How much tea is too much?

GuessWhoEh · 23-08-2016 6:30pm #1

"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.

El Weirdo · 23-08-2016 6:31pm

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

For Forks Sake · 23-08-2016 6:31pm

No such thing as too much tea.

OldMrBrennan83 · 23-08-2016 6:32pm

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23-08-2016 6:32pm

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

Ol' Donie · 23-08-2016 6:35pm

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.

McChubbin · 23-08-2016 6:37pm

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!

Olishi4 · 23-08-2016 6:41pm

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.

The flying mouse · 23-08-2016 6:46pm

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

23-08-2016 6:46pm

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.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-08-2016 6:48pm

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.

Wesser · 23-08-2016 6:48pm

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

Sebastian Dangerfield · 23-08-2016 6:50pm

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

runawaybishop · 23-08-2016 6:51pm

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.

PARlance · 23-08-2016 6:53pm

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.

stimpson · 23-08-2016 7:00pm

The flying mouse wrote: »

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

Mint tea is not tea.

GuessWhoEh · 23-08-2016 7:02pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote:

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

GuessWhoEh · 23-08-2016 7:06pm

runawaybishop wrote:

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

Peregrine · 23-08-2016 7:13pm

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.

GuessWhoEh · 23-08-2016 7:15pm

Peregrine wrote:

Too little tea can cause a tea deficiency.

Either ways, you're fecked

Surreptitious · 23-08-2016 7:16pm

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

Spanish Eyes · 23-08-2016 7:19pm

Surreptitious wrote: »

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.

GuessWhoEh · 23-08-2016 7:21pm

Spanish Eyes wrote:

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

What I like to hear ðŸ˜Š

Timberrrrrrrr · 23-08-2016 7:21pm

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

finooola · 23-08-2016 7:23pm

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

hurtandbroken1 · 23-08-2016 7:25pm

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

23-08-2016 7:26pm

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.

23-08-2016 7:50pm

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.

hurtandbroken1 wrote: »

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.

GuessWhoEh · 23-08-2016 7:50pm

hurtandbroken1 wrote:

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.

hurtandbroken1 wrote:

All happened in Dun Laoghaire cant find post on this thing

hurtandbroken1 wrote:

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.

makingmecrazy · 23-08-2016 7:55pm

Well, that took a strange turn pretty sharpish

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

Boom_Bap · 23-08-2016 7:57pm

Too much?

Where's the infinity symbol on this keyboard?

Turn your head sideways

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makingmecrazy · 23-08-2016 7:59pm

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? ?

Boom_Bap · 23-08-2016 8:01pm

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

HS3 · 23-08-2016 8:06pm

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.

Joeseph Balls · 23-08-2016 8:07pm

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

Spanish Eyes · 23-08-2016 8:12pm

Aldi Gold Blend FTW.

HS3 · 23-08-2016 8:12pm

hurtandbroken1 wrote: »

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?

Widdershins · 23-08-2016 8:20pm

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

23-08-2016 9:43pm

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.

mikeym · 23-08-2016 9:44pm

Tea is so underrated

bilbot79 · 23-08-2016 9:46pm

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

bilbot79 · 23-08-2016 9:47pm

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

The Raptor · 23-08-2016 9:51pm

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.

Undercover Elephant · 23-08-2016 9:54pm

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.

23-08-2016 10:08pm

Nice cup of earl grey with honey

Ush1 · 24-08-2016 12:33pm

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

24-08-2016 12:39pm

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.

Boom_Bap · 24-08-2016 12:40pm

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?

wandatowell · 24-08-2016 12:40pm

Campbell's tea is the nutz

24-08-2016 12:41pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

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

Madness!

Robsweezie · 24-08-2016 12:49pm

Tea has water, so water intoxication.

How much tea is too much?

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