When did good manners become such a minefield?
telegraph.co.uk‘People tend to mainly drink straight out the bottle these days, instead of out of a glass or beaker,’ one lamented, perhaps forgetting to add, ‘hic!’ ‘When did it become acceptable to hold a conversation whilst wearing sunglasses?’ cried another.
Good point, well made. Country’s gone to the dogs.Manners maketh man, they say, but to that I would simply respond: Jacob Rees-Mogg – a man whose Ps and Qs are so perfumed as to be noxious.
I remember when the now Business and Energy Secretary appeared on the Today programme to face a salivating John Humphrys. ‘There is always a frissance in being interviewed by someone who interviewed Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson,’ Rees-Mogg, oleaginous as an anchovy, opened with.
He later closed with, ‘Mr Humphrys, thank you.’Well-mannered? Yes. Insufferable? Also yes. So while it’s perfectly possible to be impolite, it’s also possible to be too polite.
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