Manners!
Jan 22nd 2007, 4:02 am
#32
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Re: Manners!
Isn't it infuriating? Whenever I go down an aisle, and there are people blocking the way, I always say :excuse me please" and "thank-you" when they move. They still look at me as if I've got a bloody nerve asking them to move! 
I initially found it very difficult to be rude, because I am a polite person (honest, I am!) but now I don't.
I initially found it very difficult to be rude, because I am a polite person (honest, I am!) but now I don't.
i must admit to now talking over people!!! and i swear i wouldnt do that, but i can never get a word in edgeways!!!! so have to continue talking, as i am being spoken to!
i will have to make a concious effort not to do it back in england
Jan 22nd 2007, 4:06 am
#33
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Re: Manners!
I reckon I shall need etiquette lessons if ever we return!
Jan 22nd 2007, 4:25 am
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Christ!
I have met rude people all over the world. Even in the UK.
I have noticed no proliferation of 'ruder' people here where I live than I did in England. In fact, people are MORE pleasant here than where I lived in the UK.
Where there are people, there is rudeness and other human attributes. I know plenty of pleasant, well mannered Australians and those that aren't, I ignore, just as I did in the UK.
This mb is going down the pan.
I have met rude people all over the world. Even in the UK.
I have noticed no proliferation of 'ruder' people here where I live than I did in England. In fact, people are MORE pleasant here than where I lived in the UK.
Where there are people, there is rudeness and other human attributes. I know plenty of pleasant, well mannered Australians and those that aren't, I ignore, just as I did in the UK.
This mb is going down the pan.
Last edited by iPom; Jan 22nd 2007 at 4:28 am.
Jan 22nd 2007, 7:09 am
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Re: Manners!
But there is a big difference between perfection and basic good manners. I like to think that I have those and I find it difficult to not get upset by those people who don't.
Jan 22nd 2007, 7:42 am
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Re: Manners!
i personally find that the aussies do not seem to have been brought up with the same emphasis on manners as other countries (thats me trying to be polite 
). in some ways, they can be polite. BUT, the occassions that we take for granted, where manners can be used, just does not happen over here. they think they are not being rude, its just how australia and its people are. i also get annoyed when people dont acknowledge that you have let them cross the road/let them out of a side street into the flow of traffic etc etc. i find it infuriating because i am always drumming it into my kids heads, manners dont cost anything and manners will go a long way. they have been brought up to say please and thankyou and i often receive comments on how nice my childrens manners are. then they see people hardly using their manners as the norm. i hope these manners they have doesnt dissipate the longer we live here.
). in some ways, they can be polite. BUT, the occassions that we take for granted, where manners can be used, just does not happen over here. they think they are not being rude, its just how australia and its people are. i also get annoyed when people dont acknowledge that you have let them cross the road/let them out of a side street into the flow of traffic etc etc. i find it infuriating because i am always drumming it into my kids heads, manners dont cost anything and manners will go a long way. they have been brought up to say please and thankyou and i often receive comments on how nice my childrens manners are. then they see people hardly using their manners as the norm. i hope these manners they have doesnt dissipate the longer we live here.We are not all the same, maybe it's good manners not to paint us all with the same brush?
ZX......
Jan 22nd 2007, 7:47 am
#45
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Re: Manners!
It is back to my favourite subject of generalising again isn't it. I have been here about 11 months less than you and I can honestly say I haven't experienced any of the things you have and we live 10km apart.