On average, how many times per week 19:48 - Jul 20 with 12079 views | BelvedereBrunswick | ...do you eat at your dining table? I'd say I'm at about 0.5 at the moment and I'm not sure how I feel about that. (Ignore thread if you don't have a dining table) | | | | |
On average, how many times per week on 19:50 - Jul 20 with 9323 views | J2BLUE | 0. I've actually moved all the chairs to my spare room. | |
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On average, how many times per week on 19:50 - Jul 20 with 9321 views | NewcyBlue | At least 3, sometimes more. | |
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On average, how many times per week on 19:54 - Jul 20 with 9306 views | BelvedereBrunswick |
On average, how many times per week on 19:50 - Jul 20 by J2BLUE | 0. I've actually moved all the chairs to my spare room. |
I think I'm heading that way. Eating at a table seems so old fashioned now. | | | |
On average, how many times per week on 19:55 - Jul 20 with 9297 views | hampstead_blue | I'd say 6 but it depends on where we are at weekends. | |
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On average, how many times per week on 19:57 - Jul 20 with 9290 views | hampstead_blue |
On average, how many times per week on 19:54 - Jul 20 by BelvedereBrunswick | I think I'm heading that way. Eating at a table seems so old fashioned now. |
It's a great way to communicate with the family. One of the few times everyone has a mutual focus (food). We have Craig Charles Funk and Soul show on the radio and talk at supper. | |
| Assumption is to make an ass out of you and me.
Those who assume they know you, when they don't are just guessing.
Those who assume and insist they know are daft and in denial.
Those who assume, insist, and deny the truth are plain stupid.
Those who assume, insist, deny the truth and tell YOU they know you (when they don't) have an IQ in the range of 35-49.
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On average, how many times per week on 19:58 - Jul 20 with 9282 views | BelvedereBrunswick |
On average, how many times per week on 19:57 - Jul 20 by hampstead_blue | It's a great way to communicate with the family. One of the few times everyone has a mutual focus (food). We have Craig Charles Funk and Soul show on the radio and talk at supper. |
What's your protocol on mobile phones? | | | |
On average, how many times per week on 20:05 - Jul 20 with 9266 views | WD19 | 0.5-1.0 times per week on average. Usually at weekends, under duress. Got a breakfast bar in the kitchen I use most of the time. | | | |
On average, how many times per week on 20:18 - Jul 20 with 9228 views | ThisIsMyUsername | Every day. Why would anyone want to eat hunched over off their lap? | |
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On average, how many times per week on 20:22 - Jul 20 with 9214 views | Steve_M | Once or twice, mainly as I can see the tv if the cricket is on. Normally I eat at the kitchen table. | |
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On average, how many times per week on 20:23 - Jul 20 with 9204 views | NewcyBlue |
On average, how many times per week on 20:22 - Jul 20 by Steve_M | Once or twice, mainly as I can see the tv if the cricket is on. Normally I eat at the kitchen table. |
We turn the TV off | |
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On average, how many times per week on 20:25 - Jul 20 with 9193 views | StochesStotasBlewe | 5 or 6. It,s the done thing. | |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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On average, how many times per week on 20:25 - Jul 20 with 9195 views | GlasgowBlue | Roughly three. Although in the summer we often eat in the garden at weekends. As I work late I tend to eat in the kitchen on weekdays long after the kids have eaten. | |
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On average, how many times per week on 20:28 - Jul 20 with 9179 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
On average, how many times per week on 19:58 - Jul 20 by BelvedereBrunswick | What's your protocol on mobile phones? |
Only if i,m eating alone, otherwise a no no. | |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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On average, how many times per week on 20:36 - Jul 20 with 9160 views | Bent_double | It's a SEVEN from me. Only dinner though, not brekkie or lunch. | |
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On average, how many times per week on 20:50 - Jul 20 with 9143 views | Lord_Lucan | When both the kids were at home I think we ate every night at the table but now it's only when we have a Sunday lunch so I'd say about twice a month. | |
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On average, how many times per week on 20:54 - Jul 20 with 9128 views | Dubtractor |
On average, how many times per week on 20:22 - Jul 20 by Steve_M | Once or twice, mainly as I can see the tv if the cricket is on. Normally I eat at the kitchen table. |
Yeah, we usually eat at kitchen table/island - we're well middle class. Though at this time of year actually eat outside in the garden. | |
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On average, how many times per week on 21:48 - Jul 20 with 9046 views | ITFC1983 | At least 6 but usually around 8. We even make our son sit up the table to eat even if he is the only one eating (we sit with him!) one of the things that we make sure of is family time at the table with no other distractions maybe just a radio on in the background. | |
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On average, how many times per week on 22:08 - Jul 20 with 9016 views | jas0999 | Ashamed to say it's 0 for me also. | | | |
On average, how many times per week on 22:09 - Jul 20 with 9012 views | DanTheMan | Not often. If we have guests. If I had kids it'd be every night though. | |
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On average, how many times per week on 22:20 - Jul 20 with 8992 views | Bluefish | Probably 12 Will soon be going up though as I will be having more breakfasts and lunches at home due to a change in work. Family eat together at the dining table every night and breakfast when we can. Never ever eat in any other rooms | |
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On average, how many times per week on 22:22 - Jul 20 with 8983 views | BelvedereBrunswick | It seems strange to me that having children is considered to be a reason to eat at the table more. Fair enough if you do enjoy that or it's the only area of the house you can all practically eat a meal together - but if you can all fit on sofas or around the kitchen and that's where you would prefer to be, why would you get them to do something that's not what you want?? A strange world we live in. | | | |
On average, how many times per week on 23:34 - Jul 20 with 8926 views | Bluefish |
On average, how many times per week on 22:22 - Jul 20 by BelvedereBrunswick | It seems strange to me that having children is considered to be a reason to eat at the table more. Fair enough if you do enjoy that or it's the only area of the house you can all practically eat a meal together - but if you can all fit on sofas or around the kitchen and that's where you would prefer to be, why would you get them to do something that's not what you want?? A strange world we live in. |
But I wouldn't prefer to eat on the sofas, that is odd. Dining is better in a dining room. You don't go to a restaurant and eat off a tray on your lap. There really isn't enough on tv to ruin a meal for | |
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On average, how many times per week on 00:23 - Jul 21 with 8891 views | BelvedereBrunswick |
On average, how many times per week on 23:34 - Jul 20 by Bluefish | But I wouldn't prefer to eat on the sofas, that is odd. Dining is better in a dining room. You don't go to a restaurant and eat off a tray on your lap. There really isn't enough on tv to ruin a meal for |
I don't know what everyone else's dining room chairs are like but I just look at mine sitting there with a rigid wooden back and think "Sitting there isn't going to be the most comfortable place I could eat this food". I might sell the table and get a few dining beanbags to go in its place. Could then still get the main social aspect positives by eating in the room but it won't feel like I'm in the 20th century. [Post edited 21 Jul 2017 8:17]
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On average, how many times per week on 07:11 - Jul 21 with 8811 views | No9 | Every evening and Sunday lunch | | | |
On average, how many times per week on 07:41 - Jul 21 with 8756 views | Vic | 14! I have both breakfast and dinner at the table - apart from when we eat outside on the patio in the summer. Breakfast by myself, dinner with Mrs V, every day. We made a point when the children were at home of having dinner together every day, unless some activity prevented it. This was our catch up time, family time when we had no TV, mobile devices and we didn't answer the phone. Was really important to us as a family to have this time together. | |
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