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  1. Lynne Truss _ Talk to the Hand: The Utter

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it usually aspiring gangsta rappers who set such store by designer labels?
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  2. Lynne Truss _ Talk to the Hand: The Utter

    All the important roles shortly boiled down to one: remember your with other people; show some consideration.
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  3. Lynne Truss _ Talk to the Hand: The Utter

    ...intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that, if you need a new and unfamiliar VCR programmed in a hurry, you commandeer any small passing child to do it.
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  4. Lynne Truss _ Talk to the Hand: The Utter

    If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.
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  5. Lynne Truss _ Talk to the Hand: The Utter

    It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.
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  6. Lynne Truss _ Talk to the Hand: The Utter

    Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.
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  7. Lynne Truss _ Talk to the Hand: The Utter

    ...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate - with quite elaborate behaviours = for the sudden half-disappearance of the person we were just speaking to. 'Go ahead!' we say. 'Don't mind us! Oh look, here's a magazine I can read!' When the call is over, other rituals come into play, to minimise the disruption caused and to restore good feeling.
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  8. Lynne Truss _ Talk to the Hand: The Utter

    The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.
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  9. Lynne Truss _ Talk to the Hand: The Utter

    Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.
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  10. Lynne Truss _ Talk to the Hand: The Utter

    Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who is female/black/disabled/gay wants this not to be their defining characteristic; you are supposed to be blind to it. But then, on other occasions, you are supposed to observe special sensitivity, or show special respect.
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