Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck
    Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck
    Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck
    Audiobook7 hours

    Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck

    Written by Amy Alkon

    5/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    We live in a world that’s very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many of us who are nice (but, who also sometimes say "f*ck") are frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person who deals effectively with the onslaught of rudeness we all encounter. To lead us through this this miasma of modern manners, syndicated columnist Amy Alkon—The Advice Goddess—gives us a new set of manners for our 21st century lives. In chapters titled "The Telephone," "The Internet," "The Apology," and "Communicating," among others, Alkon maps out new rules that go beyond what fork to use to answer real questions we all have:

    • When is it okay to phone somebody instead of emailing or texting? When is it rude?
    • Why shouldn't you tweet about a guest at a private dinner party? Everybody knows privacy is dead, right?
    • How do you shut the guy up in the pharmacy line with his cellphone on speaker?
    • When is it right to approach somebody who’s crying in public and when is it right to leave him alone?
    • When should you unfriend somebody on Facebook and what do you say when she calls you on it?
    • If you have an STD, when do you tell people, what do you say and do you have to contact everyone you’ve ever had sex with?

    Real advice for today with more than a touch of humor, Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say "F*ck" is destined to give good old Emily a shove off the etiquette shelf (if that's not too rude to say).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 3, 2014
    ISBN9781480575493
    Author

    Amy Alkon

    Amy Alkon writes “The Advice Goddess,” an award-winning syndicated column that runs in about one hundred newspapers across the United States and Canada. She is also the author of I See Rude People and has been on Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR, CNN, MTV, and Entertainment Tonight. She has a weekly radio show called Nerd Your Way to a Better Life! (With the Best Brains in Therapy and Research) and has written for Psychology Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, the New York Daily News, and Pravda, among others. She lives in Venice, California. Visit her Web site at advicegoddess.com or follow her on Twitter at @amyalkon.

    Related to Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck

    Related audiobooks

    Personal Growth For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Words That Need To Die

      Dec 4, 2022

      Words That Need To Die
      9 min read

    • Article

      Playing By The Rules

      Oct 1, 2023

      Playing By The Rules
      8 min read

    • Article

      Chivalry Ain’t Dead

      Jun 9, 2021

      Chivalry Ain’t Dead
      4 min read

    • Article

      Chivalry ain’t dead

      Apr 15, 2021

      Chivalry ain’t dead
      5 min read

    • Article

      Dawn Neesom Mind Of My Own

      Jul 19, 2022

      We need to put down our phones and pick up the passion… Sex is officially screwed. Just like VHS tapes, Sony Walkmans and the Rubik’s Cube, passion is so out of fashion, sweetie. These days the only thing getting turned on between the sheets is yo

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Second Coming

      Sep 4, 2022

      The Second Coming
      10 min read

    • Article

      Dawn Neesom Mind Of My Own

      Jun 14, 2022

      Dawn Neesom Mind Of My Own
      4 min read

    • Article

      Jack Unfiltered Monroe

      Oct 29, 2021

      Jack Unfiltered Monroe
      9 min read

    • Article

      Is That TOO MUCH Information?

      Jun 29, 2023

      Last week, I had an argument with a stranger over dog poo. I’m a fan of the stick and flick strategy (we were in woods, not on a pavement), and she laid into me for not picking it up with a poo bag. Heated words were exchanged about nature versus pla

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Problem With Porn

      Sep 15, 2023

      The Problem With Porn
      8 min read

    • Article

      Screen Test

      May 6, 2022

      Screen Test
      9 min read

    • Article

      How To Date Like It’s 1958

      Feb 10, 2021

      My therapist was talking about a game. Seated on the plush cream sofa in her office, eyes damp and stinging, I didn’t get what her gaming hobby had to do with me. “You see, Courtney, I enjoy playing and talking to the people I game with, but when it’

      7 min read

    • Article

      If I Ruled The World Jordan Stephens

      Feb 15, 2022

      I’d destroy modern phones. Modern phones are too much. Over the top. They feel necessary now but never were. I think a lot of technology peaked in the Nineties or early Noughties. And since then we’ve just been convinced we need stuff when we don’t.

      2 min read

    • Article

      My Personal Organiser

      Jul 27, 2022

      My Personal Organiser
      3 min read

    • Article

      Patrick‘s Pages

      Aug 27, 2021

      Patrick‘s Pages
      5 min read

    • Article

      I Love Being Gay

      May 31, 2021

      I Love Being Gay
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck

    5/5

    14 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Interesting and fun to listen to. I totally loved this author because she seems genuine and relatable. She's also really funny!
    • 5/5
      Really breaks down what a person who wants to of old bad habits out of and seeing a different point of view besides your own. I enjoyed every minute and helped me focus on what I want to work on as a person.