose money on that table. If somebody tips 5% I basically make zero money on the table as I have to tip out 5% to others.

Tips are part of a servers income. I can understand that people don't like the system. But most people wouldn't work minimum wage to serve without the tips so the restaurant would have to increase prices on food/drinks if the tipping system wasn't in place.

So yeah.
Your comments reminded me of something a waitress said to me in Arizona a few years back: "What's the difference between a Snowbird and a canoe?' "A canoe tips."
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Old 01-29-2013, 10:43 PM   #587
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Paranormal Activity is a good movie franchise and I have actually enjoyed the films.
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Old 01-29-2013, 10:47 PM   #588
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First 3. Some other great bands that didn't have the advantages that those 4 bands got might have wound up in that group as well. Gruntruck being one of them...Ben McMillan was something. I also include Mother Love Bone as part of Pearl Jam, and they may have been the greatest of them all.

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I'd put Facelift and Badmotorfinger ahead of any albums Nirvana put out.
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In my restaurant industry days, tips accounted for about 60-65% of my income.
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There is nothing funny about Mike Myers
I liked Wayne's World, but other than So I Married An Axe Murderer, I find his stuff just stupid.
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I got a few more, I hope they haven't been mentioned yet...

I can't stand dogs at all. I'd rather have a cat who can pretty much take of itself, and will leave me alone most of the day instead of a stupid dog slobbering all over me and being a nuisance 24/7.

After the NHL and NFL the third best TV sport is poker (at least before Black Tuesday killed it). I've spent hundreds if not thousands of hours watching poker, and I never got bored of it.

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I liked Wayne's World, but other than So I Married An Axe Murderer, I find his stuff just stupid.
The term "this is making baby Jesus cry" was first used after watching Myers and Tia Carriere speak Cantonese in Wayne's World.
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There is nothing funny about Mike Myers
Yet he is still funnier than Jim Carrey or Will Ferrell. Mind bottling!
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Yet he is still funnier than Jim Carrey or Will Ferrell. Mind bottling!
Yes, except for Me, Myself and Irene
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Come on! people! Let it out! Most of the things I have read are really popular opinions. As someone said, this is like the Grinds my Gears v 2.0.

Say what you truly feel. Foe example, there have to be people lurking here believing things like:
"[X] Race should never be in Canada and I want nothing to do with them"
"I fantasize about underage kids"
"Jews deserved it"

etc etc

...Or this post itself is going to be unpopular?
Not necessarily "unpopular" though in certain localities it is illegal even to mention it publicly.
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I think that Albertans, and Calgarians especially really, really, really love to suck the dick of the status quo. God forbid anything EVER disturb the status quo. The way it's always been is the way it shall be and it will NEVER change.

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^ WTF?

I don't think you know what 'status quo' means.
I don't think the 'status quo' has a dick, or is even capable of having a dick.
I think your post was a really crappy attempt to get 'thanks'.
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edit: eh considering who just posted could have been taken out of context
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Canada's young offenders act is a complete joke
That's just something people say when they're yelling at clouds. For the most part people don't even understand what it contains.
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If there were drug tests at my job half the people would be fired. When I first started at the PO there were 3 guys we had to "rescue" on a daily basis because they would be sitting at a bar, passed out in the mail truck, or just sitting around. Yet several other guys (and 2 women) drank on their respective routes and were some of the
fastest, most accurate carriers.

Now every morning at the time clock there are 3 carriers (2 are female) whose breath is so boozy you kinda wonder how they make it. Yet not one of them has had an accident or any kind of work performance issue. 2 hve been here for 32 years, the other for 28 years.
So I wonder if some people just function better when they're on something.
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If there were drug tests at my job half the people would be fired. When I first started at the PO there were 3 guys we had to "rescue" on a daily basis because they would be sitting at a bar, passed out in the mail truck, or just sitting around. Yet several other guys (and 2 women) drank on their respective routes and were some of the
fastest, most accurate carriers.

Now every morning at the time clock there are 3 carriers (2 are female) whose breath is so boozy you kinda wonder how they make it. Yet not one of them has had an accident or any kind of work performance issue. 2 hve been here for 32 years, the other for 28 years.
So I wonder if some people just function better when they're on something.
I'm assuming that they're drinking and driving then? If that's the case, you're a total jerk to allow that to keep happening, if I'm mistaken and misread your post sorry.

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