Basic etiquette

[Admiral Yi]

If you're talking to someone, and another person you know walks up, introduce them to the first person.  Don't leave them sitting there like a lump.

[garbon]

If you're talking to someone, and another person you know walks up, introduce them to the first person.  Don't leave them sitting there like a lump.

Yeah definitely. This seems to slip by so many people.

[CountDeMoney]

Didn't any of you people take Home Economics?  It was all in there, dammit.

Our Home Economics class was all about how to wash ourselves, how to use deoderant, how to wash our clothes, how to iron, how to make pancakes, and how to sew a pillow. No etiquette to speak of.

Pfft, lame.  We learned proper dining placement and use.  NO THATS A SALAD FORK DAMMIT

[merithyn]

If you're talking to someone, and another person you know walks up, introduce them to the first person.  Don't leave them sitting there like a lump.

Yeah definitely. This seems to slip by so many people.

What do you do if you've forgotten the name of one or the other? (I'm really bad about that.) Usually, I cover by introducing the one I remember to the other, letting them work out name stuff from there. It works unless I've forgotten both names, then I'm just stuck. 

[dps]

Didn't any of you people take Home Economics?  It was all in there, dammit.

Our Home Economics class was all about how to wash ourselves, how to use deoderant, how to wash our clothes, how to iron, how to make pancakes, and how to sew a pillow. No etiquette to speak of.

WTF?  OK, I can see the sewing, ironing, and doing laundry, but why on earth did you not know how to wash yourself and use deoderant by the time you were in high school?  And while cooking was part of home ec when I was in school, the cooking part didn't focus on pancakes or any other single food.

[merithyn]

WTF?  OK, I can see the sewing, ironing, and doing laundry, but why on earth did you not know how to wash yourself and use deoderant by the time you were in high school?  And while cooking was part of home ec when I was in school, the cooking part didn't focus on pancakes or any other single food.

I took Home Ec in middle school, not high school. And they rolled sex ed/personal health into the Home Ec class. And we may have learned how to make other stuff (I vaguely remember making a cake or a pie or something), but the pancakes were all I could remember.

[derspiess]

WTF?  OK, I can see the sewing, ironing, and doing laundry, but why on earth did you not know how to wash yourself and use deoderant by the time you were in high school?  And while cooking was part of home ec when I was in school, the cooking part didn't focus on pancakes or any other single food.

In junior high they showed us videos on proper hygiene.  Some of the hayseeds in my school could have benefited from that, had they paid attention.

[Admiral Yi]

What do you do if you've forgotten the name of one or the other? (I'm really bad about that.) Usually, I cover by introducing the one I remember to the other, letting them work out name stuff from there. It works unless I've forgotten both names, then I'm just stuck. 

That works sometimes.  A more ballsy method is to say "Sorry, I've forgotten your name.  Could you remind me so I can introduce you to X?"

[Martinus]

Not saying "good morning" when you enter the lift and "good bye"/"thank you" when leaving.
Eating escargot with a wrong fork.
A white wine glass used for red wine.

[garbon]

WTF?  OK, I can see the sewing, ironing, and doing laundry, but why on earth did you not know how to wash yourself and use deoderant by the time you were in high school?  And while cooking was part of home ec when I was in school, the cooking part didn't focus on pancakes or any other single food.

I took Home Ec in middle school, not high school. And they rolled sex ed/personal health into the Home Ec class. And we may have learned how to make other stuff (I vaguely remember making a cake or a pie or something), but the pancakes were all I could remember.

I won a scholastic award in cooking class - despite the fact that I fucked up just about every recipe in class.

[derspiess]

I won a scholastic award in cooking class - despite the fact that I fucked up just about every recipe in class.

You probably just looked best in an apron

[Jacob]

If you're talking to someone, and another person you know walks up, introduce them to the first person.  Don't leave them sitting there like a lump.

Yeah definitely. This seems to slip by so many people.

I always do that, except if I really don't like one of the people or - more commonly - if I forget their name 

[dps]

If you're talking to someone, and another person you know walks up, introduce them to the first person.  Don't leave them sitting there like a lump.

Yeah definitely. This seems to slip by so many people.

I always do that, except if I really don't like one of the people or - more commonly - if I forget their name 

Sometimes I don't realize that they don't already know one another. 

[PDH]

Fuck 'em.  They are there to talk to me.  If they want to know one another they can go introduce themselves to one another in MiM's office during his lunch hour.

[Phillip V]

Here are the 110 Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation that George Washington wrote sometime before age 16: http://www.history.org/almanack/life/manners/rules2.cfm

Washington was 11-years-old when his father died.