Teabags: the wankening

[cloudsinvenice]

To my utter delight, it emerges that The Independent has a feature that is basically Fandom Wank in non-fannish contexts. The examples that brought this to light:

- Two men have ridiculous fight about how many days are in a week

Marks and Spencer didn't give an elderly couple two tea bags and people on Facebook can't cope

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

They nicked the body building story off the Toast, but it remains funny...

[cloudsinvenice]

Ahhh, so The Toast is in that "first the mainstream ignores you, then it rips you off" stage of its career...

[birke]

This made me giggle.

[cloudsinvenice]

Glad to hear it! We need more giggles generally...

[gairid]

The tea story was hilarious! I do sympathize with the couple for being refused an extra teabag, but the explosion of righteous indignation was just so funny.

I agree with the first line, though: do not get between the Irish and their tea. My gran from (Co. Kerry) was a fiend for it (and liked it strong) and my Irish friends that emigrated to Stamford (my hometown) would pretty much drown you in tea when you came by for any reason. I got the habit from them, mostly. I rarely drink tea outside my house, though, since I prefer a pot and here, you get a cup of hot water and a bage of Tetley or Lipton. Not the best.

CRIMINAL!!

[cloudsinvenice]

I remember how the last time we stayed with R's mother, she was aghast at the frequency with which I drank tea. It was the punctuation to my day that cigarettes were to hers, but tea occupies a different cultural niche there. Almost anyone I've visited has had a fancy lidded box with lots of compartments for different teas - green, lemon, ginger, rooibos, strawberry etc., but it seems to be something people drink for a novelty or because they shouldn't have any more coffee (that's the really important hot drink there), rather than because it's the central requirement of life.

[mumsisdaughter]

...it's the central requirement of life.

Totally agree!