"They're chopsticks! Tools for eating, not wooden sticks. How many times have I told you? Why can't you remember? You make me sound like some crude barbarian," Yu Lin Bloodhawk said indignantly.
"Oh, I'll remember! Chopsticks, chopsticks." Sylvanas nodded.
"Sylvanas, you're not to copy him. Why insist on using two wooden sticks when there are knives and forks? Like some barbarian!" Alleria glared at Yu Lin Bloodhawk.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk had been about to fetch Sylvanas some chopsticks, and those words immediately annoyed him.
What the hell did she mean, like some barbarian? Using chopsticks made me a barbarian? I've used them for decades, and I've never heard anyone say that eating with chopsticks made someone a barbarian. On a small scale, it's a personal habit; on a larger scale, it's one of the little gems of our Chinese civilization. How did eating with knives and forks make you so sophisticated?
Ignoring Alleria completely, he took out a pair of chopsticks and handed them to Sylvanas. "Don't listen to your sister. All she does is ramble on about pointless nonsense."
"I told you not to teach Sylvanas all that nonsense. Are you deliberately trying to make me angry?" Alleria said angrily.
"How is this nonsense?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk said. "Growing up, my parents forbade me from doing all sorts of things at the dinner table, but they never forbade me from eating with chopsticks. How does using chopsticks make someone a barbarian? If anything, eating with knives and forks is more barbaric.
"What are knives mostly used for? A knife is a lethal weapon meant for slaughter. It's used to kill people, pigs, cattle, and sheep. Even a kitchen knife is used to kill fish and chickens. Which of those isn't dripping with blood? Which isn't bloody and barbaric? Eating