Today, In Public Speaking Class

theunitofcaring:

sinesalvatorem:

The professor was giving us protocols for formal interaction. He said it was important to introduce people of higher rank first when introducing multiple people. As an intuitive Socialist, I was annoyed by all of these, since everyone is a comrade. However, some of these were worse than others:

The order, by rank and status, was as follows:

• Bishops before priests
• Prime ministers before cabinet ministers
• Bosses before employees
• Teachers before students
• Parents before children
• Men before women

…What the serious fuck

Proposed protocols for introducing people:

• Mathematicians before physicists

• Nonhumans before humans (this is courteous to your dog and will avoid all kinds of social awkwardness when the aliens visit)

• Polytheists before monotheists before atheists (the proper point to introduce pantheists is hotly disputed)

• Alphabetically by city of origin

• order of who would probably win in a fistfight (if uncertain, invite the parties to have a fistfight)

• order of number of mortal enemies (ascending)