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View Poll Results: Are manners important to you?
Yes! I hate people without basic manners. 6 54.55%
Nope. I don't even have manners. 0 0%
*grunt, scratches ass* wut 2 18.18%
Depends on the situation. 3 27.27%
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Old 02-16-2015, 10:34 PM   #31 (permalink)
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You have to logically justify it, or else you're just being a mindless slave to tradition.
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Old 02-16-2015, 10:34 PM   #32 (permalink)
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You have to logically justify it, or else you're just being a mindless slave to tradition.
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.
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Old 02-16-2015, 11:00 PM   #33 (permalink)
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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.
You know, people do tend to wash their elbows these days.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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You know, people do tend to wash their elbows these days.
my irritation with elbow-diners is just secondhand irritation from my grandparents
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Old 02-16-2015, 11:09 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Can someone explain to me the elbows on the table thing? Who gives a **** about putting your elbows on the table? What possible benefit can it serve to keep them off?
Sometimes space is a commodity on a table and someone's elbow is unnecessarily is taking up space. Having table manners is about making the other person feel comfortable, and not imposing on them, or being annoying.
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Old 02-16-2015, 11:12 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Sometimes space is a commodity on a table and someone's elbow is unnecessarily is taking up space. Having table manners is about making the other person feel comfortable, and not imposing on them, or being annoying.
Well that clears that right up.
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Well that clears that right up.
Aw man, and I wanted to argue some more.
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Old 02-16-2015, 11:25 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Aw man, and I wanted to argue some more.
Wait, I've got it! What if there's a big table? His argument then falls apart at the seams.
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Old 02-16-2015, 11:27 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Wait, I've got it! What if there's a big table? His argument then falls apart at the seams.
Ah yes, and what if the people you are eating with don't have arms? What say you now, Neapolitan?
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What's with guys and not taking the stall next to other guys. Who cares if I look over for a second or two? I'm not hurting anyone.
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