Sorry, Please - Manners and Etiquette

Manners?????

Hello, I have a project at college and the topic is a bout manners. I need to experiement with as many ideas as I can on the subject. Whoever can list me the most examples of manners will get the ten points. For example, burping at the dinner table is bad manners.

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Not saying please and thank you. Skipping the queue. Putting your elbows on the table.
You want us to do your homework. - well not a bad idea. Wish we had Yahoo Questions when I was at college.
back- answering the elders, not respecting the teachers and elders, passing comments in class,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlVHs0Wo9S0
It's bad manners to get someone else to do your homework for you
The big one is please and thankyou, I think its dying out. Invading peoples personal space is another, like standing too close to me in a queue. Is that manners or etiquette?
Do your own homework,burping at the table is seen as a compliment if you live in france
Eating with your mouth open - my least favourite form of bad manners. Spitting. Making personal remarks ie "Where did you buy that jacket!" for example. Talking loudly and distracting others, especially in places like cinemas. Causing a disturbance in any form. The point of manners is to cause the least offence to others. Eetiquette is something different. That's using the correct knives and forks, etc.
passing gas, and burping at the table, or in company. Talking back to elders, not saying excuse me, like trying to get by someone, just pushing past. Not saying thank you, your welcome. Society is so full of bad manners today, when I grew up, we never talked back, always said please, excuse me, thank you and your welcome, never called adults by their first names, was always Mr. so and so,, or Mrs. so and so, ect People were so much better behaved generations ago, and there is nothing worng with being polite and treating people as you want to be treated.
Please and thank you Opening a door for someone or shutting it in their face Accepting a compliment is good manners refusing is bad manners It is not bad manners to eat chicken with you fingers
1) Good manners to open a door for a lady. 2) Place your coat over a puddle for a lady. 3) If there are ladies present, do not projectile vomit. 4) Pass the spliff on the left hand side (unless there are ladies at the party) 5) Good manners to offer ladies your hankie if they cough - make sure it is clean though. 6) Ladies like to discuss kittens and flowers, forgive them their lovely minds. 7) Place your knee at exactly 58 degrees when cross legged with a lady present. 8) Good manners not to kill small rodents in the presence of a lady. 9) Do not cross the road backwards when ladies are driving. 10.) Manners maketh the man - and the lady.
In some cultures it is bad manners NOT to burp at the table as it shows you have not enjoyed the meal. The Ancient Persians thought lying was the most despicable act, where as in some cultures it is seen as unacceptable not to lie to foreigners. I think you should just go a google search or a wikipedia or go to the library - they will be most useful and you will learn more than if I do half the research for you!
Farting in public Burping in public speaking out of turn answering questions you wern't asked interupting a converstion not saying please not saying thank-you when asking a stranger, not saying, excuse me sir/maam. not saying pardon me when you didn't hear something as opposed to "what!" elbows on the table not covering your mouth when you cough not covering your mouth and turning your head when you sneeze chewing with your mouth open using your knife with your left hand slurping soup slurping tea/coffee tapping your spoon on you cup after stirring tea/coffee cursing in public cursing in front of women cursing in general using racial slurs shouting from one room to another using slang terms offering an opinion that isn't solicited filling wine glass to the top drinking from a bottle or can at the dinner table talking with food in your mouth spitting in public inhaling your snot, when you have a cold blowing snot out of individual nostrels when you don't have a tissue urinating on the street talking back to elders huffing and puffing behind someone because they are slow rolling your eyes at someone walking away from someone talking to you hanging up on someone not letting someone out of a door before you go in not holding a door for someone behind you if you reach the door first, let the person behind you man or woman in first. being the first to leave the table if your not the head of the table not asking your parents to be excused from the table not at least offering to help with clean up when eating at someones home not bringing wine or cake to a dinner you have invited too correcting people inpublic chewing gum while engaged in conversation not washing your hands after a trip to the toilet being drunk in public not getting up to give your seat to a pregnant woman or old person on public transport wearing a hat in a church wearing short sleeves in a church wearing a short pants/skirt in a church mimicking disabled people letting your children run around in a restraunt I could probably think of more but I'm hungry.
An important point to remember is that manners differ in different countries. For example, in Japan it's impolite to blow ones nose in company but it's OK to slurp ones noodles at table. What is acceptable as 'good manners' also changes with society; for example, manners even 50 years ago were more formal than now. Bad manners: - Inturupting, jumping a queue, not apologising for rudeness, picking ones nose, putting feet on seats, elbows on tables, being loud/drunk in public, not saying 'thank you' & 'please', not respecting other peoples' views/religions/ sacred places, hurting others, either physically, mentally or verbally, lack of respect for the law/ones elders/those in authority/other peoples' property, using bad language. Good Manners: - Obviously the opposit of the above. Now, may I have my 10 points, PLEASE? THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Didn't you know it's bad manners to ask others to do your homework for you?
What you doing at the moment? watching Eastenders, while we do your homework, get real.
Good manners are all about having respect for others around you so something that doesn't would be classed as bad. Burping is seen as good in some cultures as it's supposed to show enjoyment of the meal. Good > saying please, saying thank you, respecting peoples space, waiting quietly in queues, giving up your seat on a bus to someone who needs it more than you, opening or holding doors for people, respecting people in authority (teachers and police are trying to do a difficult job) being polite. I could go on but wont bore everyone! Bad > Using foul language just to offend people, being cheeky, allowing your behaviour to upset others, and a lot more too! Good manners are easy to teach if you set a good example for children and have consideration for others yourself.
I think you'll need all the help you can get. It's obviously a concept completely alien to you. MORON
-Not saying excuse me after....... *burping *bumping into someone *farting -Saying excuse me before... *interrupting someone whether it si conversation or even if you need to pass *You leave the dinner table *You dismiss yourself out of a conversation -Possibly saying bless you when someone sneezes -Covering your mouth when you yarn -Covering your mouth when you sneeze -Covering your mouth when you cough -Washing your hands after you sneeze -Washing your hands after you cough -Saying............. *please *thank you *you are welcome *speak when spoken to (like hi and bye) -Holding the door for people going in or out -Giving up your seat on a bus for someone who really needs it -Eating in front of someone else and not offering -Cursing -rolling your eyes -being loud while on the phone in public -laughing out loud in public -spitting while talking -laughing while talking out in publib loud
these are all bad manners: putting ur elbows at the dinner table interrupting a conversation walking between ppl when they are having a conversation walking between ppl taking pictures slouching
Bad manners Burping at the dinner table, not using knife and fork, using only fork, elbows on table, eating with mouth full, spitting and spraying whilst eating with mouth full, helping yourself across the table to someone elses dinner, farting, especially through dinner, scraping some of your food onto someones plate, sneezing and not covering your mouth, especially whilst eating, picking your nose, flicking it, sneezing and not covering your mouth, shouting over somebody who is already speaking, walking into people, cutting people up on the road, queue jumping, not respecting elders Good manners: holding doors open for people, speaking nicely and positively at all times, covering your mouth when you yawn and sneeze, using correct condiments on table, no elbows, sitting straight, using please and thank you, waiting for the other person to stop speaking for butting in, respecting your elders, giving up a seat on a bus, queueing nicely,
This is an international website manners are different in different countries. e.g. burping at the table in some eastern countries is seen as polite as it shows an appreciation of the meal.
Not saying please or thankyou!
pointing, staring, burping, farting, elbows on table, waiting to be spoken to, not butting in on a conversation, wiping your nose on your sleeves, yawning, coughing or sneezing without covering your mouth, talking with your mouth full,leaving the table without permission, not holding the door open for someone else, taking things without permission, starting to eat before everyone else, picking your nose, biting you nails, slurping your drinks,resting your boobs on the dining table, feet on the table, tables are for glasses not little ars*s, sitting with your legs open whilst wearing a skirt, don't double dip your crisps. swearing, sharing chewing gum, talking in another language in front of people, not flushing the loo, not washing your hands before a meal,giving head to a beer bottle,