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A guide to gym etiquette

Always Wipe up your sweat – Leaving a pool of perspiration on the bench press for the next person to lie in is as unsavoury as spitting into your palm before shaking someone’s hand. It’s also a distracting sight for any [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Yom Kippur etiquette guide: Forgive and be forgiven

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, observed this year from sundown on Friday night, October 7th until nightfall on October 8th, and is the Most Awesome Day in the Jewish calendar. Concluding the “Ten Days of Repentance,” als [...]

Posted On : Oct, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

An etiquette guide to going to the movies

One of this year's TIFF Midnight Madness selections, God Bless America, features a modern-day Bonnie & Clyde shooting someone for talking in a cinema. As the festival draws to a close, festival programmer Colin Geddes dreads the retur [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Fantasy Football Etiquette – Guide to 2011 NFL Season

Draft day is quickly approaching. Whether it’s your first time playing fantasy football or you’ve been playing for years and don’t seem to be getting invited back to the leagues from last year, this year’s NFL Fant [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Guidelines For Second Wedding Etiquette

There are instances of second weddings and for these times, second wedding etiquette will asked to be observed by the couple. It entirely depends on whose experience is complicated by matters of the former wedding. Bef [...]

Posted On : Jul, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Modern manners: A complete guide to etiquette in the digital...

When John H Young published his Guide to the Manners, Etiquette and Deportment of the Most Refined Society in 1879, it became a bestseller in his native America. After you've read its 400 pages of rules governing everything from na [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Tour guide brushes up on royal etiquette

A presenter known as the new Graham Norton was brushing up on his royal etiquette after being chosen as a tour guide for the Queen. Ryan Tubridy, 37, said he planned to use sporting rivalry between England and Ireland to break the ice. Tu [...]

Posted On : May, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

A guide to wedding guest etiquette

Some say a wedding is all about the bride and groom, which is all well and good but it doesn't much help the guests. Yes, they too have a role and getting it right isn't easy. Sometimes it's the guests who really make or brea [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Royal wedding: A guide to etiquette

Uniform: Only active members of the armed forces are allowed to wear military uniform and need permission from a commanding officer to do so. According to etiquette experts Debretts: "Each regiment has its own traditions and protoco [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Foreign etiquette for Americans: A guide to dos and don'ts a...

Frequent business traveler Scott McKain many years ago learned a valuable lesson about etiquette abroad. On a trade mission in Brazil in 1974, McKain's mouth was full at a welcome dinner when a local mayor asked whether he was enjoyi [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Susie Rushton: A shuffler's guide to theatre etiquette

That member of the audience, the woman who's been shuffling in her seat just down the row from you, her with the twitchy legs, the same woman who dropped her water bottle on the floor, twice, asked the man sitting next to her: " [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Debrett's cyclist etiquette guide for London canals

British Waterways said complaints from pedestrians and cyclists sharing Regents Canal led it to issue a guide from etiquette authority Debrett's. The guide asks walkers to give way to cyclists and riders are reminded to "smile&q [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Etiquette guides removal of food from mouth

What do you do when you take a bite of something, say meat, and it's all bones or fat, and you need to get it out of your mouth? Do you discreetly put your napkin to your mouth and hide it in there? This may sound ridiculous, but I&# [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Modern Etiquette - Valentine's Day Survival Guide

As Valentine's Day approaches, many people's thoughts turn to flowers and candlelit dinners but not to awkward moments when a date takes a cell phone call at the table or long pauses when the check comes. Yet this can be th [...]