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Gene Parmesan

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  1. 1 hour ago, ztejas said:

    Yeah even habaneros you have to be careful working with. Me and a buddy were making a salsa one time and threw in maybe a pepper or two into the blender. He took the top off the blender after we ran it and got a blast to the face of the aerosoled pepper mix. It wasn't incapacitating or anything but safe to say it'll wake your ass up in the morning. 

    Ghost peppers are a whole 'nother level. Which is why my initial advice was just to throw that shit away. It's not worth fucking your evening up or pissing your wife or kids off or whatever because you wanted to try and find a way to cook with it. Yes, you can cook with them. Yes, they have a nice flavor. But I'm going to let someone else do the dirty work and glove and goggle up. I'll try whatever the end result is - I have a high spice tolerance - for me the juice just isn't worth the squeeze when it comes to preparing ridiculously hot peppers. (I think most Ghost peppers are 6x or more hotter than habañeros).

    All the new hybrid peppers were created with the purpose of setting Scoville records.  Before then something like a habanero was probably about as hot as you could find in nature.  Now these new hybrid peppers make a habanero seem like child's play, and habaneros will fuck up the average joe.  The sadist that eat shit like reapers and ghost peppers would give the cenobites a run for their money. 

  2. 1 hour ago, ztejas said:

    That's not the same thing though. You can write a bomb for a popular movie and generate clicks.

    Obviously the article is about studios hiring a PR firm to inflate scores for some movies. My assertion is that most movie, music etc. reviews are not being paid for. 

    That said - my go to for movies is IMDB audience score. For music I'm sometimes interested in what people have had to say but it almost never influences what I actually listen to. 

    The displayed IMDB ratings score is weighted.  Some users are worth more than others.  Plenty of room for shenanigans there as well.

  3. 33 minutes ago, NoName said:

    i can't believe they didn't take more time and do an actual search to find a good partner for Donnie.

    fuck around with one of the shows - sure. you have WIP and that show is fine.

    but to do some kind of search and say that yeah, Matt fucking Mclarin was the best choice that fast? what kind of search is that? it isn't like he and Donnie had some longterm prior relationship and had worked together a ton. now, Matt does bring some of that chaotic energy that Dan and Gordo both have for sure but is that really the BEST guy you can find in the country sit next to Donnie? really?

    and lol at Peter and anyone acting like a 33% drop month over month is normal and ok for the 1-3 timeframe.

    Mclarin holds his own, Donnie is the one who sucks imo.  Donnie + anyone is going to suck.

  4. Just now, ousux said:
    6 minutes ago, msucolt45 said:
    I was more impressed by Colorado’s offense than our offensive showing today. I understand “vanilla” in week one with a big opponent next week, but our OL looked BAD vs a scrappy Rice team. Not really something to hang your hat on.

    Hook’em!!!

    If Quinn had Travis Hunter to throw to he would have looked much better. Oh, and also against the pathetic froggy defense...Gare isn't in FW anymore.

    The receivers were open he couldn’t hit them

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Zeus said:

    Gus - “they said Dion Sanders didn’t know what he was doing!”

    Nobody said that lol they were the worst team in NCAA ripping the roster to pieces was the only move. 

    Maybe he was referring to the Sanders thread on Surly

  6. It's a mixture of this stadium is brand new and still has that new car smell, and this stadium is salt of the earth and how God intended football to be played, and this team is really good so gameday is awesome because everyone is happy.

  7. 1 hour ago, austingirl said:

    My son is very excited about this because he loves the game, and I'm having a hard time figuring out if this will be anything approaching kid-appropriate. Rotten Tomatoes says it's PG-13, but it also says "strong violent content." They need to pick a lane.

    nephew GIF

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  8. 10 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said:

    One huge thing in taking away tipping and baking it in to prices is that it will incentivize restaurants to understaff since they are paying the full freight, so they will not want to pay servers $25/hour to stand around.

    Also, servers will really not want to work the busy times or Friday and Saturday nights. Now the benefit of those is you make more. If I can get $25/hr to lose my weekend and bust my ass or $25/hr to work a table or two on a Wed afternoon, why would I possibly take option 1?

    It will be in the restaurants best interest to staff efficiently.  The "easy shifts" shouldn't be easy because the restaurant should be staffed accordingly.  So overall it's slow, but there is less staff so you are covering more tables.  And the busy times would see more waitstaff.  That's obviously something they would have to learn.  

  9. 35 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

     

     

    I think a poster here had said they would get multiple glasses of wine for free and just tip the waiter 20 or 50 bucks.  That's not ok to me. That is theft. 

    It's textbook theft.  I've seen enough bar rescue to know that it's a common move in poorly ran establishments, but any cash transaction can be pocketed if the business is poorly managed. 

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Deej said:

    Maybe not in a restaurant, but every friend I've ever known who tended bar would pour beers for no charge for certain regulars and then get the cash tip in the jar on each of those pours. Those aren't recorded sales. 

    Yeah but that's stealing from the bar.  What does theft have to do with tip culture?  People in any industry can steal from their place of work.

  11. 6 minutes ago, Deej said:

    Be honest...the main reason most servers would lose money if they raised pay and did away with tips is they wouldn't be able to dodge taxes on those cash tips.

    I don't remember who but someone posted a while back that waiters are taxed on a % of sales, so the government is factoring in cash tips.  You'd only be pocketing the cash that was over whatever that % is.  Not that any of it matters much in a cashless society.

  12. I'm fine with waitstaff making whatever it takes to end tipping.  I'd rather just pay the bill of 125 and no tip, than 100 plus a 25 tip.  All tipping does is allow for cheapskates to snub waitstaff or shitty managers to screw them over.

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