Dan20703 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:19 pmI made a concerted effort to learn to use chopsticks while a senior in high school. I was dating a stunningly beautiful girl that was half Japanese and half Italian. She invited me to dinner (mom was Japanese) at her home and I knew I would be scrutinized by her mom. Both she and her mom were shocked at how well I used them. I could pick up a single grain of rice! The relationship didn't last but I use chopsticks whenever I am in an oriental restaurant just to think about that time.Abraham wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 12:57 pm philip964,
I read the links and from what I can ascertain, folks are tying themselves into PC knots over pretty much zero. Everyone can find something to be offended about, eh?
Let's see: Hey, I know I'm offended for being singled out as a 'white guy'.
And, and, don't remind me I'm old, that's sexist or is it 'oldist'? (shrug)
I'm short, oh man, that's a loaded word I take great umbrage with...
Oh and don't dare mention, I'm bald as that's, ah, let me think, 'baldish'.
Now, I'm going to learn how to use chopsticks, yes, I'm very interested, (obsessive?) why you whitey's want to use them instead of a knife and fork when eating in an Oriental eatery, you, you, you, 'utensilists'!
P.S. philip964, my silliness isn't directed at you. Just having a bit of fun, since I'm currently stuck in the house and all the gloom and doom in the news isn't something I care to participate in and being silly is fun and occasionally educational.
BTW, never told my wife why I like eating with chopsticks and never will!
I dated a white girl who loved Chinese food. She was pathetic with chopsticks, but I learned how to use them. Years later I worked for a Japanese company and we had a company dinner one night and I sat next to a couple of visitors from Japan.
I noticed one of the them staring at me and then looking at his friends and saying something in Japanese.
After a while he finally he asked me why I was so good using chopsticks.
I told him the story of my old GF,
