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[skillionaire]

BREW DAY! YEORR!

Walts: Night on the town, texting ERRYBODY.

My car starts first time, every time.

[Alex]

Morning all.

That's for the reccomendations on RSLC Alexewski and Morgan. Muchos gratias.

Off to tint a Mazda 3 from MCM Forum this morning. 20%.

Win.

Brotherhood of the Subarus is how we roll.

My car starts first time, every time.

And when it doesn't, what will you do?

[skillionaire]

Sell it. There's no coming back from there, the bond of trust will be forever broken.

Every time I look at her I'll remember the time she left me stranded out the front of an adult bookstore in Northbridge.

[Alex]

So if your missus is sick one day, does that mean you'll dump her for being prone to illness?

[Shaz]

So if your missus is sick one day, does that mean you'll dump her for being prone to illness?

Unless she got sick in the kitchen, I'd be asking why she was out of said kitchen.

[skillionaire]

If she gets sick and can't take me home from the porn shop, then yes, other options would inevitably be explored.

Also, they didn't make 160,000 of her. So replacement would be a lot harder.

[Alex]

Unless she got sick in the kitchen, I'd be asking why she was out of said kitchen.

If she's not in said kitchen, one must ask, if your pimp hand is strong enough.

[Alex]

If she gets sick and can't take me home from the porn shop, then yes, other options would inevitably be explored.

Also, they didn't make 160,000 of her. So replacement would be a lot harder.

This is where you and I differ. To me, a car isn't an appliance. It isn't a device. It isn't merely a means of transportation.

To me, it's an extension of the soul.


Hence my enthusiasm towards the pleiades. Or anything old school.


Hmm.

Old school.

Where cars where designed to be FIXED AT HOME, WITH HAND TOOLS.

Subarus, I believe, are about as close as you could get to such a philosophy these days...

[skillionaire]

No dramas here.

ALSO.


WEBBBERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

So keen to see two Aussies in one race, especially a Western Australian lad!

[RX25SE]

Morning all.

Starts like a champion now.

Ur becumming quiet teh atuo elctricalz spezilist aernt yu!

[skillionaire]

If my car was twenty years old I'd have no dramas having a bash at it, Alex. But a 2005 Outback is a ******* appliance. Albeit a nice one, exceptionally well built.

Like my calves.

[Alex]

Ur becumming quiet teh atuo elctricalz spezilist aernt yu!

I iz.

Only problem I am having at the moment now, is perfecting my derp pose.





adn if yuo dissagrei, eye vill besh joo!!11

zmong

[RX25SE]

Old school.

Where cars where designed to be FIXED AT HOME, WITH HAND TOOLS.

I mostly agree Alex.

I, as you know, share your passion for all things with metal bumpers but as I age the newer cars become more appliance like.

The RX I enjoy, I enjoy driving it as I enjoy doing small mods to it (I modify all my cars in some way) but it will always have somewhat of an appliance feel to it.
Something the older cars do not share.

[skillionaire]

Exactly. I had no problem putting the new radiator in my ute after I smashed it on the local wildlife's head.

[skillionaire]

Tipping.

How do you guys feel about it?

I find it awkward when someone wants to throw me a few dollars, I'm paid - I appreciate the gesture, but please, keep it. We don't even have a tip jar on the counter.



Saw this image on an American forum, and I'm pretty surprised (I know, who gives a shit about a jpeg on the internet) that Australia is considered CUSTOMARY 10-15%.

skillionairerules outta here.

Most places have a communal tip jar anyway, yeah? So why the skillionairerules am I going to drop a pink bit on some mooch that wasn't serving me, but talking to Tina about last nights episode of Home and Away?

skillionairerules outta here.

[RX25SE]

I enjoy it.



Oh sorry, I thought you meant cow tipping.











If Im happy with the food and the service, I usually round out the bill. Averages between a fiver and a tenner I suppose.


I can cope with average food and good service, but not the other way around.

[Alex]

The Vietnamese restaurant that a lot of us Sydney folk frequent, we always tip.

Since we go quite often (once a week, even twice a week sometimes) we know a couple of the waiters/waitresses by first name, get generous servings, and when it gets busy towards the end of the week (there's queues out the door!) we get priority service (they cut us in before other customers).

We're also usually the only round-eyes in the place.

The food is fresh, delicious, and very economical.

We usually tip $5-$10 a head, rounding off the bill or what not.

[skillionaire]

Yeah, if the food + service is exemplary, I'll throw a bit extra at it. For example though, yesterday I had a woman wanting to tip me $20, I said to her why don't you buy something for twenty dollars? I could give you some goods in return for tender. Then she made it all embarrassing for the two of us and I pretty much had to take it as she just flung it towards me! Extreme case I suppose, but it happens a few times a month like that.

Leaving a restaurant, great meal, good service, you're in a good mood - sweet. When I do tip, I like to be as quiet about it as possible. Some people ONLY tip when people are watching. Status styles duckheads.

Where the truck is Richo?

[skillionaire]

Alex; that's a good example. If you're going to frequent the joint with regularity then I think it's a good policy to show appreciation - but they obviously served you very well, with good food, right at the first time you went there, yes? Otherwise you probably would never have initially tipped, and not gone back!

[Alex]

I agree with you there pikaNIK.

I too don't like to fuss, or flash cash when it comes to tipping. But when eating out with a large group, I tend to go a little harsh on the more pensioner of my mates to chuck in for a tip.
Everyone knows a pensioner as a mate. The real tightwads. You know the sort. Keep that $3.45 worth of church change just in case their car runs out of petrol at any given moment.

Eating out: Nine times out of ten, its not for the meal itself, but rather the whole experience of eating out.

And as a result of the loyalty, and tipping, we get looked after well.

Happy days.