BenI don't mean to brag, but my family uses so many forks
Heather 👻@TheBreadmonkey It's always spoons here. Cat food needs teaspoons. Started using the bigger spoons for my tea. So now both are most-used.
eestileib (she/hers)Yeah it was always spoons with my family too.
Nick@TheBreadmonkey My child takes teaspoons to school for their yoghurt and leaves them there. School must have millions of teaspoons. I assume they sell them for scrap to fund end of term drinks for the teachers.
SupermoosieWhere at work places the teaspoons just disappear.
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey
The only scientific research i to teaspoon loss, has the following hypothesis.
"We propose a somewhat more speculative theory (with apologies to Douglas Adams and Veet Voojagig). Somewhere in the cosmos, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, walking treeoids, and superintelligent shades of the colour blue, a planet is entirely given over to spoon life-forms. Unattended spoons make their way to this planet, slipping away through space to a world where they enjoy a uniquely spoonoid lifestyle, responding to highly spoon oriented stimuli, and generally leading the spoon equivalent of the good life."
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Oblomov@sen @TheBreadmonkey I would have thought of The True Fork https://truefork.org/DragonPreservationSociety/index.htm
surdfishMust be nice. We have the one fork. Take a bite and hand the fork to the next person. Round and round the table it goes. Dinner takes forever.
DamonHD@surdfish @TheBreadmonkey Do you have philosophers over to dine with you?
None that have admitted it. Would it help?
@surdfish @TheBreadmonkey You would have invented a whole new variant of the famous "Dining Philosophers Problem" though your algoithm sounds to be starvation-free, even if it comes with other, eg hygiene, issues...
LOL, thanky, @DamonHD @TheBreadmonkey
I'm learning so much today...at Ben's instigation! 🙏🫠❤️🔥
I should be grateful Dad forbade doing philosophy at the table :)
Sam 
@TheBreadmonkey But are they all forks you can eat with, or are most of them forks you seem to have collected over the years without knowing how or why, and the only thing they are good for is beating eggs or fishing shreds of cauliflower out of the kitchen sink because you wouldn't want to put them in your mouth?
Mostly mouth forks, although one is a disgusting thin weird mess who I hate and another belongs to Poseidon and is for defence against home invasion
@TheBreadmonkey I also have a fork that belongs to Poseidon.
It is the only fork I can put in my mouth.
If it is not available, I will use my spork (belongs to Athena) or my foon (belongs to Hephaestus).
@TheBreadmonkey Thinking about it, we also have a thin weird mess whom I hate.
It looks like its name is Charles, pronounced "Charals."
Paper Moon
RowinSpeez@TheBreadmonkey what would you say is the most frivolous use of forks?
It's difficult to say. I don't fully understand how they go through so many. I assume they're using 3 or 4 every meal. Perhaps to stir coffee. Brush their hair? Jousting?
zipkid - Breaker of SystemsTo stab people in the face, like in “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover”…
Ian K Tindale@RowinSpeez @TheBreadmonkey it’s when I see one outside on the pavement as I’m cycling and I specifically stop and go back and get the camera and take a picture with the specific aim of having a caption “…and then we reached a fork in the road”
Wulfric@TheBreadmonkey Sounds forked up.