<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/Jefepato/tommyjpegedit_zps23c49e2e.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Tommy Nakamura<br/><strong>Nom De Guerre:</strong>Callout<br/><strong>Position/Grade:</strong>Student/Junior<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Wok Inn<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Michael White<br/><br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Tommy settled down to his own meal, only a bit cautiously.  He was probably paying a little more attention to his table manners than he normally would with someone his own age, but that never hurt.<br/><br/>"It's basically accurate that flagrant displays of wealth are...rude?  Kind of.  It depends a little on your social position and the context, like everything which is why this is awkward to explain, but overall if you're rich it would be rude to display it excessively.  It's...considered posturing, acting like you're better than others.  Which, um, is unacceptable to the extent that one's personal fortunes can really have a lot to do with...fortune, and not personal merit or at least not entirely merit.  Now, um, slang -- I'm sorry, the potential vocabulary is so large that I'm not sure where to begin.  I could answer a specific question, or help point you to sources that could give you definitions more or less at leisure, but I can't produce a dictionary or anything usefully like a dictionary.  If you give me a moment I might be able to produce specific examples that would be useful to know, but...not enough to substitute for the cultural upbringing.  I'm sorry."<br/><br/>Phew.  He was going to get a mental workout with this.  But it was the right thing to do.