But somehow, I'd hear of one from some place or another, and over time drop it into my behaviour.

My mother taught me manners and etiquette, it has indeed helped a lot

Girls always bring that up when complementing you

Not the right ones though lol

Why The eksdee

Very funny wasn’t it?

Oof.

Tough crowd.

European knife and fork handling is superior to American change my mind.

As in the way they use it to eat?

Yeah, I don’t get Americans switching the fork every time they want to eat

You can use the left hand without issue

They do it to artificially bloat their boring conversations.

😏

It can work with certain foods only

But it’s rather complicated to change hands every bite

I use my fork with my left hand but I hold it like the knife

Face down?

People make fun of me for it sometimes lol

That's superior.

Yeah

Yeah it seems I have more control that way

One caveat to the manners thing might be the gender based stuff

E.g. holding the door open for women

I don't always do that with western women

How is that a caveat?

Huh.

I thought that was common practice with everyone not insane.

If I can make it not look like a gender based thing then I do it

Because american women can be weird about it

I had the feeling when I would do that kind of stuff in high school that it made me look like I was trying too hard or something

I’m used to handle the fork on the left habd face down as well

Or it might have just been my old nice guy neckbeard mindset of "why don't they appreciate me look at what a gentleman I am"

It’s just how things work

lol

You do it for your own sake usually

Idk I also just don't like treating ladies as the weaker sex if they won't acknowledge that they are the weaker sex

I hold a door open if it's natural

ie. If I and a woman are approaching a door at the same time

Or I'm acting as a consort.

I wanted to be a butler at one point, I think that's maybe how I picked this up