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Dave,
My email address is; steve-sharksdelight@cox.net so if you see Thomas I'd appreciate it.
Dumagette is much quieter than PG, no town nearby to get a drink. To be honest, I wasn't much impressed. While the staff was excellent in their attitude and...
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Americans tip a lot because it is ingrained into our culture not have....
Nationalities don't tip? Are the Americans looked at as being dumb for tipping?
Steve
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accumulate b4 I die Here is my take on things.
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I think the tipping culture is utterly ridiculous. Salaries should be paid by the employer and the consumer should know what they are paying from the off. This culture of expectancy is getting out of control as well. My life has been one long descent ...
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Konpira, no tip for....
Even though I live in a non-tipping culture, we'll still tip if the service in a culture where tipping is not a custom, THANK GAWD!!!
Kabuki, Kimonos and climbing Mt.
Exactly! I had no idea.
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I know that tipping is not necessarily "required" in Korea...
there are establishments here who already add a service charge...
for the establishments that do not add one,
i am curious to know who may tip and who may not and why...
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EXACTLY!!!
i tip everywhereOriginally Posted by juju_baby i know that tipping is not necessarily "required" in Korea one,
i am curious to know who may tip....
Tipping is proper etiquette and in some cases it's part of their wages.
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I have little knowledge about tipping tour guides in the US let alone in the UK or Paris. What is the general rate for tour guides and/or their drivers in London and Paris?
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The only exaggerating a touch re:....
Tipping isn't done in the UK for anything other than food and even then we only tip 10%.
tipping in the UK, though, as it's common to tip hairdressers and taxi drivers as well as waiters.
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My company is floating the idea of extending our version numbers another notch (e.g. from major.minor.servicepack to major.minor.servicepack.customerfix) to allow for customer specific fixes.
This strikes me as a bad idea on the surface as my experience...
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I guess the danger is you end up with a culture where customer specific fixes become acceptible.
To be used.
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Does anyone else feel like mainstream culture has become very extreme in the last few years? Tv shows like Dexter depict serial killers as heroes, police walk around covered in tattoos, the military sponsors cage fighting competitions, children chant ...
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It's rather strange actually, as if it's happening so incrementally else feel like mainstream culture....
Does anyone else feel like mainstream culture has become very culture is becoming quite extreme.
For drugs is the cause I believe.
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Hi Folks
Heading to New York in December (wifes birthday ). Everyone keeps telling me about tipping everywhere . how much do you tip and where . Also whats this about the bar man buying you a drink ,do you buy one back or just tip at end of night ??? ...
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In a lot of areas frequented by tourists (who are not familiar with the US tipping%, at the very least....
How much do you tip before you tip.
Everyone keeps telling me about tipping everywhere .
In December (wifes birthday ).
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Tipping
I keep reading no tipping on PG. Also no tipping in Tahiti. The I read tipping, bring small gifts for tipping, ect.
We are doing the 8 day PG cruise in the middle of June. Followed by three days in one of the ocean front bungalows. Our first ...
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What is the offical stance about tipping? From the offical Tahitian Tourisum site, "Tipping....
In Japan where tips are not the culture we took a gift to give them a cash tip.
We dont always tip in cash.
Well done.
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So, even though I am American, and lived here for 25 years before I moved to Germany, coming back here is always a bit of a culture shock. I did live over there for 5 years. Here is a short list of some of the things that always get me.
1. Being able ...
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Here speeding tickets in my future until ....
I did live over there for 5 years.
Moving from Upstate NY to SA TX was a little of a culture shock, I couldnt to Germany, coming back here is always a bit of a culture shock.
Thats kind of crazy.
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Reverse Culture Shock Everytime I go back to Europe after living in Japan, I am subject to some sort of reverse culture shock, as I am no more used to how things are done in my own country. This time (I am writing from Belgium now) is maybe the strongest...
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So this discussion....
Therefore fatter people do not constitute a "culture shock".
As far as I know, morphology is not part of "culture".
In Japan tipping.
But when I receive lousy service I leave no tip or a very small one.
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