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[St_Zartan]

GET REAL AND BE POLITE

WICKA-WICKA-WICKA-WICK

And before you ask, I'm an A/V cataloger, so I see retarded shit like this on a heartbreakingly regular basis. You would be astonished, astonished, to learn how many amateurish, white-bread "_______ Rap" videos and DVDs are available for kids. For EDUCATION.

Oh, and the way those paragraphs just end? In the original.

[AugustWest]

Send a bread and butter note to your hostess, beeyotch.

[pmcd9]

Are we against manners here or just a rap video that explains them?

~Paul

[V-Adore]

I've never understood the concept of "kids learning in spite of themselves." Do people not remember what it was like to be a child and just be in total furious rage because of adults assuming they didn't want anything nice unless it was coated in pabulum? Is there truly any child in the universe for whom rap makes a suitable vehicle for manners education?

I may be overgeneralizing. Sometimes I forget that I do not come from Circumstances.

[St_Zartan]

Are we against manners here or just a rap video that explains them?

The thread title was a reference to Little Nephew's rap album, Fuck... ALGEBRA!. In real life, you may be surprised to read, I am polite to the point of nervous exhaustion.

Dude, you are 0 for 2 today. Seriously, I'm going to have to pack you into an unmarked black van and send you to Komedy Re-Education Kamp if this keeps up.

[mudokon]

"...as kids teach kids the basics of table and"? AND?!

[miles]

Mr. T changed my life.  Sometimes if you add a celebrity doing Krazy things into the mix, it helps me realize that it's cool to try to be a better person.

[side_show]

His jewelry is worth more than the home you grew up in, and if he punches you, you're out.

beautiful.

[Gimpson]

Mr. T changed my life.  Sometimes if you add a celebrity doing Krazy things into the mix, it helps me realize that it's cool to try to be a better person.

I am proud to own a copy of this video.

[Gimpson]

Also Zartan, where do you work where the cataloguing of such a video is something you get paid for?

[CortJstr]

I guess the trailing "and" is supposed to lead into that pink headline. Maybe an ellipsis would help.

This reminds me of a record store I like which has pages from Sesame Street magazine circa 1983 up in the listening room. Sampling a new CD is even better when gazing upon Gonzo hanging from Mr. T's flexed arm.

While we're discussing manners I need some help. I learned that paper napkins remain on the table and only cloth napkins go on the lap. But the SO and her family appear to disagree. I must have a resolution for this burning issue.

Edit: DAMMIT! I now have the rap from MC Safety and the Caution Crew stuck in my head. Thank you so very much Zart and Principal Skinner.

[arkabee]

While we're discussing manners I need some help. I learned that paper napkins remain on the table and only cloth napkins go on the lap. But the SO and her family appear to disagree. I must have a resolution for this burning issue.

i put any napkin on my lap, because if food were to fall i want it to land on the napkin and not my #####.

i'm not sure this helps.

[V-Adore]

I'm not sure the material of the napkin matters, actually. As I sort of osmosed it*, you put the napkin on your lap when you are having a Nice Meal (i.e. Thanksgiving, dinner with guests, eating out a nice place, etc.), and for casual meals you just leave it on the table. Of course, there is a heavy correlation between niceness of meal and composition of napkins anyway.

* I was never really formally taught much table manners** as a kid besides "for the love of God sit up straight and don't talk with your mouth full" and basic fork usage, but I absorbed a lot via observation and Miss Manners.

** Or should this be "many manners?" Is "manners" discrete?

[andalucia]

Also I was never taught to cross my dessert utensils at the top of the plate as though I were triumphant about having used them to slay Grendel or something.  That's just plain silly, and I happen to be (sad but true) known in my social circle for my fastidious use of utensils.  Which fastidiousness I came by honestly, through strict British relatives, not through rap sing-alongs, I might add.

[St_Zartan]

Also Zartan, where do you work where the cataloguing of such a video is something you get paid for?

I work for a public library system that, among its other merits, regularly orders a metric fuck-ton of children's A/V materials.

What will amaze and delight you is that the selection of these materials is done by people with Master's Degrees and years and years of experience working for and with children. There was a real, considered thought process preceded someone saying "Yes, yes we will order the Rap-a-long Manners Music Video. It is only $12.95 and kids like the rap music."

I guess the trailing "and" is supposed to lead into that pink headline. Maybe an ellipsis would help.

I wish it was that simple - but I have the video here in my hand (extra bonus: it's a videocassette and yet there is a huge green sunburst on the front cover jauntily proclaiming DVD) and that trailing "the" there at the bottom leads to ...

"Also check out our educational videos : Table Manners for KIDS! & Telephone Manners for KIDS!"

V, I remember being in a total furious rage when I woke up in the morning and made up my mind right then and there not to learn anything, not one fuck*ng thing, all day long, only to be tricked somewhere around lunchtime with adults and their rap music.

FUCK! I LEARNED IN SPITE OF MYSELF
PARDON MY LANGUAGE, MA'AM