Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1)

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.

I can’t imagine yelling “Don’t look, Ethel!” if the “streaker” was wearing pants.

Boogity boogity.

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Ditto. But a guy needs to have a naked crotch to count, for sure.

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.

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.

I agree. No differences for genders. All naked from ankles to neck to be considered a streaker.

Nekkid also counts.

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.

This gentleman has you covered.

I learned tines-down from my German mom, which is still what I mostly do.

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.

That’s me! I use chopsticks at home every day. I have a set for travel, but my gf prefers I not use them.

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. :frowning_face:

*Except egg fu yung; that defeated me/

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.

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.

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.

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.

The fork never goes into the dominant hand. That’s where the knife goes.