Anyone else seen the list in today's 'i' (p.2) of the '10 polite behaviours Britons would be happiest to lose'? If all these 'polite behaviours' go, the following could become accepted as normal manners:
Using phones at the meal table
Swearing
Not saying Please and Thank you
Elbows on table during meals
Not holding door for people coming along behind
Not waiting for host to indicate seats at meals
Not shaking hands when greeting someone
Not covering nose and mouth with hand when coughing/sneezing
Just says 'from a poll', not by whom or of what. And obviously envisaging fairly formal circumstances. Even so, am the only one to find this rather chilling?
To obliterate your address on packaging
sticky labels on apples - remove before washing!