By age 12, 12 percent of U.S. students had already engaged in vaginal sex, 7.9 percent in oral sex and 6.5 percent in anal sex, U.S. researchers have learned.
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Zero is a Percent
A follower of my online food chat wants to know how much of a thank-you he should leave when he orders carryout from a restaurant. "I find myself somewhat perplexed about whether I should include a tip when I pay for the meal(s). I realize that the usual 20 percent for table service is not necessary, but what is appropriate for this situation?"
I responded that I typically tip 10 percent of the bill for takeout, because even when you're not eating in, someone has to handle your request. After the live discussion, another reader pointed out that that "someone" is frequently the bartender, who has to "take your order, pack it up, ring you up, make change, get you extra bread or utensils" -- all tasks that take away from customers at the bar and in the dining room and that merit a monetary reward.
The other day, The Mrs., a friend and I were talking about this, and we all agreed that the proper amount to tip for takeout is zero percent.
So I guess we're going to hell.
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Hates
Know what I hate?
Pop-up menus that appear when you simply move your mouse over something. For example, msnbc.com has a bunch of them down the left side of their main page; whenever I go there, my mouse inevitably triggers one of the menus, which jumps into the middle of the page and nearly fills it (in my default browser size) from top to bottom. The way to get rid of it is to move off the menu. So, having nowhere to go up or down, I move my mouse to the right, which inevitably causes a sub-menu to pop up since I've moved over one of the little sub-menu icons on the side of the first menu. Then I get all aggravated and frustrated and I end up wiggling my mouse around like I'm trying to shake off a booger, trying to get the friggin menus to go away. All I really have to do is patiently move it off the menu and sit for a second, but the thing has already pissed-me off and I just want it to GO AWAY!!!
I'm tempted to write myself a GreaseMonkey script to rewrite their HTML to kill that popup stuff.
Maybe I should just give up this computer stuff altogether... Too much aggravation.
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The Thieves! They Almost Took It!
Eagle-eyed Mrs Cleek was looking at our on-line credit card records the other day and spotted a strange $500 charge on our card. It was charged to "Yahoo Search Marketing", but neither she nor I had ever made any purchases through Yahoo. After a day of calling around, she learned that someone had swiped our CC info and was waiting for $10,000 worth of charges, in $500 increments, to clear. But, luckily, CitiBank stopped them after the first.
I wish ill on the thief.