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VanessaTyme

I could be completely wrong on this but I told my roommates that there were specific topics a person should discuss before during and after certain meal times, while others such as, perhaps, suffering in Kenya were not pollite to discuss until after lunch or dinner.

Am I wrong? If not, what are the rules.

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**Hellfrozeover** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 773 Location: UK

Personally, I'll talk about most things as long as it's not something like a graphic description of the artwork someone made in the toilet-bowl during eating.

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**thedreadpersephone** · Advisor Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 913 Location: Dundee

If you dine with doctors you better have a strong stomach or really bad hearing...

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**PurplePrincess** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 2678 Location: Bristol

I don't think there are actually any official rules for polite conversation, I think it's about common sense really. Perhaps people from the upper echelons of society might have particular rules about topics allowed for discussion at certain times or places, I don't know.

Personally I don't mind talking about a lot of things, of course rude conversation or conversation about bodily functions and things like that or not very polite around times when people are eating. With most topics I'd say it's all about using your common sense to decide whether they are appropriate to discuss.

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VanessaTyme · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject:

Well hrumph! I thought I had seen some old period piece about this once upon a time where one older gent probably said something about a political discussion being inappropriate for meals before noon, but I've been wrong before - maybe I'm thinking of Old Elvish and Hobbits more than Old English and the British.

It seems like something I would have read out of a book, "The Picture of Dorian Grey," even.

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**thedreadpersephone** · Advisor Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 913 Location: Dundee

It may surprise you to learn we aren't all sitting here with crumpets and top hats lol.

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VanessaTyme · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:19 am Post subject:

^.^ but stereotypes make life so much simpler

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Corti · Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 191

personally I have a bowler hat.

I will talk about anything at meal times but that is because I am an uncultured pleb.

**Reenie** · Reporter Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 3577 Location: Glasgow

Corti, old bean, there are crumpets in my refrigerator, fully eight of Sainsbury's finest. Shall I have my man send them to you that they may enjoy the company of your hat at the dining table?

*don't believe I just typed that...*

VanessaTyme · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:48 am Post subject:

I guess I too am a so called "Pleb." I don't feel any different but I like the title.

This means I can still talk about the cat puking at breakfast and finish it up with world hunger. Cheers!

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