Etiquette lessons?

**piperdbh** · 5th November 10, 08:31 AM

6) surgery

**Lallans** · 5th November 10, 08:46 AM

7) Displaying surgical incisions or scars therefrom.

**Drac** · 5th November 10, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

6) surgery

Originally Posted by Canuck of NI

7) Displaying surgical incisions or scars therefrom.

Well that kills most old folks conversation around here

**kc8ufv** · 5th November 10, 10:01 AM

I'm glad ER extractions and injuries to others weren't on the list. Otherwise the disaster response team I am on would be going straight to...

**JerseyLawyer** · 5th November 10, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by kc8ufv

I'm glad ER extractions and injuries to others weren't on the list. Otherwise the disaster response team I am on would be going straight to...

I don't think you can really compare what gets discussed at firehouses, ambulance buildings, and police stations with polite dinner conversation.

**piperdbh** · 5th November 10, 10:54 AM

8) childbirth

**kc8ufv** · 5th November 10, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by JerseyLawyer

I don't think you can really compare what gets discussed at firehouses, ambulance buildings, and police stations with polite dinner conversation.

These are discussions held in restaurants (typically Max and Erma's) on almost a monthly basis

**Drac** · 5th November 10, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by kc8ufv

These are discussions held in restaurants (typically Max and Erma's) on almost a monthly basis

I went through an EMT class in the Navy for stretcher barer training and I will say that the class room discussion were nothing compared to the conversations at the bars afterwards.

Jim

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 6th November 10, 08:34 AM

Once, when a woman complained to Hemingway about the coarse language in his novels, he replied-- "lady, that's the way men talk when out hunting or playing golf."

Of course that's not the way men, especially those who consider themselves gentlemen, should talk in public, or polite company. But then a gentleman moderates his language and removes his hat-- even if it is a baseball cap-- before sitting down to dinner, even at a Cracker Barrel restaurant.

**Bill aka Mole** · 7th November 10, 07:30 AM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

Once, when a woman complained to Hemingway about the coarse language in his novels, he replied-- "lady, that's the way men talk when out hunting or playing golf."

Of course that's not the way men, especially those who consider themselves gentlemen, should talk in public, or polite company. But then a gentleman moderates his language and removes his hat-- even if it is a baseball cap-- before sitting down to dinner, even at a Cracker Barrel restaurant.

A wonderful way to separate the wheat from the chaff. Cheers!