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When it’s a little less than this, my mother and grandmother would call it “curate’s tea” or “vicar’s tea” because of the white collar in the mug, and pass it back for us kids to sort it out.
I will have it filled to the tipitop and spill some on my way to the computer thankyouverymuch
I fill it to the absolute brim and just walk slowly from the kitchen to my living room.
You can easily get another cm in there and not be at significant risk of spilling it and I’m dyspraxic so more likely than the average person to just randomly fuck up carrying a cup of tea.
Hi fellow dyspraxic! How many things have you banged into today?
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Who comments on other’s liquid level in a mug?
even if no one actually says anything, you have to deal with the shame of knowing they can see your inadequately-filled mug.
Brits talk about everything rounds to the nearest 10 in metric and then use 1.5cm for asinine shit.
Would you prefer 15mm or 0.5906"
or 5/8’s of an inch
You underestimate my power to spill
I never fill a mug without 3 cm of clearance
You leave enough room so that the marshmallows don’t cause it to overflow. 🤷♂️
Please do not introduce fun to our national drink. Thank you.
TIL Brits put a little tea in their milk
Yeah, first they make it super strong by just leaving the bags in. Then they add milk because it’s too strong.
I love them anyway
Then they discuss how many centimeters from the rim it should be to avoid the real problem going on in their heads.
They also just drink “tea” and don’t conceptualize the different kinds thereof. English Breakfast vs Earl Gray vs an Oolong and all the aromatic teas… AFAIK they traditionally just drink English Breakfast black tea, which is why the Lipton yellow bags aren’t even labelled.
The more I learn about British tea culture the more confusing it gets. Drinking unlabeled black tea in a bag is disgusting bottom-of-the-barrel type stuff. No wonder they drown it in milk.
As someone with 2 cupboards full of different teas, herbs and infusions, I’m almost offended when guests reply “just regular tea?”, like there only is the one.
Not everyone likes a ton of milk though, people often prefer but a ‘splash’.On the other hand, I do also buy 600 x breakfast tea bags pack…
This whole conversation is making me feel just a little bit lighter about the fascism going down in my country.
There’s 2 tea cultures in the UK. Upper class is straight, perhaps with a little lemon and honey, in quite delicate teas. Working class is strong tea with milk and sugar.
Milk was originally to stop factory tea from cracking cheap cups. It’s now just a cultural thing, normal teas taste weird without milk.
Also, tea in first is upper class, milk in first is lower class.
With tea in first, you can get the perfect amount of milk in by color, but only the upper class could afford high quality china that won’t crack from pouring in the boiling hot tea directly.TIL I’m upper class
Unless you can trace your ancestry back 5-10 generations, along with enough peerages and titles to matter, you are at best middle class. At least according to the old fashioned mindset.
As a fellow tea snob, I salute you. 👍
Loving the fact they included the tape measure in the pic.
I’m also dyspraxic so I’d probably drop the tape measure into the cup, causing it to spill and then I’ll realise that was the last teabag
Also dyspraxic. I could never risk filling the cup that high, it’s going to go everywhere.
