Cool. And that's actually somewhere around 20%.
Oy. Now someone said that his way of being green is that he doesn't use those little ketchup packets at fast food restaurants.
Can't you ever get your mind out of the hellmouth?
Buffy ,'Touched'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Dec 03, 2009 12:55:22 pm PST #22792 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
aurelia - Dec 03, 2009 12:59:59 pm PST #22793 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I could wander over to Barnes & Noble and ogle the books...
I've been known to do this to avoid traffic.
Aside from the not-math, I'm gonna have to say I cut more than 20% of the meat from my diet when I stopped eating red meat (in 1987). I don't think another 20% would have much impact.
Cass - Dec 03, 2009 1:03:26 pm PST #22794 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
That's...not math.
It's really not. Not math that won't end up circled in red and having to be redone at least. Unless it's New Math. Does New Math use different numbers than Math Math?
-t - Dec 03, 2009 1:07:49 pm PST #22795 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I can't even figure out where they might have gone wrong, or what they actually meant. Weird.
tommyrot - Dec 03, 2009 1:08:43 pm PST #22796 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah. The correct answer is about 3% (i.e. they're eliminating 1/32nd).
Hil R. - Dec 03, 2009 1:14:38 pm PST #22797 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, 20% of 16 is around 3. I really don't know what they were trying to say. My next guess was that they were, for some reason, eliminating 20% of the meat on that particular tray -- the patties were divided among three trays -- but that tray had four patties, so 20% of that would be almost a full patty.
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2009 1:19:06 pm PST #22798 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That hamburger math made my brain spin.
Now I have to do the math to work out how to only do 40 hours this week. I do this instead of troubleshooting SQL, which makes me a bad person. But I'm not a developer, right? I'm a business analyst.
When I got takeout from this place last time I reflexively tipped 20%. When I checked my bank balance they'd just deducted the meal charge. This time I was closer to 15%, but I still felt awkward when presented with that blank spot on the credit card slip. I'm not sure when I became such a softie.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2009 1:25:01 pm PST #22799 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Apparently the other thing is spaghetti and tomato sauce. Eh. I wanted to do it with bacon and peas, but I have no peas in the freezer! One of the things I like least about having moved: I no longer have all of the things I always have in the house.
Hil R. - Dec 03, 2009 1:33:40 pm PST #22800 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
We're getting pizza for dinner. I'm not sure if my healing gums can handle tomato sauce yet, so I'm getting one with olive oil, soy cheese, eggplant, and spinach. My parents are getting pepperoni and pineapple or something like that.
javachik - Dec 03, 2009 1:42:50 pm PST #22801 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
ita, the first swipe a restaurant does usually doesn't include the tip amount; with BofA, it takes a couple of days for the amount with tip to be deducted. Don't know if it's the same for your bank?