RSS's WASPy upbringing and the social etiquette he was trained to practice...

[Reevolving]

Originally Posted by RSS

I don't know about you, but I wear a coat and tie to dinner in my home. I've been at home all day (I work from home ... when I work) ... and yes, I'm wearing a coat and tie. I grew up with parents that required a coat and tie at dinner ... as well as when using the more formal rooms (living rooms, library, music room, dining room, etc.) of the house. Moreover, I went to schools that required it for classes, dinner, and various events.
RSS, I am interested in learning more about your upbringing and the social etiquette you were raised with. Can you list some of the less obvious customs and norms you were expected to observe? These can be as trivial as waiting for the host to begin eating before you eat yourself, or as major as marriage expectations. Or, perhaps you can list some of the more flagrant violations of manners, gestures, mores that you observe average people commonly violating, mainly b/c they aren't even aware of the "rule"? I think you get the gist of what I am trying to glean from you... Thanks.

 

[nmprisons]

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[mgm9128]

Never wear shorts.

 

[BrianVarick]

I thought about starting to dress well for some of the nicer meals I prepare, but then decided it was too much work.

 

[Another New Yorker]

Is this thread social climbing 101

 

[FLMountainMan]

RSS is a complete douche. This thread should deliver.

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by Reevolving

RSS, I am interested in learning more about your upbringing and the social etiquette you were raised with.

Can you list some of the less obvious customs and norms you were expected to observe?
These can be as trivial as waiting for the host to begin eating before you eat yourself,
or as major as marriage expectations.

Or, perhaps you can list some of the more flagrant violations of manners, gestures, mores that you observe
average people commonly violating, mainly b/c they aren't even aware of the "rule"?

I think you get the gist of what I am trying to glean from you... Thanks.
You'll have learn the hard way ... via experience.

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by mgm9128

Never wear shorts.
Are we talking 'shorts' as in underwear. Semper ubi sub ubi.

 

[erictheobscure]

Is it acceptable to wear a coat, tie, and boxer shorts in one's own house? At the dinner table?

 

[StephenHero]

As a kid, I usually wore ketchup, dirt and chloroplast to the dinner table.

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

As a kid, I usually wore ketchup, dirt and chloroplast to the dinner table.
At the very least, what you wore was 2/3 organic.

 

[mgm9128]

Originally Posted by RSS

Are we talking 'shorts' as in underwear. Semper ubi sub ubi.
No. Shorts in general. The exposure of a man's bare leg in public is an offense to both society and propriety.

 

[Rambo]

I don't know what's going on in this threak, but I happen to like RSS, so **** all of you.

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by mgm9128

No. Shorts in general. The exposure of a man's bare leg in public is an offense to both society and propriety.
Now, now ... that wasn't your question.

 

[mgm9128]

Originally Posted by RSS

Now, now ... that wasn't your question.

Do you wear shorts?