Do you know how to eat with Chopsticks?

[MoltenRock III]

Wow! Who knew that chopsticks and their usage could identify so many with childhood "trauma" and issues?

 

[zoltanspawn]

... in the international jet-set crowd, there was a certain cachet to learning how to use chopsticks. When the student was good enough, he was given a personalized set of chopsticks, made with ivory, with his name written in Chinese on them.

These chopsticks were given to him in a velvet case, and it was these chopsticks that he was expected to use whenever he was taken to an Asian restaurant.

He says it was quite the thing to do, if you were in "the in crowd".

Oooooohhhh. I'd sort of skipped over this bit before, but now that I take a closer look at it I understand much more clearly where you're coming from.

 

[Beachguyj]

Every topic should have a song right?
This song is perfect for this thread:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3m7BZ5tzeg&feature=related[/ame]

 

[zoltanspawn]

No, you're snobbish. If you can say "Fuck off" to someone who disagrees with your ideas, you're snobbish.

Kulindahr, I don't think you were disagreeing with my idea about "the beauty of the table". I think you were ridiculing it. Hence my incivil response. I'm not sure I have it in me to offer you a genuine apology. But I will admit that I was party to a rotten exchange. I regret, at least, that much.

And resorting to personal attacks is another sign of snobbishness.

I dislike feeling victim to my own anger, but it was anger--not snobbishness--which fueled the insulting tone of my post. My convictions are heartfelt and even if they were poorly expressed, intended to increase people's happiness. Everyone's.

And you accuse people who are just reading your words and what they say of making assumptions -- more arrogance. Your presentation here is that of someone with some vision you pooh-pooh others for not sharing when you haven't even explained it -- like you're too good to explain it to lowly others.

I don't agree with you that I haven't explained my opinions. I will, however, happily try to elucidate them further on any specific point you want to raise.

I can tell you're talking in a rather mystical sense here. A table is a table, utensils are utensils, food is food. You're glomming them together in some pseudo-spiritual mishmash.

My usage of the word "table" is common, if not completely literal. That doesn't make it mystical or poorly chosen. It's a regular enough way of speaking to understand I intended what you would prefer to call "presentation". (By the way, if our conversations about literalism over on the religion forum haven't made it clear, I *do* take a dim view of literalism.)

Instead of "pseudo-spiritual" I would characterize my talk about beauty as philosophical in nature. There's been a lot of such talk. It's nothing mystical.

If "presentation" is what you mean, I agree. One of the most delightful eating experiences I've ever had was where due to poor planning and assumptions made, eight of us ended up camping without utensils. We had to fashion everything for cooking and eating from what was around us, or improvise from what we had.

Did you know it's possible to do stir-fry in a frisbee?

We ended up with trenchers fashioned from the bark of noble fir, and two-pronged "woodware" forks.... along with chopsticks for the salad. The experience of eating what most people would have said couldn't be cooked with what we had, using utensils we'd made ourselves, was a delight.

Sounds lovely. <not sarcasm

 

[Ram]

How in gay hell does a thread about chopsticks get so popular?

It happens when people don't get laid from time to time.

 

[RonR18]

It happens when people don't get laid from time to time.

I hereby volunteer to fuck everyone who has posted in this thread.

 

[LilBit]

How in gay hell does a thread about chopsticks get so popular?

Can we do forks next?



BTW, don't mind me...I haven't read any posts in this thread since like page 1 or 2.

I'd like to fork you.

 

[Kulindahr]

Elvin, I'd thought of that, too.

The OP couldn't have possibly known that this thread would have grown so big...

Most of the really successful threads are like that.

 

[TickTockMan]

Most of the really successful threads are like that.

The mundane are the most interesting. We learn the most about one another while sharing our thoughts on the little things.

 

[Ganoderma]

I have been partnered for almost 21 years now. In 2009, my OH had a near-fatal heart attack, and six months later, had triple-bypass surgery. These events set up a chain of events which led to his inability to work. So I'm supporting the two of us with my one job. I've fallen into the role of his caregiver, which I don't mind much. In fact, it makes me feel needed, you know, being his nurse, taking care of his medication, and so on. There's a nurturing part of being a caregiver that is emotionally satisfying.

I count myself one of the lucky ones. Reno has an unemployment rate of over 13%, and so many people are infinitely worse off. I feel fortunate that 1) I'm still employed 2) that I can take care of him, and, most of all 3)that I have somebody whom I can trust completely.
All of that being said, with one person working in a relationship, there's just not a lot of extra money in the house. Travel to China and Europe is exorbitantly expensive, and to I think being able to afford his medication is infinitely more important than travel to China or Ethiopia.

Hi JohannBessler,

Please excuse me for some delay in giving you a reply to this posting. I feel very sorry that you partner has suffered from severe problems with his heart. I hope his recovery will go on, and that soon he will not need much (if any) nursering from you anymore. Thanks for explaining your current situation to me, though this was not needed at all. After all, people on JUB are free to tell or not to tell anything about their private life.

You did not give details of your partner about his ability of being still able to travel, and / or using an airoplane , so I assume that he still can travel and/or use a plane (together with you).

You might have noticed the thread 'Would you go on 'this free' R/T trip to Japan?', see http://www.justusboys.com/forum/showthread.php?t=358367 I tend to think that this is an excellent possibility for you and for your partner to have a cheap opportunity to visit Japan, especially to taste the local food over there.

I have listed some possibilities to cut down the costs even more. Besides that, see also

#177 MoltenRock III October 9th, 2011, 09:41 I know of several places in Tokyo (one of the most expensive cities in the world) where you can get great food for under $7 to $10 for lunch / dinner.

So how about trying to get a free ticket for such a visit to Japan? A nice opportunity to get used how you have to eat Japanese food with chopsticks?

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#179 Kulindahr October 9th, 2011, 09:48 PM Anyone here who doesn't care to visit other countries, please send money -- I'd love to. I've always wanted to visit every country in the Western Hemisphere.

How about the UK? You only want to visit the western part of the UK? You don't want to pay a visit to The Netherlands? Great to read you would like to visit countries like Senegal, Guinee and Ivory Coast (you will need to brush up your French in order to travel around) and countries like The Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia (easy to move around for people who speak English).

I have visited quite a few African countries which are (partly) situated in the Western Hemisphere, feel free to ask me for more details.

Thanks in advance for a reply.

 

[Kulindahr]

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How about the UK? You only want to visit the western part of the UK? You don't want to pay a visit to The Netherlands? Great to read you would like to visit countries like Senegal, Guinee and Ivory Coast (you will need to brush up your French in order to travel around) and countries like The Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia (easy to move around for people who speak English).

I have visited quite a few African countries which are (partly) situated in the Western Hemisphere, feel free to ask me for more details.

Thanks in advance for a reply.

I said I wanted to visit every country in the western hemisphere, i.e. in North and South America. I didn't say anything about anywhere else. No part of Africa is in the Western Hemisphere, or of anything but the two American continents (okay, part of Antarctica, but there aren't any countries there).

At the moment my French is really sad, so I'd have to brush up just to visit Canada.

 

[Ganoderma]

I said I wanted to visit every country in the western hemisphere, i.e. in North and South America. I didn't say anything about anywhere else. No part of Africa is in the Western Hemisphere, or of anything but the two American continents (okay, part of Antarctica, but there aren't any countries there).

See, eg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere

The western hemisphere is mainly used as a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian (which crosses Greenwich, London, United Kingdom) and east of the Antimeridian (the International Date Line), the other half being called the Eastern Hemisphere. In this sense, the western hemisphere consists of the western portions of Europe and Africa, the Americas, the easternmost tip of Russia, numerous territories in Oceania, and a portion of Antarctica, while excluding some of the Aleutian Islands to the southwest of the Alaskan mainland.

The term is, however, often also used in political rhetoric to mean only the Americas (or the New World) and adjacent waters, while excluding all other territories in the geographical western hemisphere; thus, it is sometimes also referred to as the American hemisphere.

Would you mind to clarify why you don't use the geographical term? Thanks in advance for a reply.

 

[Kulindahr]

See, eg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere



Would you mind to clarify why you don't use the geographical term? Thanks in advance for a reply.

I took geography in college and never heard of the term used that way. We always used it the way the WorldAtlas online and a half dozen other atlas and geography sites do -- the Americas are the western hemisphere and the Eurasian + African masses are the eastern.

 

[bankside]

See, eg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere



Would you mind to clarify why you don't use the geographical term? Thanks in advance for a reply.

I took geography in college and never heard of the term used that way. We always used it the way the WorldAtlas online and a half dozen other atlas and geography sites do -- the Americas are the western hemisphere and the Eurasian + African masses are the eastern.

Geographical terms vary by country. In Canada I learned the hemispheres as being divided at 0° and 180°, or alternately, 0° and the International Date Line. Either way, western Africa would be western hemisphere.

I also learned 7 continents. In other countries they learn 5 continents or even 3.

 

[Kulindahr]

Geographical terms vary by country. In Canada I learned the hemispheres as being divided at 0° and 180°, or alternately, 0° and the International Date Line. Either way, western Africa would be western hemisphere.

I also learned 7 continents. In other countries they learn 5 continents or even 3.

Geologically there are at least five continents -- American, Eurasian, African, Australian, and Antarctican. More commonly, the American continent and the Eurasian are separated into two.

I don't see any way to get three.

 

[LilBit]

Geologically there are at least five continents -- American, Eurasian, African, Australian, and Antarctican. More commonly, the American continent and the Eurasian are separated into two.

I don't see any way to get three.

Africa is contiguous with the Eurasian continent. Perhaps some people combine Australia with either Eurasia or Antarctica? Or they ignore Antarctica because it's uninhabited?

 

[Kulindahr]

Africa is contiguous with the Eurasian continent. Perhaps some people combine Australia with either Eurasia or Antarctica? Or they ignore Antarctica because it's uninhabited?

To a geologist, Africa and Eurasia are totally distinct, and will remain so until the grinding plates lock and become one.

That's why in geology classes some of our resources referred to as many as twelve continental plates -- if they weren't locked, they weren't a continent (Africa becomes two in that definition, divided along the great rift valley, which is a spreading center).

 

[Ganoderma]

I took geography in college and never heard of the term used that way.

Would you mind to tell me the name and the url of this college? Thanks in advance for a reply.

 

[Kulindahr]

Would you mind to tell me the name and the url of this college? Thanks in advance for a reply.

Oregon State University. I don't know a URL.

 

[Ganoderma]

Oregon State University. I don't know a URL.

Uncle Google knows alot, so also the url of the Oregon State University, see http://oregonstate.edu/ Besides that, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_University provides much information about the Oregon State University.

Kulindahr wrote as well:

I took geography in college and never heard of the term used that way. We always used it the way the WorldAtlas online and a half dozen other atlas and geography sites do -- the Americas are the western hemisphere and the Eurasian + African masses are the eastern.

Uncle Google can also find the WorldAtlas online. http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/imageh.htm provides insight insight in the situation of the hemispheres on Earth, and this does not agree with what you have learned during college.

However, the current online division of hemispheres according to the WorldAtlas online agrees with what Bankside has learned in Canada:

In Canada I learned the hemispheres as being divided at 0° and 180°, or alternately, 0° and the International Date Line. Either way, western Africa would be western hemisphere.

Kulindahr, would you mind to explain abit more in detail about this subject?
What kind of course have you followed on the OSU?
Would you mind to try and find some details of this course on the website of the OSU?

Thanks in advance for a reply.