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# indeed...I may have needed to have seen this before making that;
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:41, archived)
# when I was in China a while ago
I was in a bar in a city in the centre of the country. They brought us a big bowl of peanuts and some chopsticks and sat around laughing at us trying to eat them.
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:42, archived)
# fuck that I would have just used my fingers.
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:44, archived)
# Hahahaha....
Fingers? That's too slow for you! *passes nosebag*
(I helped save b3ta! bennyhillslovechild, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:45, archived)
# I have a baseball glove on
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:46, archived)
# same here
they must have been pulling his pilsner.
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:45, archived)
# yeah
"hahah look at the stupid English man trying to eat peanuts with chopsticks! Why he not use fingers like everyone else?
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:47, archived)
# He wasn't in the "Golden Phoenix", and it was Ant and Dec supplying the nuts?
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/Phoenix Nights
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:50, archived)
# i'd have used the chop sticks
coz i have all of teh skillz
(I helped save b3ta! Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:47, archived)
# After three long trips to China
so do I now
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:48, archived)
# I could've used them.....
....I've seen "Big Trouble in Little China" 4 times.

Beat that.
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:54, archived)
# I love that film
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:57, archived)
# Same here
And I meant 4 times last week.
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:58, archived)
# It's all in the reflexes!
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 12:00, archived)
# Naughty!
Pray to Thor you don't get your arse kicked!
(I helped save b3ta! Paedosmile service with a grin., Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:43, archived)
# Hahahaha
I did always wonder how a nation that could invent tea, gunpowder and empires while we were pretty much still in mudhuts failed to come up with something better to eat with than two twigs.
(I helped save b3ta! bennyhillslovechild, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:43, archived)
# hahaha
this was my point exactly :D
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:44, archived)
# what's annoying is the way
that they're so good with them! I used to go out with a Chinese lass, and it was always faintly amusing to see her trying to eat with a knife and fork... food everywhere
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:45, archived)
# very economic
good if you lose your silverware in the wilderness, far from home
fights alzheimers
very compact
good for the military
good for the poor
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:46, archived)
# silverware?
get you!
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:51, archived)
# what do you call it?
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:53, archived)
# if our chum Hanke resides in the US of A
then silverware is what it's called.

EDIT: ahh Pennsylvania! I've been there a couple of times :)

American term: Silverware
UK term: cutlery
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:58, archived)
# I see. My world is a little larger.
Ta :)
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 12:06, archived)
# you can
eat one handed with chopsticks though leaving the other hand free to do something useful like read a book, or hit f5.that kind of thing.
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:47, archived)
# Really?
And it takes you two hands to eat with a fork? Christ mate, buy it from a cookware shop, not a garden centre. :)
(I helped save b3ta! bennyhillslovechild, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:49, archived)
# you're so sharp
you don't need a knife
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:50, archived)
# I'm not allowed knives...
I only eat food that can be shovelled in with one item of cutlery. Mainly sketti hoops, and tins of cold rice pudding. :)
(I helped save b3ta! bennyhillslovechild, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:52, archived)
# Oh God
*craves cold rice pudding like heroin*
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 12:00, archived)
# you can only eat stuff with chopsticks you could eat with just a fork.
I'd like to see someone eat a steak with chopsticks.
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 12:03, archived)
# how to eat steak with chopsticks:
1. Spear steak with chopstick to hold steady on plate.

2. Take other chopstick, insert end-on, almost all the way through steak.

3. Remove first chopstick.

4. Eat Meat lollipop. (not an innuendo)
(dieselmonkey, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 12:13, archived)
# Don't forget printing and ice cream.
(I helped save b3ta! Matazone has new icons, but is keeping this one, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:48, archived)
# If you eat
the food ni the proper Chinese way of lifting the bowl up, then it's really quick. You basically shovel it into your face. Trying to get it from the table to your mouth is not as easy.
(MSB Load universe into cannon. Aim at brain. Fire., Tue 21 Nov 2006, 11:50, archived)
# China is vastly larger than the UK
and it had irt's imperialist ambitions long before England did, it was mostly land based expansion to the west, and south into viet nam, as opposed to England's later land grabs which were based more on naval dominance.

Even before expansion, but more so after, China had a huge landmass, with a huge and almost entirely rural population. Realistically, the amount of smtihing and metalwork required to provide metal utensils would be wildly impractical, when an efficient and cheaply available alternative has been available for millenia. Bear in mind that chopsticks suit the food (rather than english curry shop versions which are heavier on rice and meats), and that they were in use while most european peasnats would have ate with their hanbds - mass produced metal cutlery is a relatively recent privelege, and woudl have been the preserve of the wealthy for a long time.

Methinks you're being jingoistic rather than realistic. Also, what will you do if you ever visit China or Asia for travel or work - tell them off?
(I helped save b3ta! WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Tue 21 Nov 2006, 12:23, archived)
# UK or England
Surely two different entities?
(Beatfienduk wonders if we're there yet?., Tue 21 Nov 2006, 13:59, archived)