In Reply to: Well there's only 1 thing for it... posted by Hillary on Sunday, 24. February 2008 at 10:20 Bali Time:
Don't do it! Remember last time you did it? You said that you were going out in solidarity with those detention people. Well you could not stand it - remember? And when we removed the stitches, all those little marks made you look like a heavy cigarette smoker -remember?
As for the etiquette of sipping Bintang through a straw, if you read Mrs Beeton's book of Modern Etiquette, she strongly condemns the practice.