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Old 23-11-2009, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by dpastern View Post
Mike - with all due respect why was this thread even allowed then, since anyone with common sense was going to realise that it would attract comments about tipping and US lifestyle(s)?

A bit of the pot calling the kettle black imho. It's OK to praise US tipping styles, but not to criticise it. If you were fairly censoring things, you'd be removing all of the pro tipping posts as well.

Gee...I can see why Mike Sidonio made his comment earlier on in the thread about post nazis...all I see here is favouritism to certain individuals allowing them to wax rhetorically about the beauty of the American wages system.
C'mon Dave - it's one thing to discuss the US tipping system and another to criticise the whole country, it's values, it's politics etc. Which is exactly what the posts that were deleted were doing.

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I mean, we're in Australia, should we even be talking about US wages?
Quite right - and we're on an astronomy forum. Why are we even talking about the US tipping system?