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New Phone Etiquette: Don't Call Anyone
 New Phone Etiquette: 
 Don't Call Anyone 
OPINION
Mar 20, 2011 7:53 AM CDT

New Phone Etiquette: Don't Call Anyone

Phones are so smart now, we've stopped calling altogether

(Newser) - Smartphones are the most important accessories in our lives, good for doing just about anything—except actually calling people, writes Pamela Paul in the New York Times . In fact, phone use in general is way down over the past five years, reports Paul, so much so that when her phone...

America's Facing a Hug Epidemic: Juliet Lapidos
 Hey, America: 
 Stop Hugging Me 
OPINION
Mar 13, 2011 6:05 PM CDT

Hey, America: Stop Hugging Me

Do we really need to touch this much? asks Juliet Lapidos

(Newser) - We’re facing a hugging epidemic in America: not only do we hug our friends constantly, we’re also expected to hug our friends’ girlfriends’ coworkers, writes Juliet Lapidos in Slate . Sure, there are times when hugs are called for: when the hugger is your boyfriend, or your mother, or...

'Dear' Has Gone the Way of the Dinosaur

In our Internet age, it's too intimate for some, too formal for others

(Newser) - Dear reader: If starting your correspondence with the word “dear” seems just a bit too familiar to use, you’re not alone. The long-penned salutation appears to be headed for extinction, thanks in part to the proliferation of informal communication like email, the Wall Street Journal reports. Even one...

How to Confront an iPhone Addict ... Politely

Sorry, but no, you shouldn't approach rude strangers

(Newser) - Sarah Lorge Butler cannot believe she needs to remind us of this, but “it’s not polite to use a BlackBerry or iPhone at the table. Ever,” she writes for CBS . After running into two situations—one involving a friend, the other a stranger—in which she wanted...

How to Behave on Facebook
 How to Behave on Facebook 
stop posting yearbook pix
Aug 29, 2010 8:58 AM CDT

How to Behave on Facebook

No one wants to read about your daily workouts

(Newser) - Facebook is nice and all, but it would be better if people had to follow some basic rules of etiquette. Wendy Atterberry offers up the 10 she’d like to see, on The Frisky :
  1. Stop tagging people: And while you’re at it, don’t even post those “embarrassing
...

How to Dine Like a Gentleman
 How to Dine Like a Gentleman 
Jul 24, 2010 9:37 AM CDT

How to Dine Like a Gentleman

For one thing, no dancing

(Newser) - Looking to impress your future in-laws at a fancy dinner out? Follow John Mariani’s 39 steps for how to dine out like a gentleman, from Esquire :
  • "A gentleman never has more than one cocktail before dinner."
  • "A gentleman never takes more than one minute to decide
...

No Peeing, Please, and Other Tour Rules

Bicyclists in Tour de France are bound by etiquette

(Newser) - The Tour de France isn't all yellow shirts and glory. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at some of the rules—informal and otherwise—that guide the bicyclists.
  • Don't grab first place if the current leader is having mechanical trouble. (Alberto Contador broke this informal no-no in the current
...

Rules for Conversation
 Rules for Conversation 
dilbert's scott adams
Jul 22, 2010 12:30 PM CDT

Rules for Conversation

It's not about entertaining yourself

(Newser) - The state of our civil discourse has come to this: Dilbert creator Scott Adams has posted some rules on his blog about how to have a conversation. It's not a diatribe against social media or shrinking attention spans, just a simple observation that most people (he figures three-quarters of the...

When Did We Stop Saying 'You're Welcome'?
When Did We Stop Saying 'You're Welcome'?
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jul 10, 2010 7:17 AM CDT

When Did We Stop Saying 'You're Welcome'?

And should we mourn its passing, or just suck it up?

(Newser) - Matt Zoller Seitz has a problem with "no problem." The phrase has replaced "you're welcome" about as definitively as cars replaced the horse and buggy, and it irks him "to an extent that cannot be captured in print without the use of capital letters, boldface, italics...

Pregnant Woman's Plea to Strangers: Shut Up

Keep your advice and observations to yourself, please

(Newser) - Taffy Brodesser-Akner is 9 months' pregnant, and it shows, and she doesn't need you reminding her of that fact. Or, for that matter, offering your wisdom on what she eats and drinks (like the barista who told her to go decaf) or what sex baby she's carrying (like the clerk...

Queen Elizabeth Hits New York

She'll stop at Ground Zero, the UN

(Newser) - Queen Elizabeth will take a whirlwind tour of the Big Apple today, stopping by Ground Zero and the United Nations in her first visit to New York in 35 years. She’ll address the UN General Assembly, much as she did the first time she visited the city in 1957—...

Make Starbucks Your Office Without Being a Jerk

Expert tips for using free wireless without irritating others

(Newser) - Now that Starbucks has free WiFi , nothing's keeping you from making the local branch your away-from-home office—except perhaps money and social conventions. Om Malik of GigaOm , a successful startup that incubated at a Starbucks, offers some pointers:
  • Buy something: And not just one tall black coffee per 8-hour shift—
...

Artist Gives NYC's Subway Riders a Lesson in Manners
Artist Gives NYC's Subway Riders a Lesson in Manners
no nail clipping, groping
Apr 21, 2010 10:13 AM CDT

Artist Gives NYC's Subway Riders a Lesson in Manners

Poster blitz also targets seat hogs, litterers

(Newser) - Call him the 21st-century Emily Post: Artist Jason Shelowitz is out to teach New York City subway riders that groping, sneezing, preaching, and littering is totally uncool. Shelowitz quizzed passengers on their pet peeves and made the top 10 into pretty humorous posters in the style of the transit authority's...

Texting's Single Golden Rule
 Texting's Single Golden Rule 
ETIQUETTE 2.0
Mar 21, 2010 4:53 AM CDT

Texting's Single Golden Rule

Follow same guidelines as with a restroom visit

(Newser) - In trying to find an easy-to-remember (and follow) rule to govern text-messaging etiquette, Slate turned to its readers, and found the perfect solution. The Bathroom Rule goes thus: If you’d have to excuse yourself to hit the restroom, do so before whipping out the phone (and if you wouldn’...

What Not to Say to a Redhead
 What Not to Say to a Redhead 
Feb 20, 2010 10:55 AM CST

What Not to Say to a Redhead

Start with 'carrot top' and way-too-personal pickup lines

(Newser) - As a redhead, Rose Martelli has heard every one of your witty comments about her hair, thank you very much. At Asylum.com, she lists what never to say to a redhead. Here's a sampling:
  • Carrot top: Extremely funny. In first grade.
  • Do your drapes match the carpet? "Thank
...

How to Tell If You're Boring
 How to Tell If You're Boring 
Dec 2, 2009 5:30 PM CST

How to Tell If You're Boring

Watch for these signs during that idle holiday chit chat

(Newser) - Pretty soon, you’ll probably be drowning in polite holiday chit chat with rarely seen acquaintances, and odds are some of those conversations will be really dull. How can you ensure you’re not the one being boring? Slate breaks down some surefire clues:
  • Repeated, perfunctory responses: If they’re
...

100 No-Nos Insulting to Waiters
 100 No-Nos Insulting to Waiters 
Nov 11, 2009 9:37 AM CST

100 No-Nos Insulting to Waiters

Former waiter irked by Bruce Buschel's New York Times list

(Newser) - Along with the rest of the world—or at least, frequenters of the New York Times website—Lauren Bans read restaurateur Bruce Buschel’s recent “100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do.” And the former waiter is pretty annoyed. “No minimum wage job should ever require a...

Biggest Restaurant No-Nos, Part 2
 Biggest Restaurant 
 No-Nos, Part 2 
CHECK, PLEASE
Nov 5, 2009 1:30 PM CST

Biggest Restaurant No-Nos, Part 2

Owner offers another 50 ways to please guests, keep job

(Newser) - Bruce Buschel isn't out of touch. "I realize that every deli needs a wisecracking waiter," he writes in the New York Times, "and burgers always taste better when delivered by a server with tattoos and tongue piercing(s)." But at his soon-to-open restaurant, these rules (coupled...

Look Up Exes on Facebook at Your Own Peril
Look Up Exes on Facebook
at Your Own Peril 
OPINION
Oct 6, 2009 10:17 AM CDT

Look Up Exes on Facebook at Your Own Peril

He's probably gay, she probably hates you, and it could ruin your relationship

(Newser) - Back in the halcyon pre-Facebook days, Elizabeth Bernstein writes, you didn't just pick up the phone and ring up an old flame. “If you went looking for a former partner, you knew you were looking for trouble.” So why it should be any different on Facebook? A survey...

Why Can't You Wear White After Labor Day?

Time explores the origin of a long-standing faux pas

(Newser) - Everyone knows the style rule that you're not supposed to wear white after Labor Day. But why? The rule’s origins are surprisingly difficult to pin down, writes Laura Fitzpatrick for Time. The most conventional explanation has it as a practical matter: white fabric was cooler than the relatively heavy...

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