# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380 "2022-09-28T11:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 497
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9924 "2024-02-12T22:29:35Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > A female streaker, I would have chosen the “can wear pants” option. In NY, at least, female bare breasts are technically legal anywhere that male bare chests are (there was a lawsuit about it some years back, IIRC); though there are only very limited places where I would recommend trying it in practice, except possibly as part of a sizeable demonstration about a relevant subject. I’m ambivalent about classing a woman naked to the waist but not below as a streaker – I think it would depend on just what place/event she was running through. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9925 "2024-02-13T00:25:02Z")
I can’t imagine yelling “Don’t look, Ethel!” if the “streaker” was wearing pants. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9926 "2024-02-13T01:09:20Z")
Boogity boogity. mmm ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9927 "2024-02-13T15:11:04Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I’m ambivalent about classing a woman naked to the waist but not below as a streaker – I think it would depend on just what place/event she was running through. Ditto. But a guy needs to have a naked crotch to count, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9928 "2024-02-13T16:27:21Z")
IMO someone has to be completely naked to count as a streaker. I’ll allow for shoes and head gear, but nothing beyond that, regardless of anatomy. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9929 "2024-02-13T21:02:39Z")
Note that the Scots did not wear nada under their kilts. They wore a shirt with a long tail tucked up to be a sort of breechclout. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9930 "2024-02-13T21:25:02Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > IMO someone has to be completely naked to count as a streaker. I’ll allow for shoes and head gear, but nothing beyond that, regardless of anatomy. I agree. No differences for genders. All naked from ankles to neck to be considered a streaker. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9931 "2024-02-14T01:51:33Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > All naked from ankles to neck to be considered a streaker. Nekkid also counts. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9932 "2024-02-14T15:38:13Z")
I’m confused with the Fork Tines polls. I answered US - tines up. How would you use a fork if the tines were pointing down? The only time that happens is if I’m using my fork to hold my meat when I’m cutting it. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9933 "2024-02-14T15:43:31Z")
This gentleman has you covered. > **[How To Eat With Fork & Knife (Etiquette Basics & Beyond) |...](https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/eat-fork-knife-etiquette/)** > > When dining out, there are meals where a fork and knife are used to eat, and as custom varies across continents, you'll want to learn how to do so! I learned tines-down from my German mom, which is still what I mostly do. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9934 "2024-02-14T15:57:25Z")
Nekkid = naked and up to something. Tines up if my food doesn’t require a knife, tines down if it does. I don’t switch hands. I can eat faster with chopsticks than a lot of people can with a fork. At home I’ll use them for everything but soup. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9935 "2024-02-14T16:02:35Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I can eat faster with chopsticks than a lot of people can with a fork. At home I’ll use them for everything but soup. That’s me! I use chopsticks at home every day. I have a set for travel, but my gf prefers I not use them. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9936 "2024-02-14T16:05:07Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > I’m confused with the Fork Tines polls. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/JyWGvnG.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/LnA2XRn) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9937 "2024-02-14T16:43:51Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > They wore a shirt with a long tail tucked up to be a sort of breechclout. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. After a year and a half on Okinawa I got pretty good with chopsticks (hashi)\* but arthritis has crippled that hand so I no longer am. ☹ \*Except egg fu yung; that defeated me/ ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9938 "2024-02-14T18:43:44Z")
I naturally ate with the tines down when I was a kid, but my mom told me that was bad table manners and made me eat with tines up. Then, I’d see English people in movies and on TV eating with tines down, and I was so confused. I prefer tines down, but sometimes it’s hard to change the conditioning my mom subjected me to. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9939 "2024-02-14T19:14:04Z")
I am definitely not leaving that fork lying there. It could damage someone’s tires. Hell, if it is a hay fork, it could kill someone. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9940 "2024-02-14T21:15:58Z")
I mean, I can eat with chopsticks without dropping food in my lap so I went with the best option, but I’m not claiming I can catch flies in flight with them or anything. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9941 "2024-02-14T21:20:25Z")
Miss Manners maintained that proper fork etiquette was different in Europe and Great Britain than in the US. The European style of eating calls for cutting the food with your fork in the left hand and knife in the right and conveying the piece of food to your mouth with the fork, still tines down, in your left hand. The American style has you cut the food the same way, put the knife down, switch the fork into your right hand, and bring the food to your mouth tines up. My parents were Americans, but we lived overseas for some years. My dad was also something of a snob, so he taught us kids the European method, but after my parents divorced and we were living in the US, I started eating the other way, leaving me with persistent weird hybrid table manners. Now all of us will be so focused on how we’re using our forks that we won’t taste our food for days. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9942 "2024-02-14T21:28:27Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > Miss Manners maintained that proper fork etiquette was different in Europe and Great Britain than in the US. The European style of eating calls for cutting the food with your fork in the left hand and knife in the right and conveying the piece of food to your mouth with the fork, still tines down, in your left hand. The American style has you cut the food the same way, put the knife down, switch the fork into your right hand, and bring the food to your mouth tines up. > > My parents were Americans, but we lived overseas for some years. My dad was also something of a snob, so he taught us kids the European method, but after my parents divorced and we were living in the US, I started eating the other way, leaving me with persistent weird hybrid table manners. > > Now all of us will be so focused on how we’re using our forks that we won’t taste our food for days. I guess my parents had no culture. I was never told which hand to use, how to hold my fork or to switch hands. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9943 "2024-02-14T21:33:17Z")
The fork never goes into the dominant hand. That’s where the knife goes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=496) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=498)