What TV series are you watching at moment?

yes, tipping is shit

and lol at that last bit

rewatching Sense8

still pissed this got cancelled but at least we're getting a finale movie

Does the rest of Europe tip? I've been told that you don't tip in Europe, so I also assumed England/UK was the same. Either way, Shatner is old enough to know by now...

i tip everywhere. taxis, fast food, restaurants. not shops though. while it doesnt suprise me that eugene doesnt, lots of people dont enjoy being an arsehole. 

interesting that cheffing doesnt cut the mustard when it comes to your standards of what an acceptable job is aswell. 

  On 9/21/2017 at 6:32 PM, messiaen said:

nope, service is the tits in our place.

DO U WORK AT A HOOTERS??? 

But yeah, I'm all for getting rid of tipping as a social necessity. I don't do it unless I know the people make no cash per hour (most restaurants in the US) or I get actually outstanding service. Just expecting a tip for doing your job (taxi or the like?) fuck naw. Again, unless you're amazing. I've left tips for cleaning staff in hotel rooms when I left a mess....also I still feel bad for not tipping an Uber guy a few months ago because it was my first time using it and I thought you could tip through their app but my drunk ass couldn't figure out how at the time (or you just couldn't at all).

So fuck Shatner for not tipping if there's no reason for it. I bet he tips his hookers.

  On 9/21/2017 at 7:13 PM, eugene said:

if i had more social balls i would also never tip. this service tipping practice is just incredibly sleazy and obnoxious to me. the typical work arrangement in this industry where the actual wage is low and the tips are the bulk of your income forces the service provider to form some kind of fake short-term personal connection with the service receiver and to pretend to go out of the way for him to try to get a better tip instead of simply doing the job, and it's always extremely obvious and disguising. it's even worse with hotel services where the service providers will bluntly transmit all kinds signals to indicate that they want you to tip. makes me vomit at the thought of being at that position.

so basically it was chris who was doing you a great service. he was showing disregard for this awful tipping practice and by doing that he was trying to normalize non-tipping and proper working practices, and secondly, he was emphasizing to you that you've made very poor life choices to have ended up with such a job.

goddamn it i miss hooters

People who don't tip are real pieces of shit.

  On 9/22/2017 at 12:05 AM, zaphod said:

People who don't tip are real pieces of shit.

  On 9/19/2017 at 9:39 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 9/14/2017 at 4:07 AM, Nebraska said:

 

well, this was underwhelming.

 

what did everyone think of the second episode? not sure i'll be coming back to this show. i think for me i just can't get into any of the characters.

 

also don't think i'll be watching the deuce again. might give it one more try because i thought the second episode was just meh. also, maybe because i never watched the wire i don't have the love for david simon everyone else seems to have, but are people who are enjoying this enjoying it because they think the show is good or because of the creator? 

 

watched the 3rd episode and it was better but it's still just a (very expensive) spoof of, not only, star trek TNG but, also one of the episodes titled 'the outcast'

not sure whether this one was better because brannon braga was directing (he was a writer, producer and director on TNG and VOY) or whether it was just a very well done spoof. whatever the case: i guess i'll watch another one? fuuuuuuuuuuuu

  On 9/21/2017 at 7:20 PM, Lada Laika said:

rewatching Sense8

 

still pissed this got cancelled but at least we're getting a finale movie

I never saw the fuss about this, it was corny as all hell.

Just watching Westworld finally now that its on NowTV.  On episode 5, pretty cool.

I enjoyed it, then I watched the final episode and in hindsight I just feel cheated.

I tried to watch Narcos again for the 3rd time. I give up. All I'm getting from it is that it's a show for man-children who think they're a little clever for standard action movies but really just want to feel macho. I don't give a shit about any of the characters. Also about a quarter of the dialog is in Spanish and I need subtitles, which wouldn't be a deal breaker if the show was more interesting but since it's not, I don't really want to go to the effort of actually looking at the TV when I could be working on things while it's on in the background, so I don't follow the plot, then I look up and some dude is getting killed or the CIA are doing something nasty and I don't know why and I don't really care.

  On 9/22/2017 at 3:19 PM, sweepstakes said:

I tried to watch Narcos again for the 3rd time. I give up. All I'm getting from it is that it's a show for man-children who think they're a little clever for standard action movies but really just want to feel macho. I don't give a shit about any of the characters. Also about a quarter of the dialog is in Spanish and I need subtitles, which wouldn't be a deal breaker if the show was more interesting but since it's not, I don't really want to go to the effort of actually looking at the TV when I could be working on things while it's on in the background, so I don't follow the plot, then I look up and some dude is getting killed or the CIA are doing something nasty and I don't know why and I don't really care.

Yeah, was an alright series but I couldn't get properly attached to it. Once I was done with an ep of Twin Peaks/Breaking Bad/Fargo/any of the recent greats, I was frothing for the next instalment, but I never felt an urgency to watch the following episode of Narcos.

  On 9/22/2017 at 3:19 PM, sweepstakes said:

I tried to watch Narcos again for the 3rd time. I give up. All I'm getting from it is that it's a show for man-children who think they're a little clever for standard action movies but really just want to feel macho. I don't give a shit about any of the characters. Also about a quarter of the dialog is in Spanish and I need subtitles, which wouldn't be a deal breaker if the show was more interesting but since it's not, I don't really want to go to the effort of actually looking at the TV when I could be working on things while it's on in the background, so I don't follow the plot, then I look up and some dude is getting killed or the CIA are doing something nasty and I don't know why and I don't really care.

Enjoyed S1 & S2 for the simple reason of it feeding so much indecipherable Spanish into the subconscious, that i ended speaking gibberish made-up Español whenever possible, which was nice

The Vietnam War ep01 = mint!

Impressed by the depth of analysis of European colonialism which while obvious often gets overlooked in whats seen as a US foreign policy disaster, the extent of its savagery and greed, the fall-out during WWII and its immediate aftermath, the personal biography of H.C.M., the extent of his travels to the US & Europe searching for resolutions to independence which were always casually dismissed. The map work is a bit of personal fetish too, so the broader east Asian complexities as the Cold War took hold were given space & time to breath. Far more graphic than the sanitized "news" coverage of conflicts, where death and slaughter are masked by other agendas, it gives it so much emotional heft. 10/10, looking forward to more of these which is ideal as the seasons shift and it gets late increasingly early.

  On 9/22/2017 at 10:48 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 9/21/2017 at 7:20 PM, Lada Laika said:

rewatching Sense8

 

still pissed this got cancelled but at least we're getting a finale movie

I never saw the fuss about this, it was corny as all hell.

I get the criticism, but for me the earnestness was part of its charm. Also the fact that it was easily the most diverse, inclusive show ever made. It really found its footing by the end of the first season, but I mean, if you're not on board by the episode 4 multiethnic 4 Non Blondes karaoke montage or the episode 6 orgy, it's probably not a show for you.

After all this gritty bullshit and the state of the world today it was nice to have a show that celebrated the joyous, beautiful parts of humanity while also having the best action sequences ever put to television.

Also it's just pretty to look at - no weird tinting or color grading, the show is just gorgeous.

  On 9/22/2017 at 6:12 PM, cwmbrancity said:

The Vietnam War ep01 = mint!

Impressed by the depth of analysis of European colonialism which while obvious often gets overlooked in whats seen as a US foreign policy disaster, the extent of its savagery and greed, the fall-out during WWII and its immediate aftermath, the personal biography of H.C.M., the extent of his travels to the US & Europe searching for resolutions to independence which were always casually dismissed. The map work is a bit of personal fetish too, so the broader east Asian complexities as the Cold War took hold were given space & time to breath. Far more graphic than the sanitized "news" coverage of conflicts, where death and slaughter are masked by other agendas, it gives it so much emotional heft. 10/10, looking forward to more of these which is ideal as the seasons shift and it gets late increasingly early.

Has anyone watched Channel Zero? Is it terrible? I really need a new horror anthology series in my life.

  On 9/22/2017 at 3:19 PM, sweepstakes said:

I tried to watch Narcos again for the 3rd time. I give up. 

https://youtu.be/Ca2XbNC82J4

Saw a couple episodes of One Mississippi and it seems like a decent slow burn kind of show. Also watched the first episode of The Tick and it looks like it could be good.

Second (or third? can't remember) episode of The Orville and it seems a bit better than that drag of a pilot episode. Still not sure what the fuck it is though, and that's irksome.

  On 9/21/2017 at 10:16 PM, messiaen said:

i tip everywhere. taxis, fast food, restaurants. not shops though. while it doesnt suprise me that eugene doesnt, lots of people dont enjoy being an arsehole. 

 

interesting that cheffing doesnt cut the mustard when it comes to your standards of what an acceptable job is aswell. 

If they paid people a living wage there would be no need. So for now if service is genuine i'll tip.

on the series tip..big little lies is terrible

If everybody in the world made the best life decisions possible, you would still need people to bring you food.

if people made the best decisions we would probably have IDM jetpacked nanobots hovering around stuffing food right into people's mouths by now. and they wouldn't even ask for tips!

  On 9/24/2017 at 10:26 PM, eugene said:

if people made the best decisions we would probably have IDM jetpacked nanobots hovering around stuffing food right into people's mouths by now. and they wouldn't even ask for tips!

I'd slap the shit out of a nanobot, especially if it went for my face