Nathan's Corner

There is a YouTube Channel called Everyday Backfire where the Protagonist Marcus finds himself in bad situations but always finds a way to end up being the winner. For instance, in one situation, Marcus's girlfriend asks him to send her money for lunch. He sends her a VERY generous $50. 😀 She gets MAD at him for not giving her more, 🤦‍♀️ so he cancels the payment, 😈 and she gets MAD at him for canceling the payment. 🤦‍♀️He drolly responds something like,"$50 didn't satisfy you, so I decided to cancel the $50 and give you nothing . 😈 She is upset. 🤦‍♀️ I honestly don't get why she thought $50 wasn't enough for lunch. 😐 Longhorn Steakhouse, an appetizer, soda, burger with fries meal, and chocolate stampede is roughly $50 including tax and tip and you get a free mini loaf of bread! I ordered the burger and fries meal and the chocolate stampede and a soda and used the mini loaf of bread as a free appetizer and I was stuffed and couldn't even finish the whole meal and I paid $35 without the appetizer! How was $50 not enough for lunch for her? 😐

I have a bunch of $50 Texas Roadhouse gift cards that I paid $25 for. I'll occasionally swing by for lunch, and it can run $30, sometimes close to $40. I leave the balance as the tip. It's a nice treat for $25, but I wouldn't pay full price.

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I have a bunch of $50 Texas Roadhouse gift cards that I paid $25 for. I'll occasionally swing by for lunch, and it can run $30, sometimes close to $40. I leave the balance as the tip. It's a nice treat for $25, but I wouldn't pay full price.
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Exactly, $50 is enough for a full meal at a sit down restaurant, and in your case, you pay roughly $40 at the MOST. I don't get why the Villain complained about being sent $50 for lunch! 🤦‍♀️😐

It’s all perception. You win a $5k slot jackpot and give the slot girl $20 who hands you your $5k and nasty paperwork. You don’t think she goes back and is bitching to her coworkers about the cheap guy who only tipped her $20 for her 286 seconds of work?

It’s been a while, but when dating I tended to not take first dates to Texas Roadhouse. (I prefer Outback).

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It’s all perception. You win a $5k slot jackpot and give the slot girl $20 who hands you your $5k and nasty paperwork. You don’t think she goes back and is bitching to her coworkers about the cheap guy who only tipped her $20 for her 286 seconds of work?

It’s been a while, but when dating I tended to not take first dates to Texas Roadhouse. (I prefer Outback).
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I just did some minor crunching on dealer tokes. I figured that if every player toked $2 per shuffle at a blackjack table, the dealer pool would be doing pretty OK.

How many handpays does a slot attendant process per hour?

It's been a while, but all my dates prefer(-red) Texas Roadhouse over Outback. (My ex-brother-in-law's dates did prefer Outback, but obviously I considered their tastes suspect.)

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I have a bunch of $50 Texas Roadhouse gift cards that I paid $25 for. I'll occasionally swing by for lunch, and it can run $30, sometimes close to $40. I leave the balance as the tip. It's a nice treat for $25, but I wouldn't pay full price.
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Exactly, $50 is enough for a full meal at a sit down restaurant, and in your case, you pay roughly $40 at the MOST. I don't get why the Villain complained about being sent $50 for lunch! 🤦‍♀️😐
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$50 would get TEN burgers around here. A local pub does $5 burgers on Mondays. Not to mention the $2 tacos on Tuesdays.

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It’s all perception. You win a $5k slot jackpot and give the slot girl $20 who hands you your $5k and nasty paperwork. You don’t think she goes back and is bitching to her coworkers about the cheap guy who only tipped her $20 for her 286 seconds of work?

It’s been a while, but when dating I tended to not take first dates to Texas Roadhouse. (I prefer Outback).
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I just did some minor crunching on dealer tokes. I figured that if every player toked $2 per shuffle at a blackjack table, the dealer pool would be doing pretty OK.

How many handpays does a slot attendant process per hour?

It's been a while, but all my dates prefer(-red) Texas Roadhouse over Outback. (My ex-brother-in-law's dates did prefer Outback, but obviously I considered their tastes suspect.)
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At my casino, it's about a half (i.e. avg 1 every 2 hours around clock)

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How many handpays does a slot attendant process per hour?
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At my casino, it's about a half (i.e. avg 1 every 2 hours around clock)
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Ouch. Are slot attendants at least getting a much higher hourly than dealers?

Next dumb question... machine count? (If you don't mind sharing.)

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How many handpays does a slot attendant process per hour?
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At my casino, it's about a half (i.e. avg 1 every 2 hours around clock)
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Ouch. Are slot attendants at least getting a much higher hourly than dealers?

Next dumb question... machine count? (If you don't mind sharing.)
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Not much, maybe a dollar or so. About 1500 machines.

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Next dumb question... machine count? (If you don't mind sharing.)
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Not much, maybe a dollar or so. About 1500 machines.
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Interesting. Maybe the places I go just keep fewer slot attendants on shift, so they have more to do in an hour.

https://www.google.com/search?q=is+%2450+good+for+lunch&oq=is&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgYIARBFGDkyBggCEEUYOzIGCAMQRRg7MgcIBBAAGI8CMgYIBRBFGD0yBggGEEUYPDIGCAcQRRg9MgYICBBFGEEyBwgJEAAYjwIyBwgKEAAYjwIyBggLEEUYOzIGCAwQRRg70gEIMTY1NWowajSoAgGwAgE&client=ms-android-tracfone-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8

According to Google $50 is more than enough for a single person's lunch but might not be enough for two people. IIRC a Poster said something like,"Marcus's girlfriend probably wanted to treat her other boyfriend to lunch which is why she freaked out over $50 for lunch.😈"

So a Woman said that she has two Lesbian Mothers, I forgot if one of the Mothers was her biological mother who married a woman or if they were a Lesbian couple who adopted her. People were mentioning how weird it was that she had two mothers instead of a Mother and a father and she mentioned that she loved her two Mothers a just as much as if she were raised by a straight Mother and a straight father. She was happy that all three of them had a loving relationship. Other people actually stood up for her saying something like,"I was raised by a straight Mother and a straight father and they fought all the time and abused me constantly. .😱😳 I actually would have preferred to have two loving Mothers who loved me and each other and didn't fight each other and abuse me." Other Posters also backed up the second woman's post. 💡😀

Propaganda, Clearly an attempt to push the lgbtqxyzbgtyuj agenda. Story implies two parents of the same gender are better for chidren than a man and woman pure garbage.

The key point I got out of it was a child raised in a caring household will tend to do better than a child raised in an abusive household.

For my anecdote; I love both my daughters - the one I share genetics with, and the one I don't. The older one does see her sperm donor weekly (probably more often than I see her), but I'm still Dad, and he's still Not.

The key is raising your child in a loving environment. Which recipe you choose is secondary.

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The key point I got out of it was a child raised in a caring household will tend to do better than a child raised in an abusive household.

For my anecdote; I love both my daughters - the one I share genetics with, and the one I don't. The older one does see her sperm donor weekly (probably more often than I see her), but I'm still Dad, and he's still Not.
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Mine was rough. But I'm not convinced it makes that much of a difference.

Take alcoholic parents for example. Anecdotally someone might say "Yeah they're teaching their kids to be drunks too" but from what I've seen I think a person raised like that is even more likely to be aware of alcoholism and its effects and thus want nothing at all to do with consuming alcohol.

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Propaganda, Clearly an attempt to push the lgbtqxyzbgtyuj agenda. Story implies two parents of the same gender are better for chidren than a man and woman pure garbage.
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Try reading it again without the bias.

Two loving parents of the same sex are better than two abusive or neglectful parents of the opposite sex.

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Propaganda, Clearly an attempt to push the lgbtqxyzbgtyuj agenda. Story implies two parents of the same gender are better for chidren than a man and woman pure garbage.
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Try reading it again without the bias.

Two loving parents of the same sex are better than two abusive or neglectful parents of the opposite sex.
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That's a matter of opinion, amplified by vague, subjective, and self-applied terms. You can have a couple of parents who are (for example) cult members and they may see themselves as loving and be seen by others as loving, but they're still raising their kid to be a freakshow like they are. Manson's girls, they said they never felt so loved like they did when they were with Charlie, that was the whole appeal of it.

Kids might emulate their parents and they also might rebel against their parents and their values. Given a choice, I think I'd rather get my head knocked against the wall every day and left to fend for myself, which are things everyone in society is going to tell me are bad and should be rejected, than be "loved" by a couple of guys who think my lower digestive tract is a sexual organ, and then have the nasty vecks and pinky-raising chin pullers of society tell me I should be open-minded about it. As a child I shouldn't have to accept nor rebel against that concept; it shouldn't be part of my life at all. Alternative lifestyles are for adults. But the same people who are going to make a federal case out of it if a teenager has a beer or tries a cig are going to give him lectures and books about how wonderful these alternative practices are.

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Propaganda, Clearly an attempt to push the lgbtqxyzbgtyuj agenda. Story implies two parents of the same gender are better for chidren than a man and woman pure garbage.
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Try reading it again without the bias.

Two loving parents of the same sex are better than two abusive or neglectful parents of the opposite sex.
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I did what you said and removed my bias but it only solidified my position. You see when I removed my bias it allowed me to see the writers bias with even more clarity.

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The key point I got out of it was a child raised in a caring household will tend to do better than a child raised in an abusive household.

For my anecdote; I love both my daughters - the one I share genetics with, and the one I don't. The older one does see her sperm donor weekly (probably more often than I see her), but I'm still Dad, and he's still Not.
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Maury Povich had an episode where the STEPFATHER stepped up to the plate whereas the FATHER was a deadbeat. The Stepfather was wearing a shirt that read,"Any man can be a Father but only a real man can be called Daddy." 😀

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Propaganda, Clearly an attempt to push the lgbtqxyzbgtyuj agenda. Story implies two parents of the same gender are better for chidren than a man and woman pure garbage.
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Try reading it again without the bias.

Two loving parents of the same sex are better than two abusive or neglectful parents of the opposite sex.
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That's a matter of opinion, amplified by vague, subjective, and self-applied terms.
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So says the NOT a sociologist Carry on!

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