as a further explanationif everyone is rude to new people then new people will think that the way to deal with new people is to be rude to them, so pretty soon you've got an evergrowing army of people being rude to everyone.
Which is not a nice place to be around.
(Which is not a nice place to be around.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 19 Aug 2003, 23:20,
archived)