Hi guys do you put your elbows on the table when you eat? does anyone actually give a fuck????? is it just a meme???
Yes. No. Everything is a meme.
No. No. No.
my bed doesn't have a table
If you're eating out or at the dinning room table use proper fucking manners.
I don't know how often people actually eat at tables anymore, though.
I do whatever the fuck I want when I eat
>>7202724
Does that include chewing with your mouth open and your feet on the dinner table you fucking uncivilized mongrel
>>7202714
>use proper fucking manners
Why? Being polite, hygienic and pleasant is more important than abiding by arbitrary customs.
>>7202743
those are distracting and gross. there's no reason to keep your elbows off the table.
No, but I eat every meal in front of my computer so...
When I'm at a restaurant I try not to along with putting the napkin on my lap but sometimes they just get up there because habit
Pretty much anywhere else I dont really care
Restaurants are usually shitholes that cram as many people in as possible so if I'm ever actually out in a place where someone might care I don't even have enough room to elbow the table anyway.
>touch the table:
elbows: never
forearms: only in casual settings
hands only (nothing above the wrist): formal occasions
you asked.
>>7202752
Listen up, kid.
There is fundamentally one thing that separates us from animals.
We ascribe meaning.
There are three things absolutely necessary for any species, and in virtually every case, across virtually every culture, we as humans ascribe arbitrary customs to them.
Sex, death, and food.
The minute you bring out the new iphone daddy bought you for Christmas and rest your elbows on the dinner table you have effectively negated millennia of evolution and generations of ancestors fighting for you to have what you do.
>>7202706
I only do it when I'm alone, or around people I'm comfortable around.
>>7202792
*tip*
>>7202792
>There are three things absolutely necessary for any species
>death
um ok.
do you follow the paleo diet?
>>7202802
>do you follow the paleo diet
I'm a philosopher, not a retard.
>>7202706
You prob put mayo on hamburgers too
>>7202752
>Being polite, hygienic and pleasant is more important than abiding by arbitrary customs.
>Being polite
>and pleasant
>there are never times that it is unacceptable to put your elbows on the table while eating.
Swine
>>7202792
>kid
is this the best you can actually do?
why even make a thread?
My mom would punish us if we had elbows on the table. Growing up with a overbearing mother is tricky at times but at least I have perfect manners when it benefits me.
I do it at home, but I try not to do it a restaurant.
The only people who give a shit are wanna-be chefs or waiters.
>>7203823
>The only people who give a shit are wanna-be chefs or waiters.
Not true, it's just that no reasonably consistent person would give you shit over it.
Sticklers for etiquette (I know some) would know it's not their place to do so and to do so would be a far worse breach of etiquette in itself.
They simply won't invite you to polite company ever again.
Not usually. It's not a comfortable position for me unless I'm really tired. I'm at the table for less than 10 minutes most of the time so I try not to get too relaxed.
Then again, that guy's table looks really high though, more like a bartop or something. My table is probably about navel high so it's a little more awkward to lean on to it.
