Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Todays surreal imperitive is ‘Book Off’.

Wandering through Shibuya on my way home this evening I overheard someone accosting an American to sign a petition against the use of wooden chopsticks. Now, maybe I’m not the best person to comment on these things given the sheer decadance of my lifestyle, but surely there are bigger wins in the saving the planet game than stopping using wooden chopsticks?


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  1. evilmandykins

    what pete said plus you must realise there are the chinese, korean (tho they favour metal chopsticks i think) and thai folk who use the disposables as well as restaurants the world over.
    it adds up quite a bit…

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  2. neilh

    Totally agreed, but the guy was talking to someone who had flown for more than six hours (with all the fuel usage that implies) to get to the country about how some little pieces of wood were going to cause the downfall of the human race. You’ve got to go for the big win first.

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  3. neilh

    Recommended material (according to the petitioner) is plastic, so it can be washed, you see.

    You have to consider the purchase of chop sticks? I get them with every meal, no matter whether I ask for them, of course, they’re disposed of… :( …I found that a collection of much over about forty became unmanagable….but let me know if you would like some good chopsticks, I’ll see if I can refind the scary chopstick shop with the german polyphonic music box.

    No tech in chopsticks, well, I guess the spy shop around the corner might have some (they’ve got some normal looking multiway mains adaptors which they sell in velvet lined boxes marked with a frequency)

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