Seniors - your opinions please on good manners.?

Question

Gordon Ramsay, talking on an America chat show, has criticised the food served to him at a function hosted by the Queen. I was bought up to believe it was extremely bad manners to repay hospitality by making derogatory remarks like this. Does he think that because he has a TV show (also in bad taste in my opinion) he can say what he likes. He is a TV personality who has made his name just by being rude and swearing a lot. Perhaps someone should send him a book on good manners.

Answer 1

Someone should send Ramsey a boot in the spuds. The only reason he is still tolerated on telly is because nobody else has proven themselves to be a bigger ******** than he is. He has made a t.v. career out of being obnoxious. YES.

Answer 2

Good manners are very important. Gordon Ramsay, as what we say in Scotland is getting too big for his boots.

Good question have a star.

Answer 3

If he didn't pay for it, he should just keep his negative comments to himself.  Or air them in complete privacy.  It was free food (and as they say, you don't look a gift horse in the mouth).  Tacky tacky tacky.  But these days, celebs think they can say anything about anyone at any time and it's good entertainment--I blame all those shock-jock shows that were very popular (and I hope people have wised up and figured out that it isn't funny, it isn't amusing, it isn't entertaining and we don't want to hear it).  Please apologize to the Queen for us.  Thanks.

Answer 4

I have never liked Gordon Ramsay, and I would not eat anything he cooked.

The man is very obnoxious and a bully, not liked by many people.

Answer 5

Nell, I could not agree with you more.  Gordon Ramsay has this "I'm a god" personality - and until he gets over himself, there is not one book in the world that will help him.     CJ

Answer 6

Let's be honest. The day that Gordon Ramsay isn't rude and complaining about everything, nobody will watch his shows.

It's a gimmick and shouldn't be taken seriously.

Answer 7

It wouldn't do any good with him. Likely he would rather tell you how to season it and roast it, rather than read it.

Do you think attack-dog Nancy Grace would become Miss Manners unless it made her millions to do so?

I love Ramsay's passion for what he does, but I don't like his mouth, nor many of his recipes.

Have a Senior day.

Answer 8

No it is probably not good manners.

But, his making millions a year for what he is doing.

Maybe manners aren't the most important thing in the world.

I sometimes think etiquette is a waste of time, respect for other people is different. But some of the more complicated things, are a waste of time and effort and sometimes money.

Answer 9

The situation he puts himself in He has to be an a$$ or they wont listen or we wouldn't watch!

Answer 10

Do  you think he would read it? We have the power to turn off people we don't want to watch.

Answer 11

Being a connoisseur and an expert of fine foods, both in the cooking and the preparation thereof, does, (in my opinion) give him a qualified stance to comment accordingly. He has done just that. If in doing so, he offends people for speaking the truth, TOUGH!

Answer 12

It seems being rude is "in". Good manners and courtesy were once valued. Now it seems, they are looked at as weakness. Kindness is often viewed as weakness. If Gordon Ramsay goes into a restaurant and shows his displeasure for the food, he man have his food returned to him with the cook's spit in it. Aside from being ill mannered and rude, people like this may be unaware of the revenge heaped on them.  

Answer 13

I was taught that it was bad manners to make personal remarks about

people.

To have the manners to listen to your elders,even if you've heard it many times before!

Saying please and thank you costs nothing.

Swearing only shows that you don't know enough words to express yourself clearly.

Answer 14

Poor tacky Gordon Ramsay, I haven't a clue as to who he is.

Lucky me =)

Answer 15

This man already knows about good manners. He does this because of the ratings he gets on his show and because he does not respect others. I never watch talk shows because of the put downs to other people. If you are invited to dinner or a function of some sort, never offend your host or hostess by talking about them to others. You will not get invited back again, especially by me. Good manners are most important if you want to be social. I always compliment my host or hostess and never talk about them except to hubby, out of range of little ears that come with big mouths when my children were little. Poppy

Answer 16

I agree with Buick. However, I would also like to add that the Fox Broadcasting Company relies heavily on ratings. With high ratings come high profits. Therefore, it would look like, Gordon is only doing what is written into his contract, i.e. using profanity to sell their product. That product being: h**l's Kitchen.

Answer 17

Well I was always taught that rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength and wit. That is the epitome of Gordon Ramsey. A cheap nasty little man whose ignorance totally eclipses any vestige of intellect he may (or may not) have.