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Not sure how that relates to me understanding the why of things.
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Donating forks to the dining hall
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Re: Donating forks to the dining hall
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But you don't even need silverware to eat wontons.
Dim sum wise words, mon.
I'm in the Philippines now, and one thing I've noticed is that when you go out to a fast food joint (Jollibee, Chow King, Mang Inasal, &c.) they don't even have any plastic fork/knife/spoon dispensers, napkin dispensers, or condiment dispensers anywhere at all in the dining area. I'm told it's because people here take them home. Sometimes they steal all the napkins.
If you don't get these things after paying at the counter, you are out of luck. You can try to approach the counter to get them, but most people don't bother because these places are always so crowded.
Re: Donating forks to the dining hall
#33You can always identify cheap stainless steel cutlery from the sharp edges that cut into your skin while eating. Presumably the decent ones have extra manufacturing steps to polish off the burrs after stamping.
My first utensils when living on my own, it was normal for the edges of the spoons to be streaked with blood as they came out of my mouth.
That might explain the appeal to me of spoons that have the very noticeably rounded edges, more rounded than they need to be. :)
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Yeah I understand the usage of the saying but not sure why someone would say that here. I wasn't being unnecessarily negative. Their comment is unnecessarily negative.
> This would be totally irrelevant if it weren't for social media status seeking.
isn't being unnecessarily negative to you? It's a cute little story about dining hall forks, not a hot girl who just happens to be in a bikini shilling a business course or some crap on instagram for followers. It's on their personal blog, that I (unfortunately) will likely never read again, so the amount of "clout" they're receiving from it isn't that big a deal.
Your comments starts off accusing them of faking the cute little story. That's not unnecessarily negative to you? I have no idea if the story is true or not, I'm not at Tufts, but this very cute little story reads as genuine to me. It could be that I'm gullible and being taken in by a future Jordan Belfort, but it's just so cute and earnest that I didn't even think about that, and have a hard time believing that. It's 100% totally fine that the random thought that it could be fake popped into your head, we don't really control what we think, but then after that, the problem is you went to the length of publishing a comment accusing them of that, which is to say your cynicism filter could use some fine tuning.
The fact that your comment's been downvoted says I'm not the only one that thinks that. The fact that you then also felt the need to turn around and attack my comment as being unnecessarily negative speaks volumes.
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I hate how "fake-seeking" is the new form of doing something for attention, like publicizing someone's supposed fabrications in the comments with 0 evidence that anything was manufactured in the first place just so you could feel the reward of delivering truth or something
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#38Reading the title seemed like it was related to the Dining Philosophers problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem
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#39Asking the BIG questions here... Like wtf would a school playing with so much money couldn't buy forks. Kids shouldn't go to college
The cafeteria manager likely had no idea they were running out of forks. A simple email or phone call to the cafeteria department would have probably solved the problem, since managers are likely looking for ideas of things to buy, especially if they've been recommended by customers (students).
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Yeah I understand the usage of the saying but not sure why someone would say that here. I wasn't being unnecessarily negative. Their comment is unnecessarily negative.
> I wasn't being unnecessarily negative.
And yet you ended up writing one of the most unnecessarily negative things I've read on here in a long time.