I ran out of coffee this morning and had to resort to the dreaded teabags up in my cupboard. I don’t know what brand they are or even where they came from, they’re enclosed in a ziplock baggie. But my question is this: What kind of fucking IMBECILE invents a teabag with no string attached?? Would it kill you knubskulls to attach a string so I don’t scald my fingers trying to get the fucker out?? Ended up spilling the shit all over my countertop! Fuck you Teabag makers! —burnt reynolds
This article appears in Feb 6-12, 2014.
Use a spoon jackass
or 2 spoons if you like to squeeze your bag
What type of dumbass buys teabags without a string then comes on LTWB making an ass of themselves because they bought teabags without a string?
Dude, get a spoon and settle down.
I hope this is fake. Has to be.
I think OP should be reminded to buy an oven mitt before he sticks his bare hands into a hot oven and grabs a pan like in Grandma’s Boy.
Meanwhile, at an expensive waterfront condo, a successful Spring Garden business owner discovers one of the many drawbacks to being a dumb cooze…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBBkWfMTkN8
If an insignificant issue like this sends you off the rails, I wonder how you’d manage drinking beer where you, gasp, have to use a bottle opener to get the cap off?
Go to SGR and visit the lady with the successful business and artist boyfriend who lives in an expensive condo, perhaps she’s a purveyor of diamond encrusted bag squeezers AKA Revenue Canada.
Don’t be stupid Ivan because I run a very successful business on Spring Garden Road I pay someone to t bag me.
you made tea in a CUP???
LMFAO Col. Ivan….
If Burnt Reynolds had the money like the real actor has, then they could afford to have gold plated teabags with strings attached much like how I picture the successful business owner on SPR living in an expensive waterfront condo does while making tea.
Ever hear of a spoon? It comes in handy with all sorts of things liquid
A SERIOUS MISCONCEPTION
“But my question is this: What kind of a fucking IMBECILE invents a teabag with no string attached?” burnt reynolds
An excellent bitch, burnt, but you are labouring under a serious misconception. Serious tea-drinkers like me never, NEVER use tea bags with a string attached. There are two reasons for this.
(1) Tea bags with a string attached are used only by those barbarians who drink their tea from a cup, very often not a china cup but, unbelievably, a styrofoam cup. This is the depth of barbarity. A pot is required for one’s tea and by “pot” I do not mean one of those small shiny horrors served in lower class restaurants which, invariably, have a string emerging from the lid and hanging down the side. No, a china pot is required – it could be a smaller “Brown Betty” – but, since one assumes you are drinking tea with a companion – a larger model is called for.
(2) The difficulty here is that, since the tea bags must descend to the bottom of the tea pot to be come properly steeped, tea bags with a string attached are not suitable since the string is never long enough to emerge from under the lid. In other words, both bag and string disappear into the boiling water in the pot making it difficult to retrieve when steeping has concluded. As has been pointed out, this should be done with a spoon and not one’s fingers but patience is required. I recently bought a box of Yorkshire Tea but found that two bags were required to bring it up to the desired strength. The bags were attached two-by-two and this added to the difficulty of retrieving them. One had to chase the attached bags around the inside of the pot and often one could trap only one, making it a bit messy when the second bag emerged attached to the first but not on the spoon.
Finally, REALLY SERIOUS tea drinkers do not use bags at all, whether with string attached or not. For an excellent description of the proper method in making tea from loose leaves I refer you to George Orwell’s “A Nice Cup of Tea” in The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: Volume 3: As I Please (1943-1945), Penguin Books 1971; pp. 56-57.
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A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
bottom of the pot for me MM, and milk first (never cream, oh horror!)
coffee in the morning, tea after noon
and those fruity herbal things with strings are not ‘tea’. they are steepage, like what runs out of the compost heap, (and have their own value) but not a reviving cup of strong indian tea. even the necessary ritual of getting the pot prepared is part of the soothing, then stimulating process.
many events that include tears can be helped by sitting down to a strong, milk&sugared cup of good tea.
Never need to worry about bags, strings, steeping or anything else when one goes to Tim’s and orders Java.
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: Good whore-dog Molly (02/09, 9:17AM)
“Bottom of the pot for me MM (and milk first, never cream oh horror!)”
Well yes, I’m with you on the “bottom of the pot” part and, of course, never cream – cream in one’s tea??? – but we diverge in respect to “milk first.” I recall being at a cousin’s in England who asked, in respect to how I liked my tea, “Black or white?” I replied, “Brown.” My point was that I liked just a bit of milk added AFTER the tea was in the cup, just enough so as not to see through the tea to the bottom of the cup. We also diverge on the matter of the time tea is taken. I always have tea the first thing in the morning and at lunch but rarely in the afternoon in spite of the fact that, in my early years in my Anglophile household in Halifax, we actually had “tea” in the late afternoon as a meal involving sandwiches – cheese on bacon on strips of white bread with crusts removed and baked in the oven. The bacon was invariably limp since the cheese baked much more quickly. Ugh. However, I find coffee too harsh first thing in the morning but later on, about 8:00AM, I have a cup of strong coffee (like I’m doing now). We also diverge on the matter of sugar. I NEVER take any sugar whatsoever. Indeed, while I suppose it’s all a matter of taste, I have a bilious reaction even thinking about it. Of course, I have never had any of those “fruity, herbal things” which, as you point out, are not tea at all but something else. Medicine? But you are right about the convivial quality surrounding a shared pot of tea. So we agree on the main thing and differ only in respect to the details.
: Klyde (9:23AM)
Well yes, there are cultures which drink no tea at all but it is to miss the point to think that serious tea drinkers “worry” about bags, strings or steeping. It is all part of what it means to be a regular tea drinker. When I lived in Rome, for example, tea was unknown as was also the case when I lived in Barcelona. But these are different cultures in which the tea was invariably vile in any case.
New Avatar Alert! Newsweek Magazine June 5, 1944 (an auspicious date!)
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
While I rarely read the ramblings of m&m …he has ,in this case , hit the nail on the head . Only barbarians make tea in a cup….you need to boil water, brew tea in a pot & let it steep, even green tea should be made in this way .
As for the fine china cup ….I’m on the fence about that, I prefer a clay type mug myself…. but styrofoam or paper ….just freakin’ nasty !
You deserve scalded fingers you stunned cunt.
“you stunned cunt”
What a low thing to say to someone.
Ricky Gervais loves the C word
http://youtu.be/N9HaHOkUoGI
“An excellent bitch, burnt, but you are labouring under a serious misconception … A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!” -MM
Ahh .. that is the stuff I had missed earlier!
All praise MM, High Priest of Hypnos! May his half-brother, Thanatos, never visit him till he slays the beast, Insomnia. Anytime after that would be fine!
Zzzzzzzzz ..
Like I mentioned I pay someone to t bag me. One of my friends asked me if I paid my artist boyfriend to t bag me. I really don’t know why my friends would think I paid my boyfriend to t bag me. He’s a very successful artist with cutting edge installations and sculptures. He has shows at the former dump building! That’s how cutting edge he is.
Someone has the time to set up a troll account, copy my avatars, and post lame comments several times a day.
I’d suggest working for a living, but this person is obviously much too busy for such mundane matters!
Keep trolling, loser!
Honestly, I’m having a hard time telling the troll from the real budduh. They sound exactly alike.
Oh and here’s a tip: if this troll wasn’t bothering you, budduh, you wouldn’t be constantly changing your name and avatar. Stop being so pathetic.
In any event, the troll is just wasting their time — budduh does a good enough job trolling herself just by opening her yap on here.
“Stop being so pathetic. “
You’re the pathetic one you cat skank whore.
TALKING WITH A BOARD
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: Buddh (02/10, 6:32PM)
“All praise to MM, High-Priest of Hypnos. May his half brother, Thanatos, never visit him till he slays the beast, Insomnia.”
Clearly, in his reference to “Hypnos” Buddh proclaims that he is bored with my post (02/09, 9:01AM). His problem, however, is one that is very commonly found on this site. He thinks that his proclamation of boredom constitutes an ARGUMENT against my post. It does nothing of the kind. In response to his proclamation of boredom the reply, “Well, that’s too bad. Just don’t read it then,” is sufficient.
But in thinking his proclamation is an ARGUMENT Buddh indicates that he is unable to distinguish between his mood and a rational position. In other words, his proclamation demonstrates his incapacity to think. In still other words, it demonstrates his stupidity.
Of course, Buddh will never understand that since confounding one’s moods with reasoned argument is what it MEANS to be stupid. Do not write back, Buddh. Talking with you would be like talking with a board.
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A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
“thinks that his proclamation of boredom constitutes an ARGUMENT against my post.”
You do me a disservice, I was praising your post for it’s soporific excellence. Only the dull of mind experience much boredom, imo.
“Do not write back, Buddh. Talking with you would be like talking with a board.”
I’ll do as I please, just as you do. But don’t feel that you need to discuss anything, or that I particulary care what you say. Your posts are really mostly aimed at your friends here, much like a chat room, this I do understand.
You don’t post bitches or loves, I would guess, and are merely chattiing with your friends, rather than contributing much .. have fun, and so will I.
TALKING WITH A BOARD
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Buddha (02/13, 8:39AM)
“Your posts are really mostly aimed at your friends here, much like a chat room, this I understand.”
Since you are not my friend, how do you understand that I am talking to you now? Do you see a contradiction here? Being a board, probably not.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Hee! Buddha best be hopin’ that her boyfriend’s charity gin gets reincarnated as ozonol, cuz, Damn! she just got burned good.
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Buddha (02/13, 8.39AM)
Do I detect a tinge of jealousy from you that MM has friends here? To have a friend, you must learn to be a friend.
^^^ heavy, man!