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Naava wrote:I've never heard of anyone offering something that is not clearly needed (like a glass of water if you fall down). The only thing that comes to my mind that is even remotely similar is how we're always drinking coffee. Is it morning? Coffee. Afternoon? Coffee. Break during your work day? Coffee. Visiting someone? Coffee. Weddings, funerals, graduations, birthdays? Coffee, coffee, coffee, and coffee.
linguoboy wrote:To take something from a common dish or divide it into smaller pieces for sharing, you use dedicated serving utensils.
linguoboy wrote:To take something from a common dish or divide it into smaller pieces for sharing, you use dedicated serving utensils.
I want to see them eat gravy with their handsvijayjohn wrote:linguoboy wrote:To take something from a common dish or divide it into smaller pieces for sharing, you use dedicated serving utensils.
This is the only part I can say is true of modern Malayalee culture, and even this was not the case at least for most people until some time after independence. Traditionally, we didn't use utensils at all to eat. One or a few people would ladle out everyone's serving of food and only then sit down to eat, and everyone would eat with their right hand.
OldBoring wrote:In Italy I've never heard of communal laundry rooms in condominiums. Everyone buys their own washing machine in their own apartment.
People who don't have a washing machine at home take their clothes to the coin laundry machines.
When I lived at the university dorm in China, we had a communal washing machine, and you use a magnetic token to start it.
Gormur wrote:OldBoring wrote:In Italy I've never heard of communal laundry rooms in condominiums. Everyone buys their own washing machine in their own apartment.
People who don't have a washing machine at home take their clothes to the coin laundry machines.
When I lived at the university dorm in China, we had a communal washing machine, and you use a magnetic token to start it.
Yeah that's how universities in North America work too. Coin-operated laundry machines
The ones that typically operate independently near apartment buildings are called coin operated laundry machines
Gormur wrote:I want to see them eat gravy with their hands
Just kidding. I know that's not a traditional dish.
Eating rice with bare hands seems messy though.
I make my rice in a rice cooker and it's always on the wet side, like East Asians do it.
Gormur wrote:OldBoring wrote:In Italy I've never heard of communal laundry rooms in condominiums. Everyone buys their own washing machine in their own apartment.
People who don't have a washing machine at home take their clothes to the coin laundry machines.
When I lived at the university dorm in China, we had a communal washing machine, and you use a magnetic token to start it.
Yeah that's how universities in North America work too. Coin-operated laundry machines
The ones that typically operate independently near apartment buildings are called coin operated laundry machines
Linguaphile wrote:OldBoring, I'm curious, you mentioned that the one in the university in China required a "magnetic token". Did you have to pay for the tokens? I'm curious if the tokens were free for residents or if you had to pay per use, as is usually the case in the U.S.
OldBoring wrote:I literally meant laundry stores, i.e. private stores on the street where everyone can pay to wash their laundries. They are not meant for use for any specific apartment.
Automatic laundry stores also exist in Italy: they are named laundromats.
linguoboy wrote:OldBoring wrote:I literally meant laundry stores, i.e. private stores on the street where everyone can pay to wash their laundries. They are not meant for use for any specific apartment.
Automatic laundry stores also exist in Italy: they are named laundromats.
I'm not quite sure what the distinction is you're making here.
In the USA, "laundromats" are places that offer laundry machines which customers pay to use. A place where you bring your laundry and have others wash it for you is called a "laundry". A "laundry service" will actually come to your door and pick up the laundry, then drop it off again when it's finished.
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