ICYMI: When in Rome, they say, do as the Romans do. But what happens when the locals don’t even agree on what the local customs are? Case in point: the ongoing debate in Japan over what exactly to do with a large backpack on a crowded train.
There are many debates around how to eat sushi properly. One point of contention: how do you dip your nigiri-zushi in soy sauce - rice-first? Or topping-first? Here's what one expert etiquette says is the right way to eat it.
Hot take: grosser than taking your shoes off on a flight is following it by putting your feet against window and poking person in front of you with your feet.
Asqueroso 🤮 #etiquette#manners
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The proper use of embarrassment is as a conscience of manners. As your conscience might trouble you if you do anything immoral, your sense of embarrassment should be activated if you do anything unmannerly. As conscience should come from within, so should embarrassment. Hot tingles and flushes are quite proper when they arise from your…
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I masked today in doctor's office, like I always do indoors in general. But today it prompted two very loud individuals to converse how they dont need to mask unless they are feeling awful. (Other whom had cough, fever, and couldn't go to work because of those and was told to go to doctor's for a note and #Covid test!!)
Of course they just know if they are sick, it's not like you can get mild symptoms or be asymptomatic AND SPREAD Covid to those who could die!
They, a mom and adult daughter, were openly stating at me while I was minding my business on the other side of the room.
As I passed them, they kept their eyes locked on me, like judging that I was masked when "I didn't need to be". Unfortunately covering my face doesn't make me deaf. In fact, the ear infection that #covid has caused me for over 2 years has not effected my hearing at all so I could hear every nasty whisper though my pains.
I posted a long essay on global risks and headwinds. It had seven sections, one talked about risks associated with climate change. It appears that alone has caused massive outrage among the uninformed, the political right, and those evangelicals who accept climate change as god’s will. One section, with evidentiary links and I got called a commie, and the internet equivalent of spat at. 🔥 🔥 Goodness me. I mean I have much thicker skin since publishing on the net, and I laugh almost all of these ignorant souls off. But did nobody read the six other sections about things like household and sovereign debt? Geopolitical volatility? Failed states? China? But no, mention climate change and the trolls descend in numbers. #ClimateChange#ClimateEmergency#ClimateCrisis#GlobalWarming#SeaLevelRise#Climate#Manners#Courtesy#CivilizedDebate
The English Understand Wool, by Helen Dewitt. You are an extremely wealthy young lady who does not blink an eye when everything you thought was true turns out to be a lie, and by avoiding actions in bad taste, defeat some who would take advantage of your situation. 5 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
A Japanese man from Osaka
Just chattered his teeths at me for now reason, what should I do?