Forks are better than spoons.

"Ahaha. :D You make me laugh. Not in a bad way, I'm not making fun of you. I just laughed at some of the things you stated" HA-HA! You make me laugh in a bad way! I'm making fun of you! "They serve the same purpose. It is an equal purpose, because it is the same purpose. One thing cannot be better than itself. I do believe." Round 3 has barely started and you have already conceded. Listen, you have instigated the debate: "Forks are better than spoons." You have now stated that forks and spoons are the same, and therefore cannot be better than each other. This therefore destroys the claim that forks are better than spoons. Whether or not I can prove that spoons are better than forks is not the determining factor in this debate. If I can prove that forks AREN'T better than spoons, as you have conceded, than I will have won the debate. You have destroyed your own argument. You have strictly contradicted the thing you are supposed to be arguing. It must be stressed to the voter at this point that no matter what has been previously said in this debate, my opponent has just conceded and has lost. I could leave it at that, but that would not be very much fun. "Actually, you sit up straight, tuck a napkin into your collar, lift your bowl to your mouth, and godspeed!" This is all fine and dandy when you are eating a bowl of soup, but what about a bowl of thick, sludgy oatmeal. How do you plan to slurp that? You could either let it move slowly like a glacier into your mouth, which would take forever, or if you had lungs like superman, you MIGHT be able to slurp some into your mouth. "Do you eat salad with your hands? No, I don't think so. That would just be odd beyond compare." Well first of all, if it is not soaked in dressing, just munching on greens doesn't really require a fork. But anyways, at least it is practical to eat salad with your hands, unlike trying to slurp yogurt (which looks a lot worse than eating salad with your hands). "How many cases of assault and battery with a fork have you heard of? Maybe them there Texan chilluns are awful evil, which is why I've never been there. My parents fear for my life. Jesus, if I got attacked by a fork in Texas. We'd have some real issues. I'd challenge you in Rodeo, I'm the bull whisperer." I was not talking about assault, I was talking about kids accidentally hurting themselves. But that was half joking, so I am willing to completely drop that point, since it is not really helping me. Oh yeah, and Texas stereotypes don't apply to Austin "Distorting our reflections, well okay. That is fun. BUT. With a fork you can poke holes in things like paper, and the aluminum foil lids of your yogurt cup, and make little designs! Now that, my friend. Is entertainment." It's all right, I guess, but still nothing compared to using a plastic spoon as a catapult. "I understand that humans write for Wikipedia. In fact, my history teacher writes for Wikipedia. And everyone knows that humans are sometimes wrong. And if the employees at the Pentagon don't know what they're eating, well then this country is in a bit of turmoil." Is there a specific piece of information in the quote that you doubt? I didn't think so. Everything in that quote is correct. I wouldn't have even needed to have a quote since it is such common knowledge: Panda express is a restaurant in america. Do you deny this fact? But you are completely missing the point, and this is drifting off topic. The point is that throughout history societies have easily done without forks, but all civilized societies have had spoons of some kind. "And we use forks! For all of it. No spoons." First of all that is not circumstantial evidence for anything, and also, you can't deny that at one time in history oriental cultures did not use forks. This is the point, and we are slowly drifting away from it. "You're giving examples like the leaf, the dog's tongue, the ladel, and ice cream scooper." 1. The leaf was meant to make the point that even when people didn't use utensils really at all, they had to have something to pick up liquid, because it is fundamental to eating. I am not suggesting that nowadays people use leafs. 2. I didn't make the connection between a dog tongue and a spoon…YOU did. But thanks for the credit, I guess. 3. Ummm…I never mentioned an ice cream scooper either. "And Forks have been around for a long time too! As long or longer than spoons. And they are not unimportant, nor are they unnecessary." Well no, actually spoons have been used since prehistoric times. They used shells. In fact, I found that the Greek and the Latin words for spoon is derived from "cochlea" which is a sort of shell. Also, while forks have been around for a while, up until relatively recent history, they have not been a globalized thing, or a common thing. For a long time they were only a thing for royalty in most places. For instance, while spoons are speculated to have come to England 43-410 AD, forks did not reach England until around 1608. http://research.calacademy.org... http://research.calacademy.org... "At restaurants, mainly middle-class to fancy restaurants. They always provide you with at least 2 forks! And only one spoon. Because forks are just..needed more." No, it's actually because one fork is for salad, and one fork is used for the main meal. It really serves no practical purpose, and is just a vain luxury, like: "look at me im eating with multiple forks just for the hell of it, that's how fancy I am." But also, the real reason there are more forks, is because forks are so pathetic that they need to work as a team to get a simple job done. Talk about inefficiency! What a hassle. You only need one spoon though. That's how powerful they are. They are sacred. It would be sacrilege to use multiple spoons…that would be like playing god. Q: "How many forks did it take to screw in a light-bulb?" A: "One fork for salad and one fork for the main meal." "You eat more food in your daily life with a fork than with a spoon." I have used a fork 8 more times since my last posting, while still not once using a fork. To recap: -Foods that can be eaten with a fork can be easily eaten with hands, which are utensils that are built into our body, and which are much handier. -Spoons are absolutely necessary, since some foods cannot be eaten with a fork, with one's hands, nor slurped. -My opponent has conceded by saying that neither forks nor spoons can be better than the either, therefore ruining her instigation, and making the contender of "Forks are better than spoons." The winner. Thanks for the entertaining debate. -Harlan