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Then it all unravels after that, especially for the last person who's left with a bunch of cannibalized bundles, none complete.
I'm jaded by people.
Also I can't believe what a bunch of germophobes you people are.
You can eat someone else's communal feces, but I'll pass on that.
Now the person who seriously informed me that the English calendar doesn't jump from July 3 to July 5 without a 4th of July can educate me again.
Other solutions: Separate containers. Rolled up in a nice cloth napkin. Rolled up in a nice paper napkin. Fingerfood buffet with no silverware at all.
But to say that anything but bows is "the WRONG way?" Worst of all.
When you're serving a buffet-style meal, it's actually a mistake to put your forks and knives in a big basket at the end.
What you should be doing instead"
I find that whole tagline and setup obnoxious and presumptuous. I don't need some HUFFPOST HACK presume to tell me what I should or should not be doing.
I also immensely dislike these videos that start automatically with a loud commercial. I want to start the video when I choose, not when HUFFPOST does. AND does HUFFPOST really believe that anyone actually watches the commercials. I hit my mute button and twiddle my thumbs until the commercial is over...THEN I may or may not watch the video.
I commented on the story itself earlier but I felt this needed another critique. If HUFFPOST is trying to piss off its readers it's doing a good job.
This order of holding a utensil is valid - at least according to my understanding - whether the untensils are displayed in a bowl or placed on the dinner table.
I'm sitting here waiting for the revolution. When a nation stoops to such inanities .... in ads and articles ... we're a very short step towards violent and angry rebellion. People don't have jobs .... we don't have universal medicare .... and we're fussing over toilet paper and ribbon wrapping on utensils???
Insanity. Bring out the guillotine ....
Read a book about cultures.
And no .... I don't need to read a book about culture,. I have lived in ( not merely 'visited') five countries .... speak four foreign languages fluently and am intimately aware of cultural customs totally unknown in the USA. (Including some fascinating diets and rituals which would curl your hair.)
But my comments are for the "silliness" of this specific piece .... in no way a criticism of style or manners. Read my other comments in my profile and you'll get the general idea ... and scope .... of my comments.