What is considered bad manners or rude in your country?

For example, licking a knife? Sticking chocksticks into a pot of noodles?

Can you think of an example that's probably only rude in your country?

Definitely the Hitler greeting, raising your right arm straight up so it's a little higher than horizontal. I think it's even illegal.

This is of course because of Germany's history, we still are very careful about nationalistic stuff.

ummmmm.... let me think about

-to chew the nails
-to be not on time !!!!
-to eat with fingers (think is in most of the countries the same)

if i remember some more things, I will write it later

-to stick up the middle finger
-drop f bomb
-hitler salute too
-cell phones on in class
-skipping class
-hitting punching shooting stabbing
-and say "yo fat momma":P
-and also (if ur white) sayin niggr (which i dont say by the way cause thts jus racist)
-picking on
-and calling stuff because of religious origin
-and last but not least makin fun of ppls sexual origin

BIG LIST HUH?

in the US, it's ok to eat with your fingers if it's a finger food, like french fries or chicken fingers or whatever

sithman25 has a pretty good list of stuff that's bad manners here...i can't think of any more that are specifically US at the moment...if i can think of anything i'll post em!

i agree with that, same here. but it also depends cause if you eat at Mc Donalds you can eat the fries with your fingers but if youre in a resaurant i dont think it would be polite...

Putting your elbow on the table. Something you usually don't notice doing. You don't get lynched for it, but it's something that your parents try to instill in you since an early age. Can't think of anything closer to Hungary right now.

In some countries, for example Morocco, eating with your fingers is encouraged.

Continuing on the food theme, in some countries it's impoilte to slurp your soup. In other countries, it's rude not to slurp, because if you don't - you're not showing your appreciation for the chef.

How about rude hand gestures? As someone already mentioned, giving someone the middle finger (bird) is bad in the US and most anywhere else I can think of...

In Italy you put your hand, palm down and fingertips towards your throat, under your chin and flip the hand upwards. That is their equivalent to the bird.

In a lot of countries, raising a hand where the tumb and indexfinger touch to form an O (o, for ok) is a good thing. In other places, this is an insult as it signifies that someone is a zero.

- Spitting

- Sneezing without trying to capture the .... well I can't think of a polite word but youget the point

- Jumping the Queue. This is something that seems to be frequently done by certain groups of international visitors (lol that shall remain nameless). The British are a proud nation of waiting lol. Queue jumping is always met with disdain.

- Early placement of towels on recliners at poolside in a resort...... Again I won't mention the particular nation often most responsible as we all know who you are lol

- Talking whilst eating

- Belching at the table.

- The opposite of belching ANYWHERE

- People who do not wash their hands after using the WC. Often observed in public toilets.

... I could probably go on indefinately lol

allright i get it
i want to excuse formally in the name of any german who ever got up at seven just to place his towel on the pool chairs and then went back to seep until noon.
I never did that

Hee hee - apology accepted. Never actually upset me as I have never been on holiday to experience that problem, but I often hear others tell me lol.

I was just about to do the same...

what? apologise or place your towel at the pool?

[prefect] at least i know where my towel is [/prefect]

i don't get it...*feels silly*

queeeeeen: Nuliaj is objecting to ceratain holiday makers hogging the best spots to sit by the pool/beach. They do this by putting a towel on the chair and then mysteriously dissapear for hours on end.

I haven't experienced this phenomena either. I only visit public beaches at home and abroad. They have no chairs, and it's first come first serve to get the best spots. The pool that belongs to my building in France is only accessible to people in our building, so we don't have to fight over chairs.

As Blue says its a tongue-in-cheek nudge at the Germans .... They are "famous" for putting there towels down on the good spots but not using them until later. Personally I would have just picked up their towels & lobbed 'em in the pool lol.

Its funny because there have been numerous tv commercials that have played on this practise by our German friends to help sell their products. Difficult to explain really hmmmmmm I'll stop now lol

to be honest, i never was on vacation in some hotel or holiday resort, so i didn't experience this myself, but yes, we are famous for it.
germans on holiday is something very horrible to think about in general. just to think about what the average german man wears on vacation: khaki shorts, sandals with socks *pukes* and probably a camera hanging round their neck... this is what makes me ashamed of my country

In my country, giving or taking things from people with your left hand is VERY rude, also, eating with your left hand (without cutlery). This is because in Malay culture, you use your left hand to wipe your bottom after using the toilet.

Oh, and also calling people 'Kurang Ajar' pronounced 'KOO-rahng AH-jar' which means uneducated, stupid and without manners.

yup sure I eat that mc donalds stuff with fingers too , but some people dont like it, the older ones

have a new one:
- to ask a older woman about her age

*LOOOOOOOOOOOOL* Me too and hey I never been in a hotel, cause we have our own house in Tuscany, but well well there are these few germans who do such things

i know some people put ther towels like that on the beach, mostly in the morning when theres no crowd and all....>.> but i dont mind that, the think that happened to me that anoyed me the most was when i was in the water and a lady moved my towel and my bag without asking!? o.O and then i got out and she was like-oh, i moved your stuff, hope you dont mind. now thats rude!

you're right that IS very rude I hope you levitated her over the pool with the force & dunked her

ehehehe thats what i did in my mind...but i just told her its ok and minded my own buisiness...but some people are weird

and it was at the beach..i kinda hate pools o.o

hehe ya know what is funny mara jade? when these people get catch by a wave *MUHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA* Everybody is fighting about the best places i front of the sea and then while they are sleeping just inches away from the water it happens LOOOOOOOOL a big wave flushes them away with their towels

THAT IS FUNNY!

hehehe or their towel gets completely wet!

but also when someone puts a towel right next to yours even tho theres ibviously no room so they are like 5cm away from you >.>

well<<
frist of all << hi every one<<
as for me
-i hate throwing thing on the flor
-i hate those who talke in their cell phone during driving
-and<< the most thing i hate is writing on walls in puplic places

hope i made my self clear

Isn't it rude in England if you answer to "How do you do?" ? It took me some time to figure out that this is just a way of greeting another person and you don't expect an answer. Is that right? You expect an answer to "How are you?", though, right?

Thank you for asking that!!!

T*and I am sorry that I am going to kidnap your question*

*takes question and kidnaps it*

To all of the Americans:

How are you supposed to react when someone tells you : "Hello. How are you?"

ANd I don't mean when it's a friend. For like, when I see a frind of mine I really feel the urge to ask how he/she is, and I really MEAN to ask if he/she is ok... So respectively - I would know how to respond, when a friend is asking me the same question. But when a stranger (or the bus operator for instance) asks me "Hello. How are you?" - what do I do?

Please, please help a Bulgarian girl in distress.

*shrug*

Well, not REALLY in distress

Anyway, have a nice day

My personal favorite response to "How are you" is to say, "Frankly that's none of your business and I'd appreciate it if you stayed out of my personal affairs."

Welcome back Leia_. You've been away for a long time. How are you?

Fine, thanks for asking, How are you?

Brrr, I gotta go or I'll be late for work!

Frankly, thats none of your busi...

...I mean, I'm okay.

According to my Russian teacher, over there you say "how do you live" and answer "nothing" if everything is fine? Or maybe I misunderstood something...

That just like this: I understood that in England people ask "Is this seat taken" and you answer "no" it means that someone IS sitting on the chair....*confused*

Leia_!!!!!!!!!

WELCOME BACK!!!!*huuuuuuugs*

i didnt get an answer to the mail i sent you so i was beginning to worry!i thought you stayed in the US to stalk on Mark or something

I always thought that I was an easy-go-lucky type of guy who is usually laid back and doesn't let things get to me. But this weekend I realized that I have a pet peeve that just eats at me over this one thing that I find very rude that happens all the time. I absolutely HATE IT when I go to the grocery store and get a shopping cart and find that someone has left trash in it. GRRRRR!!!! Its getting to be that I get a cart with garbage in it more often than not. Why can't people throw their trash away!!!??? Now, before I can do my shopping, I have to find a trash can to dispose of someone's paper coffee cup or a slightly used napkin. Looking at the wrappers I find in there I can tell if the inconsiderate litterer was a health food nut or a chocoholic. And I always find shopping lists. It's too bad most of those shopping lists don't have the person's name on them. It would be so fun to call one of these shopping cart defilers:

Hi, is this Mr. Gregory Holmes? The Greg Holmes who on July 7th went shopping at Walmart and purchased a gallon of Crisco, a zucchini, and some rubber gloves? Would you please come clean your trash out of your shopping cart? Let me rephrase that, you come clean out this trash or I will tell the world what you were up to, you nasty perv!

When you find someone's trash left in your cart, you have two options. Either clean it out yourself or...you could just continue shopping as if it were a clean cart and return it the way you found it. But if you choose to do the second choice, there is the risk that someone might see you returning a trashed cart and then you look like the bad guy. That's an uncomfortable feeling...the store employee looks dissaprovingly at the cart then at you...and you're just like, "It wasn't me...honestly!"

I just hate that.

Over here, the most common trash I find in a shopping basket is the store's own advertisment this week.. or sometimes from last week. At least there is no risk that you'll find my shopping list left in the basket, since I normally don't have one.

Why don't you go complain to the store manager?

keep doing it all the time over and over again and maybe, just maybe they could hire someone to look after the carts... Maybe he'd be like "cart-cleanliness-assistant" or something

And why don't you look at the big law books and see if it's not against any law out there?


sorry to kidnap it for a secnd, but....
mara, baby!!!!


*hugs*


Sorry folks!

gives topic back to its purpose

They mean if someone else is gonna sit there, like you are waiting for someone to arrive (a friend, a boyfriend, etc) .

Leeeeeeeeeia_!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It's sooo goood to see you! *hugs* How are you? I got your e-mail! Thank you! I will answer it ASAP

So about bad manners. The city I live in is a VERY pouplar summer resort and tourist attraction. I was going to do some shopping today but gave up because I couldn't make my way through the packed crowd of tourists going in every direction pushing like their lives were at stake.

But anyway, as I made my way home from an appointment I met an old couple. I don't know if they were tourists or not, but they were eyeballing and glaring at me when I passed them. Now I'm used to people staring at me because I have a disability and drive around on an electric scooter and it doesn't bother me much.

But I still can't belive what the woman did next. She glared at me and then she spit on the ground. I don't know if her spitting had anything to do with me but I still found it extremely offensive, rude and plain out discusting.

I spit out the window of my car sometimes because I get really phlegmy. (Too much information, right?) But that is really rude to glare at someone and spit. I hope you kicked her in the shin.

Well I spit sometimes to , I mean you have to right?
But I'm not gonna tell you when and why I spit because..... uhm never mind

Well I did kick her in the chin actually and I kicked her hubby in the *beep*

In my mind that is, but damn it was good!

In reality I let her know what I thought about such behaviour which I wont post here because there are children present





I would love to use that just to see the look on the persons face

Maybe she had developed some weird form of superstition. Other people spit when they see a black cat passing the road, she spits when she sees someone in an electric scooter.

Maybe she was chewing tobacco? You have to spit every now and then in that case to avoid getting sick.

Yeah maybe I should haunt her! Then perhaps she'll take every precaution there is... spit, salt knock on wood etc


Or maybe she was just greeting me. I heard or read somewhere that beeing spit at is actually considered a great honor is some places of the world.

Maybe she was chewing tobacco. In that case I'm really glad she didn't spit directly at me....

*pokes topic*

Topic: Hey! Quit poking me!

*shocked*

Haha, you stressed me out girl, don't ever do that!@

*spits in her chest*


*is eyeballed by ceri for spitting*

what???
)))
It's a common thing here and I didn't mean thinthing against you

*hugs*





People do that all the time and I am surprised not only in Bulgaria... I hate it when they do that - just spit a few feet from you. Graaaaaah!!!

I call it - "lack of manners" but it is soooo ugly.


*hugs*


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Im in England, what isnt rude?

here it's illegal to spit in public
i think thats kinnda wierd

The one law here in Nebraska that truly is stupid and isn't enforced is that Every house in the state of Nebraska must have a hitching post in the front lawn. It's also illegal here to mow your lawn without a shirt on if u have a hairy chest but that one isn't enforced either.