Table manners

[Drago]

Only when I’m watching Mrs Browns Boys on the TV.

Good god above man. Is there no limit o your manner less, depraved lifestyle?

 

[slowmotion]

You’re confusing good manners, which are universally a good thing, with silver service cutlery nonsense about the correct spoon to use with the soup.

No I'm not! Any restriction on the entirely valid wishes of youth to express their freedom by eating with their mouths open behaviours is a clear case of fascist oppression......etc etc.

 

[MontyVeda]

Table manners.
Do they still exist? Important part of kids upbringing?
I mean, placing knife & fork together when you finish. Elbows off the table. Eat with your mouth closed (who wants to watch someone's mastication! !)
Sit at the table until everyone else has finished? Reaching across someone's food to get the condiments?

🤔

most of them are bullocks... apart from eating with one's mouth closed and not reaching over someone's food.

Why can't i put my elbow on the table? Why should the knife and fork go together when i've finished (with the blade of the knife facing away from the fork)? What's the point of sitting in front of an empty plate, watching someone else eat really slowly?

 

[gavroche]

I hate it when I hear parents say : " What do you want to eat ?" In my days, we all ate the same thing at the table.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

The whole concept of good table manners is a wicked construct of a power structure devised by a privileged white male patriarchy that seeks...…….etc etc.

You are so woke.

My faculty has a position for a Grievance Studies professor and down the corridor there's an opening for a Gender Studies associate. Mail your CV to Blackhole@wokeness.com.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Table manners.
Do they still exist? Important part of kids upbringing?
I mean, placing knife & fork together when you finish. Elbows off the table. Eat with your mouth closed (who wants to watch someone's mastication! !)
Sit at the table until everyone else has finished? Reaching across someone's food to get the condiments?

🤔

Absolutely!

 

[Zimbob]

I've always understood the placing of the knife and fork together was to signal one had finished eating. Makes sense when the plates not empty and you're full, it's something I've always done...

 

[slowmotion]

You are so woke.

My faculty has a position for a Grievance Studies professor and down the corridor there's an opening for a Gender Studies associate. Mail your CV to Blackhole@wokeness.com.

I'm completely underqualified.

 

[MontyVeda]

I've always understood the placing of the knife and fork together was to signal one had finished eating. Makes sense when the plates not empty and you're full, it's something I've always done...

well... yes, but surely one could just ask.

maybe it's an upper class thing... not addressing the servants and servants not speaking to their so-called betters.

being working class, a; I finish my food. b; I remove my own plate from the table.

how the other half lives eh?

 

[Yellow Saddle]

well... yes, but surely one could just ask.

No, it signals all sorts of subtle things.
Waiters know they can clear the plates.
Others know they can now make moves (or not) with follow-up courses or whatever.
It signals that it is OK to adjourn without offending everybody.

Much better than grunting "has everyone stopped scoffing?"

 

[Dave7]

Only when I’m watching Mrs Browns Boys on the TV.

I would rather enter a lift that Drago had just farted in than watch that sh*te

 

[MontyVeda]

No, it signals all sorts of subtle things.
Waiters know they can clear the plates.
Others know they can now make moves (or not) with follow-up courses or whatever.
It signals that it is OK to adjourn without offending everybody.

Much better than grunting "has everyone stopped scoffing?"

Surely a waiter should wait until everyone has finished.

 

[Dave7]

I hate it when I hear parents say : " What do you want to eat ?" In my days, we all ate the same thing at the table.

Indeed.
We all ate the same. Dripping on bread, sheeps head, braun..... we all ate the same

 

[Levo-Lon]

Family sitting at a table..at the same time..good luck with that.

Happy to report my grandkids are being brought up very well but then their parents were.

 

[roadrash]

I would rather enter a lift that Drago had just farted in than watch that sh*te

steady on old chap