People who hold their knife like a pen,
it doesn't make you look posh, it makes you look like a twat who is struggling to cut up their food.
(Kip, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 15:50, 6 replies)

I've never seen this.
I must either be very lucky or blind.
(Bad Monkey hasn't had an abusive gaz since, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 16:02, closed)

This has come up before on this qotw
I don't think I've ever encountered it either. Weird.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 17:06, closed)

I think you'll find
it's come up about half a dozen times. (I couldn't agree more though on this.)
( Ramsay Tupper, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 21:12, closed)

I don't have time to scour the answers unfortunately
but if that's the case then at least I'm not alone!
(Kip, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 21:43, closed)

I am with you on this one
those people suck
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 16:07, closed)

Apocryphal story
Such behaviour been used in the past as a criterion for rejecting applicants to SIS/MI6. Dinner with a section chief was a late step in the process of admission. The notation "HKLP" on his report was the kiss of death to the candidate's chances.

It is chuffing irritating to watch. It's nothing more than a vile affectation, a faked emposhening to conceal rough origins, like saying "serviette" instead of "napkin", or using a lace doily as a bog roll cover, or writing great big long run-on sentences, like this one, thinking it makes you all literary 'cos you can use a comma.
( Scrumper, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 18:12, closed)