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For the past two years we have been invited to a mate's house for Xmas dinner. They have an eight year-old daughter who eats with her fingers and never closes her mouth when eating. I found the whole thing pretty disgusting. My children and grandchildren have always been taught table manners as my parents taught me.

I overheard someone inviting them for dinner this year and we weren't included. Thank goodness for that!

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Slightly off topic but still about cutlery and prompted by the Knork post earlier. If you have to purchase such items try a site like this - Disabled Accessories

They should ask if you are on any disability benefit, in receipt of carers allowance etc. If they don’t and you are then tell them, such products are VAT exempt. ;)

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A JCB digger would not be big enough for you Sparkolgist ! ... Looked at his plate piled up tonight ... exclaimed 'Gosh' .. reply was "eaten half of it already" .. Lettie: sure he has got a tapeworm ..can't keep that sort of figure scoffing all that, must get plenty of exercise .. LOL.

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I dint put the flippin link into my previous post, too late to edit. Sorry.

Here it is - Disabled Accessories

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I always understood it to be that you eat from the "far end" of the plate to minimise the chance of getting scalding hot mushroom soup dripping on your gonads. Scooping from the edge of the plate instead of the middle is supposedly for the same reason (the edge of the bowl is cooler than the middle).

Your nan did exactly the right thing. Manners are there for public consumption. When you're alone- do whatever you want, nobody will complain.

It's only a problem when, as in Junetta's post, you have one parent who is militant about kids eating with their mouth open and another who thinks they should do what they want as long as they get the balanced diet.

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No Sparks, you only cock your pinky finger when drinking from a bucket:D

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Your theory may not be that daft really BB, I know that all the medical equipment that I purchase is VAT exempt, if its for personal use. I'm nearly sure that if say a doctor, buys the same equipment for use in the surgery it is subject to VAT:confused:

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Ha haaaa....how funny!

When I was a child and McDonalds first opened in Accy I asked my Grandma to take me there in the school holidays when she was looking after me. She had never been in a McDonalds before.

We went in, she told me to sit down and save the seats whilst she went to the counter. When she came back with the food on the tray she said 'oh I've not got knives and forks, I'll go and get some.'

She was horrified when I said there aren't any knives and forks here.

She said 'well how are we meant to eat this then? With our fingers?' :eek:

The look on her face when I said yes was hilarious...I thought she was going to collapse! :D

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Ya Lilly we're like that us old uns:D I can honestly say I've never been in a McDonalds, but I did an occasional Wimpy bar years ago;)

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The Last Supper ? :D

Do enjoy eating with my fingers ... and who eats chips with a knife and fork .. just not the same is it !

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I was miffed when they stopped using news paper to wrap your supper up on the way home from the pub:rolleyes:

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Once in a while I will make myself a late night snack of just a plate of chips (cooked in beef dripping) with salt and vinegar and a chunk of sharp cheese, but I use a fork rather than fingers.

It stops the remote from getting greasy.

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Ha ha Jambutty, know what you mean .. just eaten a toasted hot cross bun lashed with butter and lemon curd ... me mouse pointer is hurtling all over my screen ...:D

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Oh ******, that's where I've been going wrong all these years.

If I can find a picture of my glass bucket, I'll post a picture. :D