COVID-19 Response: An issue that shouldn't be at all political....yet here we are

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye15

look, we don't agree on virtually anything politics, but I am not going to be a dick in general to someone on a chat board.

I don't believe in god, and we don't have religion inside our household. So there is no relation between religion and christmas. Raised catholic, but by age 14 was done. Family never pushed it. That being said, the commercial side is why Dads hate christmas. Even the bus driver needs a gift. Why????

I love the last sentence. Once our youngest doesn't believe in Santa anymore, we are done with presents, and are going to take a 7-8 day trip over Christmas. I can't ****ing wait man..if I am going to spend $3k on christmas, I would rather it be traveling to somewhere much cooler than Minnesota in late December :)

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There are places cooler than Minn? :)

I get ya. My wife wanted something like that this year. We never did Santa Claus with the kids. We decided that we wouldn't lie to them. We also told them to let the few friends that did celebrate Santa to do so without interrupting as it was not our place to correct them. Same went with the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. The kids knew the Tooth Fairy was not real but asked us to play along. We did and they loved it. We also created the Love Bug for Valentine's Day which we still do two decades later.

alright, enough side talk, I don't want NYYfan555 to fly off the handle.

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Originally Posted by WES445

We just make Christmas a family thing. Eating, sports watching, card dealing, lying and farting, and more eating. We do the same thing on Thanksgiving, July the 4th, and labor day. Working poor families don't inspire the expectation of holiday gifts from mailmen and such. I think the location is the giveaway.

There was a time when they did get a holiday token, a five or ten on a holiday card. The old man was a mail carrier in a very good neighborhood, and every Christmas when he was home, we spend a good chunk of the night opening up Christmas cards with five and tens in them. A few hundred dollars

Best not to depend on tipping in today's economy.

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I am with you until that last line.

If you can't tip, then do the service yourself.

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Originally Posted by brett05

I am with you until that last line.

If you can't tip, then do the service yourself.

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Perhaps this is better for another thread, but tip culture is horrible.

If an owner needs to depend on the generosity of customers to properly pay their employees, then it's a flawed business.

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Originally Posted by brett05

There are places cooler than Minn? :)

I get ya. My wife wanted something like that this year. We never did Santa Claus with the kids. We decided that we wouldn't lie to them. We also told them to let the few friends that did celebrate Santa to do so without interrupting as it was not our place to correct them. Same went with the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. The kids knew the Tooth Fairy was not real but asked us to play along. We did and they loved it. We also created the Love Bug for Valentine's Day which we still do two decades later.

alright, enough side talk, I don't want NYYfan555 to fly off the handle.

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Minnesota is amazing from May-October. But the winters......ugh. Thankfully I love basketball, and my wife hockey, so we have 160 games to watch.. Tough to find a better place to raise kids, which is why my parents stayed here for 20+ years, and why I am here.

Man I have no idea how your kids kept the lid on Santa haha, kids are TOO honest.

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Originally Posted by brett05

I am with you until that last line.

If you can't tip, then do the service yourself.

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totally agree, but over the pandemic, its amazing how "tipping" exploded into everything. Like I am wrong for never tipping when I do carry-out? How about at Starbucks, am I supposed to tip, you literally just poured my black coffee from a machine?

I agree with tipping when a server is giving you food or drink, or at hotels for room service, and plenty other services (key word: services).

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Originally Posted by brett05

I am with you until that last line.

If you can't tip, then do the service yourself.

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I do. I think Hawkeye was talking about is people working for the bus lines, mailmen, and such. Those with middle-class jobs. Not those who live off tips like yourself. I don't order fast food, have food delivered, or go to restaurants often, but when I do, I tip. BTW, waitresses and waiters are slowly getting a set salary close to min. wage because the tipping is so bad. Charity contributions are down as well, it's the economy, not any slight you perceive coming from me.

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Originally Posted by WES445

I do. I think Hawkeye was talking about is people working for the bus lines, mailmen, and such. Those with middle-class jobs. Not those who live off tips like yourself. I don't order fast food, have food delivered, or go to restaurants often, but when I do, I tip. BTW, waitresses and waiters are slowly getting a set salary close to min. wage because the tipping is so bad. Charity contributions are down as well, it's the economy, not any slight you perceive coming from me.

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AH. That makes sense.
Thanks!

Diamond, of Diamond and Silk, has passed away due to COVID.

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Originally Posted by dbroncos78087

Diamond, of Diamond and Silk, has passed away due to COVID.

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Is there anything negative toward conservative you won't swallow without a chew?

https://www.newsweek.com/lynette-har...-covid-1772613

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Originally Posted by brett05

Is there anything negative toward conservative you won't swallow without a chew?

https://www.newsweek.com/lynette-har...-covid-1772613

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I'm sorry she would probably have preferred we call it the China virus. I suppose I'll make an exception and use the racist term to honor her memory.

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Originally Posted by dbroncos78087

I'm sorry she would probably have preferred we call it the China virus. I suppose I'll make an exception and use the racist term to honor her memory.

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Or to not say she passed away of anything until it is ...ya know..more than a Democrat wanting to stick it to a Republican during a tragedy. It's what the left does so well, never waste one.

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Originally Posted by brett05

Or to not say she passed away of anything until it is ...ya know..more than a Democrat wanting to stick it to a Republican during a tragedy. It's what the left does so well, never waste one.

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Would she be the first anti vaccination conservative to die of COVID? If anything, they're sticking it to themselves. Maybe she didn't die of COVID but plenty of conservatives who refused the vaccine and other COVID treatments (after contracting it) have.

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Originally Posted by brett05

Or to not say she passed away of anything until it is ...ya know..more than a Democrat wanting to stick it to a Republican during a tragedy. It's what the left does so well, never waste one.

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Well she made herself more likely to get sick or die. Sorry if my sympathy is busy with people who didn’t actively make the world more dangerous for themselves.

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Originally Posted by dbroncos78087

Well she made herself more likely to get sick or die. Sorry if my sympathy is busy with people who didn’t actively make the world more dangerous for themselves.

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Or you could just not be a ******* and not post anything


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Originally Posted by Brewersfan255

Or you could just not be a ******* and not post anything


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Ahh the man who fights against the toxic political environment to keep us on the right path.