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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 12:33 PM Original message |
Question about table manners or ettiquette |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
1. I just eat with my fingers |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 12:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. you use your fingers? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Whether or not it is stylish depends, I suppose, on individual skill. If you can pick the |
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MiddleFingerMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:11 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman" after her snail took t'flyin' in the fancy restaurant... |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 06:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. laughing. no wonder you have all those wimmins threads. nt |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:14 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. ! |
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blueraven95 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. This is actually a difference between American and British (European?) etiquette |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Brits also tend to keep the fork in their left hand... |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 05:51 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I have always wondered why that is- and how these things change |
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Graybeard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 06:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Famous movie scene about that. |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:19 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. I remember that! |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Not related to table manners, but the movie "Inglorious Basterds" had a similar sort of scene... |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:08 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Another difference... |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. RE: the "hands/elbows up on the table" idea.... |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:50 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. These days? That hand is busy texting... |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
9. The proper way is to rotate the fork in the bowl of the spoon... |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
10. Never heard that one, but I was taught that as long as most of the food went in my mouth, |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
11. One foot must be in contact with your chair at all times |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
12. That's a cultural difference, not a matter of etiquette. |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
17. When I was little my father taught me to use the overturned fork in my left hand... |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:47 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Lived in 'America' for more than 300 years? |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:51 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. You are confusing America with the United States. |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:58 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I knew the explorer who discovered "North America" coined it that.... |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 08:05 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. That's what you get for living in Cook's Sandwich Islands. |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 08:18 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I wish |
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