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Post by njkk on Jan 10, 2008 17:25:37 GMT 1
I only got 5 Which isn't surprising considering i can't even speelled it propperley
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Post by jerichoharris on Jan 10, 2008 17:32:06 GMT 1
I got 8 because I'm cultured.
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Post by brispie on Jan 10, 2008 17:34:29 GMT 1
6 for me.
I'll be honest, knowing 75% of that would be of no use to me whatsoever.
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Post by e17hoop on Jan 10, 2008 17:40:20 GMT 1
9 because I don't have a dog.
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Post by Catfish on Jan 10, 2008 17:50:31 GMT 1
"You should speak to the person on your left during the first course and on the right during the main course."
But... but... won't they be too busy talking to the person on THEIR left? I don't understand.
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Post by brispie on Jan 10, 2008 17:51:15 GMT 1
Who owns a white tux? Come on, own up.
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Post by Will_75 on Jan 10, 2008 17:52:17 GMT 1
10, but the dog was a guess
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Post by Catfish on Jan 10, 2008 17:53:17 GMT 1
I got 5 but that included the dog one. I still maintain the 'who do you talk to' question is flawed.
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Post by Will_75 on Jan 10, 2008 17:53:57 GMT 1
tux? TUX? if you mean dinner jacket, no of course not, I'm not an American.
i do own a white bow tie, but it's not been worn since my finals
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Post by Will_75 on Jan 10, 2008 17:55:28 GMT 1
myusername
i think they're assuming that their readers are all gentlemen. ladies get talked to from the opposite side, if you see what i mean
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Post by Wizaard on Jan 10, 2008 17:55:47 GMT 1
9 for me too because I've never owned a dog
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Post by njkk on Jan 10, 2008 18:00:42 GMT 1
We used to kick our dog up the arse when it dropped a room clearer
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Post by CaptainSambuca on Jan 10, 2008 18:10:01 GMT 1
d) the one with the most mesmerising decolletage
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Post by GlasgowTangerine on Jan 10, 2008 19:19:09 GMT 1
8. I've never had a dog and I've never got married
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Post by JohnnyNeptune on Jan 10, 2008 20:34:41 GMT 1
3
i burp in the face of etiquette
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Post by latelark on Jan 10, 2008 22:06:17 GMT 1
8 - I am a *cat* person not a *dog* person
marriage ones were easy as I am in training for Miss Lark's wedding later this year
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Post by mistressx on Jan 10, 2008 23:15:45 GMT 1
I got 8 which means I am more cultured than njkk even though (according to him) I drink loads. He's council house scum but doesn't like people knowing we shop at Aldi. Come to think of it neither does the son and heir. Anyway I am way more cultured so there.
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Post by ralph2 on Jan 10, 2008 23:57:35 GMT 1
;D 2 out of 10 ;D And I honestly really tried. I am a really, really nice bloke anyway so fuck etiket and your lots poncy knowledge of it.
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Post by ab on Jan 11, 2008 10:24:29 GMT 1
5 but I don't eat fish and would be able to identify the fish fork (a sign that I'm going to miss a course of dinner unless I can sweet talk the waiting staff into finding me something else) by appearance even if not by position.
I too haven't worn white tie since my last exams at Oxford. I'm not sure there is any event I could be persuaded to wear a white dinner jacket to other than a fancy dress party where I'm pretending to be a 60s Bond.
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Post by njkk on Jan 11, 2008 11:50:32 GMT 1
I haven't worn a white tie since I tried to get the Bruce Foxton look back in 1981, I even had a white leather jacket
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Post by Will_75 on Jan 11, 2008 11:50:45 GMT 1
AB
You'd only be able to identify the fish fork if your host was a nouve, as specialist cutlery for fish was a victorian fad picked up from the russians. A family of genuine standing would surely own silver that pre-dated this aberration.
Cutlery etiquette is easy - it's outside in. of course, you wouldn't use a fork for soup...
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Post by brispie on Jan 11, 2008 11:52:03 GMT 1
What's wrong with hands, that's what I want to know.
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Post by Bernie on Jan 11, 2008 12:25:42 GMT 1
Exactly, outside in. It's not bloody rocket science. And the more expensive the beverage, the smaller the receptacle it goes in, generally. (If you can't tell a red wine from a white wine glass you should stick to drinking 20/20). And I make a point of always treating anyone in a white dinner jacket as a waiter. It's a gag that never loses its originality or appeal.
This talk of etiquette reminds me of a wedding I attended recently which was so poncey/insecure and trying to be poncey the establishment's head waiter chappie announced what each course was before it was served. Come the end of the tucker, when a brother could be expecting a cup of coffee and some sort of strong booze at least, the poncey French mayder dee* announced we would be served cheese. In the silence that followed, the indignant, baritone Sir Henry-esque roar of "CHEESE?!! I CAN'T GET FUCKING PISSED ON CHEESE!!" from a friend's forty year old cousin was CLEARLY audible. I choked on my Malvern Water.
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Post by brispie on Jan 11, 2008 12:27:40 GMT 1
There are different glasses for red and white wine?
Different world.
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Post by njkk on Jan 11, 2008 12:29:22 GMT 1
I think the white wine ones are thinner, anyway what's wrong with straight out of the bottle?
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Post by Bernie on Jan 11, 2008 12:29:26 GMT 1
Didn't your parents ever collect the Esso vouchers? I learned everything I know about glassware from that promotional scheme.
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Post by njkk on Jan 11, 2008 12:32:10 GMT 1
We didn't have a car
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Post by Bernie on Jan 11, 2008 12:33:44 GMT 1
Well you could have just bought petrol to sniff it.
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Post by njkk on Jan 11, 2008 12:36:24 GMT 1
Sniff it??
Isn't there a special petrol glass*
*not wench petral that comes straight out of the bottle anyfule no
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Post by brispie on Jan 11, 2008 12:45:39 GMT 1
Probably, but they certainly wouldn't have collected wine glasses.
My mums idea of a good wine is Schloer.
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