Napkin buttonhole
Oct 31, 2018, 1:44 am
#47
Join Date: Sep 2004
Programs: USAir
Posts: 429
BA loosing it
The fact I use the "napkin" buttonhole.
BA - pay attention - if you do not provide the buttonhole I will make one. Got it?
Totally pedestrian move - BA - really? Whom did you hire to make such a primitive decision against the utility of the buttonhole?
Many of those, who can afford the up-front tickets, are too underbred to know what the buttonhole is for; it does not permit you to be ruled by the unknowables.
Revise your revisions or else.
BA - pay attention - if you do not provide the buttonhole I will make one. Got it?
Totally pedestrian move - BA - really? Whom did you hire to make such a primitive decision against the utility of the buttonhole?
Many of those, who can afford the up-front tickets, are too underbred to know what the buttonhole is for; it does not permit you to be ruled by the unknowables.
Revise your revisions or else.
Oct 31, 2018, 1:57 am
#48
Join Date: May 2012
Programs: BA Gold, HHonors Diamond, IHG Platinum, Senior Railcard & Bus Pass
Posts: 983
The fact I use the "napkin" buttonhole.
BA - pay attention - if you do not provide the buttonhole I will make one. Got it?
Totally pedestrian move - BA - really? Whom did you hire to make such a primitive decision against the utility of the buttonhole?
Many of those, who can afford the up-front tickets, are too underbred to know what the buttonhole is for; it does not permit you to be ruled by the unknowables.
Revise your revisions or else.
BA - pay attention - if you do not provide the buttonhole I will make one. Got it?
Totally pedestrian move - BA - really? Whom did you hire to make such a primitive decision against the utility of the buttonhole?
Many of those, who can afford the up-front tickets, are too underbred to know what the buttonhole is for; it does not permit you to be ruled by the unknowables.
Revise your revisions or else.
Oct 31, 2018, 2:05 am
#49
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 6,349
The fact I use the "napkin" buttonhole.
BA - pay attention - if you do not provide the buttonhole I will make one. Got it?
Totally pedestrian move - BA - really? Whom did you hire to make such a primitive decision against the utility of the buttonhole?
Many of those, who can afford the up-front tickets, are too underbred to know what the buttonhole is for; it does not permit you to be ruled by the unknowables.
Revise your revisions or else.
BA - pay attention - if you do not provide the buttonhole I will make one. Got it?
Totally pedestrian move - BA - really? Whom did you hire to make such a primitive decision against the utility of the buttonhole?
Many of those, who can afford the up-front tickets, are too underbred to know what the buttonhole is for; it does not permit you to be ruled by the unknowables.
Revise your revisions or else.
Oct 31, 2018, 6:12 am
#53
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Cheltenham
Programs: KLM Plat for Life , BA Gold, HH Silver, (Other half Diamond), IHG Gold
Posts: 2,398
Not Manly? Thats a little buttonholeist Hiddy....I will have you know that Hercule Poirot always wore his napkin up front.
Oct 31, 2018, 6:15 am
#54
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Cheltenham
Programs: KLM Plat for Life , BA Gold, HH Silver, (Other half Diamond), IHG Gold
Posts: 2,398
I got told off for not wearing my shirt under the blanked on my Iberia flight from New York on Sunday - first time ever in 12.5 years of JC and FC overnight flying. The stewardess even shook me to wake me up and tell me that an aeroplane is not a beach. 
I just went back to sleep without putting the shirt on and didn't get shaken again. 
I just went back to sleep without putting the shirt on and didn't get shaken again.
Oct 31, 2018, 6:16 am
#55
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Cheltenham
Programs: KLM Plat for Life , BA Gold, HH Silver, (Other half Diamond), IHG Gold
Posts: 2,398
Oct 31, 2018, 6:40 am
#56
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Washington DC Metro Area
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Posts: 1,067
On my infrequent BA flights over the last 18 months or so I've noticed that BA no longer have a button hole in their napkins. I've always appreciated the facility to attach my napkin to my shirt button. It can't be a cost saving desicion so why stop? Flew Ethiopian last week and they still have the button hole in their napkins. What gives or is this really an irrelevant observation?
cheers!
Oct 31, 2018, 6:46 am
#57
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 65
Funny, I never knew the buttonhole was for the user. I always thought the buttonhole had something to do with handling by the airline i.e. the napkins came from the laundry on a big ring, or when they were collected after use, they were threaded onto a big ring.
Oct 31, 2018, 7:42 am
#58
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Springfield,MO,USA
Programs: UA 1K MM, HH Diamond, Marriott Lifetime Titanium
Posts: 1,604
This is an oft cited issue on United where the buttonhole comes and goes:
Buttonholes are back!
Tacky new, small napkins in BF?
Buttonholes are back!
Tacky new, small napkins in BF?
Oct 31, 2018, 8:05 am
#59
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Naples, Fla.
Programs: Southwest Zone C, Howard Johnson Platinum, Costco Business Member, Uber Diamond
Posts: 42
Oct 31, 2018, 8:34 am
#60
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Central Texas
Programs: Many, slipping beneath the horizon
Posts: 9,859
Napkins, much less button holes for attachment thereof, are relatively new inventions, arriving only after the advent of the short sleeve shirt which does not provide a convenient, accessible surface, the lower sleeves, to allow clean up after dining. Fortunately, my departed father who spent a portion of his life, 1942-45, in China, taught my sisters and I to dine with chopsticks and a "forward lean", sometimes noisy, but eliminating any need for napkins, and greatly extending the service life of neckties (and various items of feminine wearing apparel such as "jabots")..