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American style culture is here already. We’re living it.
Just a few things we don’t want. A Price board that doesn’t display true price, with added tax when you get to the tills. We don’t start calling the pavement a sidewalk. We don’t adopt the ‘No Jaywalking’ law. Things we do want. Free refills in cafes and restaurants. Greater tipping culture. More Election Enthusiasm. |
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Free refills, just makes the obesity epidemic worse. Greater tipping causes confusion all round, and even less wages for staff. Election enthusiasm ? Good luck with that ! We need to be British and proud, celebrate our own culture, not some country 5000 miles away. If anything the culture of our European neighbours is more relevant. Give me French wine and cheese rather than a Big Mac ! |
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£320,000 is the starting price for a very modest terraced house in our area. Quote:
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The tipping culture is a result of the fact they pay peanuts for wages for many service-based jobs that they have to make it up in tips. It turns tips into a near-compulsory act otherwise you're undermining someone's ability to live and, in my opinion, allows companies to exploit their staff. In the UK you're still free to tip as you please but with the staff getting compensated better anyway. A tip is generally for good service as opposed to average service but that waiter needs to eat too. |
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Maybe rather than let the press talk about the Virgin East Coast bail-out they're distracting people to this non-story whilst trying to win over progressive customers and staff who previously might have favoured nationalisation. |
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Newspapers are a waste of space in a Rail buffet car because you have to sell them at face value. It makes more sense for Rail companies to line the shelves with items they can sell at a ridiculous mark-up. There’s no story here, except perhaps the vainglorious posturing of Richard Branson. Anyone who wants to know what Paul Dacre thinks Immigrants are doing to the country or what Could Cause Cancer can buy the Daily Heil at a newsagent before they board the train, or else pay for Virgin’s ridiculously expensive Wi-Fi and access HeilOnline.
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If you book Standard tickets with Virgin East Coast direct, the WiFi is free.
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It’s being made free as a condition of franchise renewals across the national rail network. For the time being, my local inter city route (west coast) is still charging for it, thanks to the civil service franchising debacle that has delayed the west coast franchise renewal for a number of years.
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