Recent Comments

1. 26 days ago on Reality Check

   He’s in luck! Ralph is just the expert he needs.

2. 27 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I once had a little three-generation cat family of five. After the last one died at 22 and a half years the house suddenly felt so empty and deathly quiet. I have never felt so lonely in all my life. I set about searching pet rescue websites for a new companion. I found a couple that I wanted but when I called they were always already taken. After a couple more weeks of searching I found a photo of a kitten that I instantly knew I had to have. That was nine years ago and now LillyMae, a pretty little medium haired tortoise shell, is my constant companion. It feels like she is the one that rescued me instead of the other way ’round. I feel more than ever that Mark Twain had it exactly right when he said “A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”

3. about 2 months ago on Reality Check

   Those Texans sure take a lot of credit for where they were born.

4. about 2 months ago on Pickles

   There’s a reason I call it FaceCrook. You should look up the shady stuff it has done with your personal info. People post WAY too much personal information online and FaceCrook is the main repository.

5. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   After years of seeing Janis various forms of undress I can say there is nothing wrong with her form.

6. 3 months ago on Reality Check

   It’s possible that whoever installed the software didn’t walk them through it

   The companies that make those devices have no incentive to tell them how to turn off the tip screens since they get a percentage of the total for each transaction.

7. 3 months ago on Reality Check

   They can ALL turn off the tip screen completely, as well as set the suggested minimum tip amounts. Many claim that they don’t know how to do it or can’t do it. But they leave them on because tips have gone way up since these terminals started being used. Now ask them who gets the tips. There are many reports of owners keeping them for themselves.

8. 3 months ago on Reality Check

   they do not make minimum wage,

   This is completely wrong. They are guaranteed to make minimum wage. If they do not make enough in tips to equal minimum wage their employer is required to make up the difference. It’s called “tipped minimum wage”. So not only do they make minimum wage, they very often make more money than you probably do and work a fraction of the hours. Many will report on social media making $60 an hour or more. Bartenders over $100 an hour, but they won’t admit that to the IRS. Tipping by percentage is a scam and many people buy into it.

9. 3 months ago on Reality Check

   but then you feel like a bit of a cheapskate.

   Because that’s how the want you to feel. For some reason you are supposed to feel sorry for anyone that makes minimum wage to the point you “should” donate money to them. But only certain people. Not all retail workers. Yet, anyway.

10. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

    The Internet existed for years before web browsers and there were several other protocols being used prior to http. The web is only a part of the Internet. It’s not debatable.