bruuuno
2:16 Sat Jul 11
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The Human Stain 11:17 Sat Jul 11
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Get over it. Do the right thing because it's right, not for the thanks. The ingratitude is their problem.
Agreed. I find the whole british good manners thing tiresome and I believe it often creates more bad will than good. Perfect example is people getting wound up when someone doesnt reciprocate.
Also in my place the door opening thing is ridiculous, someone ten steps in front of you will hold the door open so you have to run along and get there so that they're not waiting for ages. It's a pointless thing for both parties. I'm ok to open the door myself thanks.
I'd rather people be rude that be 'polite' on the outside and fuming with repressed rage inside. Why the fuck do people in this country day sorry when someone bumps into them?
I'm convinced that most of the problems in this country are due to the way people feel obliged to act in certain ways out of politeness. This all comes out when they're behind the wheel of the car or when they've had a few pints and get punchy.
Man up and stop being so easily offended ffs
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Joke Whole
1:51 Sat Jul 11
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...but if I walk into a crowded British boozer and catch the servers eye and get my beers before people who have obviously been waiting a fair while longer...THAT's a result!
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normannomates
1:49 Sat Jul 11
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Good manners are a very British thing. I think back in the Empire days its what gave them that sense of superiority over the 'savages'.
As many hqve said..in other parts of the world it doesnt exist..and you see it now in this country.someone said about Indiqns...its very true, they walk abreast..and the fuckers simply wont move until you make quite clear your not either!
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Danbury Hammer
1:30 Sat Jul 11
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I always hold the door. If they don't say thanks, I say "pardon" they always say, " I didn't say anything" I reply with " No, you didn't did you, you rude cunt"
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Monk~koknee
12:03 Sat Jul 11
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Manners relate to matters that are conventional social norms. If a society doesn't have a particular norm it can't be classed as bad manners if it is not practised.
I still find not waiting your turn frustrating but none of the locals find it a problem in each other. So in a local context it is not bad manners whereas pointing at someone is to them but not to us.
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ironsofcanada
11:51 Sat Jul 11
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Not the wording I would use but I agree wholeheartedly
Another of my frustrations.
There is gap wide enough for a person, on the street in a corridor or whatever, you step aside to let a person approaching you through first. Someone behind you jumps ahead either of them or you before you go through.
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Grumpster
11:36 Sat Jul 11
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Done ever go to Norway c wing son, you'd be fighting before the first day is out.
They slam doors in their birds faces, no queuing in shops or fast food places, it's just a free for all. Barge you out the way without saying sorry.
First few times I went there I almost had a fight every single first day, before I got used to the fact they are just ignorant to it all and are just being themselves.
Us Brits are the only ones who thinks its perfectly normal to have manners, though some slip through the net and are cunts.
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subcutaneous
11:28 Sat Jul 11
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Manners cost nothing, but it doesn't spoil my day when appreciation for my my kind gesture isn't offered. I certainly am not offended enough to start a thread about it.
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The Human Stain
11:17 Sat Jul 11
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Get over it. Do the right thing because it's right, not for the thanks. The ingratitude is their problem.
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Westham67
10:23 Sat Jul 11
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You Foreign then 10 ?
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RM10
9:52 Sat Jul 11
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I act different when i drive around North London to how i act around home in Essex, its a foreign thing im afraid.
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MrCrowmanSir
9:37 Sat Jul 11
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I still hold the door open for women.
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Ronald_antly
8:55 Sat Jul 11
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Joke Whole 8:33 Sat Jul 11
I like that paradigm.
I shall try to implement it next time I get the opportunity.
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Westham67
8:44 Sat Jul 11
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JW hahahahaha , Im going to try that
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Monk~koknee
8:41 Sat Jul 11
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As the Buddha always says " You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”
I think that explains it.
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Joke Whole
8:33 Sat Jul 11
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For mild amusement in SE Asia when a local approaches you on foot and gives no indication of deviating from HIS (or HER) path, simply stop quite still and find something "interesting" to hold your eye while they are forced to walk around you.
It seems that while the two of you are moving towards each other, the local feels he has every right to occupy the path he has picked out when he so chooses - if he can see, or has already seen, the ground in front of him, it's his (by right).
Stand still and the dynamics change. He would no more expect (or even ask) you to move than he would a tree. Watch the irritation manifest itself in their body language as they're forced to accept you've changed the paradigm and they have now no choice but to loose a little face and yield to your presence.
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hub hub hub hub
8:26 Sat Jul 11
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Chad, driving through or around central london i find black cab drivers are the biggest wankers for that. They go into the bus lane to overtake 2 or 3 cars and then think its their right to hop back into the lane they was in 15 seconds ago. Fucking hate black cab drivers.
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chad sexington
8:19 Sat Jul 11
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What Phantom says. Particularly truck drivers that do this or just pull out from the left hand lane when you have nowhere to go so are forced to slam your brakes on. Most are fine but I get at least one everyday on the m6
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The_Phantom
8:11 Sat Jul 11
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Its basic good manners and probably my biggest pet hate.
Hate it more when driving and you give way to someone and its a longish road and you sit there waiting 20 seconds or more and wait for the acknowledgement and ...nothing.
I want a 30 second rewind button to go back in time and then not give way next time.
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hub hub hub hub
8:06 Sat Jul 11
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... then a polite " YEAH THANKS " at the back of their head will no doubt get their attention and they may think twice about being and ignorant cunt the next time.
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Coffee
8:01 Sat Jul 11
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Sven - agreed!
Ronald_antly 7:10 Sat Jul 11
That's not unique to Chinese, probably an Asia thing. Indians specialise in walking three or four abreast on a footpath, and none of them will fall back to allow someone walking in the opposite direction to pass.
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