Imagine If This Was The Other Way Round And She Refused To Serve Him.

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And the irony is the Mr Qwabe’s own place at Oxford is as a Rhodes Scholar, funded by a bequest from that very same imperialist. He became, according to one report, ‘visibly angry’ when the academic Mary Beard said: ‘You can’t whitewash Rhodes out of history but go on using his cash.’

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Dave.

[Peter Pedant]

// Mandela Foundation are actually stumping up the majority of the Krugerrands.//

Gromir are you sure about this ?
I thought it was a relabelling exercise
and that the Mandela foundation benefitted only members of the huge Mandela family and hangers on
like WInnie all with very large appetites for money

[Peter Pedant]

appetites for other people's money ...

[Svejk]

I reckon he did it on purpose, aog. That's just the sort of thing they teach them to do at Cambridge. ;-)

[jim360]

"How to insult people subtly and then pretend you didn't" was one of the toughest modules I sat in the Tripos...

[Peter Pedant]

Shweik
I can confirm that cambridge undergraduates are taught to think independently - and this may account for cambridge being the top university globally on some criteria .....

but rhodes scholars go down the road - to Oxford ....

I suppose you could have covered your bases by writing Oxbridge

[Peter Pedant]

christ Jim did you ever meet a rhodes scholar ?
wrong place !

Clinton was a rhodes scholar at univ in the late sixties
( univ is a college at Oxford remember )

[Peter Pedant]

// when the academic Mary Beard said: ‘You can’t whitewash Rhodes out of history but go on using his cash.’ //

yeah I wonder what the Latin for 'dont bite the hand that feeds you" is

[andy-hughes]

"Please don't call me Git, as I find this very offensive.

I was once personally taken to task by the AB Editor for calling someone only by their surname, but it appears that only a certain few are allowed the privilege of not being offended."

The biter bit!

[andy-hughes]

Re. the OP - that is not comparable.

Tipping is a voluntary decision by the customer - and although the gentleman in question was offensive and pompous in his approach, he is not obliged to tip if he chooses not to do so.

On the other hand, the waitress is obliged to serve a customer, it is within her remit, unless he was offensive at the start of the service, in which case she would refer the incident to her manager.

[Old_Geezer]

You meet such folks in all walks of life. The problem is if they aver get power to inflict their views. Otherwise they should be treated with the disdain appropriate to their behaviour. As an aside I read that the waitress did rather well from well-wishers contributing.