EXCLUSIVEYou've been sitting in a restaurant 議長，司会を務める all wrong! Etiquette 専門家 William Hanson 明らかにする／漏らすs how to sit 正確に and 避ける 'dinosaur 手渡すs'

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'Please don't be a sloucher.'

That's a request from etiquette 専門家 William Hanson in a TikTok ビデオ in which he explains how to sit 正確に in a restaurant.

You've been doing it all wrong, so listen carefully.

'We don't sit with our 支援する touching the 支援する of the 議長，司会を務める when we eat,' he 宣言するs.

'It 軍隊s us to have "dinosaur 手渡すs" [when using a knife and fork] and that's not very elegant.'

'[Sit] with your 底（に届く） 圧力（をかける）d 支援する into the seat as far as you かもしれない can,' says William. 'Your 支援する doesn't 現実に touch the 支援する of the 議長，司会を務める'

The 解答?

'Instead,' says William, '[sit] with your 底（に届く） 圧力（をかける）d 支援する into the seat as far as you かもしれない can.

'Your 支援する doesn't 現実に touch the 支援する of the 議長，司会を務める.

'And we keep low wrists when we 削減（する）. Much more elegant.'

Would the 訂正する posture for dining 適用する to every type of restaurant? Or could exceptions be made for somewhere more casual?

William told MailOnline Travel: 'The 状況 of the occasion always 無視／無効s any hard 指導基準, but 一般に it's やめる hard to eat when sitting way 支援する in the 議長，司会を務める and slouching.

'It's also not ideal for digestion. 医療の bods will [確認する] that the digestive tract needs to be in as straight a line as possible, rather than hunched, in order for us to 過程 what we have just masticated 適切に and not put on as much 負わせる.'

William here 論証するs that slouching leads to 'dinosaur 手渡すs'

Is 'dinosaur 手渡すs' a known 問題／発行する in etiquette circles?

'It's certainly something my fellow 産業 professionals and I worry about at night,' says William.

On the whole, are restaurant 議長，司会を務めるs designed to support the posture he 支持するs?

William told MailOnline: 'A dining 議長，司会を務める is engineered 異なって from a 議長，司会を務める you may use to relax in at home or in a 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業, which is why we should be able to sit up straighter more easily.'

Are there any other advantages to 'low wrists'?

William said: 'Yes, keeping your wrists as の近くに to the plate as possible - except for the 手渡す 持つ／拘留するing the fork, which 伝えるs the food into the mouth - is 一般に better for 平易な 接近 to the cutlery.'

Is it ok to lean 権利 支援する on the 議長，司会を務める once the meal has finished?

William 追加するd: 'It is more permissible, 特に if everyone else is doing it. But again, 状況 事柄s. Are you at a very formal meal in smart 着せる／賦与するs? Then probably don't. But are you at your friend's house in Elstree, having just enjoyed a microwaved meal? In which 事例／患者, lean 支援する as you please.'

For more from Mr Hanson visit his TikTok and Instagram profiles. His?new 調書をとる／予約する, Just Good Manners (Penguin 無作為の House), is out on September 12, 2024. It is 法案d as 'a witty and 権威のある guide to British etiquette', with William 株ing 'his 最終的な 指導／手引 on how to charm and delight those around you in every 状況／情勢 with idiosyncratic 当局'.