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more about #manners more comments → Seeräuber Jenny: While Clooney's "yeah? Well you're overweight" response isn't the classiest thing I've ever heard, and while it's annoying he felt the need to attack ... more » MadameU: Can I throw in my favorite Heinlein quote? "Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal polite... more » colormeroutine: I am currently working on being less polite, as I have found that my aversion to upsetting or offending anyone more often than not just lands me in un... more » botchick: This is commonly referred to as "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong." Good on Clooney. more » Jack_Burton: When people I know become to act like assholes, I stop spending time with them. When people I don't know are rude, I try to forgive them the first o... more » willwriteforfood: I live in the South, where every insulting comment from one woman about another always ends with "bless her heart," as though the rude comment were me... more » scandalouskiki: Oh George. I'm over bad manners too. It's all well and good to be frank and honest, but it doesn't have to come at the expense of etiquette. I wish mo... more » girlarchaeologist: Not going to lie, if George Clooney told me that the extra 35 pounds I'm carrying was flattering, I'd be thrilled. "Thank you, Mr. Clooney, and I'm l... more » Casquivana: "We've somehow got hold of the idea that we all must have an opinion on every single thing that happens, and even worse, that our opinion must be voic... more » CubeRootOfPi: Not surprisingly, the ones who "always tell it like it is" can't deal with it when they're the ones being told. more » Poubelle: I'm reminded of Miss Manners's comment that etiquette exists to make life easier and smoother for everybody. It doesn't take that much more effort to ... more » ihateyourescalade: I was rooting for Clooney until his lame retort. Rudeness does not call for rudeness in return, sir, ever. more » Aesop's Foibles. YES.: I certainly don't think everyone should try to be "nice", per se, but I do think a mouth filter would be a good thing. Too many people nowadays think ... more » Highsmith: You'd be surprised just how BAD my manners get when complete fucking strangers (ALWAYS men, NEVER women) tell me to "Smile" when I go about minding my... more » badmutha: I don't see this woman a a rude person. I see her as a nut. Who acts like that? That is just bizarre behavior, and he should have called security. If ... more » -
#mrmanners
George Clooney Is Totally Over Your Lousy Manners
If, by chance, you ever happen to run in to Mr. George Clooney, you might want to consider being on your best behavior, for as he tells the Daily Mail, the Silver Fox has no time for bad manners. More » -
#rants
The Sarcastic, Pointed 'You're Welcome': A Doormat's Nightmare
But...but, I was about to thank you! I always thank people! That's not who I am, I swear! That's not how I was raised! And now...you've ruined my day. More » -
#sic
Sic: Is The Econnomy Creating A Genneration Of Speling Bee-Otches?
“When I go through and mark up a menu, I’m not doing it to humiliate the person... I just want them to know so they don’t look uneducated." Is this persnickety dame a recession casualty? More » -
#thejezebeldiet
What's The Etiquette For Spitting Into Your Napkin?
Today someone writes into the Philadelphia Inquirer's advice column, "Ask Amy," to ask how to deal with her hostess's tasteless fat-free cooking. Amy says suck it up. We respectfully disagree.
