Category: manners
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Travel & Leisure readers don’t know what the f—- they’re talking about
I’m sorry, was that rude? Can’t help it — apparently I’m from the nation’s 7th rudest city, according to readers of Travel & Leisure magazine. As one Atlantan told the AJC, we’re 7th “because we have so many people who have migrated here from the 6 crabbier places.” That would include Boston, which somehow only…
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Harpies on a train
The biggest threats to our way of life? Rudeness and the victim mentality, exemplified by these two (insert unmentionable female slur): *In an epic incident of the pot calling the kettle rude, a Tigard, Oregon woman said she felt “disrespected” after police escorted her from an Amtrak train mostly because she refused to get off…
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Happy etiquette week, motherfuckers!
To those who think etiquette is outdated, consider the alternative. Again, while I am all for holding the door for people when it is convenient, I think that she was ridiculous in expecting me to hold it for her; and even worse, was a fucking bitch for saying what she did. The weird thing is,…
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Ofc. Manners
Is it rude to chastise someone’s rudeness by flashing a rude gesture? Probably, but what business is it of the APD? Just now I attempted to cross one lane of traffic — moving, or not moving, in the same direction — into a left turning lane. Even though they were stuck at a red light,…
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A colony of wankers
How do you rationalize a country’s enthusiasm for juvenile bathroom humor? If you’re British, you boast “it’s what separates us from Johnny Foreigner,” as if those of us unamused by flatulence jokes are unsophisticated rubes. How did we become addicted to rudeness – in the sense of fart-joke vulgarity as well as personal insult? Is…
Christian Boone 