Why don't you people know anything about etiquette?

Question

"Don't be so contradicting."

Don't be so full of s***

You're response is ridiuclous.

Answer 1

One reason that people know little about etiquette is the lack of role models. For example, following your role model, people are unlikely to learn that showing contempt for their mother in a public forum, is rude. They are unlikely to learn that, when offended by another person's behaviour, you ought to address them directly, privately, and respectfully. They are unlikely to learn that the correct response to receiving "a delicious meal, which had a scrumptuous aroma of the warm food" is gratitude rather than entitlement.

Now, on the issue of manners: why were you, a gentleman, sitting down at table while a lady was standing only five feet away? Why did you not wait for her to be ready, set her chair for her, and make sure that she, too, had "a delicious meal, which had a scrumptuous aroma of the warm food" before proceeding to gratify your own appetites?  

Answer 2

Because when the baby boomers took over after the 1960's they threw out all of the behaviors that they considered old fashioned.

Alas etiquette, civility and politeness have been dismissed and replaced with convenience, rudeness and self-obsession

Answer 3

You don't have to get abusive with us all simply because you didn't get the answer you wanted.  You put a question out there for, literally, the whole world to answer and then get mad when an answer is chosen as the best?

However, your mom has developed some bad habits and if you live in the same house you should have, nicely, asked her not to brush her teeth in the kitchen sink (I'm assuming you do have a bathroom where she could have brushed in) while you are eating.  Or, you could have grabbed your food and moved to another part of the home to finish eating.  Families sometimes forget that fellow family members deserve the same respect and courtesies shown to them as would be to guests (and need gentle reminders).  If you're mom is used to living alone, she might have forgotten her social etiquette--many people who live alone just do what they want when they want how they want when they are home and then forget to switch to their "public" manners when they go outside the home (example, if we brought in or was given cake at work, one of my lives-alone coworkers would inevitably start fingering the cake and pulling off pieces to eat standing over the cake so the crumbs dropped from her mouth would fall on the entire cake--she would eat like that at home since no one else was around and forgot the cake at work was a shared thing).  

Answer 4

I am at a loss to understand WHY anyone would brush their teeth at the kitchen sink in the first place, and I would not be happy if I was eating and someone was doing that; I would tell them to go to the bathroom and finish in there and then I would look for a new roommate. And ownership of the house does not give someone carte blanche to behave like a Neanderthal; so by that reasoning, then it would be OK for the "owner" of the house to take a c**p in the kitchen also? Ei yi yi.

Answer 5

Etiquette is NOT changing.

It is not being taught and adhered to. No one seems to care anymore, and as a result, live like cavemen and have the mentality of a grapefruit.

I will also tell you that minority groups do not like, and have great disdain for "white mans" Etiquette, and see no need for it. As we further diversify, I can see large upheaval in old lifestyles.

The word of the day is MORALS.

I too wish it were on the rise in usage.

Answer 6

Etiquette is always changing according to popular response. I would have to say you are behind the times. Also, it is proper etiquette to understand that when a person owns the house, it is THEIR house to do whatever they wish in it, providing it is not against the law.

Example: Some cultures think it is taboo to tell a person they have a beautiful baby, as if it would call down the demons to attack it. (Their etiquette) Some cultures believe that it is proper to comment on how beautiful a baby is.

EDIT: Yes, it reveals that I am NOT led around by conventional rules and I understand boundaries. If someone else doesn't like your way of life in your house, they can leave.

Answer 7

Pretty ironic answer coming from someone who addresses an entire community of helpful individuals by "you people".

Firstly, that question you gave a link to didn't have anything to do with "etiquette". That was a question that needed OPINIONATED ANSWERS, meaning no right or wrong. The person given best answer was just expressing themselves on the subject. Don't be so contradicting.

Answer 8

Apparently people don't realize what section they are in. Concerning that linked question, it might be her house but there is a time and place for everything. That clearly wasn't it.

Answer 9

It's funny you mentioned this. I cruise YA and sometimes I don't answer, sometimes I do if I feel I can really help someone. You have to wonder if these little exchanges are even real. Some of these questions and arguments seem so staged and fake, it's pathetic. They'll leave you going, "Now why would someone get on here and ask a stupid, dumba-- question like that?" I think Yahoo's people get on here sometimes just to keep the motion of the site going. If you check half of these profiles, it's like the people are invisible. That's why I ignore stupid, idiotic questions and focus on ones that look like they are coming from people who seriously need input.