How long are YOU going to tolerate rudeness?

Michael Deacon is right.

Could we be a little more polite, please?

And so was I.

Bread and games - and he ***** your granddaughter, too!

I wish I weren't.

But when people actually equate basic good manners with fascism (see the comments below Deacon's original article) I'd say we're safely on the road to HELL.
The survival of the "thug-est".
A Darwinian inferno.

Still, there is something you can do. (There always is.)
Heed a wise man - who, admittedly, ended tragically (but his legacy hasn't) - and "you BE the change you want to see in the world".

Kill 'em by kindness.

Or, heck, just follow these simple rules, again courtesy of Deacon & Co. (= all who think like him):

The Politeness Manifesto

As a matter of fact, if you are shopping for a teenager whom you'd like to teach good manners (preferably without whips), you could do much worse than to buy the charming - and actually useful - book Do the Right Thing: A Teenager's Survival Guide for Tricky Situations. In what seems the ultimate irony (but is it, really?), it was written by Jane Goldman... who happens to be the wife of the offensive antihero of this post.


And finally, my heartfelt New Year wishes for all of you out there, in here, all around, nowhere, everywhere:

MAY EVERYTHING YOU WISH ON OTHERS
HAPPEN TO YOU

And I really, really mean it. :)