Brexit, for once some facts.
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Irrelevant fact but....
A tip was historically paid before the service. It's a modern acronym for "To Incur Promptness". It's still given first in many places such as shows in Las Vegas for example where the person showing you to your table is "Tipped" to get a better position rather than tipping afterwards based on where they decide to stick you.
TTFN
John
That's yesterday's policy.
With Brexit over and no hugely advantageous trade deal with the USA, nor likely to be one, we really need to keep on good relations with the EU now.
Just watch us gradually get more and more re-involved with the EU as we strive to be included in ongoing EU policy. We are already following a policy of maintaining regulatory conformity to aid continuing trade.
In ten years time it will be difficult to see any remaining evidence of Brexit and Sovereignty.
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Don't know why West think they can interfere so much. Well, it's proven time and time again they can't.
To Improve Promptness - before, so that you get good service.
It's continuation of the Cold War policy, the fear of the West and particularly the USA that they might lose their dominance in the world,
If they had any sense they'd realise that loss is inevitable, indeed its arguable that it's already happened since so much of the West is utterly reliant on Oriental and particularly Chinese production.
Xi Jinping has made his intention very clear, for China to become the World's leading power and the world to become communist in the Chinese model, i.e. one party governance but with capitalist economies enabling individual aspiration. Since China and Russia are now an alliance with China repopulating Eastern Russia with Putin's blessing, they are an immense combined force to be reckoned with and I don't see anyone able to stop them, now NATO is little more than an increasingly weakening alliance.
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But in practise we don't do that and never have in my lifetime, nor are service charges applied before the service is given.
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Agreed. Rather a bleak outlook tho. Only a matter of time before China makes moves on Taiwan which could trigger rather frightening consequences.
I think it goes back to the rather morbid custom of tipping your executioner. (Difficult to do it after the event).
A good tip ensured your death was swift and (relatively) painless, failure to do this might result in a blunt axe.
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Restaurant service charges are a percentage of the bill so impossible to apply before the meal has been completed with all courses requested.
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So another delay in changing from CE to UKCA.
Another year.
And I can’t see many other countries bothering with it.
Another year.
And I can’t see many other countries bothering with it.
the capitalistic side.
Money is the biggest source of evil.
They will not. The UK CA mark is a dead duck. Any Asian economy will be looking at UL or CE.for imports Europe will be looking at CE. In a market of 7000 Million, the production capacity of 66 Million really does not scale.
Pretty sad that one of the most viewed items on BBC news today is/was the milkshake shortage at MacD's.
Not as if nothing else is happening - whether Paralympic athletes being struck down with Covid, Afghanistan, Scottish public inquiry in Covid, or a hundred other issues.
Not as if nothing else is happening - whether Paralympic athletes being struck down with Covid, Afghanistan, Scottish public inquiry in Covid, or a hundred other issues.
The principle priorities of the consumer society, fast food and entertainment.
Once those are satisfied any time left over can be spared for such issues, so long as any one item on one of them is less than a minute long to avoid getting bored.
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Which is confusing two issues - service charges are not tips, and vice versa. Though often the distinctions are not properly considered.