House Rules - Tonight's top story

[KingOfKings]

Whatever. However you sit, knee to ankle was intended for guys, ankle to ankle was intended for girls, okay? That's just how it was back then, and nobody bothered to change it. If you sit differently, I[/] don't care, but some people will get the wrong idea. Okay?<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> As for funny looks - why the hell would anyone give a second thought to how someone else is sitting? Or using a fork? I mean, of all the things to notice, why would anyone give it a second thought.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>That's...just how todays society works. You get way too many "Nobody cares how I look" vibes from Ozy and Millie. If you wear a top hat to school, somebody WILL stare at you. It won't be me, but somebody will. Face it.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> When I had a big chair thing, I'd often wind up sitting 'ass on feet' style for some reason, aheh. Right now I'm on one of those strange stools with a knee rest, when sitting on the thing properly means your feet are directly under your rear, (in my case one on top of the other right now), though I sometimes use the knee wrest as a foot wrest.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Great. But if you sit on your feet in the presence of someone important, in an office, or at a meeting, you're not going to look very well-mannered or or professional. There's no "society" around when you're with just you and a friend. Nobody cares then. I don't even care. But some people do. And it's not your place to tell them they shouldn't.

[dcsimpson]

<!--QuoteBegin-KingOfKings+Jul 23 2005, 06:46 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (KingOfKings @ Jul 23 2005, 06:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Whatever. However you sit, knee to ankle was intended for guys, ankle to ankle was intended for girls, okay? That's just how it was back then, and nobody bothered to change it. If you sit differently, I[/] don't care, but some people will get the wrong idea. Okay? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Why do you care anyway? Who are you, the Status Quo Avenger?

[KingOfKings]

<!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Why do you care anyway? Who are you, the Status Quo Avenger?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>...I said I didn't care right in the thing you quoted.<br>I just care that people think there's no such thing as a proper way to sit. As if you sit on your head in an interview, NOBODY is going to wonder or even care.

[Paul.Power]

<!--QuoteBegin-dcsimpson+Jul 23 2005, 06:56 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Jul 23 2005, 06:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Why do you care anyway? Who are you, the Status Quo Avenger? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> I'm sorry, now I can't get out of my head the image of someone dashing around a metropolis fighting crime by playing "Rocking All Over The World" at people (It sounds disturbingly like something Millie would try).<br><br><!--QuoteBegin-KingOfKings+--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (KingOfKings)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I just care that people think there's no such thing as a proper way to sit. As if you sit on your head in an interview, NOBODY is going to wonder or even care.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd-->I think people are far more likely to notice that than if you cross your legs slightly differently.

[Dr. Doog]

you obviously do care because you are defending your point.

[KingOfKings]

<!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I think people are far more likely to notice that than if you cross your legs slightly differently.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Same general principle.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>   you obviously do care because you are defending your point.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Yes, but I'm defending my point that some styles of sitting are more 'proper' than others, the same way some types are shoes are better for fancy occasions than sneakers. And also how girls are supposed to wear high-heels, and boys aren't. You can wear your sneakers...or your high heels...around your friends, but in a 5 star restaurant, sneakers are just a weird thing to wear.<br><br>And my point is, in cases where you want to be "well-mannered" and "proper" and all that other stupid crap nobody ever really cares about, girls were meant to sit one way, and boys were meant to sit another way. Why? I don't know. Ask the people who say girls should wear ribbons (also something Ozy has done once) and boys shouldn't. Or why girls are 'supposed' to wait for guys to ask them to be married and not the other way around. I'm not the one who assigned stupid gender roles. Regardless of how pointless they are, that's just how people interpret it. Ribbons = girl, no ribbons = guy. Sitting like you dont have a crotch = girl, sitting like you're a table = guy. It's stupid, but it's how it works. If you want to 'break away from the norm' and reverse roles that's fine by me, I practically encourage it.

[KingOfKings]

...And the point I'm NOT defending is that having a style of sitting assigned to girls and boys is a good idea, or even a sane one. It's pointless. I mean, it's <i>sitting.</i> I'm just saying it exists. Ozy is sitting in the style originally intended for girls. Boys can do a lot of things solely intended for girls. Like wear dresses. But they're still for girls. End.

[Dr. Doog]

hmm... you're seeming kind of sexist.<br><br>and if nobody cares about it then why are you telling us that ome people care about it?

[KingOfKings]

<!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> hmm... you're seeming kind of sexist.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Why? Because I said dresses and high-heels are intended for girls? If that's your idea of sexist, you have no sense of perspective.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> and if nobody cares about it then why are you telling us that ome people care about it?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Fine, I lied, some people really do care about how you sit. I'm not one of them, but I at least achknowledge which types of sitting are for what. Or at least, what they were SUPPOSED to be for but people wisely ignore.

[Dr. Doog]

so if ignoring them is wise, then they really aren't intended to be that way, or atleast they were originally but aren't now.

[KingOfKings]

<!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> so if ignoring them is wise, then they really aren't intended to be that way, or atleast they were originally but aren't now.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Not really, it's still not very common to see a male sit like that. Especially a jock or tough male.<br><br>And now 500 people are going to tell me that they sit like that, because if they do, the majority does.

[Dr. Doog]

are you sure?

[KingOfKings]

...<br><br>Yes, I am fairly sure Ive never seen anyone with a lot of testosterone sit like that.

[Bocaj Claw]

Two things to say (yes, again):<br><br>When in rome do as the romans do.<br><br>Secondly, some studies show that if you imitate the body language of a person they are more likely to be persuaded by whatever point you're trying to make. Just something I read recently in the newspaper.

[KingOfKings]

Not sure what that has to do with 'skirt' sitting having a closer relation and origin to women than men, but interesting.