The New Rules for Polite Social Behavior! Don't Respond to Compliments With a Compliment? Stop Repeated Stories In 2 Seconds? Place Food Orders Immediately? Don't Stare At Crying Babies? & Many More! episode artwork

EPISODE · Mar 23, 2023 · 1H 7M

The New Rules for Polite Social Behavior! Don't Respond to Compliments With a Compliment? Stop Repeated Stories In 2 Seconds? Place Food Orders Immediately? Don't Stare At Crying Babies? & Many More!

from The Best Paragraph I've Read... · host Zac & Don

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "The ways we socialize and date, commute and work are nearly unrecognizable from what they were three years ago. We’ve enjoyed a global pandemic, open employer-employee warfare, a multifront culture war, and social upheavals both great and small. The old conventions are out (we don’t whisper the word cancer or let women off the elevator first anymore, for starters). The venues in which we can make fools of ourselves (group chats, Grindr messages, Slack rooms public and private) are multiplying, and each has its own rules of conduct. And everyone’s just kind of rusty. Our social graces have atrophied. We wanted to help." This paragraph comes from an article in New York Magazine titled: "Do You Know How to Behave? Are You Sure? How to text, tip, ghost, host, and generally exist in polite society today.  You can read the full article here: https://www.thecut.com/article/tipping-rules-etiquette-rules.html   Zac and Don discuss some of the new social rules that people should follow.  They agree on some - don't wake up your spouse.  But disagree on others - do you need to be ready when you step up to order food?

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