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How much tea is too much?

  • 23-08-2016 6:30pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭GuessWhoEh


    "You know you're Irish when you try and solve problems with tea"

    But here's a question...

    How much is too much? I am now on my 5th tea in the last 2.5 hours...I have at least three before I even start work most mornings.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    In before all the Barry's fuckers start piping up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    No such thing as too much tea.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    GuessWhoEh wrote: »
    "You know you're Irish when you try and solve problems with tea"

    But here's a question...

    How much is too much? I am now on my 5th tea in the last 2.5 hours...I have at least three before I even start work most mornings.

    That sounds like a lot OP. Is it herbal or 'regular' tea


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,734 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    In before all the Barry's fuckers start piping up.

    Post of the week.

    Meanwhile, you know what's wrong with the world? All the countries who don't have normal cups of tea.

    I'm in one now. No tea after me dinner. B*llocks.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    I personally think more than 4 cups in an hour is a bit much. Granted, my tea cups are feckin' enormous- more like buckets than anything else!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    I don't drink tea but when I was meeting some of my husband's family for the first time, they kept giving me cups of tea.

    I didn't want to be the awkward weird one who doesn't drink tea so I just kept having a cup when they were. I think I drank about 4 cups of the stuff before feeling nauseous.

    I don't know about the hard tea drinkers but for a non tea drinker, 4 cups in the space of about 2 hours is very dangerous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    I drink about 8 cups of/or green and mint tea a day.


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    GuessWhoEh wrote: »
    "You know you're Irish when you try and solve problems with tea"
    You know you're Irish when you were born in Ireland to Irish parents or were naturalised here.

    You know you need to see a doctor when you get your nationality from tea.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    One cup a week for me. And that's under duress. Coffee? A good brew on and I'd drink it all day every day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Wesser


    Too much tea can cause iron deficiency. I drink up to 9 cups a day and my iron level is quite low.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    12-15 per day. Gets me through the day at work - finish a little job*, have a cuppa before the next one.

    *May include bowel movements


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,512 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    GuessWhoEh wrote: »
    "You know you're Irish when you try and solve problems with tea"

    No one says that. British maybe, but it's not said about the Irish.

    5 cups of coffee a day is me. Tea only if I have nice biscuits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,510 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    GuessWhoEh wrote: »
    "You know you're Irish when you try and solve problems with tea"

    But here's a question...

    How much is too much? I am now on my 5th tea in the last 2.5 hours...I have at least three before I even start work most mornings.

    You're below average but it shouldn't reduce life expectancy too much. 5 before you leave the house is ideal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,828 ✭✭✭stimpson


    I drink about 8 cups of/or green and mint tea a day.

    Mint tea is not tea.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭GuessWhoEh


    You know you need to see a doctor when you get your nationality from tea.

    Its not nationality, its culturism. Typical Irish culture normally involves tea, problems, chat and hopefully problem solved by the end of the 3rd hotpot. Or that just my household anyways


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭GuessWhoEh


    5 cups of coffee a day is me. Tea only if I have nice biscuits.

    Chocolate digestives? Just plain biscuits? Gotta have a "daycent" choice there


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Wesser wrote: »
    Too much tea can cause iron deficiency. I drink up to 9 cups a day and my iron level is quite low.

    Too little tea can cause a tea deficiency.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭GuessWhoEh


    Peregrine wrote:
    Too little tea can cause a tea deficiency.


    Either ways, you're fecked


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    It'll stain your teeth drinking that much of it. Feel great smiling with brown choppers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,059 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    It'll stain your teeth drinking that much of it. Feel great smiling with brown choppers.

    Bread soda on the toothpaste sorts that out stat.

    Any amount of tea is grand.

    My mother drinks it like water and is still alive and kicking.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭GuessWhoEh


    My mother drinks it like water and is still alive and kicking.


    What I like to hear 😊


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,753 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Haven't drank tea in about 15 years, don't even know if I have any in the house.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭finooola


    There's never too much, unless it's starting to make you feel nauseous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 hurtandbroken1


    I wonder if anybody can help my so called husband has messed up badly so much so we are going for a separation to end this joke of a marriage and get him out of my life i was so blind so stupid.

    Problem I need information on this thick activities in the pub in Monkstown Farm called the Farm House he was buying drink for activities its a nice way of putting it just wondering if anybody knows information about who this was or other men who did this I want to bring this information cause my money my house is at risk and people like this should be named and shamed in my eyes.

    All happened in Dun Laoghaire cant find post on this thing


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'd average about 4 a day I'd say. 7 or more is in "too much for me" territory! Starts to affect my ability to fall asleep and makes me feel a bit off. A cup of tea is so damn good.


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    GuessWhoEh wrote: »
    Its not nationality, its culturism. Typical Irish culture normally involves tea, problems, chat and hopefully problem solved by the end of the 3rd hotpot. Or that just my household anyways
    I don't believe this is an solely Irish phenomenon. It's certainly a British one, and "tea and sympathy" is a common expression right across the English-speaking world.

    I've never understood what's so consoling about tea myself. It does nothing for me, at least, not without a splash of liquor in it.
    I wonder if anybody can help my so called husband has messed up badly so much so we are going for a separation to end this joke of a marriage and get him out of my life i was so blind so stupid.

    Problem I need information on this thick activities in the pub in Monkstown Farm called the Farm House he was buying drink for activities its a nice way of putting it just wondering if anybody knows information about who this was or other men who did this I want to bring this information cause my money my house is at risk and people like this should be named and shamed in my eyes.

    All happened in Dun Laoghaire cant find post on this thing
    Someone stick the kettle on and get her a cup. This sounds interesting.

    I'll do the twitchy-curtain signal to alert the others.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭GuessWhoEh


    Problem I need information on this thick activities in the pub in Monkstown Farm called the Farm House he was buying drink for activities its a nice way of putting it just wondering if anybody knows information about who this was or other men who did this I want to bring this information cause my money my house is at risk and people like this should be named and shamed in my eyes.

    All happened in Dun Laoghaire cant find post on this thing

    I wonder if anybody can help my so called husband has messed up badly so much so we are going for a separation to end this joke of a marriage and get him out of my life i was so blind so stupid.


    Have some tea.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭makingmecrazy


    Well, that took a strange turn pretty sharpish

    Tyrant, if you are making a brew I'll have one. Thread just got interesting


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Too much?

    Where's the infinity symbol on this keyboard?


    Turn your head sideways

    8


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭makingmecrazy


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Too much?

    Where's the infinity symbol on this keyboard?


    Turn your head sideways

    8

    But have you any information on who was buying favours in the farm house? ?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I'd need a cup pot of tea and a chin scratch to figure that out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭HS3


    I never got into tea. I have a box of it for when people call over, but I've never had any of it. I feel I'm missing out going by you lot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Joeseph Balls


    That escalated quickly.
    Almost as good as yer one writing a post to her mother thinking it was a free text :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,059 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Aldi Gold Blend FTW.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭HS3


    I wonder if anybody can help my so called husband has messed up badly so much so we are going for a separation to end this joke of a marriage and get him out of my life i was so blind so stupid.

    Problem I need information on this thick activities in the pub in Monkstown Farm called the Farm House he was buying drink for activities its a nice way of putting it just wondering if anybody knows information about who this was or other men who did this I want to bring this information cause my money my house is at risk and people like this should be named and shamed in my eyes.

    All happened in Dun Laoghaire cant find post on this thing

    Was it tea?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    If you take sugar you should watch your intake. I don't believe tea is harmful in itself. I drink copious quantities of it.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What do people mean by 'too much tea'? I don't understand. :(

    One cup of coffee first thing in the morning, then a large mug of builders tea every 1hr - 90 minutes where possible, please.

    The best thing in the world for all your ills is a big pot of tea for one and a few slices of lightly browned toast and butter, it solves any problem.

    Barrys, btw. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Tea is so underrated :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,080 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    Like yourself I used to drink too much tea. I was constantly p***ING in work. I've as new job now so have cut it out. Have an espresso in the morning just. It's great I sleep better and p*** less.

    Not real craving it too much either


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,080 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    Wesser wrote: »
    Too much tea can cause iron deficiency. I drink up to 9 cups a day and my iron level is quite low.

    You should cut down to 8 cups


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭The Raptor


    You can never have too much tea.

    I have tea in the shower, followed by another cup at breakfast to wash down the porridge. Then i have another 7 or 8 mugs of it throughout the day. Then another cup of it if I wake during the night.

    I love tea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Undercover Elephant


    For the average person a lethal dose would be around 250 cups in a 24h period, depending on your weight and tolerance to caffeine.

    So if you're playing it safe I'd call it a day at 200 cups a day.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Misael Unsightly Volleyball


    Nice cup of earl grey with honey


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,482 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    I recently crossed over from Lyons to Barrys, it's going well.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ush1 wrote: »
    I recently crossed over from Lyons to Barrys, it's going well.

    Barrys is the best, Lyons second, and Twinings English Breakfast tea third.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Candie wrote: »
    Barrys is the best, Lyons second, and Twinings English Breakfast tea third.

    Woud you ever put all 3 bags in the same tea pot and see what happens?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Campbell's tea is the nutz


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Woud you ever put all 3 bags in the same tea pot and see what happens?

    Madness!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    Tea has water, so water intoxication.


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