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A Buttery Pastry posted:The American way of using forks How do other people use folks? How do Americans use forks?
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The Byzantine Princess who taught dirt-grubbimg Euros to use forks had a hell of a tough life
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Feb 25, 2024 05:49
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the actual dividing line shouldnt be based on dates which were arbitrarily invented by the papacy to deceive us but on whether the historical content is closer to an epstein conspiracy theory explainer or boring modern communism pretty sure the main reason the threads have such different regulars is because those arent really overlapping cspam cliques
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Some Guy TT posted:the actual dividing line shouldnt be based on dates which were arbitrarily invented by the papacy to deceive us but on whether the historical content is closer to an epstein conspiracy theory explainer or boring modern communism Huh?
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Feb 25, 2024 05:54
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:How do other people use folks? How do Americans use forks? Fork in left, knife in right, cut off a piece of food for consumption Lay down knife to indicate that you're a civilized person not about to attack other dinner guests Transfer fork to your right, and stab the food before showing it in your face Transfer fork to your left, and pick up the knife again for more cutting European-style: Fork in left, knife in right, cut off a piece of food for consumption Stab the food and put it in your mouth/push the food onto the fork and shovel it into your mouth Some American writers pretend Europeans place the tines down when pushing food onto the fork, but that's fake. I mean, I guess some upper-class freaks might be doing that, but that's hardly fair to lay on an entire continent.
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Feb 25, 2024 05:56
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Huh? i would explain to you about fomenkos new chronology which is supported by russias now number one extremely respectable political dissident gary kasparov but alas this is off topic both under the current thread definition as well as the proposed new one
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Feb 25, 2024 05:59
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A Buttery Pastry posted:American-style: this cannot be real
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Feb 25, 2024 06:05
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A Buttery Pastry posted:American-style: Wait! Are you joking about how Americans eat?!  e: Do Americans use knife rests?
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Feb 25, 2024 06:10
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None of that is fake or wrong except even Americans should be doing the tines down thing
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Feb 25, 2024 06:11
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No American I know eats like that, but there are some serious cultural differences between certain areas of the US. That could explain the weirdness.
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Feb 25, 2024 06:20
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What the gently caress? Fork on left, SPOON on right Are you people insane
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Feb 25, 2024 06:27
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The gently caress is a knife rest
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Feb 25, 2024 06:58
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It’s that bar in your table setting. Wait, do Americans use a knife rest?
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Feb 25, 2024 07:14
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Anyway, the whole problem is arguably caused by "modern" in this thread cutting off the first 300 years of the modern era. you consider the modern era to start in 1515????
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Feb 25, 2024 07:24
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A Buttery Pastry posted:American-style: Nobody puts the knife down, and that makes it sound ridiculous. You just swap the fork and knife between your hands so that you can use your dominant hand for the current action, which is a lot faster than the European method.
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Feb 25, 2024 07:56
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mycomancy posted:No American I know eats like that, but there are some serious cultural differences between certain areas of the US. That could explain the weirdness. fermun posted:you consider the modern era to start in 1515???? Chamale posted:Nobody puts the knife down, and that makes it sound ridiculous. You just swap the fork and knife between your hands so that you can use your dominant hand for the current action, which is a lot faster than the European method.
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Feb 25, 2024 08:00
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:It’s that bar in your table setting. what is a knife rest
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Feb 25, 2024 08:13
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whats a table setting
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Chamale posted:Nobody puts the knife down, and that makes it sound ridiculous. You just swap the fork and knife between your hands so that you can use your dominant hand for the current action, which is a lot faster than the European method. i was gonna dismiss the whole thing as too dumb to be true, but what do you know, here we have someone actually defending this poo poo
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Feb 25, 2024 08:39
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No one in all of America eats like that. no one puts down the knife or constantly switches hands. Hell most people just cut all their stuff at the start so they can eat without constantly having to stop to cut a new piece.
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Feb 25, 2024 09:38
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i eat nuggies
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Feb 25, 2024 09:43
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Yes. early modern but still modern. no, gently caress you
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Some Guy TT posted:the actual dividing line shouldnt be based on dates which were arbitrarily invented by the papacy to deceive us but on whether the historical content is closer to an epstein conspiracy theory explainer or boring modern communism ages ago when I was a cspam mod I asked the history threads if they wanted to heal the schism and they said no because the posters didn't want discussions of Roman coins to get overwhelmed by arguments about Stalin
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Feb 25, 2024 13:14
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galagazombie posted:Hell most people just cut all their stuff at the start so they can eat without constantly having to stop to cut a new piece. this is just as depraved as switching your fork hand every time you want to take a bite
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Feb 25, 2024 13:14
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vyelkin posted:this is just as depraved as switching your fork hand every time you want to take a bite i do that, knife in right hand then put it down
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Feb 25, 2024 13:20
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Chamale posted:Nobody puts the knife down, and that makes it sound ridiculous. You just swap the fork and knife between your hands so that you can use your dominant hand for the current action, which is a lot faster than the European method. galagazombie posted:No one in all of America eats like that. no one puts down the knife or constantly switches hands. Hell most people just cut all their stuff at the start so they can eat without constantly having to stop to cut a new piece. I've seen this done. Sickening.
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American who lives out of their car:FirstnameLastname posted:whats a table
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vyelkin posted:ages ago when I was a cspam mod I asked the history threads if they wanted to heal the schism and they said no because the posters didn't want discussions of Roman coins to get overwhelmed by arguments about Stalin There's a direct through line from the Gracchi brothers, to Julius Caesar, to Robespierre, to Stalin, to Bernie Sanders (they're all ftw)
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Feb 25, 2024 13:31
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vyelkin posted:ages ago when I was a cspam mod I asked the history threads if they wanted to heal the schism and they said no because the posters didn't want discussions of Roman coins to get overwhelmed by arguments about Stalin
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Are people joking about not knowing what a knife rest is?   Do they have saucers in America? and if they do, do people drink tea out of the cup or the saucer? DJJIB-DJDCT has issued a correction as of 15:31 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Are people joking about not knowing what a knife rest is? 1) I've never heard of a "knife rest" until right now, 2) most Americans don't drink hot tea so your question is void, except 3) I do drink hot tea daily, and I just put it into whatever coffee mug I have on hand and pour the water over the tea bag. What I'm learning is that Canada is infested with British bourgeoisie customs.
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Feb 25, 2024 15:41
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gradenko_2000 posted:There's a direct through line from the Gracchi brothers, to Julius Caesar, to Robespierre, to Stalin, to Bernie Sanders Correction: gently caress Bernie Sanders.
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Feb 25, 2024 15:56
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Orange Devil posted:Correction: gently caress Bernie Sanders.
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Feb 25, 2024 16:34
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I'm just saying, both Bernie and Jules did genocides
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Wait, you drink tea out of the saucer? Are you like six years old and scald your tongue or something?
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fermun posted:before the scope of this thread. this thread is for 1815 and later. it's 1492!
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fermun posted:you consider the modern era to start in 1515???? Yes, and it ends somewhere between 1918 and 1973
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In Europe they got things pretty much chugging along in the 1100's
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Modernity starts in 1517 - 1661. Source: 
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I'd put the modern age to start with the sack of Constantinople in 1204 and the ascension of Genghis Khan in 1206
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