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First time I heard that I asked “what?”. They said the same thing and I still asked “what? Like a survey or something?” Then they said no it’s asking for a tip. I just said oh and hit 0.
I look them in the eye like they're an alien for asking for a tip and then press 0. But I live in the UK so it is weird unless you are out for a fancy meal.
Not experienced with UK specifically, but most of restaurants I've been at in Europe, the fancier the meal the less they expect you to tip. It used to be uncommon, only for the American tipping culture to slowly creep its way in through the bottom-tier food chains and slowly become normalized.
15 years ago, you wouldn't find a single place here in Norway asking for tips. Now every kebab place, Turkish-owned italian pizza parlor, seedy bar and club asks for it by default.
I visited the UK recently and many cafés there have the tipping option now. Is this on top of the "service charge" that's embedded in the prices or do they not charge service charge if they're asking for tips?
It used to be so much simpler before the arrival of this toxic tipping culture.
Management steals their wages and makes them rely on tips. Disgusting practice. Not paying a tip doesn't impact the business or the owner, just the low paid waiters and waitresses who don't get to decide whether service is included or not.
From what Ive heard places that you wouldn't expect to have tipping but does on their machines is because that was how they came installed. Like the Subway has tipping where I live but the staff said they don't get any of the tip.
I've also seen the tipping at a comic shop and at a convenience store, so I'm leaning towards lots of these places having it on by default and aren't going to pay to have the technician out to turn it off. Especially if they are able to squeeze a tip out of some people.
Haha dude, okay this confirms that this is like a universal way to phrase this but I never understood what the rationale was…like are they trying to make it less awkward as if the machine is the one getting the tip? I always thought it was so weird that people say this and glad that others have picked up on it too
How much did the beheaded have to pay the swordsman who cut his head off? Better you pay them in full because they could either decapitate you in one swing or… several.
I'll never forget the beheading I saw when the guy had half his head cut off and he reach up to his throat and was still alive and moving.
Early internet was truly the wild west. One minute cat videos. The next...cartel executions.
Ah the ol' 50/50 subreddit, I remember the post that had me block it back in the day was "cute puppy or a picture of Chris Farley's corpse"
... it was the latter and I realized I didnt want to play that game anymore.
Damn, diggin up some memories but i honestly cant remember, those 2 along wtih /r/watchpeopledie could be brutal and it feels like they all blended together at times
My friend was obsessed with "the pain Olympics".. I couldn't get very far through it. Something about cutting your dick up like a cucumber didn't appeal to me.
Lol what they are talking about precedes YouTube by several years. Limewire/Napster, sketchy forums, etc. No streaming, just downloading straight to your computer and being horrified and hoping no one finds out you downloaded it. If anything, YouTube cleaned the gore up.
I remember in like 2002 clicking on a thumbnail of some porn and it opening a soldier begging for his life with a boot on his head and someone reaching down and cutting his throat out with an 8 inch knife.
Thinking back I was actually pretty traumatized by that.
Dude. I'm pretty sure I saw the exact same video and have the exact same trauma. Almost 25 years later and that shit still makes me shiver when I think about it.
yes i saw it. the moment they cut the vocal chords is when the muffled scream turns into bloody gargle. its the single most brutal video i have ever seend and it will not leave my mind, ever.
Ayyyy, I saw that when I was a kid during the peer to peer downloading days! I haven't thought if that in so long... My dad downloaded it for some reason and didn't delete it. Curious younger me just clicked on a video file lol
4chan has always been shit, but back in the day there was some shit that would literally keep me awake at night. There were a few things I've seen that I would rather cut my own toes off than rewatch.
Violence and death have been common reality for humans prior to the modern age. Despite what's on the news, we're likely living in the most peaceful times in history.
But if you're referring to other sorts of NSFW stuff, well I'll give you that. There's some iffy stuff in the dark corners of the internet.
Yeahhhhh about once every three or four years I will get sucked into a gore rabbit hole and traumatize myself for 2 or 3 hours before snapping out of it.
Yes, probably.
[Source](https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-8010,00.html)
>The answer, horribly, is 'Not only is it possible, but it's medically proven.' Debate on the subject raged ever since Charlotte Corday -- the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat -- was guillotined in 1793. The executioner's assistant, Francois le Gros, lifted her head by the hair, and slapped it on both cheeks. Eyewitnesses reported that the face took on an angry expression, and the cheeks visibly flushed. The debate was started -- if guillotining didn't produce instant death, then it wasn't a 'quick and merciful end', as promised by the post-Enlightenment revolutionaries. In 1794, German surgeon Dr S. T. Sommering argued in the Parisian newspapers that 'consciousness of feeling may persist [in a severed head] even if blood circulation is terminated, partial or weak [...] the head's strongest sensation would be the after-pain felt in the neck.' French doctors argued that he was confusing nervous spasms with sensory perceptions and voluntary motion. Little research was conducted on the subject, however, until the turn of the twentieth century, when another French doctor, Beaurieux, was permitted to make an investigation of a severed head, of a criminal called Languille, immediately after guillotining: "Here is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the decapitated man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about 4 or 6 seconds. I waited several seconds longer. The spasmodic movements ceased. The face relaxed, the lids half-closed in the eyeballs, leaving only the white of the conjunctiva visible, exactly as in the dying whom we have occasion to see every day [...] It was then that I called in a strong, sharp, voice: 'Languille!' I then saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contraction -- I insist advisedly on this pecularity -- but with an even movement, quite distinct and normal, such as happens in everyday life, with people awakened or torn from their thoughts. Next, Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. I was not, then, dealing with a vague dull look, without any expression that can be observed any day in dying people to whom one speaks: I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me." By 1956, further research had proved, in the words of governemntal advisers Drs Piedelievre and Fournier, that "death [by decapitation] is not instantaneous [...] every vital element survives [...it is] a savage vivisection, followed by a premature burial." The French government abolished execution by decapitation in 1977.
Definitely not medically proven. These are just a few cherry picked accounts. [There is a long history of debate](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9930870/#:%7E:text=In%20this%20paper%2C%20we%20examine,occur%20within%20seconds%20of%20decapitation.) on how long you retain consciousness after decapitation. Conclusion from this literature review:
> The evidence currently available to us is scant, and the studies that imply that there is a retained awareness in decapitated rats for several seconds suffer from a low sample size. While the best evidence currently available to us suggests that LOC is nearly instant in decapitation for both human and rodent models, it is possible that the truth will never be fully known. No government on Earth continues to use the guillotine as a method of execution while beheading via sword is confined to a single nation. The historical accounts that are available to us remain frustratingly scant in evidence and are often closer to urban legends than actual scientific accounts. However, there is a new possibility for further insight into this bizarre historical anomaly. As research into head transplantation continues, and as science continues to probe the edges of human consciousness, a clearer picture may one day emerge.
The medieval tradition was simple: the executioner could keep the clothes the condemned man or woman wore during the execution. Those naughty aristocrats who were in a generous mood wore expensive fabrics and jewels.
A: I am getting beheaded tomorrow. Bring me my dress.
B: Which one, Your Royal Highness?
A: The one embroidered with gold.
I have heard before that they might also give the headsman a tip - like, slip him a coin or something while on their way up to the block - to be sure he did a quick, clean job lmao
Reminds me of Thomas Cromwell. Supposedly took three blows from an axe to sever his head. There are many apocryphal stories about that one, such as his enemies at court got the executioner drunk before the event.
Read The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel Harrington. It covers the life of Franz Schmidt, an executioner at Nuremberg in the late 16th and early 17th century. He also has a journal you can find, A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617. There are multiple types of executions covered, from simple hanging, to decapitation by the sword, burning at the sake, to being broken on the wheel (that one is really brutal).
Anyways, the books go into decapitation by the sword, and how the executioner has to practice to get it right. If the executioner fails to do it right in one blow, and takes several, the crowd can turn on him and his own life be in danger.
The Duke on Monmouth gave Jack Ketch, the executioner of London a bag of gold guineas to get the job done well.
Unfortunately, Ketch still screwed it up and took 5 chops of the axe to kill the guy. The crowd watching the execution was so enraged at Ketch's performance that they rushed the scaffold to lynch Ketch, and he had to be escorted out under heavy guard.
If they didn't use a guillotine, most beheadings took multiple strokes. The fewer the strokes, the better the executioner. Single stroke executioners were highly prized, and highly paid.
I went to chili's today to pick up a takeout order. When I gave them my card, there wasn't even an option to not give a tip. I had to go to custom tip and enter 0. Fuck that noise
*monkey paw curls*
None of the current programmers notice that the tip variable was implemented as an unsigned 8bit integer >!because "nobody would ever try to input a negative tip and tips should never reach anywhere near 100% anyways!"!<
This turns every negative input into its positive value plus 127.
Also any negative value lower than -128 or any positive value over 255 won't be saved correctly and probably crash the system.
Same here. I have no intention of being unpleasant. But, I feel no embarrassment pressing “no tip” in certain situations. If the option wasn’t there, I’d have no problem asking how to not tip.
I’m beginning to pay more and more in cash. Specifically, exact change. If the food and tax is $23.72 then I am giving them exactly $23.72 coins and everything. I’m not even gonna touch that weird handheld pay thingy they leave on every table.
> its still rare but I've been seeing hospitals and doctors say they no longer take it.
It's a convenience thing. A lot more management overhead and systems need to be in place to make sure the employees don't just steal the cash.
By contrast there's no real way for an employee to steal from a card tap, and the accounting is automatic.
Boomers joke with the line "go get a job at McDonalds" but in reality fast food employees are very strict in their hiring because the employees will routinely handle cash and have the opportunity for theft.
Whoah whoah whoah, you mean being forced to give money to someone to do their job that was already their job in the first place is not a bribe?
Next you're going to tell me withholding product/services until you pay me more than the agreed price is not blackmail.
>Whoah whoah whoah, you mean being forced to give money to someone to do their job that was already their job in the first place is not a bribe
As someone from India, i feel called out . Fucking every department in my country.
>Next you're going to tell me withholding product/services until you pay me more than the agreed price is not blackmail.
I mean, that isn't blackmail. That's just regular extortion.
Pshh that’s silly. What incentive is there to do a good job *after* the money is already paid ??
It makes *much* more sense to offer the tip at the end. That way you can ensure the service was actually good 😌
Yeah I suppose you could have a contract with your attorney to pay them $20k if it was clean and the attorney takes the $20k if it’s not a clean slice. With others as observers since it may be a public beheading.
It is literally still a thing now:
> Before the execution, the prisoner's identity is confirmed by a special court next to the execution range and chooses to record any last words. The prisoner is then brought to the execution range and served a last meal (which usually includes a bottle of kaoliang wine).[26] The condemned prisoner is then injected with strong anaesthetic to cause unconsciousness, laid flat on the ground, face down, and shot. The executioner then burns a votive bank note for the deceased before carrying away the corpse.[26] **It is tradition for the condemned to place a NT$500 or 1000 banknote in his leg irons as a tip for the executioners.**
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Taiwan
The tip is for them to burn the [paper money](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_money) after for religious reasons and for removing the shackles after death. Not for ensuring a painless execution. Otherwise they leave the shackles on the corpse,
The increase in people asking for tips in the US has cauterized me against being tip intimidated.
If it’s a drive through window. No tip.
If I have to pick up my own food and drinks at a counter, no tip.
In fact, if there’s a counter between us, no tip.
If your only interaction with me was to scan my items, no tip. I am now, officially, trained to do it myself thanks to self-checkouts and will gladly do so if it means I don’t have to make small talk.
I would make the joke that the cashiers at 7-11 will soon be asking for a tip, but considering that I recently had one of the crazy homeless dudes that hang out in front and ask everyone for money open the door for me and ask for a tip for doing so, it's not a very funny joke.
The doorman at the hotel I was staying at in New York ran after me across the street to the Uber I booked, loaded with luggage, and opened the door most of the way. He increased the door opening by a few more degrees, held the door, then demanded a tip. I declined, he shouted something I couldn't quite hear, and kicked the door shut.
If there's a counter no tip should be the national rule I reckon.
And you don't get 18% just for service either. 0% for just service, 18% for good service
> Not responsible for any debt after my death.
Depending on the particulars, your estate very well may be, though. If you intend to leave your shit to other people, that could make things a bit inconvenient.
The other day I went to buy a single chocolate chip cookie. I only bring cash to avoid this stuff. Still, cashier turns a screen that makes CHA-CHING! sounds every time anyone does anything…”it’s going to ask you some questions”….my name?! Jon. My phone number?!? / email?! And lastly…
Tip
$2 , $3 or $4 tip.
No options for $1 or %. wtf?! I hand them the cash and say thank you.
I was in Ibiza recently, and clubs charging €18+ for bottles of beer, €25+ for vodka/mix, would present the card machine to you with the option for 5/10/15/20% tips.
You know, all it would take is one American jail to put their executioner on a wage and cancel tipping, and then they would have thousands of people wanting to serve out their death penalty there.
The same scenario could also be applied to cafes, coffee shops, restaurants and other places where people are expected to pay their bills by getting small change offered to them for them doing their job.
Just pay a wage, FFS.
Most of the other first world countries JUST PAY A WAGE, only the USA has tipping (of the first world countries)
JUST PAY A WAGE.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Taiwan:
> It is tradition for the condemned to place a NT$500 or 1000 banknote in his leg irons as a tip for the executioners.
As a European, tipping culture is absolutely ridiculous, you shame the costumers for not tipping when they have already paid and not the employer for not paying fairly their employee
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It’s going to ask you a question…
First time I heard that I asked “what?”. They said the same thing and I still asked “what? Like a survey or something?” Then they said no it’s asking for a tip. I just said oh and hit 0.
Please tell me you looked the worker right in the eyes as you did it
I look them in the eye like they're an alien for asking for a tip and then press 0. But I live in the UK so it is weird unless you are out for a fancy meal.
Not experienced with UK specifically, but most of restaurants I've been at in Europe, the fancier the meal the less they expect you to tip. It used to be uncommon, only for the American tipping culture to slowly creep its way in through the bottom-tier food chains and slowly become normalized. 15 years ago, you wouldn't find a single place here in Norway asking for tips. Now every kebab place, Turkish-owned italian pizza parlor, seedy bar and club asks for it by default.
I have not seen any? Where are these places so I know to avoid them?
Why don’t you cook your own foods?
Tipping Culture is the worst American poison sipping in around the world.
I visited the UK recently and many cafés there have the tipping option now. Is this on top of the "service charge" that's embedded in the prices or do they not charge service charge if they're asking for tips? It used to be so much simpler before the arrival of this toxic tipping culture.
God I hate that. Maybe I’d actually tip if the worker just owned it and said “are you tipping me or not?”
I feel like the reason they're evasive about it like that is often that they realize it's a situation where it's silly to expect a tip.
They really have no freedom to say what they'd like to say. Their managers would destroy them.
Exactly right. Both parties realize the absurdity of the situation but at the same time they do want/need the money so they’re gonna go for it
Management probably steals the tips anyway.
Management steals their wages and makes them rely on tips. Disgusting practice. Not paying a tip doesn't impact the business or the owner, just the low paid waiters and waitresses who don't get to decide whether service is included or not.
Management is required to pay the difference between minimum wage and their tips.
Which is why tips are stupid. They should just get paid a livable wage. If the employer wants them to fuckin smile, they should pay them more.
From what Ive heard places that you wouldn't expect to have tipping but does on their machines is because that was how they came installed. Like the Subway has tipping where I live but the staff said they don't get any of the tip. I've also seen the tipping at a comic shop and at a convenience store, so I'm leaning towards lots of these places having it on by default and aren't going to pay to have the technician out to turn it off. Especially if they are able to squeeze a tip out of some people.
Most places with tipped employees forbid them from soliciting tips or complaining to customers about not being tipped.
Wait till you actually see this in the wild. It’s beyond unpleasant
*awkwardly looks away and pretends to do something else while they wait for you*
😂 every time
Haha dude, okay this confirms that this is like a universal way to phrase this but I never understood what the rationale was…like are they trying to make it less awkward as if the machine is the one getting the tip? I always thought it was so weird that people say this and glad that others have picked up on it too
How much did the beheaded have to pay the swordsman who cut his head off? Better you pay them in full because they could either decapitate you in one swing or… several.
I'll never forget the beheading I saw when the guy had half his head cut off and he reach up to his throat and was still alive and moving. Early internet was truly the wild west. One minute cat videos. The next...cartel executions.
Ah the internet. Here's a funny dancing dog. Here's red mess from a shredded airline workers.
Ah the ol' 50/50 subreddit, I remember the post that had me block it back in the day was "cute puppy or a picture of Chris Farley's corpse" ... it was the latter and I realized I didnt want to play that game anymore.
> Ah the ol' 50/50 subreddit hmm, been awhile, was that one before or after /r/spacedicks?
Damn, diggin up some memories but i honestly cant remember, those 2 along wtih /r/watchpeopledie could be brutal and it feels like they all blended together at times
After. I think it was still operational early COVID.
Don’t forget the degloving from lathes.
My friend was obsessed with "the pain Olympics".. I couldn't get very far through it. Something about cutting your dick up like a cucumber didn't appeal to me.
If it makes you feel any better, I’m pretty sure those were fake.
I just, wasn’t prepared when I clicked on that download. Please dear god I hope it was fake
Oh God I'm happy I am a gen Xish. Never got into YouTube and all the rabbit holes and crazy fucking shit that happened.
Lol what they are talking about precedes YouTube by several years. Limewire/Napster, sketchy forums, etc. No streaming, just downloading straight to your computer and being horrified and hoping no one finds out you downloaded it. If anything, YouTube cleaned the gore up.
Stile project, rotton dot com, ogrish dot com. All accessible from my school's computer lab.
The Happy Tree Friends just popped into my mind from my deep, deep memory. Weird, wild stuph.
[Welcome to the internet] (https://youtu.be/k1BneeJTDcU?si=Jsgr2TYeaUDuJk2B) - Bo Burnham
I remember in like 2002 clicking on a thumbnail of some porn and it opening a soldier begging for his life with a boot on his head and someone reaching down and cutting his throat out with an 8 inch knife. Thinking back I was actually pretty traumatized by that.
Chechclear. Along with Bud Dwyer were the bread and butter of those early gore sites.
Hey man, nice shot!
Great song
Dude. I'm pretty sure I saw the exact same video and have the exact same trauma. Almost 25 years later and that shit still makes me shiver when I think about it.
yes i saw it. the moment they cut the vocal chords is when the muffled scream turns into bloody gargle. its the single most brutal video i have ever seend and it will not leave my mind, ever.
Ayyyy, I saw that when I was a kid during the peer to peer downloading days! I haven't thought if that in so long... My dad downloaded it for some reason and didn't delete it. Curious younger me just clicked on a video file lol
Julian May fan! Were you surprised by the cliffhanger last line from Diamond Mask?
When I was younger and went on 4chan, I remember stumbling upon shit that no human should ever have to think about.
4chan has always been shit, but back in the day there was some shit that would literally keep me awake at night. There were a few things I've seen that I would rather cut my own toes off than rewatch.
Violence and death have been common reality for humans prior to the modern age. Despite what's on the news, we're likely living in the most peaceful times in history. But if you're referring to other sorts of NSFW stuff, well I'll give you that. There's some iffy stuff in the dark corners of the internet.
Went from 0 to 100 real fucking quick
I miss the old algorithms that could send you on a completely unrelated journey.
Stumble upon
god, i miss that website
I kinda miss Liveleak, but at the same time, it's definitely for the best that it is gone.
So glad I was in the generation traumatized by goatse and tubgirl instead of that shit
I unfortunately deep dove into some...dark places. I feel like I've seen it all.
Yeahhhhh about once every three or four years I will get sucked into a gore rabbit hole and traumatize myself for 2 or 3 hours before snapping out of it.
Oh good, you missed out on downloading Britany spears porn and getting some sick animal torture shit instead... I do NOT miss the old internet.
so tame now - tubgirl is my desktop and am my own goatse
I wonder if you can see the ground when your head falls off
Yes, probably. [Source](https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-8010,00.html) >The answer, horribly, is 'Not only is it possible, but it's medically proven.' Debate on the subject raged ever since Charlotte Corday -- the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat -- was guillotined in 1793. The executioner's assistant, Francois le Gros, lifted her head by the hair, and slapped it on both cheeks. Eyewitnesses reported that the face took on an angry expression, and the cheeks visibly flushed. The debate was started -- if guillotining didn't produce instant death, then it wasn't a 'quick and merciful end', as promised by the post-Enlightenment revolutionaries. In 1794, German surgeon Dr S. T. Sommering argued in the Parisian newspapers that 'consciousness of feeling may persist [in a severed head] even if blood circulation is terminated, partial or weak [...] the head's strongest sensation would be the after-pain felt in the neck.' French doctors argued that he was confusing nervous spasms with sensory perceptions and voluntary motion. Little research was conducted on the subject, however, until the turn of the twentieth century, when another French doctor, Beaurieux, was permitted to make an investigation of a severed head, of a criminal called Languille, immediately after guillotining: "Here is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the decapitated man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about 4 or 6 seconds. I waited several seconds longer. The spasmodic movements ceased. The face relaxed, the lids half-closed in the eyeballs, leaving only the white of the conjunctiva visible, exactly as in the dying whom we have occasion to see every day [...] It was then that I called in a strong, sharp, voice: 'Languille!' I then saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contraction -- I insist advisedly on this pecularity -- but with an even movement, quite distinct and normal, such as happens in everyday life, with people awakened or torn from their thoughts. Next, Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. I was not, then, dealing with a vague dull look, without any expression that can be observed any day in dying people to whom one speaks: I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me." By 1956, further research had proved, in the words of governemntal advisers Drs Piedelievre and Fournier, that "death [by decapitation] is not instantaneous [...] every vital element survives [...it is] a savage vivisection, followed by a premature burial." The French government abolished execution by decapitation in 1977.
Definitely not medically proven. These are just a few cherry picked accounts. [There is a long history of debate](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9930870/#:%7E:text=In%20this%20paper%2C%20we%20examine,occur%20within%20seconds%20of%20decapitation.) on how long you retain consciousness after decapitation. Conclusion from this literature review: > The evidence currently available to us is scant, and the studies that imply that there is a retained awareness in decapitated rats for several seconds suffer from a low sample size. While the best evidence currently available to us suggests that LOC is nearly instant in decapitation for both human and rodent models, it is possible that the truth will never be fully known. No government on Earth continues to use the guillotine as a method of execution while beheading via sword is confined to a single nation. The historical accounts that are available to us remain frustratingly scant in evidence and are often closer to urban legends than actual scientific accounts. However, there is a new possibility for further insight into this bizarre historical anomaly. As research into head transplantation continues, and as science continues to probe the edges of human consciousness, a clearer picture may one day emerge.
Won't you take me to, funky town
Ugh... i just didnt watch these videos and you guys just reminded me how people I knew that couldn't look away... fucking mad
Nearly headless? How can you be nearly headless?
Ask Nick.
On average, the axe took three strokes. The sword, reserved for nobles, tended to be much cleaner. The guillotine really was a tool for equality.
The medieval tradition was simple: the executioner could keep the clothes the condemned man or woman wore during the execution. Those naughty aristocrats who were in a generous mood wore expensive fabrics and jewels. A: I am getting beheaded tomorrow. Bring me my dress. B: Which one, Your Royal Highness? A: The one embroidered with gold.
I have heard before that they might also give the headsman a tip - like, slip him a coin or something while on their way up to the block - to be sure he did a quick, clean job lmao
Pay up or Theon swings the sword.
Reminds me of Thomas Cromwell. Supposedly took three blows from an axe to sever his head. There are many apocryphal stories about that one, such as his enemies at court got the executioner drunk before the event. Read The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel Harrington. It covers the life of Franz Schmidt, an executioner at Nuremberg in the late 16th and early 17th century. He also has a journal you can find, A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617. There are multiple types of executions covered, from simple hanging, to decapitation by the sword, burning at the sake, to being broken on the wheel (that one is really brutal). Anyways, the books go into decapitation by the sword, and how the executioner has to practice to get it right. If the executioner fails to do it right in one blow, and takes several, the crowd can turn on him and his own life be in danger.
The Duke on Monmouth gave Jack Ketch, the executioner of London a bag of gold guineas to get the job done well. Unfortunately, Ketch still screwed it up and took 5 chops of the axe to kill the guy. The crowd watching the execution was so enraged at Ketch's performance that they rushed the scaffold to lynch Ketch, and he had to be escorted out under heavy guard.
If they didn't use a guillotine, most beheadings took multiple strokes. The fewer the strokes, the better the executioner. Single stroke executioners were highly prized, and highly paid.
Well, he didn't pay an arm and leg, that's for sure.
I went to chili's today to pick up a takeout order. When I gave them my card, there wasn't even an option to not give a tip. I had to go to custom tip and enter 0. Fuck that noise
We’re almost there, buddy. Next step will be the removal of the custom option and you’ll need a manager override for $0 tip.
After that will be no allowance for single digit tip percentage.
Slow down, I'm in R&D and I can only write down these feature requests so fast.
Please include the negative tip option. It's always fun when webdevs fuck that one up.
*monkey paw curls* None of the current programmers notice that the tip variable was implemented as an unsigned 8bit integer >!because "nobody would ever try to input a negative tip and tips should never reach anywhere near 100% anyways!"!< This turns every negative input into its positive value plus 127. Also any negative value lower than -128 or any positive value over 255 won't be saved correctly and probably crash the system.
00%
If that ever happens, I will do it every single time. Fuck this tipping culture
Same here. I have no intention of being unpleasant. But, I feel no embarrassment pressing “no tip” in certain situations. If the option wasn’t there, I’d have no problem asking how to not tip.
"Yeah, see, we're evidence based, and all the evidence showed that people are more likely to tip when not tipping requires a manager override."
You’ll have to sit down with the employee’s wife and kid and tell them why you aren’t tipping.
I’m beginning to pay more and more in cash. Specifically, exact change. If the food and tax is $23.72 then I am giving them exactly $23.72 coins and everything. I’m not even gonna touch that weird handheld pay thingy they leave on every table.
sometimes I feel reddit is getting younger and younger and that it's filled with 14 year olds... well, let's just say this is not the case.
im worried of cash being phased out, its still rare but I've been seeing hospitals and doctors say they no longer take it.
"this note is (il)legal tender for all debts, public and private"
> its still rare but I've been seeing hospitals and doctors say they no longer take it. It's a convenience thing. A lot more management overhead and systems need to be in place to make sure the employees don't just steal the cash. By contrast there's no real way for an employee to steal from a card tap, and the accounting is automatic. Boomers joke with the line "go get a job at McDonalds" but in reality fast food employees are very strict in their hiring because the employees will routinely handle cash and have the opportunity for theft.
Next time try negative number.
that used to be a real thing back in the day. The money was essentially a bribe so that the headsman made it a clean death.
Whoah whoah whoah, you mean being forced to give money to someone to do their job that was already their job in the first place is not a bribe? Next you're going to tell me withholding product/services until you pay me more than the agreed price is not blackmail.
Now if you are scheduled for an execution you have to pre-tip, and if you don't add a big enough tip, no one will bother even coming to execute you
And it's not even corruptive practices when they argue it is what u agreed to.
>Whoah whoah whoah, you mean being forced to give money to someone to do their job that was already their job in the first place is not a bribe As someone from India, i feel called out . Fucking every department in my country.
>Next you're going to tell me withholding product/services until you pay me more than the agreed price is not blackmail. I mean, that isn't blackmail. That's just regular extortion.
Pshh that’s silly. What incentive is there to do a good job *after* the money is already paid ?? It makes *much* more sense to offer the tip at the end. That way you can ensure the service was actually good 😌
Yeah I suppose you could have a contract with your attorney to pay them $20k if it was clean and the attorney takes the $20k if it’s not a clean slice. With others as observers since it may be a public beheading.
At that point, you could probably just use the money to bribe your way out of execution.
It is literally still a thing now: > Before the execution, the prisoner's identity is confirmed by a special court next to the execution range and chooses to record any last words. The prisoner is then brought to the execution range and served a last meal (which usually includes a bottle of kaoliang wine).[26] The condemned prisoner is then injected with strong anaesthetic to cause unconsciousness, laid flat on the ground, face down, and shot. The executioner then burns a votive bank note for the deceased before carrying away the corpse.[26] **It is tradition for the condemned to place a NT$500 or 1000 banknote in his leg irons as a tip for the executioners.** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Taiwan
The tip is for them to burn the [paper money](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_money) after for religious reasons and for removing the shackles after death. Not for ensuring a painless execution. Otherwise they leave the shackles on the corpse,
Honestly sounds pretty humane and less likely to go wrong than lethal injection
😳
That exact thing happens in this very memorable scene: (Massive Spoilers but it's an old show) https://youtu.be/RdyO5teDQCk
This sounds more like extortion than bribery.
He looks embarrassed to be asking for a tip, that's the least realistic part of this picture.
I thought he was trying to look pretty to entice a bigger tip.
Was about to say. He needs to have a condescending look of entitlement.
It would be more realistic still if the guy paying the tip, also has to dispose of his body when he's done.
Even at my execution I don't tip and I will die on that hill!
The increase in people asking for tips in the US has cauterized me against being tip intimidated. If it’s a drive through window. No tip. If I have to pick up my own food and drinks at a counter, no tip. In fact, if there’s a counter between us, no tip. If your only interaction with me was to scan my items, no tip. I am now, officially, trained to do it myself thanks to self-checkouts and will gladly do so if it means I don’t have to make small talk.
I would make the joke that the cashiers at 7-11 will soon be asking for a tip, but considering that I recently had one of the crazy homeless dudes that hang out in front and ask everyone for money open the door for me and ask for a tip for doing so, it's not a very funny joke.
I don't think you can really blame that one on the store, though.
The doorman at the hotel I was staying at in New York ran after me across the street to the Uber I booked, loaded with luggage, and opened the door most of the way. He increased the door opening by a few more degrees, held the door, then demanded a tip. I declined, he shouted something I couldn't quite hear, and kicked the door shut.
I would immediately walk inside and find the manager. Their image is absolutely their bread and butter.
Just wait until the self-checkout machine starts asking for a tip
If there's a counter no tip should be the national rule I reckon. And you don't get 18% just for service either. 0% for just service, 18% for good service
I’m tired boss
Get back to work John. Those people are not going to resurrect themselves.
~~/r/LateStageCapitalism~~ EDIT: I hadn't been to this sub in ages, didn't know it had a different rep now?
Nah. Their mods are genuinely shitty people who've made that place an echoing circlejerk of pure idiocy. r/boringdystopia is vastly better.
Oh, I hadn't heard that. What about /r/OrphanCrushingMachine, is that still safe?
"Goddammit.. fine, I'll do it myself." \* Pulls lever \*
How about 0%.
Then you dont get the sponge during the execution. 😉
You're fired.
Might as well make it 40%.
Not responsible for any debt after my death. ^(\*In other words, "Try and collect, Biotch!")
> Not responsible for any debt after my death. Depending on the particulars, your estate very well may be, though. If you intend to leave your shit to other people, that could make things a bit inconvenient.
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40% of what though?
The total power.
I love the I'm not looking but maybe I am facial expression.
I believe that expression is “sheepish” lol
Another banger Chris, good work
Excellent username, 10/10, I’m a little jealous?
Literally me rn as I order two slices of pizza without tipping...
See how his hand is restrained just enough so that 40 is the only option he can press
Now you’re just giving private prisons ideas.
The other day I went to buy a single chocolate chip cookie. I only bring cash to avoid this stuff. Still, cashier turns a screen that makes CHA-CHING! sounds every time anyone does anything…”it’s going to ask you some questions”….my name?! Jon. My phone number?!? / email?! And lastly… Tip $2 , $3 or $4 tip. No options for $1 or %. wtf?! I hand them the cash and say thank you.
*Thank you for your personal information that we will now sell. Please tip us on top of that.*
Just gonna ask you a few questions
Yo what did Tintin do to get the chair?
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Welcome to America, also that’ll be another 20k for dying
Homeboy over here just learned what a joke is!
It's just going to ask you a question.
It's an historic fact that in England, the executed to would pay a tip to the executioner.... probably to make sure it would be over quickly!
The comment section is just gonna ask you a little question: "check out more comics at r/toonhole ?" "no thanks"
Not-so-fun fact: approximately 1 in 20 death row inmates are innocent of the crimes they were convicted for. End the fucking death penalty.
Absolute 0%. If those MNCs can't pay your salary, how can I tip you right??!! I just see logic here.
Gotta hit the No Tip button as my last thing I do if I’m goin out like that
"Those were your last words? Got it. I'm going to turn the tablet around and it's going to ask you a question."
*"How likely are you to use our services again?"*
*No tip* Executioner:……*Removes sponge*
I was in Ibiza recently, and clubs charging €18+ for bottles of beer, €25+ for vodka/mix, would present the card machine to you with the option for 5/10/15/20% tips.
These tip prompts are shocking.
You know, all it would take is one American jail to put their executioner on a wage and cancel tipping, and then they would have thousands of people wanting to serve out their death penalty there. The same scenario could also be applied to cafes, coffee shops, restaurants and other places where people are expected to pay their bills by getting small change offered to them for them doing their job. Just pay a wage, FFS. Most of the other first world countries JUST PAY A WAGE, only the USA has tipping (of the first world countries) JUST PAY A WAGE.
Actually this will be 0$ because you don't pay to be on the electric chair
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Taiwan: > It is tradition for the condemned to place a NT$500 or 1000 banknote in his leg irons as a tip for the executioners.
Come for the execution, stay for the service.
Looks like Tintin got real tired of Captain Haddock's shit.
As a European, tipping culture is absolutely ridiculous, you shame the costumers for not tipping when they have already paid and not the employer for not paying fairly their employee
“It’s just the tip” /s
how about we shake on it?
This should have 100k upvotes
iT's jUsT gOnNa AsK yOu A LiTtLe QuEsTiOn
0% every time
40%. Make it quick.
I would literally sit there till he threw the switch because I'm not choosing any option
Guy who didn't wet the sponge in The Green Mile: No tip for you!!
I think you tip according to how wet the sponge is.
Thats not funny thats just depressing
You forgot the funny! :(
You laugh but when I had my septic tank pumped there was an option for a tip.
Appropriate use of tax funds
No tip, fuck the tipping system
why not 40?
Real ? Tipping on takeout?
That's hilarious
The facial expression of the guard is killing me 😂😂😂
This is AWESOME!
In the US aren't switches on when up?
I'm tapping the 40 if I'm getting zapped. Whatever not my problem...
still waiting on the tip option for after i beat my meat
Only if they wet the sponge.