Talk:Common courtesy

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Composting

Are you supposed to compost or throw away tea bags? They have the little metal staple in them, so I thought they were throwaways, but there is not consensus on this issue.

I believe you can compost them.

It's debatable. If you're really concerned, just tear the staple off and compost the rest of the bag. See Link: [1]

Hats

moved from mainpage and linked--Jonathan 17:07, 12 December 2006 (EST)

1. Take off your hat indoors.
2. Especially in class.
3. Find a way not to be offended by those JERKS who would dare wear HATS indoors. How dare they though, right? Outrageous.
4. Find somebody who genuinely doesn't understand WHY wearing a hat indoors is considered offensive, and explain it to them in a polite and, above all, well-reasoned manner. Because, seriously, I don't get it.
   • It's not necessarily offensive, but it is courteous to remove hats. It's something I picked up from military customs and courtesies (and before that, teachers; and before that, parents). Two reasons: First, you can see a person's whole face/head better without a hat, and so personal interactions are more open and expressive without it. Second, leaving a hat and/or jacket on indoors gives the impression that the person is about to leave the building and, presumably, the people in the building with whom they are interacting. When I have a coat/hat on indoors and am talking to my parents, for instance, I'm liable to hear the expression, "hey, take off your coat and stay a while!"
   • Don't begrudge people who leave hats and jackets on indoors given Williamtown's near arctic climate.
     • Hey, presumably it's not subzero indoors. (Well, in most [some?] buildings.) And baseball caps do very little to keep people warm. Regardless, even the military makes exceptions to this courtesy for temperature, religion, etc.
   • How about receding hairlines? Do those warrant keeping the hat on? Or what about just a bad hairday? Nasty scar? Pimple? Scalped by natives?
5. Especially if you are at an event at Chapin Hall, Brooks Rogers, Images, the theater, etc. I can't see the play/concert/speaker/movie through your giant ushanka or that baseball hat jauntily propped so that it adds an additional five inches to your head.