Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?

'Shells'


Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


omnis_audis - Aug 06, 2010 12:58:46 pm PDT #27780 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

So "lint licker" has made an appearance. But they one feels dirty for being influenced by commercials.
I guess what makes it dirty is knowing where the lint came from?? (sorry, that's all I could muster.) t /trying to be funny

As for tipping. I never know how much to tip. At restaurants, it's easy. 20%. Although, if I have a small meal, I will heavily round up. As mentioned, $1 doesn't seem right. But what about the places where you order at the counter and they bring it to you? Do they get paid better/worse? The sales ticket has a line for tip. So confusing. And then there is the whole tipping for doorman, and bags at the hotel, and pizza delivery. Ugg. I agree with Spidra, just pay everyone a fair wage so the price is the price.


Nora Deirdre - Aug 06, 2010 12:58:47 pm PDT #27781 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Some friends have taken to using the clean dirty from the Orbit commercial. So "lint licker" has made an appearance

"What the French, toast?!?!?!?"


Zenkitty - Aug 06, 2010 1:00:51 pm PDT #27782 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I think I'm going to use "assweasel" and "monkeyfucker" from now on.

I don't get why we tip some service persons and not others. Why the waiter, the hairdresser, the valet, and the baggage handler, and not the housekeeper, the lawn guy, or the cook? My first real date with my now-ex, I left a tip for the housekeepers when I left the motel, and he was *awestruck*. He told me nobody EVER tips the housekeepers. (He was the hotel manager. Our first date was not a night in a hotel room. Just to clear that up.) Ever since then, I've made it a point to do so, because that is one of those totally necessary jobs with not a lot of respect attached, you know?


brenda m - Aug 06, 2010 1:01:54 pm PDT #27783 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Some friends have taken to using the clean dirty from the Orbit commercial. So "lint licker" has made an appearance

I think that woman might have been a guest star on The Closer this week.


§ ita § - Aug 06, 2010 1:02:06 pm PDT #27784 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Why the waiter, the hairdresser, the valet, and the baggage handler, and not the housekeeper, the lawn guy, or the cook?

You don't tip the housekeeper and the lawn guy? I thought one did. And the cook is supposed to get a cut of what you tip the wait staff, no?


brenda m - Aug 06, 2010 1:03:36 pm PDT #27785 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

What does a housekeeper do for you if you're not staying in the hotel? And are you differentiating that from the maid who cleans your room?

(Not arguing, just confused.)


DavidS - Aug 06, 2010 1:10:49 pm PDT #27786 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I use "fucksticks" when truly vexed.

"H-E-Double-Fucksticks!"

Yeah, that could work.

It's nice to see a lot of the same monkey/weasel logic being applied and cuntyballs amuses me.


Zenkitty - Aug 06, 2010 1:16:11 pm PDT #27787 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I do tip the housekeeper, it just seems that most people don't, and I think they should. (I'm referring to the maid who cleans my hotel room as the housekeeper.) I don't tip my own lawn guy because I'm PAYING him. I'm just not understanding how we as a society decide who should be tipped and who doesn't need to be. And I agree that it would be better all round if people got paid a decent wage instead of having to rely on the whims of customers for a substantial portion of their income. The idea, of course, is that good service will always = good tips, but in RL it doesn't work that way.


Spidra Webster - Aug 06, 2010 1:18:34 pm PDT #27788 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

I agree with Zenkitty that it's random. I worked all sorts of low-paid food service and retail jobs (including minimum wage jobs). I always gave good service. I wasn't tipped in any of those jobs.


Nora Deirdre - Aug 06, 2010 1:19:21 pm PDT #27789 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

He told me nobody EVER tips the housekeepers.

I tip the hotel housekeepers. ($2-3 bucks a day)