What happened to etiquette? Back in the days of old it was considered the next most important thing to breathing and eating, but nowadays that philosophy is all but forgotten. In fact, you’re more likely to come across a rampaging wilderbeast while doing the weekly shopping.

But have no fear, there are some TV shows which aim to restore this once crucial staple of modern English life back to its former glory. One of them, if I remember correctly, is called ‘from ladet to lady’.

Now, if you’ve been teaching overseas for the last few years and have been subjected to horrible European pop-music junk and breathtakingly badly-put together European TV, you probably won’t have come across the term Ladet. Fear not, for it is simple to explain. A Ladet is, quite simply, everything that is not fine about a woman: it is the woman without etiquette and without a care in the world for it. Basically it’s a woman acting like a slob of a man. Not very attractive, right?

So anyway. This TV show is great because it takes Ladet’s out of their usual hellish environment and throws them in to despicably scary situations where they are a) forced to walk like ladies and b) forced to talk like ladies and c) generally forced period. There’s no real abuse happening, it should be said. The Ladet’s enter in to this tortuous scheme willingly, in an effort to try and cast the horrible genetic ladet-DNA code from their bodies before it is too late!