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Category: Cutlery in the news
Spoon in the underwear to avoid “Arranged Marriages”
I know the title sounds like some sort of cliche saying of an old wives tale or a joke but it’s not. It’s a very serious topic and it stretches the boundaries of this cutlery blog for certain.
Sometimes we need to talk about other things to put our own lives into perspective.
Many young British girls (usually 15 or 16) are being sent to South Asia to arranged marriages, against their will. It is sometimes under pretense of going on holiday with family and they have no way of escaping their escorts and getting help. Sometimes the airport is their last chance in Britain to get help.
So Karma Nirvana charity came up with the genius idea of a spoon in their underwear. ‘If they don’t know exactly when it may happen or if it’s going to happen, we advise them to put a spoon in their underwear,’ said Natasha Rattu, Karma Nirvana’s operations manager.
When the spoon sets off an alarm, ‘they will be taken to a safe space where they have that one last opportunity to disclose they’re being forced to marry,’ Rattu told AFP.
You can help out at http://www.karmanirvana.org.uk/
Martha Stewart Cutlery
Big hubbub about me not supporting bloggers. Martha Stewart loves most bloggers who are great friends and trusted allies
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart) October 16, 2013
So I’m not a big fan of Twitter as I’ve too much to say and there is too little space or pictures. But it seems Martha Stewart appears to not well supported the blog community in their opinion. Not sure who they are or how they represent their opinion. I’ve no issue with Martha Stewart and have been a fan of her television shows (especially when with Elmo or Cookie Monster!). I have to note the way she says “most” and “trusted” and I don’t blame those clarifications as it’s mob rule in the twittersphere.
But this blog is about cutlery and I hate to say from that point of view I don’t have much support for Martha. She was sued in 2012 for “bogus” knives and generally speaking any other cutlery product she has put her name on has not been reviewed well at all. So this blogger won’t be looking for much support from Martha nor expecting it.
Flying cutlery from Air France
I spent a lot of my childhood on trains and the conductor would always give us cool cardboard trains to assemble. I never flew on an airline until I was an adult and was disappointed I didn’t get a set of pilot wings (which I hear they don’t give to children anymore). But now Air France has had the idea to make cutlery that can be assembled into toy planes. I can see a whole mess of problems with this. Child won’t eat because they want to play with cutlery plane. Child eats and then has food soiled toy plane. And the best one is that it’s all fun and games till someone loses an eye because of a flying fork.