This looks like a geniune conversation between Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington
Yeah, I hate it when people think I’m genuinely interested in them when all I’m doing is just being polite & getting the formalities out of the way.
Thank you for validating my misanthropy, Chris.
Tangently, all of us assholes should unite & make a club or something. Gatherings & reunions would be astoundingly easy to organize.
Just post the date & time somewhere, don’t warn the others, no one would show up anyway.
Best club ever.
This is why I never add “and you?”. Being a hypocrite isn’t my interest.
I think that this comic is incorrect. The first character was not being polite! He was following the rules of etiquette, which is a completely and totally different thing. Politeness is a genuine interest and care for the feelings of others. Etiquette is just following all the rules for being “polite”. From The Gentlemen’s Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, by Cecil B. Hartley: “Real politeness is the outward expression of the most generous impulses of the heart. It enforces unselfishness, benevolence, kindness, and the golden rule, ‘Do unto others as you would others should do unto you.’ Thus its first principle is love for the neighbor, loving him as yourself.”
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This looks like a geniune conversation between Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington
Yeah, I hate it when people think I’m genuinely interested in them when all I’m doing is just being polite & getting the formalities out of the way.
Thank you for validating my misanthropy, Chris.
Tangently, all of us assholes should unite & make a club or something. Gatherings & reunions would be astoundingly easy to organize.
Just post the date & time somewhere, don’t warn the others, no one would show up anyway.
Best club ever.
This is why I never add “and you?”. Being a hypocrite isn’t my interest.
I think that this comic is incorrect. The first character was not being polite! He was following the rules of etiquette, which is a completely and totally different thing. Politeness is a genuine interest and care for the feelings of others. Etiquette is just following all the rules for being “polite”. From The Gentlemen’s Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, by Cecil B. Hartley: “Real politeness is the outward expression of the most generous impulses of the heart. It enforces unselfishness, benevolence, kindness, and the golden rule, ‘Do unto others as you would others should do unto you.’ Thus its first principle is love for the neighbor, loving him as yourself.”