Stupid Customs

[Scarim Coral]

Sometimes my parent make a big deal that I use the fork with my right hand and the knife with my left. Sorry but all the years of eating Chinese food and using the chopstick with my right hand, I view my right hand is the dominant hand for eating.
Ok sure I can somewhat understand during the Wedding dinner since they lay the severl knifes and forks that way but come on! Not everyone were looking at me expect for the bride guest and even then they were paying attention at me ignoring the custom.

 

[Smeatza]

Apparently it's rude to wear a hat indoors.
What's truly annoying is that most people who claim they find wearing hats indoors rude, don't even know why.
They just fall back on the ol' "it's bad manners."
aka. "I don't need a real reason because I'm a self richous asshole who likes to harrass other people under the pretense of manners, when really I'm just jealous that you didn't have a ridiculous, outdated morale code beaten into you as a child."

I do not feel the need to make a subservient gesture from the 1300's every time I walk inside, especially to somone so out of touch with the world, they can be offended by a fellow human being wearing a hat.

 

[SEXTON HALE]

Just ignore all of those stupid customs and give anybody who tells you otherwise a good verbal beat down.
Unless it is actually necessary like at a formal dinner I eat as I please and have never had much use for table manners.
As for your question I have never seen anybody eat like that and im surprised she could even manage that.

 

[Skratt]

Etiquette is completely subjective IMO and wholly dependent upon your cultural circumstance. Eating peas with a knife is asinine and a fork is shaped precisely for a stabbing / scooping mechanism. While you are stuck with your families pretentious eating habits while you live under their roof, you aren't in the wrong. However, social circles tend to be furious beasts when it comes to bucking their norm, so that's a decision you'll have to make when the time comes.

 

[Azuaron]

There's a difference between politeness and etiquette:

Politeness: chew with you mouth closed, reasonably sized bites, don't talk with your mouth full, keep your face clean, don't slurp your soup, etc.. Some of these change based on context (go to The Excalibur in Vegas and see a tourney. Full dinner, no silverware), but for the most part these are things that have a function reason and directly impact other people.

Etiquette: Eat off the back of your fork, eat peas with a knife, fork on the left/spoon, knife on the right, that fork for this, this fork for that, etc. etc.. This is all nonsense that people use to try and seem better than other people, and changes regionally (often in contradictory ways). It's stupid. Unless you need to impress someone (or you think you're better than other people when you're not), don't worry about it.

Point of interest, the "better" my etiquette, the more I'm saying the people I'm with are shallow, arrogant twits.