Social behaviour - a wee rant
I know I’m going to offend some people with this but here are a few things that make me look as though I’m sucking a lemon, okay? The people doing them seem to feel it is their absolute right to do it in public and to hell with the lemon-suckers. It is happening more and more often and you know what? Not everyone loves watching. Rein it in a bit.A couple noisily and lengthily kissing, especially if they are groping each other at the same time. The whole world doesn’t love lovers.
Especially if you’re slurping.
Eating noisily with your mouth open throughout.
Talking while you’re eating, especially if I get a fine spray of food and your gob in the process, gets a DOUBLE ew
Peeing against a tree with people around - at least go round the tree, okay?
Whipping out an engorged tit and openly feeding your kid. The older the kid, the more embarrassing it is for the rest of us. Kids that bang on mummy's shirt and demand 'titty, mummy, titty!' - oh, hang on, I think there's a youtube vid. I'll find it for the comments.
Picking your nose, especially if you then turn it into a meal. Bon appetite.
Talking very loudly on your phone – particularly effective on a long train trip in the “quiet” carriage. Don't forget to be very boring and repeat yourself at least 4 times.
Yes yes yes all absolutely natural and perfectly lovely and you can be as offended as you like. But now you know not everyone thinks it lovely behaviour.
So there.
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I didn't go the last time she invited me. Now I've got a smartphone of my own I could but - might as well stay home and enjoy it without interruptions -
Call me old school but I still like turning an actual page
(but if I can get the audiobook I will, so I can trick myself into getting some gentle exercise as I listen).
I actually think the more English departs from French structurally, the worse it gets.
However I did find myself pressing the corner of my magazine the last time I was flying, and wondering why the page wouldn't turn.
Only the autistic can keep us on track now.
Yeah. I hated it when that happened.
Good evening lady; forgiveness for daring, two questions: It's Jacobinism of the social behavior? or Is it that the social behavior of a specific society is more respectable than others?
Anything that irritates you on the list, or do you have your own to add?
However when people start doing it in public, there I will have to draw the line
Maybe, just maybe; the fact of having lived in three different cultures made me be a little more tolerant of frustration and baffled by different social behaviors.
Enjoy and thanks for stopping by
I suspect that's why I still like people.