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"It wasn't until the arrival of post-Second World War affluence that eating out in a proper restaurant became a regular activity for ordinary people.
A certain nervousness caused by this late arrival may be the reason why there are so many English jokes and sketches about table manners."
True?
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I think there's a lot of jokes etc. because there is a great divide in people who think etiquette is important and others who think it's all bollocks. As my dad says - just get the bloody food in you gob, stop messing about.
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"It wasn't until the arrival of post-Second World War affluence that eating out in a proper restaurant became a regular activity for ordinary people.
A certain nervousness caused by this late arrival may be the reason why there are so many English jokes and sketches about table manners."
True?
Not sure there was much affluence about in the 1950s, we still had rationing on certain foods. The 60s was when there was more money about and the working classes went to Berni Inns and Torremolinos for their holidays lol
Table manners can stretch into absurd territory, which means they are rife for parody n humour.
Much of it is a poncey nonsense (knives for different courses, passing port from the left etc) but equally children learning to be quiet in restaurants would be a fucking step in the right direction.
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children learning to be quiet in restaurants would be a fucking step in the right direction.
MML!
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Their films are exceptional joanie.
Try the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
For 1943, it's phenomenal.
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Also good is A Matter of Life and Death. As a kid I didn't get it. Then, as ,I was older, watched it properly I came to see it as a cracker.
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...[A]s an Irish child, taking a trip over the Irish sea was like winning Wonka's golden ticket. You had sweets [in England] we never dreamed of. Crazy, unnatural sweets that were being stopped at Irish customs...
Mint Aeros and giant giant bars of Dairy Milk and strangest of all, Caramac. Washed down with Vimto and Tizer and other foreign drinks, we burped our appreciation of the English love of confectionery.
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TRUE???
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Never knew some of our confectionary had censorship in Ireland. Caramac was odd-tasting.
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Only one reply? Too busy cramming your faces with the latest sweetie? 
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"...Queen Elizabeth...owned three forks, two of them studded with jewels, [but] most sources say she used her fingers when spoon and knife would not suffice."
Which Elizabeth was this?
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"The English are so eccentric, and so tolerant of eccentrics, that you never feel out of place..." (Ian Brown)
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"The English are so eccentric, and so tolerant of eccentrics, that you never feel out of place..." (Ian Brown)
That's us. Way too tolerant.
When i say US I mean Brits in general. Not me. Lol
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I hear it's a cultural "thing"... that the French assume that nearly everyone across the Channel is into
Beee
Deee
Essss
Emm
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I hear it's a cultural "thing"... that the French assume that nearly everyone across the Channel is into
Beee
Deee
Essss
Emm
Only some of us!
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BDEE? Is that a raquet sport? Lol
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I thought it was some veiled star wars reference, again.
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Or a thinly-disguised DiB gay thread hijack lol
Actually Daman,you might be right - were the Bdees these funny desert scrap collectors?
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