seamer commented on Enjoy the guest post stylings

"@zigziggityzoo: It's probably more along the lines of 'you fired writers recently and now there is an intern?'.. But it's a guess."

seamer commented on World's Most Conscientious Customer Completes Botched Software Purchase Over A Year Later

"I don't think it's anything racial, there's good and bad people all over the world."

seamer commented on Fake Wired Magazine "Renewal Notice" Almost Tricks You Into Paying More

"I was signed up for Macworld and PC Authority from a friend."

seamer commented on Days Before Bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers Approved $100 Million Parachute

"@crazyasianman: No, the party didn't continue."

seamer commented on Is It Ever Acceptable Not To Tip At A Restaurant?

"@elmuchachos: Mate, you defended the practise of tipping by saying that without tips and paying the servers more, then it would cost the consumer more. That's pretty outrageous when you figure in that a server can manage several tables at once and is almost guaranteed a tip of 10-20% per table, plus a forced gratuity if you happen to be with a group of people. Either way, the consumer is forced to pay more and the current system is a mere cover for systematic slave wages that would be considered illegal in the rest of the civilised world."

seamer commented on Is It Ever Acceptable Not To Tip At A Restaurant?

"@GeoffinAround: Dunno where you got $26 from, but thats extraordinarily high, probably a mining/building industry wage."

seamer commented on Is It Ever Acceptable Not To Tip At A Restaurant?

"AS an immigant into the USA coming from a country where tipping is not expected, demanded or treated as a consititutional right, tipping has gotten out of control (ever been to Hawaii?). People say tipping is to supplement the poor wages of the servers et al, but the rest of the world knows management should be paying the wait staff a whole lot more than minimum in the first place."

seamer commented on Old Cigarette Ads: Doctors, Nurses, And Rock Hudson Say It's Good For You

"@RckPngn: Some doctors realised at the start of the 20th century (probably earlier) that smoking was bad for you, but due to lobbying, peer pressure, money for advocacy...the clever doctors were outnumbered by lots of advertising, such as we see listed in this thread. Things got really bad when everyone was prescribed a cigarette to fix their emotional state, and even WW1/WW2 didn't help with the US Army giving hugely subsidised smokes to soldiers as a field distraction."

seamer commented on Supermarket Chain Adds 10% At Register, But Only In Some Stores

"False advertising, bait and switch and what appears to be racism...can't go better than that!"

seamer commented on I Told Off The Debt Collector

"Should have used your mad skillz and redirected him here where he could read how the ways debt collectors work are constantly exposed as...shall we say, illegal?"