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Originally Posted by The Batlord
You have to logically justify it, or else you're just being a mindless slave to tradition.
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I know that it's completely irrational nowadays but I assume that it was considered offensive to put your elbows on the table back in the day because people didn't wash up to such a point, and after working in the fields, the wife didn't want a man's dirty elbows on the kitchen table.