# Things You Shouldn't Have To Tell People

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 9, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320 "2010-02-09T19:57:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/221 "2010-03-15T21:13:21Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> > [@tumbledown](#):
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> > If your nose is running in a restaurant, you get up, and you go and you blow your nose in the foyer or the restroom. If spicy food affects you in that fashion, then don’t eat it in public.
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> You’ve gone beyond propriety with this one. If somebody has a natural affliction and you don’t, you do not have any right to tell them not to do something just because it bothers you. The sound doesn’t really harm you, and, if the person is not sick, the germs will not be any worse than just having that person in the room.

Like a lot of people, particularly spicy food makes my nose run like Forrest Gump, and I have no problem looking down my flowing nose at any idiot who thinks it’s acceptable to noisily blow their nose while dining out.

You either dab discreetly, or you remove yourself to blow that thing, if you have the sense god gave a goose. (No, wait - even _Canadian_ geese honk in public fairly regularly, so it’s possible that they may not have received an isomorphic degree of grace from our hypothetical deity. Let’s just amend that to “the sense god gave anyone who ought to be allowed to eat anywhere apart from Uncle Wiggly’s,” and call it square.)

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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/222 "2010-03-15T21:43:41Z")

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Most women look better with a little discreet, well-applied makeup and hair color in order to not look like drab, featureless, brown haired hominids. If you are working in a professional setting dealing with the public, this does NOT give you license to wear neon eyeshadow, spackle foundation on with a trowel, or show up with purple hair. Look about you at women you wish to emulate and take a hint. Clothing, too - yes, it’s a shame you can’t show off your magnificent rack to full advantage, or wear flip-flops at the end of your hairy legs, but that’s the price you pay to be part of a civilized society.

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