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Subject: Re: Tipping in USA/Canada Posted on: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:08:59 +0000 (UTC)

Sarah Czepiel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:27:15 GMT, Craig Welch
> wrote:
>
> :>>Greg Procter wrote:
> :>>
> :>> It may well go to _your_ general knowledge, but why would you imagine it
> :>> would go to anyone else's general knowledge - where should all of us who
> :>> aren't you have come across it?
> :>
> :>It would seem that you don't understand what 'general' knowledge is.
> :>It's knowledge that you would expect a reasonably educated first world
> :>person to have.
>
> Greg Procter is not an educated man beyond the equivalent level in the
> US of high school.

Hey, that's not fair - the NZ standard of high-school eductaion is far
higher than that of the US.

> He's picked up some manual skills along the way
> but he has no desire to broaden his knowledge base. I doubt he reads
> even one newspaper a day.

Your imagination always leads you into reaching stupid conclusions!