Cavalock and How Not To Use A Pair of Chopsticks in Japan

Not much going on right now, except me trying not to flunk my course. Hah! Saw this interesting poll at What Japan Thinks. It's about chopstick etiquette. Geez, I have to immediately say that I'm guilty of the first one. Never knew it was a no-no, I even saw more than a few Japanese men doing it.

Ranking results

Q1: Which chopstick bad manners can you just not break?

Rank	日本語	Explanation	Score
1	渡し箸	watashi bashi: Resting chopsticks sideways across the top of dishes	100
2	探り箸	saguri bashi: Stirring soup trying to find that last chunk of tofu, etc	83.1
3	突き箸・刺し箸	tsuki bashi, sashi bashi: Spearing food then eating it	79.1
4	直箸	choku bashi: Not using the serving chopsticks, but your own sticks to get food from shared plates	71.2
5	もぎ箸	mogi bashi: Sucking off grains of rice, etc, stuck to the chopsticks	65.4
6	重ね箸	kasane bashi: Eating just one dish continuously	61.9
7	持ち箸	mochi bashi: Grabbing a dish, glass, etc whilst holding chopsticks in the same hand	61.6
8	迷い箸	mayoi bashi: Hovering chopsticks over the dishes while humming and hawing about what to eat	54.4
9	受け箸	uke bashi: Holding chopsticks when asking for more rice	44.8
10	掻き箸	kaki bashi: Holding a bowl to your mouth and shovelling food in	43.0
11	舐り箸	neburi bashi: Licking your chopsticks	27.6
12	撥ね箸	hane bashi: Pushing away disliked food with chopsticks	23.8
13	寄せ箸	yose bashi: Pulling dishes closer with chopsticks	23.5
14	洗い箸	arai bashi: Washing chopsticks in soup	16.3
15	指し箸	sashi bashi: Pointing at people or things with chopsticks	15.7
16	すかし箸	sukashi bashi: Rather than turning over a fish, picking away the meat from under the bones	14.8
17	揃え箸	soroe bashi: Suddenly lunging at dishes with chopsticks ready	13.1
18	空箸	kara bashi: Picking up food but not eating it	8.7
19	移り箸・渡り箸	utsuri bashi, watari bashi: Aiming to pick up one dish, but then suddenly switching to another	8.7
20	涙箸	namida bashi: Allowing tears of soup to drip from your chopsticks	7.8