Help with couth wife being uncouth at the dinner table
Dec 8th 2017, 8:46 pm
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Re: Help with couth wife being uncouth at the dinner table
Most of the time, I'll let it cool off enough to pick up, but unless the cheese has has a chance to solidify, I still can't eat a deep dish 'freestyle' without making a **** ton of a mess.
Exactly. The whole table manners thing is BS. As long as you aren't wanking at the table, or smearing shit all over your companions, or worse (as mentioned) eating with your mouth open all smacky and slurpy, IDGAF what you do.
Dec 8th 2017, 8:48 pm
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Re: Help with couth wife being uncouth at the dinner table
Eat with your plate on your lap while watching TV. Concentrate on the show rather than your wife’s eating style. Problem solved.
Dec 8th 2017, 8:51 pm
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Re: Help with couth wife being uncouth at the dinner table
These examples were not included in the How To Be Classy At The Dinner Table video, so I don't know if they're European or American manners. I shall observe over dinner tomorrow and report back if I see anything.
Dec 8th 2017, 8:53 pm
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Monkeys, I think, is what those would apply to. If you're not eating with monkeys, you should be fine.
Dec 8th 2017, 9:00 pm
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My post was in jest btw 
Actually my niece does this for her toddlers. Cuts up the spaghetti and they eat it with a spoon.
In our household we rarely eat spaghetti and prefer shaped pasta. The only time we use spaghetti is if I make an alfredo type sauce with asparagus and prosuitto <sp>
Actually my niece does this for her toddlers. Cuts up the spaghetti and they eat it with a spoon.
In our household we rarely eat spaghetti and prefer shaped pasta. The only time we use spaghetti is if I make an alfredo type sauce with asparagus and prosuitto <sp>
Dec 8th 2017, 9:12 pm
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Re: Help with couth wife being uncouth at the dinner table
Update: I jokingly said I should send my wife to a finishing school to teach her etiquette and deportment.
Wifey still sees nothing wrong with not using a knife, but did some research and will be signing up for classes at an etiquette school in January. It's in Golden, Colo. She thinks it will be useful to her business.
On their curriculum:
Business and social etiquette
Dining skills
International Protocol
Corporate training
Job interview preparation
And SultanaofSwing, it's not about being "toffs" or "wannabes". It's about having standards and being civilized. Manners, etiquette, traditions, formality, discipline - these are all things that helped the British forge such a vast and beneficial Empire.
And some people do make judgments based on table manners. Watching some slovenly, ham-fisted baboon shoveling gruel into their mouth like a steamship stoker shoveling coal - bleurgh. I immediately make assumptions about that individual's background and intelligence. In the same way a dude-man-bro's backwards baseball cap takes 15 points off his IQ. And put away your condescension and moral outrage, Sultana. We all do it. Each and every one of us judges others whether we like to admit it or not.
Wifey still sees nothing wrong with not using a knife, but did some research and will be signing up for classes at an etiquette school in January. It's in Golden, Colo. She thinks it will be useful to her business.
On their curriculum:
Business and social etiquette
Dining skills
International Protocol
Corporate training
Job interview preparation
And SultanaofSwing, it's not about being "toffs" or "wannabes". It's about having standards and being civilized. Manners, etiquette, traditions, formality, discipline - these are all things that helped the British forge such a vast and beneficial Empire.
And some people do make judgments based on table manners. Watching some slovenly, ham-fisted baboon shoveling gruel into their mouth like a steamship stoker shoveling coal - bleurgh. I immediately make assumptions about that individual's background and intelligence. In the same way a dude-man-bro's backwards baseball cap takes 15 points off his IQ. And put away your condescension and moral outrage, Sultana. We all do it. Each and every one of us judges others whether we like to admit it or not.
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Dec 8th 2017, 9:23 pm
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Re: Help with couth wife being uncouth at the dinner table
Down Under?
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Dec 8th 2017, 9:25 pm
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Re: Help with couth wife being uncouth at the dinner table
Way back when in the nineteenth century . . . God forbid the savages should be permitted to carry food to their mouths with a piece of bread or chopsticks.
There is nothing wrong with manners and etiquette, but the days of the denizens of our little island telling other nations how to conduct their affairs -- or eat their food -- are long gone.
Dec 8th 2017, 9:31 pm
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Re: Help with couth wife being uncouth at the dinner table
Update: I jokingly said I should send my wife to a finishing school to teach her etiquette and deportment.
Wifey still sees nothing wrong with not using a knife, but did some research and will be signing up for classes at an etiquette school in January. It's in Golden, Colo. She thinks it will be useful to her business.
On their curriculum:
Business and social etiquette
Dining skills
International Protocol
Corporate training
Job interview preparation
And SultanaofSwing, it's not about being "toffs" or "wannabes". It's about having standards and being civilized. Manners, etiquette, traditions, formality, discipline - these are all things that helped the British forge such a vast and beneficial Empire.
And some people do make judgments based on table manners. Watching some slovenly, ham-fisted baboon shoveling gruel into their mouth like a steamship stoker shoveling coal - bleurgh. I immediately make assumptions about that individual's background and intelligence. In the same way a dude-man-bro's backwards baseball cap takes 15 points off his IQ. And put away your condescension and moral outrage, Sultana. We all do it. Each and every one of us judges others whether we like to admit it or not.
Wifey still sees nothing wrong with not using a knife, but did some research and will be signing up for classes at an etiquette school in January. It's in Golden, Colo. She thinks it will be useful to her business.
On their curriculum:
Business and social etiquette
Dining skills
International Protocol
Corporate training
Job interview preparation
And SultanaofSwing, it's not about being "toffs" or "wannabes". It's about having standards and being civilized. Manners, etiquette, traditions, formality, discipline - these are all things that helped the British forge such a vast and beneficial Empire.
And some people do make judgments based on table manners. Watching some slovenly, ham-fisted baboon shoveling gruel into their mouth like a steamship stoker shoveling coal - bleurgh. I immediately make assumptions about that individual's background and intelligence. In the same way a dude-man-bro's backwards baseball cap takes 15 points off his IQ. And put away your condescension and moral outrage, Sultana. We all do it. Each and every one of us judges others whether we like to admit it or not.
Backwards baseball caps are cancer though, no arguments there.
Dec 8th 2017, 9:32 pm
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Without standards, Nutmegger, we'll have anarchy. Cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria, human sacrifice. 40 years of darkness.
Dec 8th 2017, 9:34 pm
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Dec 8th 2017, 9:34 pm
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This came about because on Tuesday, we were out at a tiki bar and she was eating in a way that made me feel uncomfortable.
Dec 8th 2017, 9:52 pm
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Dec 8th 2017, 9:57 pm
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