Rotten Tanx wrote:Is that elderly or just-been-kicked-in-the-balls?

I'm sorry; it's neither. It's clearly just-been-caned-in-the-balls.

Manners: they're nice. Your behavior has an effect on the people around you.

I've brought this up elsewhere: eye contact is the most basic human social acknowledgement. For a bit, I have been making an effort to make visual contact with clerks and other workers of the convenience world before smiling and asking for my order and I've seen a big improvement in the warmth in the little transactions of my day.

So come on kids, if you're in a small group and someone is talking, look at the talking person. If you don't want people to talk, you shouldn't be with them in the first place. I hate this.

bumble wrote: eye contact is the most basic human social acknowledgement. For a bit, I have been making an effort to make visual contact with clerks and other workers of the convenience world before smiling and asking for my order and I've seen a big improvement in the warmth in the little transactions of my day.

So come on kids, if you're in a small group and someone is talking, look at the talking person. If you don't want people to talk, you shouldn't be with them in the first place. I hate this.

this is so difficult for me to do. i am sure that it comes off as me being a real bag of aloof cocks. i am putting active effort into being a non-shy person that can muster up the courage to make eye contact with & maybe even make small talk with my trader joe's bagger/liquor store salesman/tasty food server. it is very very difficult. somewhere along the line, a weird switch was thrown in my brain that makes me worry that, if i am a smily talkative look-you-in-the-eye person, the other person is going to think that i'm coming on to them or being a creep somehow. nevermind that being furtive and shy is no less creepy.

bla. i have impeccable manners otherwise.

Oop. I meant my ranting rant a bit differently. All exceptions are made for the actively shy. Salut, hench!

bumble wrote:Oop. I meant my ranting rant a bit differently. All exceptions are made for the actively shy. Salut, hench!

no, no -- your rant is correct, shy or not. exceptions should not be granted due to weird brain tricks. carry on!

being a dumb drunk american, i dont know about all of this picadilly tube nonsense...but i was waiting in the drive-thru at the local white castle here in saint louis the other day and i was blown away not only by how rude the car full of people in front of me were, but also by how rude the workers in the resteraunt were.

north saint louis county has officially become an urban vomit-scope of disgusting human beings who barely deserve to live but oddly deserve to live where they do.

i hate rude people.

being polite in england these days actually offends people.

when i call people 'sir' or 'madam' they look at me like it's a form of verbal assault. quite how we reached this stage is beyond me.

tommydski wrote:being polite in england these days actually offends people.

when i call people 'sir' or 'madam' they look at me like it's a form of verbal assault. quite how we reached this stage is beyond me.

I know what you mean. Most often these days, the obligatory doffing of my topper is seldom greeted by a curtsey from even the fairest of our ladies.

All I ask is that people just put tHEIR FUCKING HANDS OVER THEIR MOUTHS WHILE COUGHING, SNEEZING, BURPING!

Fucking rude bastards!

Push in front in the cue - I can say something
Eat with the wrong fork - who gives a fuck?
Don't hold the door for me - I have arms.

Sneeze and cough without tha cover I GET YOUR FUCKING DISEASES!!!

i've met homeless people with much better manners, not mention more social grace, than many so-called professionals.