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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm realizing more and more how clueless people are about basic etiquette.  I used to think my mom was too hung up on the "rules", but now I appreciate knowing how to properly host things.  I was just talking to BIL's fiancee last night about her potluck wedding shower.  Her friend is "hosting", her mother is cooking most of the food, and she has asked MIL to bring food as well.  Part of her ignorance about etiquette is cultural, but the same can't be said for most people who just don't have a clue.

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Who defines etiquette though?  I know it's great to be polite but really, it's 2010 not 1940.  Sometimes etiquette is as outdated as some of the [b]religious BS of the Catholic Church.  Sit, stand, kneel, sit, stand, kneel...  Like the blind leading the blind.  It's so regional, cultural, and changeable. [/b] You etiquette ladies smitten can be classy and far from tacky w/out judging others or following your outdated etiquette books.  Sheesh.[/quote]

Leaving aside the substance of why we need etiquette:

1.  The sweeping insult re: millions of practicing Catholics is just mean and gratuitous.
2.  You contradict yourself when you say that those rituals of Catholic worship are "so regional, cultural, and changeable."  In fact, not much has changed on that score for many hundreds of years.

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My point is it is all RITUAL.  I am Catholic.  It's all MOTIONS.  And yes, the church use to be held in Latin, that changed.  You say the same crap each mass like a robot.  I liken etiquette to that.  Snobby, snotty people use etiquette as a reason to judge others for not being or acting like them, or like they think people should be behaving.  It's ridiculous.[/quote]

Calm down.  Why are you expending so much energy on this thread and why are you so angry?  You are doing exactly what you say others shoudn't do.  Do you believe in reincarnation because I wonder if you weren't burned at the stake during the Spanish Inquisition.[/quote]

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