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🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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You might think etiquette is outdated. Who really needs a dinner with nice napkins and four different forks? Etiquette expert William Hanson disagrees. By observing good manners we show others we respect and care about them - deepening our bonds.
William (author of Just Good Manners and host of the podcast Help I Sexted My Boss) explains the origins of many formal behaviours and how they can make us happier.
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0:53.9 | So I put that question to today's guest, William Hansen. |
0:57.2 | I had two poached eggs on some toast. |
1:00.5 | If that sounds a bit elaborate for a random breakfast at home, you haven't heard the half of it. |
1:05.0 | I used a fork in a knife. I put a placemat down, napkin. We did it relatively formally for a Monday. |
1:28.5 | Place mats, napkins? I can't remember the last time I used a cloth napkin for breakfast. I'm not even sure I own any cloth napkins. Does everybody not have a napkin collection? They should. I can strongly advocate for having one because, you know, as anyone knows, in etiquette, we have four different types of napkin size, and I think it's nice to have an array. I think a proper napkin so much better than a sort of |
1:33.4 | a tattie paper one or a piece of kitchen towel or something like that, which is not pleasant and |
1:38.9 | very coarse on the lips. And years ago, when I was living in a flat, we had a fire that was in the laundry cupboard and the napkins were right next door to the fire. |
1:47.9 | And this is not what we advise people to do in the case of the fire, but I decided to save the napkins and was very carefully moving them out whilst the flat burned around me. |
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2:06.0 | And don't worry, this isn't a show about using napkins. |
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