Scenario: If the age old entertainer, Bruce Forsyth, was invited to a formal dinner of yours, gracefully accepting your invite and came over with a £3.99 bottle of wine and then proceeded to fire out his famous quotes whilst you were trying settle down to eat the nice meal that your loyal servants had slaved over. Would you see this as bad table etiquette?

I have spent the night pondering on the subject, and even though I like a bit of lighthearted banter at the dinner table, I personally think there is a time and place. A formal dinner is for serious talk and has no place for such flippant comments. Don't you agree?

AO.

Your bored...aren't you?

Your bored...aren't you?

No, not at all. I am making plans for a dinner party and required people's input on the subject :)

No, not at all. I am making plans for a dinner party and required people's input on the subject :)

flippant comments are for later in the evening when everyone has retired to the drawing room for brandy and cigars.
NOT for the diner table.

Is it formal? or not?

It is a formal affair. I agree, flippant comments are for afterwards when the gents retire to the drawing room armed with their smoking jackets etc.

I'd be more concerned in Bruce filling his incontience pants!

No, not at all. I am making plans for a dinner party and required people's input on the subject :)

So when is Bruce popping round with his cheapo wine?????

I think I would book a table in a decent restaurant. You need to get out more.;)

You could easily get him to shut his cakehole by sitting a bird with a low cut top opposite him.

So when is Bruce popping round with his cheapo wine?????

I think I would book a table in a decent restaurant. You need to get out more.;)

It's hard to get out when you are imprisoned inside my office.

Scenario: If the age old entertainer, Bruce Forsyth, was invited to a formal dinner of yours, gracefully accepting your invite and came over with a £3.99 bottle of wine and then proceeded to fire out his famous quotes whilst you were trying settle down to eat the nice meal that your loyal servants had slaved over. Would you see this as bad table etiquette?

I have spent the night pondering on the subject, and even though I like a bit of lighthearted banter at the dinner table, I personally think there is a time and place. A formal dinner is for serious talk and has no place for such flippant comments. Don't you agree?

AO.

Not at all, there's plenty of time for being serious when I grow up.:D

Eating and chatting is a big no no!

The only sounds you should hear is the snarling of people fighting over the meat.

Not at all, there's plenty of time for being serious when I grow up.:D

I will place you at the kiddies table when you get your invite to this do ;)

This may help......

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxX7YW_97QU

You could easily get him to shut his cakehole by sitting a bird with a low cut top opposite him.

wooo hooo, so I'd be getting an invite!!

(oh - thats what you mean, isn't it? Well, thats me off the list)

wooo hooo, so I'd be getting an invite!!

Would you be able to cope with the old goat carting you off to his lair and wanting to breed with you though?

Would you be able to cope with the old goat carting you off to his lair and wanting to breed with you though?

I'd kick him in the balls if he tried anythng unsavoury and hopefully while he was doubled up with the pain, he'd drown in his soup.

People can look, but only with permission (or by plying me with booze) may they try to suffocate themselves in my ample bossom

If I was putting on a formal affair (I'm sure I could pull it off, my mother taught me well. I'd have to get the antique 12 place solid cedar table over from Oz though), I'd be annoyed:

1) that some-one invited Bruce without my knowledge because I'd not have a place card for him

2) that he brought a cheap bottle of plonk (does he think the hostess cannot afford to buy the wine for the evening and feels the need to supplement with vinegar which will be quickly hidden in the pantry under some old sacks in the hope that no-one ever sees it)

3) that he was spouting off whilst others were trying to eat and have proper table conversation but I would be too polite to say "Oi, Brucey, shut thee gob and talk about the weather!"

Dinner parties are meant to be times to relax, bring on the informal chat and the smutty inuendo's!

Dinner parties are meant to be times to relax, bring on the informal chat and the smutty inuendo's!

that would be a BBQ, not a Dinner Party

Once my heads in the trough I cant hear anybody talking anyway.

BBQ's are outside, I can't see that happening in this weather

I'd kick him in the balls if he tried anythng unsavoury and hopefully while he was doubled up with the pain, he'd drown in his soup.

People can look, but only with permission (or by plying me with booze) may they try to suffocate themselves in my ample bossom

To Bruce, veteran of the Generation Game, this would be seen as a mere come-on. He only has to look at a laydee to start planning marriage and a hundred offspring. In fact, in a few decades, approximately 54% of the world population (but 79% of the population of Brazil which produces so many good Miss World winners) will be descended from Brucie.

To Bruce, veteran of the Generation Game, this would be seen as a mere come-on. He only has to look at a laydee to start planning marriage and a hundred offspring. In fact, in a few decades, approximately 54% of the world population (but 79% of the population of Brazil which produces so many good Miss World winners) will be descended from Brucie.

I would NOT attend a dinner party where he was anyway. I can't even watch the tv shows he's on.

I have regular dinner parties and, whilst eating, it does tend to be light hearted but quite gentile chatter about a variety of interesting subjects, as you're all sitting in a position where you can make eye contact, experiencing a pleasurable taste sensation (hopefully) it's a good chance to swap experiences and opinions, without it getting too heated.
Afterwards when the wine stars flowing, the tone changes to a more party type atmosphere.

I would NOT attend a dinner party where he was anyway. I can't even watch the tv shows he's on.

Isn't that lass who does Strictly with him pregnant? :suspect:

I suspect one would have to reserve a seat for his chin. Maybe it might not be a good idea to have someone like Sir Bruce at a formal dinner partay. Maybe I need guests who are a bit more serious in their approach to world affairs etc.

I suspect one would have to reserve a seat for his chin. Maybe it might not be a good idea to have someone like Sir Bruce at a formal dinner partay. Maybe I need guests who are a bit more serious in their approach to world affairs etc.

I always thought Brucie was most serious about his 'world affairs'? ;)

You could invite Duncan Norvelle instead?

I suspect one would have to reserve a seat for his chin. Maybe it might not be a good idea to have someone like Sir Bruce at a formal dinner partay. Maybe I need guests who are a bit more serious in their approach to world affairs etc.

I'd invite Moira Stewart instead if I were you:)

Isn't that lass who does Strictly with him pregnant? :suspect:

oh, please don't :gag:

Good point made. Another reason not to invite Brucie.... he will be more concerned at getting his end away with the female guests. Totally bad form.

I may invite Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Vine. In fact, I will add to that great company by inviting John Craven so I can discuss countryside issues that have been blighting my country estate.

I have regular dinner parties and, whilst eating, it does tend to be light hearted but quite gentile chatter...Zionists not welcome, eh? :hihi:

Sorry, I tried to resist, honest! ;)

Zionists not welcome, eh? :hihi:

Sorry, I tried to resist, honest! ;)

I detect a lie in that wink:hihi::hihi:

Brucie would probably die at the table anyway! He's due it.

I tend to be a bit disrespectul of food and etiquette - food is just a fuel - I hate posh restaurants and posh meals anywhere.....I don't see a point in etiquette - then again I am a single bloke :hihi: