Etiquette - November 2006

Do you think it's more socially acceptable for men to be overweight than women?
this issue was raised on a topical discussion i heard last night. someone brought up the issue that being underweight was quite 'acceptable', yet an overweight woman was not!? what do you think?

2006-11-22 09:24:00 · 14 answers · asked by leolady0765 4

2006-11-22 09:20:20 · 9 answers · asked by CLARE A 2

2006-11-22 08:53:43 · 17 answers · asked by GAMEBREAKER 2

So yesterday i came back from school and opened the door to my room and my mom was in there and i told her, "mom? what are you doing?" And she said "just looking around". And i said "uh huh". And then she told me "is there something you wanna tell me" and i told her what do you mean? And then she showed me the pack of cigarettes she found that i hid in one of the cabinets and she said "look what i found". And then i told her "whered you get that?" And then she said "you know where i got it. I cant believe you've been smoking all this time" and i told her "i'm sorry, i just wanted to try it thats all, so can i have it back please". And then she said "no you cant have it back" and i told her "what were you doing looking through my room anyway" and then she threw the cigarettes at me and said "throw them away and if i find them again, i'm not giving you anymore money". Wasnt it improper etiquette of her to be looking in my room anyway?

2006-11-22 08:49:53 · 45 answers · asked by Andy 1

what is a good way to respond to people who ask questions that are none of their business..............especially when.....because you withhold information accuse you of being dishonest.

2006-11-22 08:49:30 · 10 answers · asked by Dino 3

If i asked for $40 from 22 ppl nad the raised it to $45 after having to switch companies is that rude

2006-11-22 08:37:33 · 4 answers · asked by cutiepie 1

What's your opinion? What do you think about the woman who refused to cover up while feeding her kid on the plane and then got kicked off? What about all the clever slogans the protesters came up with? (Got breast milk? Don't be lactose intolerant, etc.) Do you think we need to nip(ple) public breastfeeding in the bud?

2006-11-22 07:43:06 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems like here in middle town America people have the stupidest dream catchers and dorky lady crap on their rear view mirror? I mean a dream catcher? Do you really sleep in your car and have bad dreams? Isn't this an accident waiting to happen?

2006-11-22 07:12:26 · 21 answers · asked by Karrien Sim Peters 5

I'm talking about the people who just have to tell the higher up every little thing they even "think" they know in order to I don't know...make themselves look good?
If you truly have a moral obligation to say something I think you should but I'm talking about people who just can't mind their own business.

2006-11-22 07:02:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is that right?

2006-11-22 06:50:47 · 5 answers · asked by a kinder, gentler me 7

Maybe this is no big deal to some of you, but if you've ever gone to Subway, have you noticed that when you are waiting for yours to get out of the toaster the person behind you in line skips ahead? Then, once yours is done, you have to now wait for the person who was formarly behind you in line to get done with their business at the register. I'm sure the mentality is that they can finish serving the other person before yours is done, but this rarely happens - why then don't I get my place back in line? Regardless, don't you think Subway should serve people in order? I go there a lot for lunch and although it's not a huge deal I find it annoying. What do you think?

2006-11-22 06:46:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

i'm a guy

2006-11-22 06:36:51 · 6 answers · asked by sklinckyyy 1

Hello everyone, thanks for taking a moment to consider my question.
I need your advice on how to react to an arguement my boyfriend raised over a gift card.
For my birthday he thoughtfully gave me a $40 giftcard to JC Penny's. Well, I was delighted, I needed a few basics! Paying for my Graduate program has kept me low on cash and I used the card at JCPenny's to pick up socks, underwear, a few basic shirts and a belt. I was so thankful.
A few weeks after, my boyfriend started asking what I had gotten with his giftcard. (I had already told him, I think he must have forgotten). Well I showed him and thanked him again. However he became so angry! He claimed I wasted the money on crap, and didn't spend it on anything he wanted. He said if I continued to waste his money then no more bday presents. He was expecting me to buy a flashy outfit he could take me out in front of his friends in because he think's my current clothes are "frumpy"
How to apologize and smooth things over?

2006-11-22 06:32:46 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-22 06:19:55 · 15 answers · asked by bhbghgjbvmnbncvb 4

Okay...I know this may sound vain, that or I'm too paranoid, but why is that when I walk into a room people just stare, or just anywhere at a bbq, a party, I'll catch women and men just,I mean it's too a point where it makes me nervous and avoid social situations....why do people do that,in your opinion? so I can get a better understanding of the human being, and so I can stop being so self concious..

2006-11-22 06:13:49 · 9 answers · asked by Laura the Capricorn 1

...and I'm not talking about leftovers from those holidays.

I cook. But I never cook any of that "traditional" stuff except for thse two days. I keep saying I would like to cook a turkey in July or just any other day, but for no reason. Of course I only live with my husband, so that much food would have to be shared in some way or another. I wonder how something like that would work out? I don't know about a whole, sit down, holiday dinner (on a non-holiday), but we always get together with people and eat, so why not do turkey? Is that wierd? Has anyone actually done anything like that, or am I the only one who hasn't?

2006-11-22 05:40:46 · 16 answers · asked by Consuming Fire 7

So I did the ding dong ditch & this guy caught up to me so I punched him in the face though he did chase me & grab my shirt. He said he knows where I live as I ran off. Should I be concerned?
I sleep with a pocket knife and a baseball bat by my side....

Though he is the one with the broken face!!!!!!

2006-11-22 05:22:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-22 05:16:33 · 29 answers · asked by Leo 2

I want to put a sign on our office's kitchen to encourage people to clean the mess they leave after they use the microwave/sink/refrigerator.
Please give me something catchy yet effective!
Thank you!

2006-11-22 05:10:20 · 17 answers · asked by ane123 1

black peoples opinion vary on the use of the word. some black people think it is unacceptable to use the word at all but on the other hand some black people use it as a term of endearment towards their black friends and i blindly accept any interpetation of the word usage form any black person. but the black people that use it have changed how they define the word from a negative one to a positive one...what is wrong with that? and why do white people feel that because we use the word with each other that they are entitled to use the word or that because they cannot say neither can we? is it hard to accept that the rule for acceptable usage of the word is based on a double standard...black people can use it others cannot? by the way i feel the same way about "c" word with white people they can use it i cant. the option to use this word is earned by going thru the black experience and the only way one can really go thru the black experience is to be black. opinions please

2006-11-22 04:58:38 · 26 answers · asked by the one 3

This is supposed to be a place where i can ask questions and people give answers, right? Okay so i know that i'm new at this but does anyone else feel like people should only answer questions if they really care. So i posted a question about my little brother and i was crying wheni wrote it and i wasnt paying attention to spelling or grammer and some women had the nerve to tell me that from my grammer i was immature. I am wrong to want to vent about this? Is she wrong for thinking she knows me? Honetly i just feel like if you want to answer someones question you should really care about the question and not judge them unless that what they ask you to do!

2006-11-22 04:57:22 · 9 answers · asked by tinkrenee 1

Okay, so I was at Target looking at shirts in the mens section, and apparently a shirt got knocked off the rack and fell onto the floor.
I really dont think it was my fault, but the woman who worked at Target was standing right there, saw what happened, and gave me a dirty look and silence....so after a few awkward seconds I said...."I just wanted to see what it looked like when I got home"..... she did not even crack a smile, she just picked up the shirt and walked away with it, like I had done something really bad. I left without purchasing anything because she made me feel so bad. For all I know the shirt on the other side of the rack may have not been hung up correctly by some other shopper,
and I somehow ended up getting the brunt of the employee's bad side for my trouble. Some people just have no sense of humor, am I wrong? Or is it just me?

2006-11-22 04:48:45 · 29 answers · asked by John P 3

I've caught my hubby doing this which is funny since he too is foreign.

2006-11-22 04:44:49 · 11 answers · asked by BAnne 7

I say hello ,hey,.. something at work - they look at me like im crazy! this is in Chicago by the way at the #1 hospital (begins with University. ) rude !!

2006-11-22 04:42:59 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it OK to dance and wiggle around the house as I sing too?

2006-11-22 04:41:43 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi all, my friend has a strange problem. She just moved to a new place and she found a friend. This friend has been very helpful and friendly during their move to this new place. The problem is that, she is now at my friends place all the time. Both are home makers. She is at my friend’s apartment for hours. My friend has tried excuses like I have some work, cooking, laundry etc. She comes back and says that she will help too. My friend is stuck. Do you have any ideas or proper manners to tell her to leave? My friend like this woman and doesn't want to lose her as a friend.

2006-11-22 04:15:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok, so I'm new to the company and the other day I wanted to make popcorn to have as a snack. I walk to the microwave in the kitchen wiht the bag of popcorn in my hand. One of my coworkers was washing dishes right underneath the microwave, so I stood on the side with the bag of popcorn VISIBLY in my hand people! There were a few other coworkers sitting down having a late lunch and every single one of them saw me standing there. So I after a min or two the coworker washing the dishes is done and I put the bag in the microwave and walk away to get some water. After a minute I smell something burning, and one of my coworkers eating lunch casually says "this microwave doesn't make popcorn, it only burns it". So I run back and find the bag deflated and burned, and of course just throw it out and walk out angry. Wouldn't a decent person tell their coworker not to put the popcorn in before hand?

2006-11-22 04:04:15 · 17 answers · asked by Atousa 3

Is there anyone else out there that experiences this annoyance.. Do I have a strange aura? What the hell !!!! I swear I am the target for weirdos on the street to come up and just start talking to me.. In the last few days I was just walking down the street minding my own business.. First a peddler bugs me for change.. I keep walking.. then some black dude says excuse me.. excuse me.. I dont want no money just hold on man.. im like WTF.. so he says.. you know where I can get any weed? WTF! I dont friggin think I have a look that says I smoke weed.. he didnt walk up to the other 5 people in front of me that walked by.. what the frickin hell? then yesterday in st. louis my dad and I are just admiring the Edward Jones dome and some black dude walks up and starts babbling at me.. not at my dad.. but at me.. WTF!

2006-11-22 04:00:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

if someone came and ask you to give on wish want is it i want eveyone to answee this question if they dont mind so i could now and maybe it will come true

2006-11-22 03:54:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm 20 years old and my mother yells at me constantly for buying and reading of cosmo magazine. She yells at me month after month.

Yesterday she did it again."why do you even buy this smutt for? just reading the cover is sick"

I didn't answer her. I honestly look at clothes, yes i read the sex stuff sometimes. but the real life stories are amazing. i've been reading it since i was like 14-15 years old!! I already know all this sex stuff.

its not like i'm brining porn into the house.

2006-11-22 03:52:26 · 14 answers · asked by ♥Brown Eyed Girl ♥ 5