the royal family owe reparations to every single country colonised in their name until then miss me with the cutesy celebrations every time baldy nuts in kate middleton
wanna bring this back seeing as everyone’s pissing themselves cos carrot top got engaged
why are y’all this petty
seriously though, it’s just people celebrating normal things. the british colonialism happened hundreds of years ago and while the effects are still here today, none of these people did anything lol. they don’t have to pay the price for what their ancestors did
when are we gonna start blaming every single country for the bad things they did?
“the british colonialism happened hundreds of years ago”…….. the queen was 21 whole ass years old when India gained independence. Jamaica, Barbados and most of the West Indies weren’t emancipated til after her accession. Churchill who caused a famine that killed millions in Bengal and then chalked it up to “bengalis breeding like rabbits” was her favourite prime minister. The queen is an imperialist, has been an imperialist and would still be if colonised people didn’t fight so hard for their freedom. so jot that down and shut the fuck up
Because it has come to my attention that apparently a lot of people weren’t taught proper tipping etiquette so here’s what I was taught.
Always tip at least 20%.
If you got something in a special or had a coupon, you tip on the price you would have payed, not the price you did pay.
At breakfast always tip 25%. Breakfast is never as expensive as dinner and your waitress shouldn’t be shortchanged because you got $5 eggs instead of a $10 sandwich.
If you keep a table for longer than an hour, add 10% for every hour you keep the table. It’s great that you’re catching up with a friend you haven’t seen in ten years, but you’re fucking over the waitress by staying for four hours. Every hour you’re there you’re costing her money. Make it worth her time.
We all know to tip 20%, but as someone who works as a cook and often talks to the waiters, no one seems to know about the rest. This is what my dad taught me and this is what I’ll teach my children. Be respectful to your waiters. Don’t undertip. They need to eat too.
Rules to live by until we get this crap fixed and start paying a living wage.
Also for your delivery driver they should be getting a 20% tip too! Some drivers don’t get paid for the time they do deliveries or are waged really low just like waiters are!
Also if the weather is bad outside and you MUST order delivery you need to tip at least 25% if not more. These people are out hear braving extreme cold and heat, snow, rain, and wind to get you your food and sometimes at risk to themselves to get you some pizza. Show them some love please!
Can we appreciate how The Brain’s parents keep a dictionary just to look up words that their son says that they don’t understand, but they want to encourage him in his intelligence and don’t shut him down with ‘In English please’ like most people in cartoons will tell the smart characters?
Even real life parents are more likely to ask for their kid to rephrase their sentence while using simpler terms, and having seen this with my brother, it discourages the kid from even talking to the parent because they start to think a)they don’t understand them b)they are stupid and c)they have no middle ground to meet at.
But The Brains parents are so caring and want Alan to never feel odd or like he can’t talk to them so they keep a dictionary- a very thick one- just to be able to talk to their son without having to make him feel like a bother for using words that aren’t every day regular people words.
And they black
The Brain is a fucking bear. A BEAR. Holy shit tumblr, you never dissapoint me.
@naturelovefreedom HE’S AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CODED ANTHROPOMORPHIC CHARACTER!!!
HAVE YOU IDIOTS NEVER WATCHED ARTHUR??!!
HE CALLS HIMSELF AFRICAN AMERICAN!!!!
Omg!!!!
A link to the Christmas special, time stamped to where The Brain specifies that he celebrates Kwanzaa (41:48): https://youtu.be/ygXALnyCa0c?t=41m48s
“And the raspberry (represents) the African struggle for freedom”
This one is the timestamp for the Kwanzaa celebration itself (51:28)(it’s a brief clip in the episode wrap-up of everyone celebrating at home): https://youtu.be/ygXALnyCa0c?t=51m28s
Thank you! They been blowing me up!
Bruh. Why do they always step so far out of their lane?
they have been really trying it over this post
Anyone who thinks race does not exist in Arthur did not watch Arthur correctly/doesn’t remember enough. All of the characters hint at nationalities, at traditions from their grandparents etc. who lived in other countries, and even religions. Meaning, yes, race exists in Arthur-BUT NO ONE IS FIGHTING OVER RACES IN THE SERIES WHICH IS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL.
Brain has African roots-and African cousins. According to Wiki, those roots come from the Senegalese area of Africa. They even did a song about Africa when said cousin visited.
You could even argue that Francine is black, based on the makeover episode where rich white girl Muffy tries to change her style to make her girly while also criticizing everything about Francine and her poor lifestyle. In that episode, Francine’s Bad Hair Day, you can very clearly tell they are making a hint that Francine has hair that is much different than Muffy’s. Sound familiar? Black hair and white hair are not the same. Hair is hair, but depending on your race, your hair tends to be much different than others.
The Reeds neighbors are Mexican
Binky Barnes family adopted a Chinese baby Mei Lin Barnes.
And you can’t go off their colors alone on the show. You have to know them as a person before you get the hints of what race the characters are meant to represent. In some cases yes, you can very clearly see what race someone is meant to represent but in an animal form-like Emily, DW’s friend, but in some cases, like when Celebrities were on the show, they either had the characters colors look like the person skin or changed it up to fit the series. Examples:
Mr. Rogers was one of the whitest old men around on TV, and we all loved him, but in Arthur he’s a dark tan/light brown
The same goes for Jack Prelutsky
Yo-Yo Ma -because no one on earth is a silvery gray
Alex Trebeck played himself but with a different last name
Then we have some very clear examples of characters fitting color schemes of their real life counterparts races.
Neil Gaiman
Backstreet Boys
Joshua Reedman (Aka Francine’s canon uncle)
Michael Fincke
Michelle Kwan (a little paler in her Arthur appearance but it still works)
Race, nationalities, religion and all of that stuff exist in Arthur no matter how you try to water it down or deny it. The big difference between Arthur and our world is that in Arthur- I state again that Race and Nationality were not put down, they were not even big deals to the characters, but something to learn about and find out that no matter how people may look, what they do, people are people, and you should always accept people no matter their race, nationality, traditions, etc. If you didn’t take that from the show, I don’t know what you did take out of it other than a meme.
I don’t know this guy, I just follow him on Twitter, but I’ll encourage you, if you’re on Twitter, maybe go and hit that retweet on these too – folks there need this advice as much as we do here.
Hotel workers have a 40% higher injury rate than other service workers.
Women are 1.5 times more likely to be injured than men, because nearly every hotel housekeeper is a woman, and housekeepers have a 50% higher injury rate than all hotel workers.
Hispanic housekeepers are two-thirds more likely to be injured than white housekeepers.
91 percent of hotel housekeepers have suffered work-related pain.
66 percent take pain medication just to get through their daily work.
Here’s how you can make housekeepers’ jobs a little less shitty.
Reduce bending situations. For instance, hotels often tell you to toss towels on the floor that you want replaced. Try setting the towels on the closed toilet instead.
Gather all the trash cans into one.
Leave a note saying not to change the towels every day.
Make your own beds.
Write a note with a tip thanking the housekeeper for not making the beds.
You can strip the beds by taking off all the sheets (including the ones holding the duvet, if that’s the system the hotel uses) and pillowcases, putting them in a pile, and then piling or loosely folding the blankets and duvet and putting them in a separate pile with the pillows on the stripped bed.
Tip daily. The same housekeepers aren’t always there every day.
$2-5 per person, per day is the expected gratuity if you’re a courteous guest.
Remember to mark it clearly for them so they know it’s for them to take (as opposed to leaving bills just sitting out willy-nilly).
Do Not Disturb: If you put up a Do Not Disturb sign, the housekeeper is usually just given another room to clean. In a lot of cases, that new room will be outside their normal section, one of the leftover rooms in another part of the hotel. This means they’ll have to push their heavy cart a little farther, spend time waiting for an elevator, and then have to clean a little faster to get it done. That other room might also be a normal, fine room, or it might be a disaster zone, where someone gutted a fish in the tub or spilled Pepsi on the bed. And if there isn’t an extra room to be given to a housekeeper when they have a DND, they’ll probably just be sent home early (especially if it’s a non-union hotel), so they lose some of that day’s pay.
For all these reasons, try not to use the DND sign. Just tidy up your room as much as possible, follow the steps above, and leave a tip. Your room will just count as an easy clean, and maybe the housekeeper can take a couple minutes to sit in the armchair and rest instead of rushing to the next room.
THANK YOU FOR THIS.
Never remake your bed on the last day. Leave it in a nice ball on the bed for housekeeping to scoop up 👍🏼
my dad always taught me to make my bed in hotels and clean up to make it easier for hotel workers. they’re there to do general cleaning, like vacuuming and cleaning the bathroom for the next guest, they shouldn’t be expected to pick up your trash and other sorts of mess you’ve left behind.
even if the fraud was like 5% it wouldn’t compare to rich people cheating the system by trillions lmao
Also, SNAP “fraud” is like exchanging some of your stamps for cash to buy necessities you can’t buy with stamps, like soap or deodorant or tampons
TBH even if one hundred percent of people on food stamps were committing food stamp fraud I’d still be in favor of keeping the program around
Hey I wanna talk about this.
I work at a drug addiction counseling center. A ton of my clients have, at one time or another, sold their food stamps. This is basically exactly what the GOP is afraid of, right? Drug addicts selling their food stamps.
I have learned, now, to ask them WHY they sold their food stamps. Here is an incomplete list of the answers:
– I need tampons, and you can’t buy them with foodstamps
– See above RE: toilet paper
– I was living in a hotel with no kitchen then. I had to buy pre-prepared food
– The homeless shelter won’t let me keep food in my locker or room, so I have to buy pre-prepared food (Yes, really)
– I had to make rent
– My sister had to make rent
– My son had to make rent
– I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll die
– I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll loose control of my mental health
But the absolute most common form of food stamp fraud I see? Giving away food stamps to other family members who get no food stamps or insufficient food stamps to feed their families. I see that every month. People glassy eyed and hungry because they gave away their food to their adult kids, their grand kids, cousins, siblings etc.
So, is food stamp fraud rampant? In some places, yes. And I’m not about to chastise people for it.
I legit served a man at my last job who was fully covered in nazi symbols and shit. He was a proud actual real life nazi getting icecream in a family theme park and when he left I voiced my disgust to my coworkers on how security even let him in the gate wearing all of that. And you know what that bitch said? “Well some people are offended by your rainbow flag and you are allowed to wear it so he can too”. It’s not the fucking same. Don’t fucking compare the two
Nazis’ entire mission is to exterminate anyone who’s not exactly like them. It’s in no way comparable to “some people are offended”.
me: “I’d like to visibly exist without fear”
them: “I want to literally kill these people so that they stop existing”
centrists: “I don’t see the difference”
Oh wow I guess my addition to this post got spread a lot. I just wanted to add in another piece of important information. I live in Orlando. The location of the Pulse night club shooting. I was wearing a rainbow pin on my uniform because 49 people in my community died in a hate crime. I will never forgive anyone who tells me that my rainbow pins are the same as a swastika
wupacing 