Your parents. Your parents are expected to teach you these.
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- How is this a guide for adults?? I knew most of these before I became an adult.
- These ought to be taught by parents and other adults which are important in the child’s life, and backed up by demonstrations by example. Parents have a duty to demonstrate correct behaviours themselves, and reinforce those behaviours in their children.
- The shopping cart one ought to be extended to “if you pick something up in the store and don’t want it, put it back where you got it from”. I see far too much perishable frozen/refrigerated goods stuffed elsewhere on a shelf and dethawing to unsaleability because people changed their minds and couldn’t be arsed to put it back where it came from.
- For the “cover your mouth” one - please, for the love of Pete, learn the difference between a cough and a clearing of the throat. They are not the same damn thing.
You cover your mouth with your hand when you cough, but you don't cover your ass when you fart. Curious.
Unless you're naked; your ass is already covered.
You assume a lot about both my anatomy and my clothing choices
Lot of people here saying they disagree with the tipping one. But you must surely admit that it is everyday etiquette in Canada. This guide is not for what's ethical -- after all, it is ethical to harangue somebody about their unethical dietary decisions -- it's to teach you what to do so that you fit in to this society better.
Where does this guide state anything about Canada ? In Northern Europe its seen as an insult to tip your waiter. Just pay your workers a living wage instead of hoping for the customers gratitude.
Hot damn, i just saw what Lemmy instance I'm on. I'll let my comment stay just to add to the discussion, but I was wrong and are sorry for the misunderstanding.
I blows my mind how many adults don't know this. The way I was raised, I'd be embarrassed to get in someone's way as they tried to exit an elevator. But I was also taught that common decency is a good thing and we've clearly given up on that.
How else can I crop dust if I can't leave first? Did no one teach them how to crop dust?
It's wild when I see people just shove onto an elevator like my dude. The hell. Why. And they get mad when we're all annoyed at them!
But I was also taught that common decency is a good thing
Funny, I never saw it as a decency thing, more utilitarian. It's a waste of effort to try to cram myself into an already occupied box (unless there are occupants staying in the box, of course).
Same with trains. Nobody in my city seems to get that. I just barge my way through them crowded at the entrance if I'm getting out
eye contact
No thank you
Don't look in my eyes. Fuck that don't even look at me if you can help it and I'll return the favor
A smile is enough. A smile while talking transfers a smile to the voice (a trick I learned in the phone mines) . Eye contact is great but you don't have to have it.
To hell with your tipping culture
Fuck AI alop.
Are you claiming this posted content to be AI generated or that we should 'Fuck AI slop' as a etiquette?
Both, I guess.I can see the yellow background and thick black lines, which are usually the signs of a generated image. Edit: Also the money in the tip jar looks like some unholy amalgamation of coins and bills.
Big fat no on the tipping. Tipping should be outlawed altogether, start paying your employees a decent wage instead!
Also do comment on people's food choices as long as it is positive. "That looks awesome, I would LOVE some >insert nice food here< for myself next time!" I would maybe change that one to just "Don't criticize people for their decisions that do not affect you" or something like that
No virtue signalling intended but I'm happy to say that I do all the rest of these things, are those things not normal to do anyway?
When a lot of today's parents fail to teach their kids all these things... But to. Hell with the tipping
Please don't cover your mouth when you cough with your hands. Please don't.
Just to clarify, the suggestion here is to use the crook of your elbow.
No use your neighbors butt cheeks. Play them like the tuba
Like Dracula!
Bela Lugosi
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You missed one: don't use ai to generate images.
I think as far as etiquette goes, I would say: don't paste me unfiltered AI output. If it's not worth your effort to at least summarize that wall of slop, it's not worth my effort to read it.
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Nah, handing someone your phone without sensible precautions to lock down sensitive data is irresponsible and begging for trouble. There's never a good reason to do that just to show a photo. Someone might think you're sharing an album, and even then, there are far better ways to share without compromising security.
Might as well share your bank account with them or spread your ass cheeks wide open.
Such irresponsibility lacks etiquette.
Lack of text alternative breaks etiquette and web accessibility.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not.
Losses due to image of text lacking alternative:
- usability
- we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can't
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can't read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
- users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
There's never a good reason to hand someone your phone to show them a photo? Good grief. Do you have nobody where handing them your phone is not equivalent to spreading your ass cheeks?
Hold the door if someone is right behind you.
Unless you're entering a secure location, in which case don't.
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My mom taught me all of these, other then the phone ones bcauee cell phones didn't exist back then.
I live in a country where tipping isn’t a thing, and nobody here wants it to be a thing. And American tourists come over and can’t comprehend not tipping so they tip anyway because they think we’re just being mean to each other and that we all want tipping to be a thing.
Your parents failed you if they didn't teach at least half of these, Christ.
No one taught you this? Even if nobody sits you down for a lesson, you are taught by example by the people around you when you grow up.
Also, the tipping and keeping doors open for people behind you are not universally applicable. In large swaths of Asia you'll be met by ire or confusion respectively. So maybe this is missing a generated image for being culturally sensitive.
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If no one taught you a good majority of these: What the hell did your parents teach you?
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