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Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*Ck (Paperback)
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Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*Ck (Paperback)
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Loot Price R492
Discovery Miles 4 920
You Save R107 (18%)
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"Miss Manners with Fangs." --"LA Weekly"We live in a world that's
very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many
of us who are nice (but who also sometimes say "f*ck") are
frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person
who deals effectively with the increasing onslaught of rudeness we
all encounter.
To lead us out of the miasma of modern mannerlessness,
science-based and bitingly funny syndicated advice columnist Amy
Alkon rips the doily off the manners genre and gives us a new set
of rules for our twenty-first century lives.
With wit, style, and a dash of snark, Alkon explains that we now
live in societies too big for our brains, lacking the constraints
on bad behavior that we had in the small bands we evolved in. Alkon
shows us how we can reimpose those constraints, how we can avoid
being one of the rude, and how to stand up to those who are.
Foregoing prissy advice on which utensil to use, Alkon answers the
twenty-first century's most burning questions about manners,
including: * Why do many people, especially those under forty, now
find spontaneous phone calls rude? * What can you tape to your
mailbox to stop dog walkers from letting their pooch violate your
lawn? * How do you shut up the guy in the pharmacy line with his
cellphone on speaker? * What small gift to your new neighbors might
make them think twice about playing Metallica at 3 a.m.? Combining
science with more than a touch of humor, "Good Manners for Nice
People Who Sometimes Say F*ck" is destined to give good old Emily a
shove off the etiquette shelf (if that's not too rude to say).
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