Comments on: JDE’s continuing comprehensive post on manners!

By: Ray Davis

Ray Davis — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:10:24 +0000

The path starts in the home,and if you parents don’t keep on knowing where you go what you get up to,monitor who you knock about with, giving you a biff now and again to keep you on the straight and narrow ,chances are you are going to turn into a bloody good bloke.
I started school at yarra park primary school 1945 ( apartments now) I dont think there was a day i wasn’t in trouble,I was a red headed bloody strap magnet. Every day when my father came home from work he would ask me..how was school today,
I only complained once about the strap i had wrapped around my legs by the teacher,because he gave me a another dose saying I must have deserved it,so i never complained to him again.And so on it went through richmond tech school years.When I look back I laughto myself and wished to christ I had him back,just for a chat,I hold no malice towards mum and dad,they did a bloody good job on me I reckon,made me a hard worker,(worked with dad cleaning millions of bricks after school for an extra quid for food & clothes,never any toys but allways warm and a full belly,Married,one son in the services,lifes been good to me and I owe it all to my upbringing by mum and dad

By: ant

ant — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:16:08 +0000

Table manners are a huge issue. We are heading down the American path: Americans, quite simply, have no knowledge of table manners whatsoever. They have no notion that being disgusting and pig-like is a bad thing. and we are following them, as we do in most things. The bogans are prevailing, and we are becoming a gross nation of pig-like eaters.

By: John Tomor

John Tomor — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:04:24 +0000

I like you, John; but really!

I don’t mean to be disrespectful but there are more important issues in the big scheme of things. In this world, there’s a greater reality to be contemplated than the matching of the colour of my shoelaces with that of my leather wristwatch band.

Regards,

John Tomor

By: Lenny Negro

Lenny Negro — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:12:43 +0000

Well done Jack!
In Australia we don’t have a clue about fashion, you just have to look at our teenagers and that damned ‘hip hop’ fashion. Jeans below their bums and enough hem to make another pair of jeans. “I don’t care what brand of underwear you wear!”
The sooner we stop copying the American fashion the better.
I have travelled the world and the European teenagers put ours to shame with dress sense. At worst they would wear a good pair of jeans (no holes) casual shoes (not runners) and a nice t-shirt.

As for the fashion tip with the stripes, belts and shoes-spot on Jack!

Keep up the good work and love this website

By: Sigmund von Arnsdorf

Sigmund von Arnsdorf — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:06:16 +0000

This may be important when eating with Eskimos; always hold your meat with your left hand and cut with your right as you hold one end of the meat in your teeth; cut downwards, so as to avoid injuring your nose. Burping is not required but should always be practiced when dining with most Arabian tribes. Practice.
Olive pips may be disposed of into pot plants only when nobody is looking. Flicking them over your shoulders is considered bad manners in Central Europe. Make sure the window is open as you toss them outside.

By: John W Webb

John W Webb — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:21:55 +0000

Motivational and Inspirational Quotes about “Good Manners”
Eric Hoffer
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Voltaire
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
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Marcus Tulius Cicero
A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.
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Confucius
Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Wendell L. Willkie
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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Clarence Thomas
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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Jonathan Swift
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Laurence Sterne
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.

Og Mandino
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
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Arthur Ashe
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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John Cassis
It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
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Horace Mann
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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Emily Post
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
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Fred Astaire
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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Mary Wortley Montague
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
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Edmund Burke
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

Manners are a very important point of our lives and the Education process is the one in charge with our manners.

Eating with an open mouth, disrespecting other people, farting or burping in public, leaving the dinner plate on the table and so on are just a few of the situations that confirms you have no manners.

Manners show who you are… and as long as manners and respect cost nothing, there is no excuse for them…

what do you think? Are good manners important for you?

A Texan, a Russian and New Yorker went out to eat. Their waiter came to
the table and said, “Excuse me, but due to a shortage, we can not serve meat today.”
The Texan said, “I don’t understand. What is a shortage?”
The Russian said, “I don’t understand. What is meat?”
The New Yorker said, “I don’t understand. What is ‘Excuse me’?”

Tyson’s Manners
Mike Tyson finally apologized to Holyfield for biting off his ear.
He said, “Believe it or not, I have learned many things about how to behave in society while I was in jail. So I would like to apologize to Mr. Holyfield for biting his ear in such a beastly way. Next time I promise to use a knife and fork.”

FUNNY WINSTON CHURCHILL QUOTES

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.
“A sheep in sheep’s clothing”
On Clement Atlee
A modest man, who has much to be modest about
On Clement Atlee
“An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Atlee got out”
On Clement Atlee
“I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived”
On Stanley Baldwin
“He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened”
On Stanley Baldwin
“He looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe”
On Neville Chamberlain
“What could you hope to achieve except to be sunk in a bigger and more expensive ship this time”
On Admiral Mountbatten

G. K. Chesterton’s corpulence occasionally afforded him unusual opportunities for gallantry: “Just the other day in the Underground,” he once declared, “I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.”

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:17:09 +0000

When I moved to Sydney from country NSW I was shocked to see people I considered polite and well-mannered show a complete disregard for others when in public. I recall a friend barging through a shopping centre door with no regard for anyone else going through at the same time, and allowing the door to slam in their faces; and other friends simply dropping empty plastic cups on the ground at the races and music festivals. I wondered if I was the only person who could see the mess they were all walking around in! That was almost 20 years ago.

BTW Arthur, if you are to do a good deed, don’t do it for the reward. Do it because it is the right thing to do.

By: James K

James K — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:22:43 +0000

Greetings John,

Just a question in regards to protocol at ‘gents clubs’

Is it appropriate to request another member to get you a drink or throw another log on the fire?

Regards

By: Arthur McKenzie

Arthur McKenzie — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:58:29 +0000

Have you ever noticed it is only the ugly women who don’t say thanks or otherwise acknowledge us when we hold the door open for them?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:25:55 +0000

John,
You mentioned that it is alright to lift a bowl to finish the remainder of the contents. What about licking the bowl or a plate for that matter, is that going a bit far or could that be acceptable in some places? It does reduce wasteage after all in these current financially difficult and environmentally aware times.
Regards,
Aaron.