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In a spaceship, there is usually no gravity, except for the occasions where there is all the gravity (or at least G-force).

In a boat, there is usually gravity in one direction, except for the occasions where gravity changes rapidly.

Fun fact: This is by far the most likely explanation for why it’s “rude” to eat with your elbows on the table!

If you’ve ever been mystified by that, it’s because it really doesn’t make much sense on the surface–it’s not inherently disrespectful or gross like most table manner faux pas. Elbowing other people is of course inherently disrespectful, but 90% of the time, when someone tells you to keep your elbows off the table, they weren’t actually interfering with anyone else’s space.

The most likely explanation is that it’s not “rude” because it’s actually disrespectful to anyone–it’s “rude” because it’s what sailors do. On a ship at sea, rolling dramatically, you learn to eat your food with your plate held firmly in place–meaning, if you’re using your hands to do something like take a drink or ferry food to your mouth, you keep your elbows around your bowl. “Common” sailors would be accustomed to doing this, and were unlikely to have gotten the hours of etiquette classes necessary to “code-switch” to formal manners once they got back on land.

So: Classism, plain and simple! Eating with elbows on the table was what enlisted sailors did–common tars, sometimes conscripts or criminals, all of them–gasp! clutch your pearls!–poor people. And you don’t want to be associated with poor people, do you?

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