Well bless my soul, what's wrong with me?

[venta]

In the interests of spreading the word, here are some new etiquette guidelines:

You sneezed!

Please adopt them forthwith.

Comments

[metame.livejournal.com]

I am reminded of the (well, "a") traditional response to someone having had their hair cut:

Point and say "Haircut!", ideally multiple times.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh. Is that a thing? I thought that was just normal behaviour :(

Also, not relevantly: I haven't seen you in ages! Are you amenable to random invitations to dinner in that London, or is that inconvenient for feline or other reasons?

[metame.livejournal.com]

Random invitations (or indeed ones that are non-random and specifically intended for me...) are entirely convenient - it would be great to catch up. If I'm away the cats have other reserve staff (or I just leave food out for them).

[venta.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Entirely un-stochastic meals shall be forthcoming.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Better than "you've had your hair done" which, when I used to ever have my hair cut, I used to answer by holding my hands to my head and saying "I've what? Oh my god! Thanks for telling me, I didn't know!"

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly! I guess social interaction demands that some comment is passed (ideally, "ooh, your new haircut looks nice!" would work.). It's weird that the default is informing the cuttee that they've had a hair cut.

This is true also when looking for a "new baby" card. Most of them seem to say something like "You've had a baby girl!"[*]. Which seems weird to me, since in most cases the person/people to whom I'm sending the card have already informed me that they've had a baby girl.

[*] In pink lettering. On a pink card. Surrounded by pink teddies and pink hearts. But that's a separate rant.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Similarly for birthday cards - "It's your birthday!" "Yes, I know. I told you that."