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I drink both tea and instant, very milky coffee from insulated pint mugs. I get through about 4 pints a day.

Personally, I prefer Tetley's Drawstring teabags for the lack of spoon.

EckoZero wrote:why oh why do people say it's posh?

It's an acronym from the days when the very rich could afford sea travel and choose which side of the boat they would have a cabin. Their luggage was marked accordingly with Port Out, Starboard Home.

...what i find curious is when people say english tea (as in the drink), no such thing! ahhh this hot weather is making me pedantic...

oooh just remembered i bought a box of zoom ice-lollies!!! bless work for having fridges on every level...

In an attempt to find somewhere cool I'm off for a swim in the river, well actually I'm off for a scull but I'm bound to fall in so same thing really!

its 28 degrees right now in Aldwych, which is a good excuse for me eating two zoom lollies and about 3 gallons of orange barley...

6.32am. Huge thunderstorm here. I like thunderstorms, but not at 6.32am.

Now it's very sunny and very humid. The trouble is, I'm writing a piece for a mag this week that has me to be slaving over a couple of hot servers. I'm really not into this today.

diet coke for me thanxs.

used to drink tea all varieties when i was a kid then went on to coffee but as both interact with my drugs I'm on to diet coke.

mrfye wrote:apparently is you drink enought tea it poisenous for you. but you have to drink an abnormaly large amount for a reasnoble period of time

I've done my share of research on this, it is incredibly hard, almost impossible to get "tea poisoning", it would happen MUCH easier with coffee though... coffee tends to dehydrate, but there are certain chemical properties to tea that cause the caffeine to not be as dehydrating to our systems, each two cups of tea are equal to one cup of water, so technically the only type of poisoning you could get from tea would be "water poisoning", which is when you drink enough water that your bodies sodium either gets diluted or depleted, but this would require either an insane amount of tea, or you'd have to be running a HUGE marathon on a very hot day and only drinking tea and nothing else... there's only a slight possibility I would do this

On the other hand, tea DOES contain fair amount of fluoride, (especially iced tea mixes, because the amounts are condensed), and some citys add fluoride to their water, and also some toothpastes add fluoride, so you’ve got to watch that you aren't using all of these things together, because in the long run it could lead to osteofluorosis.

abraxus wrote:...what i find curious is when people say english tea (as in the drink), no such thing!

English Breakfast Tea

...i should of clarified - when people say 'english tea' they usually mean tea that is somehow made/grown/only available in england...as in PG tips or whatever, but as the link says...tea is from cylon and so on....

but then again, as im from Essex, some of the inhabitants near me are still scared of fire and their own opposable thumbs...

Drink too much water and it'll do you no good. Or quickly breathing too much air (guess who's revising acid/base homeostasis )

magicdiscoman wrote:diet coke for me thanxs.

used to drink tea all varieties when i was a kid then went on to coffee but as both interact with my drugs I'm on to diet coke.

That's funny, I'd expect it to be the caffeine that interacted with the drugs you take - and diet coke contains huge amounts of caffeine! Guess it could be the tannins...

Mandrake wrote:

EckoZero wrote:why oh why do people say it's posh?

It's an acronym from the days when the very rich could afford sea travel and choose which side of the boat they would have a cabin. Their luggage was marked accordingly with Port Out, Starboard Home.

Heh heh. Thank you Mandrake
Yes I knew the acronym, I was more referring as to how people could possibly my voice to be posh

got it in one my fine leafy friend.

EckoZero wrote:Heh heh. Thank you Mandrake
Yes I knew the acronym, I was more referring as to how people could possibly my voice to be posh

Interesting point - when does 'clear speech' end and 'posh' take over? And when we get to 'lah-di-dah' ?

OK that's it, no more musing and pondering these nebulous topics - put t' kettle on, Mother!

PS Do you let the tea 'Brew', Mash' or 'Stand' - what word/phrase do you use to refer to that period of waiting?

As I'm from the North I would let my tea brew before pouring, adding milk taking the first sip and letting out a satisfied "ahhhhhhhhh"

I let the tea "settle" personally. And the milk should always go in first. That way, the boiling water "scalds" the milk, and you get a much richer flavour