Do you tip your barista? What about your doctor?
First wank so TIP WELL and I promise not to use the cheap lotion. You believe me, right?

After a nice exchange earlier today, I was actually beginning to have warm feelings about

seattle. Not for long.

deguisement freely admits she has already ~~wanked~~ ~~trolled~~ posted in the New Yorkers comm about tipping baristas. Surprisingly, that did not go completely swimmingly. My favorite comment was:

I'll tip my NY baristas like i do my Seattle baristas when they make drinkable fucking lattes like my Seattle baristas do.

Whee! They're off.

gomezticator and

oui_je_danse are of course involved in tl;dr threads of nothingness. Some highlights:

SO bartenders don't deserve tips either?

wouldn't know; i'm straight edge.

So a couple hours later, the OP makes another damn post. This time, she wants to know our Thoughts On Tipping McDonalds. Bonus wank on stripper morality.

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	iwanttobeasleep 2007-06-16 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	Wouldn't it not be a local business by virtue of being global? I always associate local with being limited to my area, not just headquartered there. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

frequentmouse
2007-06-16 10:27 pm UTC (link)

Is Nordstroms, then, no longer local because it's got a tiny bit of its history as a national chain, while for the majority of its time on the planet, it was just in King County? And set its business practices and style in the Northwest?

I'm seriously biased, because I had a latte at the Pike Place Market bar within a week of it opening; a friend of mine from Oly was one of their first Baristas.

Not that Starbucks is by any stretch of the imagination a substitute for The Last Exit, but nothing could be.

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	iwanttobeasleep 2007-06-16 10:31 pm UTC (link)
	Two entirely different situations. I'm just saying, it's kind of odd to call Starbucks a local business when I, all the way in Wisconsin, can get to four different ones in under 20 minutes. I don't see how a single entity can simultaneously be local and global. But that's just me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	luthe 2007-06-16 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	I think the point that frequentmouse was trying to make was that if you live in Seattle, Starbucks counts a local business, since it started there and is headquartered there. If you live in Wisconsin, on the other hand, Starbucks is just another overpriced chain coffee place. is still in mourning for the loss of Filene's in downtown Boston (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2007-06-16 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, yes, that was what I was saying. Seriously not concerned whether someone in Wisconsin thinks Starbucks is not local in Seattle, and trying to grasp how Nordies and Starbuchs are all that dissimilar. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aposiopetic 2007-06-17 04:34 am UTC (link)
	When I took my Canadian ex-boyfriend past that one (...as I seemed to have had a bit of a love affair with getting off at Downtown Crossing), he said "What's Fill-nezz?" I think that was also the same trip he tried to guess all 50 states, but got stumped by a few. "Honey, Pittsburgh isn't a state." "Oh, I meant Philadelphia." "......no." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	judyhazeleyes 2007-06-18 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	Oh dear, that sounds an awful lot like me. "Louisiana is in New Orleans, right?" "... please tell me you didn't just say that." Then again, I managed to leave Manitoba completely off a Canadian map in grade 12, so I'm just not the brightest crayon in the box when it comes to geography. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	puipui 2007-06-17 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	If Microsoft counts as a local business, then Starbucks counts as a local business. I'm fairly certain that the former is just that slightest bit more global, despite the apparent ubiquity of the latter. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2007-06-17 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	Also, Microsoft is seriously less local, since Bill and Paul started in in Phoenix, and moved back home a couple of years later (I'd say when, but my husband is taking a father's day nap, and I try not to evince interest in MS by googling, For I Hates Them). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	scarah2 2007-06-16 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	I'll make you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with 1/2 jar of each. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2007-06-16 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	Will you read me poetry while I eat it? (Actually, it was their mochas I was addicted to; we usually wandered up the hill a ways and ate at Morningtown Pizza). (Reply to this)(Parent)

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