Originally Posted by
LTN Phobia
[Edited to add: Two paragraphs below pertain to activities witnessed on board aeroplanes and/or in lounges by me]
I've seen a woman clipping her toe nails, another painting her toe nails (she was promptly told off by a member of cabin crew for the smell of nail varnish) and also a lot of women filing their nails, both toes and fingers.
Men clipping their nails, picking rubbish from under the nails and flicking them etc too.
Not really appropriate for aeroplane or lounges. There are things that should not be done in public.
When I was at school, we were specifically told that it is terribly ill-mannered to do any kind of public grooming except for a very, very quick lipstick touch-up while looking away a little bit into a compact. Don't girls get told that nowadays? Am I showing my age?
So true. I find it sad that some people do not seem to think about others and think "I do what I want, sod the others".
All of this is disgusting behaviour and an immediate red flag that you were raised by a pack of wolves (actually, wolves probably groom themselves in private).
On the one/two times a fortnight when I take a train from the countryside into London, I almost always have the pleasure of observing someone do their entire makeup routine on board. Why can't you do that at home?
I remember a great aunt of mine telling me that mirrors in car shades were very gauche because they suggested/implied that people would groom themselves in a car. <shudder>