I SEE YOU ARE VERY POLITE, CHARLESTON

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The "Best-Mannered" Cities in the U.S., per one person you've never heard of.

The Top Ten:

Charleston
San Diego
Seattle
Peoria
Omaha
the Quad Cities
Hollywood, FL
Philadelphia
Houston
SLC

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

while more than half the list is drawn from the coastal diaspora (Houston is third-coastal), once you get rid of the Mormon outlier, Iowa is clearly the most significant politesse cluster in the nation. of course, the Mormons passed through there.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

Two of those cities are in Iowa. I suppose that politesse is clustered around Iowa, though.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

Charleston is very well-mannered. The last place I actually bought a lemonade from a kid on the sidewalk in front of his house. (The house was a zillion-dollar manse on the Battery, but the kid was very polite for a rich boy. And the lemonade was only a dollar. Good, too.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

A dollar? Well, I can see how the kid got rich.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

those Caps were totally unnecessary. sorry.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

SAN DIEGO POLITE.. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

(based on many a walk through downtown on a weekend night.. uh, no)

― donut christ (donut), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

(granted, walking in downtown at night is usually not the way to find politeness..)

(but I did go to bagel shop in Kenzington one time and asked if they would recycle the glass bottle that contained Snapple I just purchased and consumed there, and I was met with an indignant "WE DON'T RECYCLE here")

(there are exceptions everywhere of course)

― donut christ (donut), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh snap, no Mpls/St. Paul. Minnesota Nice is a LIE!

Also: Charleston, according to Patton Oswalt.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Saturday, 15 January 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

Every time I see this thread title I laugh.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 15 January 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

philadelphia? the city of brotherly shove?

no, this person has no fucking clue.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 15 January 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

actually, perhaps the list-author's home is the epicenter of American politeness, given that it lies directly between Peoria and the Quad Cities. sorry.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 15 January 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Charleston -- South Carolina or West Virginia?

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I read this as 'I SEE OU ARE VERY POLITE, CHARLTON HESTON'

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Two of those cities are in Iowa. I suppose that politesse is clustered around Iowa, though.

Either these guys are full of it or Slipknot is.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 15 January 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Philadelphia??? Michael Irvin to thread. . .granted that this is a slightly different context, but I remember seeing a poll of pro athletes where they were asked to identify the city with the 'worst
collection of fan rabble', and Phila won going away.

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Saturday, 15 January 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I read this as 'I SEE OU ARE VERY POLITE, CHARLTON HESTON'

I thought it was something to do with noize doodz and gareth, myself.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 15 January 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

sport fans aside, i can safely say that philadelphians are among the rudest, most vile human beings on earth.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 15 January 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

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