12% of Japanese women pick their teeth in toilets
I have an irrational dislike of seeing people using toothpicks, the subject of a survey from iShare.
Demographics
Between the 27th of January and 1st of February 2010 500 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54.7% of the sample were male, 30.2% in their twenties, 34.5% in their thirties, and 35.3% in their forties.
I have once used a toothpick in a restaurant, but it didn’t feel right. Old guys wondering around chewing the end of a toothpick in particular irritates me. Oh, and on a flight to the USA this week the American woman in the seat beside me spend a lot of time picking the remains of her beef or chicken out of her teeth.
Note that many (most?) restaurants in Japan have toothpicks at the table.
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