I have a cigar question. I was interested in trying out some different types of cigars a few months back, so I went to a cigar shop and asked the owner to set me up with some decent cigars for a novice. I can't remember what he gave me, but some tasted decent, some didn't. But they all had something in common, after I smoked one I would get a headache, sometimes a bit of nausea, and my mouth would taste like ass all night and most of the next day, no matter how many times I brushed. Is that normally the way it is with cigars, or was I doing something wrong?
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Going to buy Cigars tomorrow...
by Confucious inme and simplesally have been talking about homes.
disasters and triumps... .
right now, i'm finishing my libary/chill out room.
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Hubble's Deepest Shot A Mystery
by Big Tex inthis is really interesting to me.
another exciting possibility is that physics was very different in the early universe .
another exciting possibility is that physics was very different in the early universe .
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Looking at the model in the link above is a bit confusing; maybe I'm looking at it wrong. But if the big bang is still continuously expanding out from it's origin, why do the oldest stars and galaxies seem to be sitting on the outskirts of the youngest area, close to where I would think the youngest stars would still be forming.
And if the big bang is still expanding our current universe, will it only cover a certain area before it fizzles out? (Kind of like a normal nuclear explosion only covers a certain area) Or, in theory, will the big bang keep on expanding forever? And, what is it overtaking? Is the explosion destroying other galaxies in older universes than ours that were created by another earlier explosion, or is it forever stretching out into nothingness, creating stars and galaxies along the way?
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Man charged for not tipping enough
by Larry inat first i thought it was a jdub :).
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1095189250118990.xml&storylist=simetro.
man charged for not tipping enough has charges dropped9/14/2004, 3:09 p.m. et the associated press .
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If you're a regular at a resturaunt, find a waiter or waitress that does a good job for you, get to know their name and ask them about themselves a little bit, ask to see their manager if he/she is available and tell the manager that you really enjoyed the service, then tip decently.
When you come back, ask if you can sit in that server's section, and they'll treat you better than any of their other tables, almost gauranteed. And as an added bonus, they'll tell the rest of the wait staff that you're great people and good tippers. It probably doesn't work if you ony go to that particular resturaunt twice a year, but if you're like me and go to a particular resturaunt for lunch maybe once or twice a week, you'll find that it really works well.
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Man charged for not tipping enough
by Larry inat first i thought it was a jdub :).
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1095189250118990.xml&storylist=simetro.
man charged for not tipping enough has charges dropped9/14/2004, 3:09 p.m. et the associated press .
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I used to be a waiter for almost 5 years. And the average rate of pay in the United States for a waiter that doesn't have a union to back him up is $2.13 per hour plus tips. Tips are given to the server for the service, not necessarily the food. I can't say how many times I was tipped on food quality and not service though. Sometimes I'd bring a steak that was cooked medium-well instead of medium and get completely stiffed, even after getting them a new steak and discounting the ticket price. There were always a few customers that you could tell were just looking for a reason not to tip you, like when people would try to order things that weren't on the menu, like pancakes and scrambled eggs when it was obvious we didn't serve breakfast in an upper scale steak house, and then they'd tell me, "oh, well your tip just went down."
I've had several different jobs over the years ranging from putting up scafolding, plastering, construction, laying concrete, landscaping, sales, serving, and brokerage. But the most stressfull and demeaning job I've ever had was definitely waiting tables. Imagine having a section of nine different tables, 40 different people, on a busy Friday night, all wanting refills. All 40 people think that they're meals should come first, their drinks should be full, their food should be perfect, and if everything isn't perfect, which it won't be, then they feel that they have the right to demean you, yell at you, call you names, and ultimately insult you by leaving you nothing for your hours of service. As a waiter, you will probably have to tip out a certain percentage of your sales to the bus boy, the hostess, and the bar tender, and possibly the person that sets your food up on the back line. If you don't get a tip from a table, you still have to give a percentage of your sales to all of the people mentioned above, which depletes your $2.13 completely and on a very bad night where the food isn't coming out right and you get flustered, it can see you leave the resturaunt with less than you came in with.
Some nights where everything went right, I could do very well. But a little known secret that I'll tell to all those that have never been in the resturaunt business is that good tippers and bad tippers will always be remembered. It's sort of a self fullfilling prophecy of bad tipping, because when a bad tipper walks in, the whole wait staff will know. The last waiter to wait on them will tell the rest of the wait staff and suddenly that table will get extra bad service, insuring another bad tip. If the customers were very rude, I knew waiters that would go farther than the norm and spit in drinks and soup and other gross things. It's the opposite for extra good tippers, the wait staff will hear about it and will spend more time at the table and will always make sure they are taken extra care of, ensuring that they keep tipping well.
As far as suing for an extra 8% gratuity, that's a bit ridiculous. But let's see, it was an Italian resturaunt and the manager was named Soprano, I think I'd tip well just for safety sake.
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Which dog breed do you like?
by Panda inwell , with so many posts about pets i thought i'd ask this question.
we have 3 great pyrenees dogs.
the oldest is 11yrs and the youngest is 4yrs old.
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This kind
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The crumbling of one's life
by Nosferatu incan any of you relate to this?.
a man has met a very beautiful woman, and is attracted to her.
she is likewise attracted to him.
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Very true. I grew up with the WTBS being the foundation of my life and when I was 21 years old that foundation came crashing down and I had to start over. So I started over with a foundation exactly like the illustration above. My wife became my foundation for 7 years and then she left and that foundation came crumbling down.
I hope the third time is a charm. I'm still working on the third foundation, but I think that having myself as my foundation makes me a stronger, more independent person. And at least in a some part I have Nos to thank for his logical posts awhile back when I was feeling down and depressed and throwing a lot of self pity around.
Anyway, thanks. It's good advice for everyone.
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Friday the 13th
by Elsewhere inboo!
one bad thing did happen this morning... i woke up to find that my personal domain is down.
i'm waiting for a response from my hosting company to let me know what is going on..
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I woke up this morning to a bright, sunny day and a canary singing outside my window. As I happily strolled to the shower, my cat wandered between my legs and tripped me up. I tried to catch myself on the towel rack and tore it out of the wall and hit myself in the back of the head with it knocking me face first into the toilet, which I soon found had not been flushed by my room-mate earlier this morning.
All of that might have just been a coincidence, but things never got better. After I?d taken a cold shower (because my roommate had used up all the hot water) and washed all the piss off my face, I got out and started getting ready for work. As I was about to fix some breakfast I got a phone call from the girl I?ve been dating. She told me that she thought I was a great guy, but she wasn?t looking for a great guy and had been cheating on me with my roommate since our second date.
That didn?t add anything to the day. I moped into the kitchen, only to find the trash scattered all over the floor and my two dogs fighting over a taco bell bag. After I?d cleaned the mess up, I didn?t have much time to eat, so I grabbed a box of cheerios and a bottle of milk, the cereal was fine, but the milk had expired four days ago, so I was basically pouring clumps of rotten milk on my cereal. I said screw it and threw it in the sink and grabbed myself an apple and ran out the door.
As I was driving to work and eating the apple, I tasted something nasty and looked down at my apple only to find half a worm. I wasn?t concentrating on driving as I was spitting out the remnants of the apple and accidentally side-swiped a mailbox, knocking the mailbox and my left rearview mirror onto the ground and putting a dent in my passenger side door. I jumped out of the car and grabbed my mirror and threw it into my floorboard. About that time, the people that lived in the house came out and started spouting off some expletives and yelled at me about how their day had been so horrible so far and this was the topper. That lasted for a good ten minutes, and then I was already late for work.
I tried to call into work to say I was going to be late but I kept on getting a busy signal. And I ended up being extra late because I happened to get to the train tracks just as the damn train was coming. That held me up for a good fifteen minutes due to the fact that the train seemed to be purposefully screwing with me by coming to a complete stop, backing up and moving forward over and over and I ended up being thirty minutes late to work. My boss got all over me and told me that I should have called and when I told him that I had tried but got a busy signal, he basically told me I was lying and that it better never happen again unless I want a new job and if it was less hectic today he?d consider firing me right now.
So I started working and found that half my loads had fallen through and the customers were pissed off that their products weren?t going to be getting out today at the right time and one yelled at me about how this was going to cost him $50k and he wasn?t going to sue the company I work at, he was going to sue me. But other than all that stuff, it?s been a great day. Wait, is that a meteor in the sky coming my way.
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Illustration of burning cities while JW's rejoice?
by gaiagirl ini remember once seeing an older watchtower publication, i believe it was a study book from the late '60s or early '70s, in which one illustration showed a city with large buildings in the background, all burning and in ruins.
in the foreground, a group of well-groomed jw's smile joyously and raise their arms in praise to jehovah, apparantly thanking him for destroying civilization, but at least allowing them to live.
the picture was a little unsettling at the time, and now with the threat of terrorism, even more so.. does anyone remember which publication this image was from?
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What I learned from most of the pictures in the publications is that the "evil non-witnesses" sure like to wear headbands. So if you want to survive through Armegedon, for god's sake, don't wear a headband damnit.
Anyone else notice that a lot of the bad guys had headbands or was it just me?
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"We miss you" experiences
by Nosferatu ini have a couple.
the elder that used to study with me came to my door one day.
he reminded me of all the wonderful times we had out in service (i really couldn't remember any).
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My mom always tells me about how much my old friends ask about me and miss me. I always tell her that she can give them my number if she wants, but they wouldn't call anyway. It's strange how people can say that they really miss you when it would only take them 10 minutes to drive to your house and see you.
One of my ex-witness friend's mom told him that if him and I would just get our acts together and come back to the hall that we could have our pick from the harem of witness girls because there's a lack of intelligent, decent looking guys. No thanks, I'm not attracted to brainwashed drones.
Another ex-witness friend was offered a $5000 check from his dad the second his reinstatement was announced. He said he was thinking about doing it and after the announcement, take his money and then light up a cigarette in the hall as he went around and greeted people.
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Who's been around the most?
by blobby in.
how far travelled are you?.
how many different countries have you visited in your life time.......................can't name the same country twice ....even if it has changed names.. countries on other planets don't count !.
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England
Denmark
Norway
Swedan
Finland
Estonia
Poland
Russia
Virgin Islands
Mexico
Jamaica
New Zealand
Tasmania
Australia
USA: 39 out of 50 states so far
And before I die, I plan on visiting every country on earth. Well, ok maybe that would be hard to do, but my top would have to be all the rest of the coutries in Europe, Egypt, Kenya, China, India, and most countries in Central and South America.