Ask Brad Pitt, the new Miss Manners

For those of you who’d like to get their etiquette-related questions answered, Brad Pitt is here to help The 45 year old actor is ready to answer such questions in his new column, ‘Ask a Basterd’, in the science and technology magazine, Wired. The column is part of his promotion duties for his upcoming flick, Inglourious Basterds, directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Brad offers great advice to the readers’ queries. One such reader asked him, “Can I talk on the phone while taking a whiz?” Brad replied, “No, you can’t talk on the phone! Do you want the guy next to you to hear your entire conversation? That’s why you should only text in the bathroom. But just be sure you don’t hit the wrong button and end up putting a photo of your junk on Twitter. Trust me, you don’t want those followers” The advice was followed by a picture of Brad, texting a pal while standing at a urinal in a public toilet

Another question was, “Can I answer my cell phone during a movie if it seems urgent?” The picture accompanying this question shows Brad videotaping the movie he’s watching as Quentin who was sitting next to him, chatted away on his cell phone. Brad’s reply was, “Never. It may be a brief interruption… but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg… Don’t be so damn selfish.”

- Sampurn Media