The curious case of RHYC and the pirate flag.

[MASH]

Overall the snobbery displayed in this thread is almost entirely of the inverse kind, people visiting a club and saying they'd decline to lower a flag when asked as though it cost them something. People declining to conform with house rules that are there for perfectly practical purposes, people accusing others of snobbery because they're asked to do something they don't feel like complying with, and sneering at blazers and buttons; coming the snotty big I AM as a visitor in someone else's house.


God, whatever happened to manners?

 

[Saguday]

Hear hear. Let's maintain all the rules, bylaws, traditions and practices, no matter how out of date, absurd, irrelevant or petty. Let's not have any debate, criticism or, God forbid, change. No one ever got fired maintaining the status quo :sleeping:

 

[Bru]

He No one ever got fired maintaining the status quo

I've been a devout supporter of The Status Quo for more'n fourty years

 

[ianfr]

I've been a devout supporter of The Status Quo for more'n fourty years

That could explain one or two things

Ian

 

[Bru]

That could explain one or two things

:encouragement:

 

[nortada]

Overall the snobbery displayed in this thread is almost entirely of the inverse kind, people visiting a club and saying they'd decline to lower a flag when asked as though it cost them something. People declining to conform with house rules that are there for perfectly practical purposes, people accusing others of snobbery because they're asked to do something they don't feel like complying with, and sneering at blazers and buttons; coming the snotty big I AM as a visitor in someone else's house.

God, whatever happened to manners?

Given the direction & increasingly strong comments, this thread would be more appropriate in the forum.

That said, as the only contributor to mention snobbery, I would refute that this thread is overall displaying snobbery of any kind.

As to manners? Manners relate to behavior rather than opinion, which sits firmly in the domain of freedom of speech so God has nothing to worry much about in this thread.