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Title: The great onanism of eating alone
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 09, 2017, 04:00:04 PM: I love eating with others but sometime Lucullus dines with Lucullus

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/why-having-the-balls-to-dine-alone-makes-you-a-better-human?utm_source=dmfb
Title: Re: The great onanism of eating alone
Post by: floo on May 09, 2017, 04:08:40 PM: I like eating alone. I always have my breakfast an hour or so after my husband has had his, after I have had my daily walk, done a few chores, and played on my computer. Once a week I have my lunch alone when my husband takes himself off to the café in our village to have his. I don't like dining out much, and avoid doing so if possible.
Title: Re: The great onanism of eating alone
Post by: Robbie on May 09, 2017, 04:38:47 PM: Very funny article :D. That woman crying over seeing someone else eating egg and chips alone! Then coming off the pill. :D Never heard the like.

I like eating, happy to have company in canteen& equally happy eating on my own. I can eat peculiar combinations of food without fear of comment when alone!
Title: Re: The great onanism of eating alone
Post by: Harrowby Hall on May 09, 2017, 06:47:00 PM: Much of the time I have no choice. I am widowed and my children have left home. So I eat alone most days. I don't mind this - it means that I need not be subject to any expected social convention when I eat.

I have an active social life and dine with others a couple of times a week. I lack the motivation to go out and eat by myself.

I resent the implications of the use of "onanism". The sin of Onan was not that he took solitary sexual pleasure but that he refused to impregnate his dead brother's widow.
Title: Re: The great onanism of eating alone
Post by: Rhiannon on May 09, 2017, 06:58:54 PM: I love eating out alone. It's a way in which I'm independent. I eat out with others regularly too but I enjoy getting lunch after a massage or on a shopping trip or a long breakfast somewhere that does mushrooms on toast.
Title: Re: The great onanism of eating alone
Post by: Robbie on May 09, 2017, 08:06:50 PM: Yes, popping into a cafe on my own is lovely.
Title: Re: The great onanism of eating alone
Post by: ad_orientem on May 09, 2017, 08:15:16 PM: Eating on your own is cool. I used to do it all the time. An evening down the boozer and a ruby after.