Gwylan
Veteran
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- All at sea⛵
Just allow a moment to wallow in my self pity. I am a victim and you should all apologise.
What's wrong with using a fork?
- Thread starter gavroche
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Just allow a moment to wallow in my self pity. I am a victim and you should all apologise.
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
I'm a bit of a contradiction, I do eat with the "proper" cutlery and generally think it's sad to see the decline in table manners, but I eat most of my ethnic food one-handed with a spoon and I'll happily pick up stuff that's supposed to be finger food. I'll pick up curry and dhal with bread.
I think it's more about the social context, it's normal to eat your burger with your hands, so long as you know to use a knife and fork at a more formal dinner setting. I sometimes fear that the latter isn't going to be a given as time moves on.
I think it's more about the social context, it's normal to eat your burger with your hands, so long as you know to use a knife and fork at a more formal dinner setting. I sometimes fear that the latter isn't going to be a given as time moves on.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
I was once complimented when in India that I was so adept at using the bread to pick up the curry and eat it - they assumed that I would struggle as I was not from round those parts.
So what about fish and chips? Cutlery or no? If I have taken it home I put it on a plate and use a fork, but if eating outdoors I'd use my fingers, but would want a wet wipe or similar for after.
So what about fish and chips? Cutlery or no? If I have taken it home I put it on a plate and use a fork, but if eating outdoors I'd use my fingers, but would want a wet wipe or similar for after.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
If you can afford fish and chips you're among the top earners so I'd expect you'd exhibit similar top end manners and eat it with knife and fork .
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
A fish knife, no less.
I haven't got a fork
I can't supply you with one, because I don't give a fork.
You been watching The Good Place too?
Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
I severed a tendon in my right hand which was then out of action for 10 weeks.
It's only then that you realise how much you rely on it if you're right handed, bum wiping is a lottery and tooth brushing is just not up to scratch.
Here's a little challenge for all you cycle chatters.
1. Fold your arms.
Easy isn't it.
2. Now do it the other way round.
Easy it ain't.
Post results if you can be arsed.
Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
It's gentleman like you that are keeping up standards.
Standards are on a sliding scale so that it's open to interpretation.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
It's very easy for some of us.
The thing is that right- or left-handedness isn't an either/or thing, it's a continuum. Some people are VERY strongly 'handed' - either left or right - they are at each end of the line. Plonk in the middle (and probably rarest of all) is 'fully ambidextrous'. The rest of us lie somewhere along that line, 'tending to' right (or left) handedness more or less strongly.
So some people will find folding their arms 'the other way' to be difficult, and some much less so.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
I taught myself to play snooker/pool with the other hand as it comes in handy sometimes. It was surprisingly easy, although I identify as right-handed.
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gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
I am a firm believer that good manners are best taught at an early age.
vickster
Legendary Member
Who determines what good manners are however in 2022?
The world has moved on since the 1950s...
