Social Graces??

The Blue Note, by any chance?

Aye. That lad from Corrie was in there all the time too. Blonde. He went working for Pete Stringfella in his new London club.

The Blue Note, by any chance?

Would that be the…. ahem…. venue immortalised in Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back In Town“, perchance?

Dunno. It was on Gore St, and Harold Melvin had some.

Would that be the…. ahem…. venue immortalised in Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back In Town“, perchance?

I once remember being Introduced to some dodgy gangster types , the shaking of hands went into some routine which would have put a Mason to shame , it didn’t quite end in a high fives , all the same I felt a bit of a burke , and I’m not ashamed of saying It a bit out of my normal comfort zone .

It wasn’t the Quality street gang was it?
I was on the door of their regular place in Mancland.

I once remember being Introduced to some dodgy gangster types , the shaking of hands went into some routine which would have put a Mason to shame , it didn’t quite end in a high fives , all the same I felt a bit of a burke , and I’m not ashamed of saying It a bit out of my normal comfort zone .

Aye, that’d be nice. As a relatively young person, and someone who is perhaps a little too in tune with their inner teenager, I know it’s pretty unpleasant to be labelled the same kind of hooligan perpetuated by the current “chav culture” – not all people of my age/generation are as horrid and brutish as they are, and I’ve actually known a good few people younger than myself who were perfectly well-mannered and intelligent.

Like most things, the minority get slammed for the actions of the majority.

Sorry son but I think you got that the wrong way around, it’s the minority that get the majority a bad name. On second thoughts in this case you are probably right:diablo:

Dunno about handshakes, there’s nothing wrong with greeting your closest friends with a damned good hug as far as I’m concerned! 😀

Paul

This is what Bass playing does to a man!

Some earlier post….
As for the gals kissing the director from America, that’s a PC way of sleeping with the boss. Or just general crawling.

[I So we should’t tar them all with the same brush.[/I]

Aye, that’d be nice. As a relatively young person, and someone who is perhaps a little too in tune with their inner teenager, I know it’s pretty unpleasant to be labelled the same kind of hooligan perpetuated by the current “chav culture” – not all people of my age/generation are as horrid and brutish as they are, and I’ve actually known a good few people younger than myself who were perfectly well-mannered and intelligent.

Like most things, the minority get slammed for the actions of the majority.

Something like this then Paul, eh?

Haha! Exactly like that! Heineken included! 😀

…a damned good hug as far as I’m concerned! 😀

Paul

Something like this then Paul, eh?

http://revver.com/video/895531/heineken-helicopter-man-hug/

Dunno about handshakes, there’s nothing wrong with greeting your closest friends with a damned good hug as far as I’m concerned! 😀

Paul

I said embrace, but I really like your phrase. That’s exactly what it is.:)

It was a tongue-in-cheek remark. 🙂

It was well made, nevertheless. I know we are sticklers for correct English on this forum.;)

Dunno about handshakes, there’s nothing wrong with greeting your closest friends with a damned good hug as far as I’m concerned! 😀

Paul

No, not semantics, but a legitimate point. I think it is clumsy phrasing, more than anything else. “….using grammar correctly….” perhaps.

It was a tongue-in-cheek remark. 🙂

No, not semantics, but a legitimate point. I think it is clumsy phrasing, more than anything else. “….using grammar correctly….” perhaps.

……by SOME youngsters today…… Happily I know a few who have all the conventional social graces, speak grammatically correctly with a good and varied vocabulary, don’t need a calculator to add 5 and 9 and know a great deal about the history of the world they live in. They are also kind and considerate. So we should’t tar them all with the same brush.

Semantics, but “grammatically correctly”? :dev2:

That is why I said SOME in reply to Steve’s origianl post. I too know a lot of young people who given the chance I would happily take to the most formal of venues and know that they were intelligent enough to hold a constructive conversation

I can judge the character of a man by the strength of his handshake – if it’s a sweaty, limp, Civil Servant type handshake, I know I’m not going to like them, or have much in common.

Totally agree. At home we used to call it a wet fish handshake.

The social graces are considered totally irrelevant by youngsters today, along with spelling, grammar, arithmetic, elegance, and general knowledge about anything more than five years old…

……by SOME youngsters today…… Happily I know a few who have all the conventional social graces, speak grammatically correctly with a good and varied vocabulary, don’t need a calculator to add 5 and 9 and know a great deal about the history of the world they live in. They are also kind and considerate. So we should’t tar them all with the same brush.

I can judge the character of a man by the strength of his handshake – if it’s a sweaty, limp, Civil Servant type handshake, I know I’m not going to like them, or have much in common.
The social graces are considered totally irrelevant by youngsters today, along with spelling, grammar, arithmetic, elegance, and general knowledge about anything more than five years old…