I don’t think it is better or worse, just different. Autres temps/endroits autres moeurs. People adapt to most situations and there’s never any reason to make a personal remark.
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It is a common phrase - but also pretty meaningless.
Next time try;
How’s it hanging?
How your onions? (From Norfolk)
‘Ello my lover? (West Country)
Ey up Chuck (up North)
… and the list goes on.
If you get the pleasure of meeting Jacob Reece-Mogg then perhaps in a very posh accent “How is one doing”!
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Still tend to shake hands when meeting someone new where I live
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Thank you for your advice, I don’t think I shall be taking it though, my interlocutor would probably think I was mocking them.
There is nothing worse than someone pretending to be something they are not, in an attempt to be ingratiating.
I don’t think I can do the hearty hail-fellow-well-met schtick. So fake and ultimately condescending. Perfectly OK if that is how you naturally are.
Probably best not to use any of them!
We have eaten with people who still turn the plate over for dessert. Personally you either do it with gusto, for the pleasure of the sauce, or you don’t bother. Faffing around with forks seems a bit like the victorians covering table legs for modesty. But good etiquette is fitting in with the norms of those around you, so if that’s what your friends do…
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Hooray, we have Molly Scott Cato as our Green Party candidate for Stroud.
She has been an excellent and leading MEP and we are lucky to have her.
No qualms about voting Green rather than Lib Dem.
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I have never greeted anyone with Ey up Chuck and I used to live on the then Lancashire Westmorland border. Quite North.You might find it surprising, but I have never worn clogs and shawl either.
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Not at all, as it doesn’t go with your fork-wielding image I now have in my head! 
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I love this saucy-forky carry-on! 
Makes a change from Brexit. 
Very SF house-style in my opinion. 
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I have this vision of you and the justices tip-toeing down the street to the post-box
sharing a bag of chips… 
I bet it’s McDonald’s !
For a little light relief from the serious issues of Brexit you diverted us to gravy mopping etiquette - the problem, for me, is you always just take things too far and it becomes more about exhibiting your literal dexterity and personal superiority and you just dont know when to stop.
This was a very intelligent, articulate and informative discussion about the greatest issue of a lifetime for some - Hey! why not drivel on about gravy instead - I’m out.
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Never yet eaten with anyone who does that.
I couldn’t agree more I have eaten many meals with one hand, sitting on the floor.
Don’t drop out @ Dan. If people want to prolong the light-heartedness it’s a bit churlish to spoil the fun.
It’s a dinner party and the only rules are very general ones about nobody getting overheated, personally insulting or sulking.
Many guests have kept the gravy theme going, not just me. And it has had its season when it’s run out of steam. Why party-poop? And I reckon Brexit is going to be chewed over for yonks and more stodgy yonks into the future.
My impression, politically speaking, is that BloJo is becoming increasingly frenetic and hyperactive, his narrative is getting more and more dislocated and impovisatory, and his temper shorter as days go by. I think people are rapidly getting irritated and turned off by his limited repertoire of wave-away gestures and windmill stabbing thrusts. And that lizard-like half-smile, that shambling gait.
Those glistening soap-bubble policies.
Very wearing, I reckon. Watch his approval rate sink.
An Oxford politics don recently rated Jezza’s first hustings speech “impressive” and his meetings on the stump are a sell-out. Sturgeon is offering an olive branch with a few spiky bits; and Labour defectors to nowhere-principled just look like disconsolate losers. Even “call me Lord” Watson of Weight Watchers is forlorn and soon forgotten.
I think, maybe…
Don’t go Dan!
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I ain’t going anywhere Peter except disembarking from your Gravy Train - Bon Voyage
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Glad to hear you aren’t going completely Dan you had me panicking for a minute
I am sorry that you couldn’t see that my post was tongue in cheek.
One Oxford politics don rated his speech as impressive? Fair enough but you could probably find another that thought it was okay and another who thought it was dreadful all in 10 square feet. The fact he is selling venues out means nothing he is the Leader of the Opposition he should have standing room only.
Btw I would have said the same over BoJo if needed
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We have Molly Scott Cato standing for the Greens in Stroud. An ex West Country MEP, so she knows her way around and very popular.
I have to say when I saw those two buffoons laying wreaths at the Cenotaph this morning it stuck in my craw.
One a Marxist and the other taking us out of Europe when our fathers fought for peace in Europe.
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