Spinoff thread. Gifts how much is too

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Spinoff thread. Gifts how much is too
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Tue, 06-26-2007 - 11:47am

much?

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Tue, 07-03-2007 - 10:40am
< "I don't care" has never been much of a debate tactic, especially since once you're posting, it's clear you actually do.

We get used to a lot of tacky things and think nothing of them, like people having loud conversations on their cell phones right next to us on trains. We might throw up our hands over it, and we might even do it ourselves; still tacky as heck!>


To me tacky in some area's would not be considered tacky in others.

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Tue, 07-03-2007 - 10:43am

If someone is a lush with self-control issues, money won't stop him. And I don't think people drink any less when alcohol in their own home or at a bar is available. People who have no self-control where liquor is concerned have that lack of control all the time. I'd think people drink less out and about with friends and family in a social setting, with a band and dance floor. I'm perfectly fine with everyone drinking socially. Never had this distaste for it that you seem to.

Maybe we don't share the same concept of an open bar at a wedding? There are servers who come with food to the tables generally and they'll also take drink orders. Or people can sidle up to the bar. Some waiting for each drink is involved. It's not like a keg party in college.

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Tue, 07-03-2007 - 10:54am
I hate to tarnish a pretty New England bubble, but aren't the terms you're using from Huck Finn? Jeezum and wicked sound like Mark Twain-speak to me.
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Tue, 07-03-2007 - 11:00am

No suh not to my knowledge... ;-)

I've read alot of Twain and I don't recall those terms but that doesn't mean they're not used in the south but I honestly haven't met anyone outside of Maine and some regiosn of northern NH and VT who use "wicked" that way.

 

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Tue, 07-03-2007 - 11:01am
Is she enjoying camp? My 4 yo son does the Happy Dance every morning for an entire hour before camp now - it's loud and it's dangerous! He loves his camp. Money well spent.
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Tue, 07-03-2007 - 11:03am
Well at 8, Liza's a daycamp pro by now...;-) Her school runs a daycamp each summer so she's there with all her friends and familiar teachers -- they do two field trips plus an ice cream excursion every week (today it's the movies, thursday they're going ot the lake). In the past she's gone for all 8 weeks but this summer she's doing 4 weeks of that camp and 4 weeks of musical theater camp at the place she takes acting and voice lessons(and this past spring had the groundbreaking role of Vulture numer 2 in the JUngle book LOL). it's good variety for her!

 

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Tue, 07-03-2007 - 11:04am
But etiquette rules are either observed, modified slightly or disregarded, unlike opinions, which do not exist, objectively.

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Tue, 07-03-2007 - 11:06am
That's terrible. Hey, for your use of the word "society" should we simply substitute "Long Island?" LOL. I actually went to a school on LI with girls who never, ever wore the same clothes twice. It's true.
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Tue, 07-03-2007 - 11:11am

Oh, Okay. You're the expert. But I would love it if you've actually lived on the Mississippi or something less proper and pretty than uppa New England!

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