2 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

Guarantee the Patriots will target Evans in the passing game if he starts. He's gonna want to test the safeties and LBs.

I want to see Sydney play sooner rather than later 

I recently saw the History Channel's "Food That Built America" episode on Chef Boyardee and since then, I've been craving Chef Boyardee's beefaroni or SpaghettiO's with meatballs.   Is there something wrong with me?

@mattwill 13-4

This week 28-17 birds

Prediction: Jalen Carter gets a sack

Just now, Iggles_Phan said:

I recently saw the History Channel's "Food That Built America" episode on Chef Boyardee and since then, I've been craving Chef Boyardee's beefaroni or SpaghettiO's with meatballs.   Is there something wrong with me?

Will be once you eat SpaghettiOs as an adult.

1 minute ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I recently saw the History Channel's "Food That Built America" episode on Chef Boyardee and since then, I've been craving Chef Boyardee's beefaroni or SpaghettiO's with meatballs.   Is there something wrong with me?

Yes

5 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I recently saw the History Channel's "Food That Built America" episode on Chef Boyardee and since then, I've been craving Chef Boyardee's beefaroni or SpaghettiO's with meatballs.   Is there something wrong with me?

There was no vomit emoji so confused was the best I could do

So...how hard is it to change "doubt" to "chance" on a tattoo? Asking for an assclown troll.

 

7 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

So...how hard is it to change "doubt" to "chance" on a tattoo? Asking for an assclown troll.

 

If he really believed, he'd have put 20-0 below it.  He's a troll AND a coward.  

12 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

So...how hard is it to change "doubt" to "chance" on a tattoo? Asking for an assclown troll.

 

What a tool.

Just wipe out the 'N' -- "ever a doubt"

22 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

 

 

 

What a shocker.  Never got all the hype he has been getting this summer given how he hasn't been able to stay healthy for multiple seasons now.

1 hour ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

I disagree, in hindsight he got more out of Wentz and Rivers than he probably should have, And 2022 was a train wreck from Irsay to the injuries to Matt Ryan being toast. 
 

I don’t think he’s Andy Reid or anything, but even just a poor man’s Dougie P should elevate Carolina

He got screwed by Luck deciding to retire after the draft in 2019 after getting them to the playoffs and his GM was a borderline moron, trading away picks for like the bare minimum he could get rather than milking it for draft capital for a big trade up.

Rivers was a solid move at the time, but it just didn't pan out. The drafts he could have gone QB were horrible drafts for QB's, the one year it wasn't there was no way they could trade into the top 5 to get Burrow or Herbert, because all the QB needy teams were already there and those that weren't would miss their guy if the QB was gone. It's hard to imagine that guys like Zach Wilson would've done any better than the Vets they brought in.

Be interesting to see how he does with Carolina.

1 hour ago, DEagle7 said:

Nope. My toddler was throwing a tantrum and I tripped down my front stairs trying to wrangle him and landed hard on the foot. It's officially the lamest way to get that type of injury as far as I can tell.

Ouch, that sucks, man. Hopefully it's a quick recovery. Do you have to wear a brace or anthing for it?

2 hours ago, Mike030270 said:

 

Flashbacks

 

So I dropped in at my favorite TexMex place for lunch, just me.  As I am paying the bill, I note for virtually the same level of attention (excellent), my waiter gets 50% the tip if I tip by percentage than when my wife is with me.  I have been thinking about tipping lately because every screen asks for tip amount for things we don’t normally tip for, including when the service is being provided by me.  

There is a myth about waiters getting paid way less than others because of the adjusted minimum wage.  That’s true if when the minimum wage for waiters is combined with tips but if tips plus wage is below minimum wage, the restaurant has to make up the difference in wage.  

Here is what bothers me.  Depending on the restaurant, the amount of the bill varies. But not necessarily the service.  Why for a $10 meal at my TexMex restaurant with excellent service, should my waiter get $2 where the snotty, inattentive waitress at an expensive eatery on a $200 bill get $40.  Makes no sense. Figure six tables an hour. My TexMex waiter takes home (let’s figure a $30 average table) $24.  The snotty waitress takes home #240.  Now put that into a non tip job perspective.  The TexMex waiter is making $50,000 a year in tips.  Snotty waitress is getting $500,000 a year. Now I understand the volume varies but still, is snotty waitress providing $500,000 a year level service?  It’s supposed to be a gratuity for service.  Maybe we should be thinking differently about tipping.  Waiter spent ten minutes providing good service.  If I were paying an hourly wage of $30 an hour for that, I got $6 worth of service.  Snotty waitress made me work get any attention, was on her phone rather than paying attention to my needs and maybe did 5 minutes of work delivering drinks, orders to the table.  Minimum wage level work, maybe the tip should be a Buck or two.  Why should snotty waitress get paid for the quality of the food, shouldn’t that be the cook?  Aren’t I paying for that with the cost of the meal?  Chances are, snotty waitress cheats on her taxes too and declares way less in tips.  

Some restaurants you only get delivery now.  You place the order yourself and pay by screen.  Hell, @HazletonEagle‘s Taco Bell person is doing more work on his meal than the server at an Olive Garden these days.

26 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

There was no vomit emoji so confused was the best I could do

Struggling hard with some weird nostalgia with that episode.     I know it won't be good... but nonetheless... I want it!

32 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Will be once you eat SpaghettiOs as an adult.

So, you are suggesting I stick to the beefaroni.    Good suggestion.

I feel bad for Ertz at this point 

5 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

 

So I dropped in at my favorite TexMex place for lunch, just me.  As I am paying the bill, I note for virtually the same level of attention (excellent), my waiter gets 50% the tip if I tip by percentage than when my wife is with me.  I have been thinking about tipping lately because every screen asks for tip amount for things we don’t normally tip for, including when the service is being provided by me.  

There is a myth about waiters getting paid way less than others because of the adjusted minimum wage.  That’s true if when the minimum wage for waiters is combined with tips but if tips plus wage is below minimum wage, the restaurant has to make up the difference in wage.  

Here is what bothers me.  Depending on the restaurant, the amount of the bill varies. But not necessarily the service.  Why for a $10 meal at my TexMex restaurant with excellent service, should my waiter get $2 where the snotty, inattentive waitress at an expensive eatery on a $200 bill get $40.  Makes no sense. Figure six tables an hour. My TexMex waiter takes home (let’s figure a $30 average table) $24.  The snotty waitress takes home #240.  Now put that into a non tip job perspective.  The TexMex waiter is making $50,000 a year in tips.  Snotty waitress is getting $500,000 a year. Now I understand the volume varies but still, is snotty waitress providing $500,000 a year level service?  It’s supposed to be a gratuity for service.  Maybe we should be thinking differently about tipping.  Waiter spent ten minutes providing good service.  If I were paying an hourly wage of $30 an hour for that, I got $6 worth of service.  Snotty waitress made me work get any attention, was on her phone rather than paying attention to my needs and maybe did 5 minutes of work delivering drinks, orders to the table.  Minimum wage level work, maybe the tip should be a Buck or two.  Why should snotty waitress get paid for the quality of the food, shouldn’t that be the cook?  Aren’t I paying for that with the cost of the meal?  Chances are, snotty waitress cheats on her taxes too and declares way less in tips.  

Some restaurants you only get delivery now.  You place the order yourself and pay by screen.  Hell, @HazletonEagle‘s Taco Bell person is doing more work on his meal than the server at an Olive Garden these days.

If the snotty waitress isn't up to standards, then tell the manager, or stop going during her shift.  Eventually, if enough people make them aware that the waitress isn't getting the job done, they will fire her and look to bring in someone better.  And she can go to the lower level spot and the guy at the Tex-Mex can move up if he has the ambition to go for it.  

5 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

 

So I dropped in at my favorite TexMex place for lunch, just me.  As I am paying the bill, I note for virtually the same level of attention (excellent), my waiter gets 50% the tip if I tip by percentage than when my wife is with me.  I have been thinking about tipping lately because every screen asks for tip amount for things we don’t normally tip for, including when the service is being provided by me.  

There is a myth about waiters getting paid way less than others because of the adjusted minimum wage.  That’s true if when the minimum wage for waiters is combined with tips but if tips plus wage is below minimum wage, the restaurant has to make up the difference in wage.  

Here is what bothers me.  Depending on the restaurant, the amount of the bill varies. But not necessarily the service.  Why for a $10 meal at my TexMex restaurant with excellent service, should my waiter get $2 where the snotty, inattentive waitress at an expensive eatery on a $200 bill get $40.  Makes no sense. Figure six tables an hour. My TexMex waiter takes home (let’s figure a $30 average table) $24.  The snotty waitress takes home #240.  Now put that into a non tip job perspective.  The TexMex waiter is making $50,000 a year in tips.  Snotty waitress is getting $500,000 a year. Now I understand the volume varies but still, is snotty waitress providing $500,000 a year level service?  It’s supposed to be a gratuity for service.  Maybe we should be thinking differently about tipping.  Waiter spent ten minutes providing good service.  If I were paying an hourly wage of $30 an hour for that, I got $6 worth of service.  Snotty waitress made me work get any attention, was on her phone rather than paying attention to my needs and maybe did 5 minutes of work delivering drinks, orders to the table.  Minimum wage level work, maybe the tip should be a Buck or two.  Why should snotty waitress get paid for the quality of the food, shouldn’t that be the cook?  Aren’t I paying for that with the cost of the meal?  Chances are, snotty waitress cheats on her taxes too and declares way less in tips.  

Some restaurants you only get delivery now.  You place the order yourself and pay by screen.  Hell, @HazletonEagle‘s Taco Bell person is doing more work on his meal than the server at an Olive Garden these days.

That's why most restaurants should put tips into a large pool and distribute evenly among everybody.  The dish washers, the bus boys, the hostesses, etc.  Most people nowadays are not dropping cash on the table to tip anymore.  

51 minutes ago, Godfather said:

It's up to you. If you want to keep track of them, then I'll include my bonus

I’m gathering them so send yours on.

4 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

I feel bad for Ertz at this point 

Me, too, but he was the one that wanted to get paid.  Arizona paid him and nobody will take that contract.  

Just now, Alphagrand said:

That's why most restaurants should put tips into a large pool and distribute evenly among everybody.  The dish washers, the bus boys, the hostesses, etc.  Most people nowadays are not dropping cash on the table to tip anymore.  

Most, especially the more expensive finer dining ones, do that. Sometimes not a pool or evenly, but it's pretty common that everyone gets a piece of the servers tips. 

51 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Depends on the journalist and the job of that journalist.  A 'reporter' should be impartial.   A 'columnist' is supposed to be opinionated and share that opinion.

One of the main issues we have today is that 'reporters' constantly impose their opinions on the stories they are reporting on.  

 

The job of the color analyst is to analyze what is happening on the field, not take a side.  He can share his opinion on whether a call is good or bad, whether the play call was smart or not, but he should not have an obvious rooting interest.  That's where the 'impartial' piece comes in.  If he can't do that, then he's failing in his job.

Those job descriptions were current 20 years ago, but when media became big business and its ownership was no longer private, but rather beholden to stockholders, those definitions went the way of all flesh.

10 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Struggling hard with some weird nostalgia with that episode.     I know it won't be good... but nonetheless... I want it!

I get that weird itch for junk I used to eat as a kid, and it's always so bad I never even finish whatever it is. Only one that stood the test of time is rice krispy treats.

Just now, mattwill said:

Those job descriptions were current 20 years ago, but when media became big business and its ownership was no longer private, but rather beholden to stockholders, those definitions went the way of all flesh.

And we are that much the worse for it.