I am amused that whenever I stop by the little Vietnamese place by the apartment for takeout they always give me a set of wooden cutlery but when my husband (who's Chinese) stops by he gets chopsticks.
@wordshaper I know, I sometimes get the same treatment. But honestly, who doesn't know how to use chopsticks these days? They deserve to be denied utensils until they learn! 😁
@ColesStreetPothole If I would have to guess, I'd put most white french people in the "don't know how to use chopsticks" camp. (the vietnamese place near my house, back in the states... doesn't give me any utensils because they know we've already got plenty :)
@wordshaper Okay, yesterday, as we were having this interaction, my spouse was at a business lunch, where they serve poke bowls. My spouse grabbed a set of chopsticks and dug in. A younger coworker looked over and literally said "Ugh, who uses chopsticks?"🙄
Later on, my spouse made a reference to the chopstick hate, and someone said "Oh, don't mind [younger coworker], everyone knows she's a buffoon."
@wordshaper 😂 To be fair, they're all over, my friend.
NJ not having a good time right now, though—a senator under trial for corruption, a traitorous presidential candidate campaigning on the Jersey Shore, the legislature passing perhaps the strictest open public records act in the country.
@ColesStreetPothole I'd say the big downside to a very strict open records law is the potential for "New Jersey Man" to join "Florida Man" in the pantheon of "what the actual fuck, seriously?" except NJ's aready got that (in fairness, somewhat undeserved) rep so it probably won't make things worse. (It's a little amusing that "Florida Man", as a concept, is a direct result of their very strong open public records laws)
@wordshaper It's a weird moment in NJ. Progressives won elimination of the "county line" in primary ballots (the design gave county political parties incredible power over who wins primaries), and Senator Menendez is being tried for being corrupt, but at the same time, he was so corrupt because that's NJ, and at the same time the legislature is consolidating power by being more secretive. So, despite progress, our corrupt reputation is getting a LOT of air time right now.
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