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The best cure for black people from the tipping thing is to waiter. The day your income is dependent on that, it solves it. Made a lot of friends with black waiter girls from neighbouring coffee shops and boy, never had a problem with them tipping. Then back in my barman days some nights would be white people, and some nights black parties. This is the result, and i am not lying. 8 white people at the bar from 1-4am.around 60bucks i made. The one night there was a black party, more than 200 people, from 8-4am. Tip total: R2.85c. So, yeah, it is cultural. Two things need to be said-white people have it in their background, lots of them waitered at one stage, so yep. Black people didn't so i do understand where they come from. But i do need to add this: my best tip ever was from a black lady. Ordered take aways. 70 bucks.gave me 30 bucks4ordering it and bringing the boxes maybe 10metres. Worst clients have definately been whites.
Sorry that i bring in the black and white thing, but this is what i've learned.
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Posted: 2007-03-10 00:48:44
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The best teacher is personal experience, be your personal experience in a box and incorrect, it is still your perception about the situation, and your conclusion.
Okay, that is my posts, enough for a week, but hopefully not the last for the week:)
Have a great weekend guys! Hope i did not offend anyone tonight, just a lot of adrenaline pumping through my veins right now after the incident.
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Posted: 2007-03-10 00:53:19
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Help Handsome? Hehe! I am talking about a guy who along with his older brother has tracked a guy who broke into their house, took him to the bathroom and beat the living ship out of the oak:) hehe! I was not filming the whole incident. Only had my phone out when the guys were in the car. Would have been silly to be snapping pics then as it would have pissed them off. The car incident was one of those stay out of the way things, and handsome just stood at a stupid spot shaking his fist and not behind or close to something that could cause the car serious harm like everyone else. If anyone else moved in, everyone else would have been hit. I have thought the whole thing over, and things could have been a lot worse if anyone tried to play hero. Handsome is a rugged rugby player, and small, but built. He can move like lightning. I would not have been as lucky as he was in the situation. He can dodge guys storming him, car, no problem. I just tried to get some visuals on the car in case legal action is needed.
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Posted: 2007-03-10 01:03:35
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In a fight i am the peacemaker, the guy who goes in between and tries to break it up, then the bad guy tries to hit, hit me, then everyone else has to pull me off the guy...hehe!
I have been in a situation where we caught a house breaker. He got a knife and i grabbed him from behind and tried to get him to drop it. The house owner got cut trying to disarm him, but then came with a pot, i also got bashed a couple of times on my hand in that process, this with at least two other guys around doing nothing to help really. The guy got 30 years, was wanted for rape as well. The house we were in was a commune, lots of girls there...
Question-how would you react in situations like these? Any thoughts? That is where a guy really starts figuring out who he really is. Nothing like a life threatening situation to bring out the real you, and make you feel the blood pumping in your veins, makes you know that you are alive.
Okay, that is it!hehe!
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Posted: 2007-03-10 01:21:51
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People can be so irresponsible! And right now i am powerless to do anything about it. Two chicks emerged from the house in front of where the fight was. I lured them in for a smoke and pumped them for info about the situation. The one girl was a friend of the girl that these guys were after. They ran off and hid a few blocks away while we were dealing with the shipheads. Now these chicks are also drunk as they come out and the one just started walking home. It is not a safe area. I cannot give her a lift without causing hectic shiv, and her husband(yep, scummy to the 9th level) is too pissy(not sloshed) to come fetch her. The friend next door told me she is 17, living with the people next door, and her parents that neglected her badly(she lives 17km from school, would not come fetch her till like 11at night.) We live in a wonderful world, but sometimes it can be so screwed up. We can really count ourselves lucky.
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Posted: 2007-03-10 02:31:47
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@HOBBS: howzit. I had a good play with the w950 and i can tell u that it is nothing in comparison to my m600. The keypad is absolutely horrible. The walkman player is cool but the sound quality using my sennheiser is exactly the same. The hardware button on the side of my phone can be mapped to any function whereas the w950 just has a play/pause button. I would highly recommend the m600 or if u can afford it get the p990 (but be prepared to live with the bugs). Stay away from the w950 if u text a lot. Cheers
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Posted: 2007-03-10 05:44:43
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@ Francois,
Eish, sorry to hear how such 'wit gomgatte en mak-moere' spoilt a good deal of your evening.
Hope you managed to eventually get some sleep with all that obvious adrenalin flowing through your veins, swaer.
@ da brixsta,
As regards the Sky v/s Virgin media battle, this is Virgin Media's side of the story (although we know the gist of this info already), which they have now uploaded on their site:
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/fairplay/index.html
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[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2007-03-10 10:33 ]
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Posted: 2007-03-10 11:32:44
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@JITES-P990I IT IS.THEYVE PUT ONE ASIDE FOR ME.CAN GO PICK IT UP ON TUESDAY.UPGRADING ON A BUSINESS CALL(R185/MONTH) R1899.00 PAY IN.NOT BAD. @FRANCOIS-YOU DID THE RIGHT THING.STAY OUT OF THOSE SITUATION IF IT ISNT ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO INTERVENE.AND ABOUT TIPPING-I THINK YOU SHOULD TIP IF YOU WANT TO AND IF NOT,SO WHAT.NEVER BEEN A WAITER SO MAYBE THAT MEANS SHIT.
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Posted: 2007-03-10 13:16:48
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I certainly do tip, particularly when in SA where I may give a higher rounded amount of the usual 10%. I really don't mind if the service I have received is good.
However, I will have no beef with not tipping if the service and their attitude/mannerisms have been crap. Fortunately I have not experienced shoddy, pathetic service on too many occasions, both here and in SA.
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Posted: 2007-03-10 14:13:02
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About the group tipping thing...
@ Francois,
Ya, it would be scaley if the last person left at the table used the accumulated tip money to pay for their food, BUT there may unfortunately be instances when one is last at the table, ready to pay and others that have already left have stipulated that they have even included the tip, but when you count the money, it may not even be enough to cover the total cost of the food, let alone the tip! Maybe they forgot about a few drinks or side-orders before slapping down the cash...or not..., even if they have 'checked' the bill.
The last person then may (possibly) not have enough on them to cover the outstanding amount and a 10% gratuity! Now this is probably more likely to happen at work-type functions as opposed to relatives/ friends meeting up, but I can think of one or two poephols in extended family and work circles who have short-changed (inadvertantly or not...?!) those few left at the table at the end...
Just something to bear in mind as well.
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Current phones:
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P900, Nokia 7600, Nokia N73.
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2007-03-10 13:37 ]
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Posted: 2007-03-10 14:34:56
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