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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    I know, I was just having a go at them..

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    Quote Originally Posted by lost in melb. View Post
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    You know, that's the sort of thing that might make or break you, if you're trying to make a first impression at an initial business dinner with high value clients. I know it sounds ridiculous, but if you're wooing that kind of client, boorish table manners will scare them off. The higher class look down their noses at people that don't know classical proper etiquette.


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    I just like to put my face right down into the plate and eat without using my hands

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    I only drink soup from the side of a bowl..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    I just like to put my face right down into the plate and eat without using my hands


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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    You know, that's the sort of thing that might make or break you, if you're trying to make a first impression at an initial business dinner with high value clients. I know it sounds ridiculous, but if you're wooing that kind of client, boorish table manners will scare them off. The higher class look down their noses at people that don't know classical proper etiquette.
    It's very true. I was working for a Japanese-based firm and we were out at this very fine restaurant for the Christmas party. Normally, I eat how I eat, but since it was drummed into me at an early age how to eat "properly" my brain went into auto-pilot mode and probably did it mostly correct (put the food in your mouth, put the cutlery down between bites etc).

    The big boss visiting from Japan said something in Japanese to my boss, and he said afterwards that he thought I must be British by the way I held my cutlery!

    I remember as a kid asking why I had to learn this, as we were now in Canada and my dad's cryptic reply was "there is a rhyme and a reason for everything. You will need this skill sometime in your life". Thanks, Dad...it actually furthered my career a little bit.

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    exactly, if you don't have these skills, you are looked at as a complete idiot if the situation were to happen

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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    You know, that's the sort of thing that might make or break you, if you're trying to make a first impression at an initial business dinner with high value clients. I know it sounds ridiculous, but if you're wooing that kind of client, boorish table manners will scare them off. The higher class look down their noses at people that don't know classical proper etiquette.
    A good thing I'm not in the business world. I come from a family of Wolfers.

    About the only thing I can manage is elbows tucked in. Eating dessert like this makes you look like a complete wanker though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    I only drink soup from the side of a bowl..
    And is it even soup...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    They meant to say left side of the road..
    That is the "right" side of the road...

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    Quote Originally Posted by PorkChopSandwiches View Post
    Fuck all that nonsense

    Americans I believe, have a habit of swapping their fork from left to right hand when eating. I suppose that what it comes to in "uncivilised" countries....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noilly Pratt View Post
    It's very true. I was working for a Japanese-based firm and we were out at this very fine restaurant for the Christmas party. Normally, I eat how I eat, but since it was drummed into me at an early age how to eat "properly" my brain went into auto-pilot mode and probably did it mostly correct (put the food in your mouth, put the cutlery down between bites etc).

    The big boss visiting from Japan said something in Japanese to my boss, and he said afterwards that he thought I must be British by the way I held my cutlery!

    I remember as a kid asking why I had to learn this, as we were now in Canada and my dad's cryptic reply was "there is a rhyme and a reason for everything. You will need this skill sometime in your life". Thanks, Dad...it actually furthered my career a little bit.

    Probably helps too if your a "brown noser".....

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    if you don't switch your fork to your right hand (which I don't), most people look at you funny

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