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December 16[edit]

impoliteness[edit]

Hello everyone! To know rules of politeness, but refuse follow them, it's very exaggerated? 206.180.244.235 (talk) 02:30, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What's exaggerated? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:32, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's a bad behaviour. 206.180.244.235 (talk) 22:14, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I don't think Exaggeration is the word you're looking for there, but the links below may help answer your question. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:54, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We do have articles on rudeness, politeness, and etiquette that might be helpful. SemanticMantis (talk) 22:18, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"It is by politeness, etiquette and charity that society is saved from falling into a heap of savagery" (William of Wykeham). Not much to do with the question, but worth repeating in my view. Alansplodge (talk) 21:53, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

U.K. Civil Service[edit]

Is the U.K. Civil service an organisation in itself or is it just the informally given collective name for all government departments and agencies, and some arms length bodies? What determines whether an organisation is part of the civil service? 82.17.228.129 (talk) 15:02, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't you ask something similar the other day? Anyway, the opening paragraphs of Her Majesty's Civil Service answer many of these questions. --Viennese Waltz 15:07, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]