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The Psychology of Tipping

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  1. As We Know

    As We Know 1 of the top judges in Europe

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  2. SUPERNORWICH 23

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    Usually if you buy a tv you have already paid , if you order 2 pizzas and it costs £18 the guy may fumble about looking for the change from a score.
    If you are pissed or stoned you don't want to look cheap by waiting for the change and chicks dig a generous man.
    Order your food by card and the uncomfortable tip pause is no longer an issue.
    To actively look for coins would be weird to both parties.
     
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    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    Me or Eddie?
     
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    stopmeandslapme Well-Known Member

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    This is indeed a conundrum.
    Some people tip the postman and binmen at xmas and paperchild if they have one.
    We tip porters in hotels but what about hospital porters?
    We tip taxi drivers but not bus or train drivers.
    The whole world's gone mad and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
     
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    i ****ing hate having to tip delivery guys for takeways but i do it anyway
     
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    Those poor bastards at Nandos never get a tip because you pay before you get your food.
    The biggest tip i have had was a £1000 chip because the guy trousered nearly £100k by the dealer hitting his numbers on roulette, a good dealer can change his spin to rinse you and we were on his side high fiving every time he smashed a big number.
    I usually tip if i'm pissed carrying cash or trying to look cool with a woman.
    Anything under £2 is a tip for a take away especially if he has to walk up a few flights of stairs to your door.
     
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    Good. Nandos is ****e
     
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    Eddie gives me ****e tips all the time.
     
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  11. Mick O'Toon

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    I tip my barber/hairdresser.There was a gorgeous Lithuanian bird working in my local garage and I used to tip her at Christmas but she's gone home now and no I never did get to ride her.I' m friends with her on Facebook:bandit:
     
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    I can testify that there are a surprisingly high number of cheap ****s who don't tip taxi drivers. Fair enough, but when the fare is £13.60 and the ****ers actually wait for their 40p, this is evidence of monumental ****-nuggetry.

    Jewish people are generally good tippers btw. Take someone called Goldberg from the City to Hampstead for example, and you're on for a tip every time.
     
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  14. DevAdvocate

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    As Nev says, I let this be my guide:

    [video=youtube;V4sbYy0WdGQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4sbYy0WdGQ[/video]
     
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    ^^^^^^^

    NO happy
     
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    Not seen that before, probably because it's foreign and in colour, but I will try to remember to use: "Here's a ****ing tip, learn to type".
     
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    The baboon or the Movie?
     
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  18. Cruyff's Turn

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    I love tipping. I did a sofa last week,a fridge the week before and a whole load of plasterboard the week before that.
     
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    and why do we do fly tipping?

    they are a bloody nuisance.
     
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  20. Spook

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    My friend always leaves a tip when he's in America.

    He says "Join a trade union".

    Then he pays the price on the bill and leaves.

    Scandinavians and the Japanese see tipping as very offensive, and I'm inclined to agree with them. It's a bogus Americanisation based on their weird obsession with consumerism and it encourages employees to pester the customer to pay their wages when it should be the responsibility of the employers.
     
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