wtf is this rubbish. Is this the new Facebook or something….?

They explain in the replies that this is because you guys drive on the wrong side of the road, and they assume the whole island basically operates on a mirror image system

I noticed that. It's the only mistake though.

Two mistakes. The glasses should be on the right.

Three - Knife goes on right hand side Four - you NEVER put food in a beer glass

Exept from the food group "beer", that is

It’s pre-bread.

I'm Norwegian and here beer is not food. The proof is in the taxing (VAT). Food 15% Transport 12% Everything else and BEER 25%

with the beans mug sitting clockwise of the beans goblet

Correct. Well spotted.

Also the knife. Who puts a knife on the left? (Perhaps left handed people, IDK)

The knife blade is also pointing in the wrong direction.

As I was thought: wrong side of the plate (should be on the right), but correct relative orientation (cutting edge facing the plate).

Correct.

Ooh, contentious

Lol. No. Just raised by a VERY particular Southern mother.

The fact that it’s a Stella glass is just

That’s how they eat in the Mirror Universe

Use of the Stella Artois beer glass is a very nice knowledgeable touch. English Football hooligan wife-beating juice.

Not if you're left handed.

We burned all our left-handers at the stake. #brexitbenefits

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GUARDS! SIEZE HER!

What, now? I've got loads to do, can this wait?

We can re-spawn and we walk among you. We’re not dangerous though, we can’t even cut things with your ridiculous right-handed scissors.

I am still peeved that my very expensive dressmaking scissors were more expensive than the identical right handed ones.

Wait, are other left-handers holding their forks in their right hands?! I've somehow missed this my whole life (unless you're joking)

I lways have done. That way the thing that needs the most fine motor control is done with your dominant hand.

Americans swap the knife and fork to cut food, then put the knife down to eat with a fork in the right hand.

I've always used the fork in my left hand, which makes me shit at cutting but great at scooping

Er, no. Fork on the left, non-neg. (Unless it's a one fork, no knife affair, in which case go for your life)

I think it depends on what you learned in childhood. Half my generation are left handed (I was the youngest), and my right handed parents quickly realised that anything requiring fine motor control was a complete bust with my right hand.

Apparently Noel Gallagher is left-handed but plays the guitar right-handed because his school just… didn’t care about left-handed people?

I got hit on the left hand in Irish school in the early 80s and was told there was something wrong with me

Slightly off topic but more left handed golf clubs are sold in French Canada than anywhere else, because most boys are taught to play (ice) hockey left handed.

Do you know why that is, please?

Hmm. You mean I have to substantiate my random (and possible apocryphal) UFI?! Oh, alright... I'll be back in a minute...

Okay, a few reasons: 1. When kids are really young it was thought best to use their dominant hand at the top of the stick... meaning they'd use their left hand to 'shoot'. 2. Self-perpetuation: famous hockey stars played left, left-handed sticks more available (shortages real in my childhood.)

my great aunt had hers tied behind her back in the 1920s and it was withered and weak for the rest of her life

That's completely horrific

During my first week at infants', mum looked at me in some confusion as I "did colouring" on the kitchen table. "Why are you using your right hand?" "teacher shouted at me." She went *spare* at the school next day. 😁

Sadly in the old days no parent went spare at a Catholic school. They should have.

I think it helped that dad worked in education and was aware of the potential harm caused by forcing left handed children to be right handed.

That's good. Glad they gave em what for!

I mean, I'm not surprised, and worse things have happened, but can you imagine hitting a child for using their body naturally and harmlessly and thinking that there's something wrong with *the child*?

Indeed. She was a danger to children but so were a lot of heads of schools in Ireland back then.

All too common in other places too, but I wonder if Ireland was especially prone to it due to lack of career roles for women, with lots of frustrated square pegs in round holes?

Not really. The church's evil influence was king, tbh. Male principals were just as vile as female. It was embroidered and embedded in authoritarian culture for decades. "Suffer little children"

Also the superstition around it being the Devil's sign.

Guitars are difficult, it's not just a case of turning it upside down, it needs restringing as well. The only thing I do right handed is knitting because otherwise you have to rewrite the patterns to reverse them and nobody has time for that.

Left-handed guitars were rarer and sometime more expensive. Plenty of southpaws played a right-handed guitar, for their own reasons - Gary Moore, Paul Simon, Robert Fripp, Steve Cropper, Johnny Winter, Mark Knopfler, etc.

Paul McCartney plays left handed which meant that he and John Lennon could stand closer together when playing, which may have played a role in the band's early success.

I guess I was often rebuked for 'tearing' food with the fork, which does imply I was over-using my left hand Also grew up using a mouse with my right hand, again not sure if most left-handers end up doing that! And yet the idea of using a pen with my right, never.

Fair. I have recently spent a chunk of time eating meals with people from the US, and have come to the conclusion that what I drummed into my kids as 'table manners' is in large part just cultural norms and expectations.

Is elbows on tables part of that? Asking for a friend

“All joints on the table shall be carved”, as my nan would say.

I feel your nan and mine would have gotten along just fine.

Broke my right elbow badly at 6 and as a result do everythig bar writing left handed. People (family) still comment on my crossing over the cutlery so I can eat lefty. Yep to Fork on the right.

I am a lefty and use fork on the left much to the ongoing confusion of MrsW who assumed being a lefty Is have fork on the right

Meanwhile...

I’m right handed and use my fork on the right… just cannot use it with my left!

What’s with the ‘salad’?

I guess they couldn’t find any black pudding

where's the spotted dog?

I mean, we're dealing with savages here clearly. 😁

Plate? Should only ever be served on a shovel. 7/10

No mistake, table was set for me. That's how I eat as a left hander. Not sure how it wasn't drummed out of me.

Aagh! I just can't unsee that now...

Not sure about the beans in the ramekin.

What the hell is that green thing

No idea, I think it’s European or something.

I'm guessing that's the side salad....

Rocket aka arugula

Can't even get a straw with your beans anymore.

Because of woke.

Where's the black pudding, then??

Distinct lack of a picture of the King as well.... 🫡

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This is England. They drive on the left side of the road, opposite to the rest of the world. I guess the same applies to eating with knife and fork.

*We* drive on the left, thank you very much. And once we have re-established our empire, so will you.

Ahem, South Africa, Japan, and a few others, drive left side too.

Yeah, IIRC driving on the right is a Napoleonic thing: he got sick of minor nobles duelling to the death every time they met on the road, so made them pass each other on the left so they couldn't reach each other with their swords.

Not a euphemism.

A handy map to illustrate the point:

Actually lots of countries drive on the left. India and Japan for example 🙂

Do you know why the english drive on the left, and the rest of the world on the right side?

Not sure. One myth said it was so that in the days of horse and carts the driver could use is sword, right handed, to fight off any attackers. Another is that horse riders normally mount from the left side, so mounted from the left side of the road. Who knows? The law for a few hundred years now

English knights were right handed and in tournaments they stayed on the left hand side to hit the opponent with the lance. The rest of europe rode on the right hand side to avoid the english knights .. hehe 😁

Yeah, I know. Even Sweden did it until 1968, I believe.

Changed in September 1967. I just checked on MS Copilot 🙂

Not if you're left handed.

I think the drinks cabinet has qualified the original poster as a 'Brit' 🙂

I'm right handed, and use my fork in my right hand. I pick up a lot more than I cut, so it's always made sense to me.

Same; apparently when I was in school a dinner lady spoke to my mum about it as I was "using the wrong hand". In response she asked if I was eating ok, and on being told yes, asked in that case what does it matter?

Perhaps the photo is flipped?.

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Flag's not quite right actually. Should be real-ale not european stuff. Maybe more beans :)

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Also, both cups should be on the right.

The Laphroaig should be on the table.