Well it seems the RN sailors were better behaved in the bars compared to British soccer fans in bars based on the number of arrests.
It's only under tipping because of the bizarre US custom of expecting customers to pay most of the wages of bar & restaurant staff directly, instead of the employer paying his or her employees - a custom reflected in tax laws which assume that waiters & barmaids get at least the local general minimum wage (which doesn't apply to them in most states) & taxing 'em on that basis, so if they don't get what would be extraordinarily generous tips anywhere else they could be taking home almost nothing.
I wonder how long we will have to wait until these guys get some R and R in Sydney.Jolly Jack off QE is having a good run ashore in Mayport and honouring the age old naval run ashore tradition of maximum inebriation and fighting. The locals are taking it all in their stride and some sailors will be on requestmens and defaulters parade the morning after with their caps off an a grumpy jaunty alongside.
Drunken British sailors are invading Florida and beating each other up, because why not?
It's not them you gotta worry about. It's us kiwis. At one stage the RNZN was banned from the fleet bar at GI for a couple of years due to being extremely naughty boys and girls.
That's part of it but tips are only partially reported as income both in the US and Canada so tips are often tax free money which is why servers accept the pi$$ poor wages. Can't speak for the US but Canada's CRA is smart enough not to $uckup the job market for young Canadians trying to get money for college or basic needs by applying the tax axe. The server industry is huge for North American youth. It's not like junior would utilize this additional tax revenue for anything useful, like say, nation defence.
Just about all new builds, large and small take some time to sort out problems, including bad workmanship, mistakes, incorrect fittings and a plethora of others no matter which yard builds them. They usually manifest themselves in the first year or so of service.
2021. That's why I wrote 2021.
