[HN Gopher] Donating Forks to the Dining Hall
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Donating Forks to the Dining Hall
Author : kickofline
Score : 23 points
Date : 2024-05-29 04:42 UTC (18 hours ago)
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| ggm wrote:
| My partner and I donated cutlery to our Apt complex multipurpose
| media room. It's where people who live there can watch movies on
| a projector or have meetings or birthdays.
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| We bought over 50 teaspoons. I think we're down to 5. We got
| 10-15 each of knives forks and spoons and they were predated, but
| not as much.
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| The body corporate tut-tutted and said they wouldn't do it, I
| think it's ok to accept some people just wind up pilfering these
| things, and you deal with it. If you need flatware that badly, I
| don't mind.
|
| Its 4-5 years in, we probably need to recommit. I don't know I'd
| go to the bother of etching or stamping anything.
|
| My sister and I fought over who got the NAAFI (british army PX)
| fork with a hole in the handle. The hole was for a chain, which
| clearly somebody broke, to steal the fork, which wound up in our
| cutlery drawer at home in the 50s/60s.
| jhbadger wrote:
| Reminds of of the replacement of "threeks" at the UW-Madison
| campus in the 1980s. At the time, it was common for satirical
| parties to win student elections and do odd things like cover the
| campus with plastic flamingos. One of the satirical parties was
| upset that the UW-Madison cafeteria didn't have true forks (with
| four tines) but only "threeks" (forks with three tines). So they
| decided to work with friends at Northwestern university outside
| Chicago to trade their cafeteria's forks for UW's threeks. They
| were successful, but obviously both UW's and Northwestern's
| administration weren't pleased and the trade was reversed.
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