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Pre-pandemic, I had increased my tipping to regularly something like 25% because food prices had lagged inflation considerably. But lately restaurant food has gone up more than everything else, so I'm back at 18-20% now. They're still making more than before.

Much like the "resort fee" in Vegas doesn't go to the housekeepers, the "service fee" doesn't go to the servers. I don't even fully trust that credit card tips always get to the server unless it's a large chain that likely has software for it. As for the concern about tax, there is an assumed tip percentage that tax is calculated on and comes out of the servers' paycheck for the checks where the tip wasn't reported. Waiters can and do get audited and slapped with fines for assumed underreporting and the IRS does not have the burden of proof, they just have to show that you served a certain dollar amount.

I think this selling the land under the building is what's killing the Vegas experience. It will take longer to play out because of the gambling money, but I think the next financial crisis will hit them hard

Do the bars "hire" dancers or charge them a fee to dance? Club 20 used to have this one dancer who was totally out of place, late 40s and looked older, not actually good-looking IMO, it seemed more like he was living out his fantasy onstage than that amyome cared to see him. Never saw him with a customer.

My experience has been that for actual fun, bi guys are the best of the three. They often have a gf/wife so time with guys is strictly playtime and/or they are better able to view it as a job and fake it relatively convincingly . Totally straight guys(more specifically the Kinsey Scale 0.5s and less who "round down") tend to be cold fish unless they happen to have a fetish for my body type). But I think phone sex is something that is likely to be extremely hit or miss. A lot of people are more self consciious about verbalizing than doing.

They look like they're about the same age. I think the handle is how they roleplay.

I've been thinking about getting an E-bike but these fires stories are giving me pause.

Yeah saw that a lot at my pricy college that had need-blind admissions and met 100% of need for all students foreign or domestic. Dude who had servants at home in Pakistan and always dressed to the nines got practically a free ride to college because of the exchange rate.

I think the reality is that a fair fraction of women post having children really do simply lose interest in sex, whether due to stress levels or something hormonal. A masseur friend tells me no small part of his business is men who love their wives but have settled on letting a masseur get them off without reciprocation as their sexual outlet.

When they say condoms aren't that effective against HPV, they mean you can get warts in places the condom doesn't cover. If your wart was on an area that a condom would cover, it absolutely will help and you are negligent not to be using one.

Assuming it's how he stays in the US unless he's ducking some other debt.

As I noted above, even WITH insurance, that might very well be a legit bill. Lots of people are oblivious to how their health insurance works until the first time they use it for something more than a routine office visit. I have a friend at the gym who's 35 and started going to physical therapy for an injury at the beginning of the year and was shocked by the bills he's getting. He's never really had to use his insurance before.

7.5 oz soda cans are an abomination.

Hmmm...no quotes from his children. Wondering if a son assumed his identity when he died, like they think happened with Jean Clement the alleged oldest woman ever.

You'd have to look at the EOB to see what the deal is. Did the insirer pay some of the bill but not all of ot, or did they not pay a penny? Was this his first medical bill of the year, in which case a big chunk of that $4200 might well be his annual deductible, ans the rest his copay. Say he's got a $2600 deductible for out of network care(not unusual) and then the plan pays 70% of out of network leaving him to pay 30%. If the original bill was $7500 that woud work out to roughly what his bill came to and it could well be legit. Mind you, this probably took him past his out of pocket max on his in-network care hence no bill for his other stuff. There's a very good chance this is his actual responsibility and if he makes a partial payment it likely will keep it from going to collections. He might he able to negotiate a payment plan since the collections agency pays them pennies on the dollar.

I think the reason you don't see it more is barbers generally make ok money and have no need to offer extras...

At some point, some businesses need to realize that a perpetual increase on investment is unsustainable and eventually a steady profit should be the expectation.

There are few feelings worse than an encounter where you can tell the other person really really doesn't want to be there, and that's considerably more likely with a straight person. I think TJ/Scott Anthony was the only straight guy I really enjoyed my time with. And I'm not entirely sure he wasn't bi....

I saw John Stamos as emcee and in the course of the show he pulled a male audience member onstage and danced with him, and pretended to kiss him. Was it in this context that he was grabbed?

In previous versions of his ads I got a very YMMV vibe. I think what you get is strongly correlated with how attractive you are. I have not seen him though.

Having reached the age where you can't always trust a fart, I don't go commando in work situations.

I mean, if rabidly antigay people choose to have fewer kids to reduce their risk, sounds like a win-win to me. Fewer people to pass the hate down to, relatively fewer gay kids born in unsupportive families.

I thought it was also hypothesized that maternal testosterone levels, which increase with age, might play a role.

Talk of muscle worship in a massage ad with no mention whatsoever of his massage abilities is the reddest of flags. The masseur is supposed to be putting his hands on YOU, not the other way around. Based on the ad text alone I would not consider him

I find people describing themselves as "musky" a turnoff. It suggests a lack of hygiene...