I'm Australian, but it seems the Brits taught us convicts some additional etiquette :) I should have put a note in there about cultures in my original post as

I'm Australian, but it seems the Brits taught us convicts some additional etiquette :) I should have put a note in there about cultures in my original post as I suspected as much about there being differences. I suspect in non-Western cultures too that this behaviour isn't a thing as well.