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QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 04:41 PM) Throughout college I worked in various restaurants. I started in a couple of chain restaurants and progressed to finer dining establishments. The actual dishwasher at any of these restaurants does the same exact thing. They run the dishes and silverware through a dish washing machine. At the chain restaurants there was little to no emphasis by management to ensure that silverware, glassware, and dishes were polished by the wait staff after they came through the dishwasher. I typically went ahead and did it for my tables but I didn't have to. At the finer establishments I worked at it was always part of the process of setting up the restaurant before the place opened. The waitstaff, and sometimes bussing staff, would polish each individual piece of silverware, glassware, and and dish that was placed on a table. Going back to the dishwasher in question, this person sits there in extremely uncomfortable conditions (very hot and humid) running big trays of dishes through the machine....over and over and over again, for several hours in a row. That is their job. That's all they do. If the dishwashing machine isn't doing a great job at making everything spotless he cannot feasibly sit there and polish each individual item since the dishes pile up constantly. It is ultimately up to the waitstaff to ensure that you are not getting a plate with smudges or a glass with some lipstick that didn't completely wash off. So next time you go to Chili's or Applebee's don't blame the dishwasher for a less than perfect looking plate. It's really your server. Don't worry...that didn't come off as a nerdy rant or like you have a vendetta towards waiters at all....

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 12:43 PM) Cool. I might have a better chance at getting a dish washing job now. every time I go out I ask for new plates and silverware because of how s***ty it looks... so honestly, it's like NO one is doing it at this point anyway. There used to be a time when teenagers used to work for their cars, cell phones, and beer money. Parents are to blame for illegal immigration (is there a half green/half serious button?)...if they forced their kids to work s***ty jobs, we wouldn't be forced to depend alternative s***ty workers. :mexico

Where are the White Super Gorillas and when are they attacking?

that sounds like one of the more disturbing euphamisms I've heard in a while

Now if they could only invent an operating system that lasted 30 minutes without crashing...

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 01:24 PM) Red Baron looks like Flyboys without James Franco to make it ghey...

You asked for them.....

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 6, 2007 -> 05:52 PM) So Sharpton does something resembling the right thing and that's cause for ridicule? at some point...nothing you do is "right thing"... When you continue to make money off of other people (that's a nice way of say exploitation)...especially the church, your actions become worthless. I'm sure Hilter probably gave hugs. He was still crazy.

The Rev-Al-Ry never gets old Sharpton's seen a picture of Isaiah, right? He's black not jewish, Al. What are you protesting? oh...it's because she's a woman...and certainly not because she's black. mr_genius, will you take it from here?

but the more I watch these cleverly edited repetitious conspiracy videos on 9/11 events...I become more and more convinced.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 6, 2007 -> 01:10 PM) Speaking of babies...I'm surprised you aren't still crying about the election. no, you see, I voted for Bush both times.... so I won. and then we all lost.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 6, 2007 -> 12:47 PM) Typical PA. Always finding a reason to rag on someone!

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 6, 2007 -> 12:31 PM) You're 100% ridiculous. that's a cute number....where'd you get it?

Tex, have you been? Sounds really cool. Global Warming = flood = newly discovered Dino foot prints, etc Canyon Lake Gorge Site

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 6, 2007 -> 10:12 AM) Licking the hard what?? :ph34r: :ph34r: Watch out for K Gleason when he's cruising Holland with a few Heinekens in him. Dutch "Frogland" The Garlic Toad.... A Dutch Toad worth licking?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 6, 2007 -> 10:18 AM) Bloodninja: Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat. . . I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 09:10 PM) I'm just happy you don't have a YouTube video to go with that. Or surprised, more like. it's the closest I could come....

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 06:02 PM) Which is the way I've always said it should be. It's hard to say...the mid-west tends to have a wide-stance on what is acceptable and what is not

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 06:36 PM) There are more than a few volunteers who are plenty pissed to learn BSA has been buying from China and not the USA. Of course they are the same ones that complained everything cost too much. I just left a staff meeting when the local media came to interview my boss. Good way to end a meeting early :-) for those of you that don't know...Texsox is a 12 level orge mage

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 06:24 PM) BTW, that is expensive, but great tasting, popcorn. My favorite is the chocolate covered caramel corn And for those of you that don't know, PA lives in a tree. "outside my branch" would imply that I was INside my branch...I'd be a squirrel or a bug, dorkass ...wait...is that better or worse?!?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 06:46 PM) Maybe it's just my questioning nature, but before I had some body parts cut off, I'd probably want a second set of tests and a second opinion from another Doctor. So maybe if this prevents someone else from making the same mistake, something good would come from it. Next up, should everyone at the lab suffer because one employee f***ed up? what's the definition of "suffer"? put the company out of business so they lose their jobs? maybe. my question: what kind of safeguards does this lab have to prevent things like this from happening? if the answer is anything but including at least 2-3 verifications by other employees...then the lab should be put out of business anyway. a single person's say in anything is unacceptable with such things. realistically, it's hard for us to say what is "standard operating procedures" for labs...unless we have someone on soxtalk that would know crap like that. I agree that there should have been a second set of tests to verify the originals... I just think that it's not up to the patient to do the fact checking and leg work. The lab and the doctor are to blame, plain and simple. The "pain and suffering" is so ridiculous to spot in this case it's not funny. Do I think she should get a billion dollars? no. 10 million for each boob should do it.

the boyscouts are outside my branch selling popcorn... has anyone considered the sexist implications of boy scouts selling popcorn (campfires/masculine) and girl scouts selling cookies (baking/feminine)? just a thought

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 04:37 PM) Anytime a percentage is cited, without a source, it should be questioned. you're 100% ridiculous...

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 02:30 PM) Do you argue just to argue, or does it make you feel good about yourself? israel4ever's son needs a place to post as well.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 01:37 PM) It is interesting in this case because I have some recollection of Nixon, watched the impeachment trial, watched the events unfold, then Ford, and was in High School during Carter's term. So much of Carter's and later Reagan's Presidency would be linked to the nation's mood. Much like historians would credit the nation's ending of the mourning of Kennedy's death to the rise of the Beatles, Reagan allowed us to swagger. Nixon, Vietnam, inflation, Ford all led to Carter's term. Then the hostage taking and the failed rescue. Tough times. And they can't be fully understood in a 50 minute class. Sports fans understand momentum, and we didn't have it. When we elected Carter we wanted some honesty, integrity, and perhaps a bit of divine intervention back into the White House. Reagan was helped immensely by the terrorists waiting until he took office to release the hostages. This was clearly a final insult to Carter but arguably a great thing for America. Minutes after Reagan takes office, our nation was released. We got that swagger back. We had a handsome cowboy in office and we were back to kick some ass. Images of the hostages being beheaded would have been far worse than 444 days of captivity. We may look at negotiations now as being wimpy, but what have we accomplished with our current methods? It is not fair to compare 1979 with 2007, but these were middle east terrorists who released all the hostages alive. Not a bad outcome. I am certain Carter doesn't care that Pratt and Alpha question his manhood. Of course Alpha now calls him a senile fool for walking into a dangerous situation. Proving it just doesn't matter to some people. I think he displated great courage in 2007 and perhaps even greater courage in 1979 and 1980. He new his political career was shot without a daring rescue attemp and did not try a November surprise. That takes personal convictions that I wish more leaders possessed. that wasn't funny at all...