Originally Posted by Goggle girl:
“You can still be taught basic table manners even if earring to dinners off your lap, how to hold cutlery & not chewing with your mouth open. I know they are adults but this behaviour is instilled throughout childhood. Steven Bear's parents should be ashamed on so many levels.”
Eating your dinner off your lap doesn't make it easy to hold cutlery properly. Some parents think it's acceptable to plonk their kids in front of the TV to eat their meals. Half the time they probably aren't even in the same room as each other, so their chimps tea party behaviour is never corrected.
I've noticed (even as far back with CH4 BB's), maybe from 6-7 onward, a lot of the HM's eat like pigs & seem unable to hold cutlery properly, eat with their mouth open, speak with their mouth full, slurp, chomp, belch, & shovel food into their gob as quickly as possible.
Maybe table manners (like a lot of things), are no longer important & people who expect to see that are considered to be old fashioned!