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Random daily observation thread...

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  • #32
    Chunks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭Chunks


    Jigsaw wrote:
    Due to criticism from the Cat Protection League, I now attach a piece of toast to the cat in order to demonstrate this.

    In any event, toasting the cat can occasionally lead to its death and it is necessary for the cat to be alive for this phenomenon to be realised. ;)

    touché


  • #33
    red_ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭red_ice


    sueme wrote:
    Tea stays hotter in a thin porcelain cup. It cools quicker in a thick delph cup. Why? I would have thought the thicker cup would have more insulation... hmmm

    Hot stuff goes on top, cold stuff goes below. The big cup has a bigger surface area which leaves more exposed to the open cold air, which cools the top of the tea. This then follows said hot/cold theory which makes the cold tea go to the bottom of the cup, and the hot rise to the top. The cold tea heats up on its way down, but the over all heat drops. Thus the tea cooling alot faster.

    Another factor of the tea cooling phenom is the fact that most heat is lost through the grounding area of said item. When we run someone over with our car, and they are cold, we place the blanket under the person rather than over them. This is the same with our precious cup of tea. The big mug has more touching the ground which is transfaring the heat off of the cup on to your table. So now we have heat loss from the top and bottom, and to a lesser extent the sides (insulation).

    The less area touching the ground, or exposed to cold air, will result in less cooling of the cup of tea.

    I fking LOVE tea. Its 3:30 and im on my 14th cup of the day. (foam cups, i stack them)

    On that note. My new observation is that of the best formula for drinking tea. Strong tea, milky with two sugars.

    You know its true.


  • #34
    TequilaMockingBird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,392 ✭✭✭TequilaMockingBird


    Thank you Red Ice. In fact, I was referring to the thinness/thickness of the material used to make the cup. Assume both cup have the same measurements, my observation still stands. I see my OP was misleading.

    BTW 14 is impressive, I'm a two bag in the cup girl myself, drop of milk..


  • #35
    b_beep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭b_beep


    strong milky tea, 2 sugars?

    You lie,

    Big mug, hot water, leave the teabag in, none of your fancy nonsense detracting from the tea-goodness


  • #36
    red_ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭red_ice


    sueme wrote:
    BTW 14 is impressive, I'm a two bag in the cup girl myself, drop of milk..

    How you doin? You need more vitamins in your diet. Milk provides this for us. No sugar? Dont give me that "im sweet enough" lark, everyone needs sugar in tea!
    b_beep wrote:
    strong milky tea, 2 sugars?

    You lie,

    Big mug, hot water, leave the teabag in, none of your fancy nonsense detracting from the tea-goodness

    Ahh, the mexican tea method. This is an ametures cup of tea. It lacks the finesse of 20 stirs to the left while the sugar disolves into the hot water to be met with the milk while you swish the spoon gracefully to the right to counter spin the whirlpool of tea.

    your tea making methods are weak. You dont add milk, there are clearly no cup size to sugar/milk ratios going on.

    How come there is a mustard forum and there is no tea forum? ANOTHER OBSERVATION!


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  • #37
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    red_ice wrote:

    your tea making methods are weak. You dont add milk, there are clearly no cup size to sugar/milk ratios going on.

    How come there is a mustard forum and there is no tea forum? ANOTHER OBSERVATION!

    Hmmmm...what do you say to us fundamentalists, then? No milk, no sugar, the tea left in (I usually make a pot though, I'm a purist at heart).

    Oh, and loose tea taste sooooo much better than bagged. Baggd tea is prostituted tea in my opinion.

    There is a coffee/tea forum I think, but I don't post in there. Anybody who calls themselves a tea drinker will shirk coffee, and rightly so.:)

    I propose a breakaway Tea Forum!!!


  • #38
    Caliden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,981 ✭✭✭Caliden


    I dont drink tea and I only drink coffee if I'm running on 2 hours sleep in a 24 hour period.

    What I don't get is the need to drink coffee at 4:30 pm when you're finished work at 5:30. This isnt a one time occurance either, it's everyday and multiple people in the office! what the fudge like


  • #39
    red_ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭red_ice


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:
    Hmmmm...what do you say to us fundamentalists, then? No milk, no sugar, the tea left in (I usually make a pot though, I'm a purist at heart).

    Dont get me wrong, i welcome anyone who wants to drink a cup of tea. To deny someone of such a luxury is inhumane. The adding of milk to tea leaf spawns a beautiful thing, which is perfect the way it is. However, to maximise the drinking experience, we must add other elements to it. Thats like baking a cake with only eggs and flour and water... its a cake, but it will taste a little bland.
    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:
    Oh, and loose tea taste sooooo much better than bagged. Baggd tea is prostituted tea in my opinion.

    Thats another fair point, one which i have no arguement against - however in work the average joe doesnt like it. I have to make do with what ever i can get... which i dont mind, because any tea is a hit imo!
    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:
    There is a coffee/tea forum I think, but I don't post in there. Anybody who calls themselves a tea drinker will shirk coffee, and rightly so.:)

    I get sick at the smell of coffee. Once i picked up a cup of which i thought was my tea, took a sip, swirled it in my mouth to get that great tea flavor and was shocked to discover coffee. I promptly spat it back in my bosses cup, ran to the toilet and started retching.. i probably should have told the boss not to drink his coffee.. but it serves him right. I also dont drink coffee out of superstition - long story.
    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:
    I propose a breakaway Tea Forum!!!

    Indeed. I would like to step up and mod the forum as i feel my love for tea surpasses most peoples. I dont mind working along side others. I have many tips and such to share, such as kettle rotations and circular breathing for the morning "im in a rush" cup of tea.


  • #40
    redfacedbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 891 ✭✭✭redfacedbear


    Caliden wrote:
    What I don't get is the need to drink coffee at 4:30 pm when you're finished work at 5:30. This isnt a one time occurance either, it's everyday and multiple people in the office! what the fudge like

    I'm off for a cuppa now - finishing in 48mins - can't wait any longer there's too much blood in my caffeine stream.


  • #41
    Alanthroneus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Alanthroneus


    my observation is that if you laugh at posts on boards everybody turns round to look at you........ * hides *


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  • #42
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,713 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Answer to the thin cup/thick cup question - when you pour in the tea (from a teapot, one of those round ones with a good layer of tannin inside) it has to heat up the mug/cup. A thin cup will heat up much quicker than a pottery mug, thus absorbing less heat out of the tea so the tea stays hotter. Not a great advantage though as you have to wait longer to be able to drink it anyway.

    My granny used to solve this problem by pouring her tea from the cup into the saucer and drink it from the saucer. Don't try this with a mug.


  • #43
    red_ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭red_ice


    looksee wrote:
    My granny used to solve this problem by pouring her tea from the cup into the saucer and drink it from the saucer. Don't try this with a mug.

    She is very wise. I never would have thought of that. It also ties hand in hand with my post. Bravo!


  • #44
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    red_ice wrote:
    Dont get me wrong, i welcome anyone who wants to drink a cup of tea. To deny someone of such a luxury is inhumane. The adding of milk to tea leaf spawns a beautiful thing, which is perfect the way it is. However, to maximise the drinking experience, we must add other elements to it. Thats like baking a cake with only eggs and flour and water... its a cake, but it will taste a little bland.

    Well, I don't approve of this type of a la carte-ism I see these days when it comes to tea. Adding things to tea (other than an occasional squeeze of a lemon, mind) seem inherently wrong...but I won't judge you, red_ice. Being a tea drinker seems so...uncool these days, like you're some sort of barborous leftover from the Dark Ages.

    There are many people who don't follow the path, and start on the slippery slope of coffee until they end up drinking, God forbid, smoothies as a subsitute for tea!:mad: Unnatural, immoral...such behaviour leads to blindness and deviantism in my opinion.

    Thats another fair point, one which i have no arguement against - however in work the average joe doesnt like it. I have to make do with what ever i can get... which i dont mind, because any tea is a hit imo!

    Excuses. It is so sad to see this. If you just thought of your Grandparents and what they would say...?:( You need to be more confident-forget the detracters and the mockers-invest iin a small lunchbox and bring your tea-leaves to work. Do not be ashamed! God knows, look what shame is costing in the tea-drinker community these days what with the plantation scandals of Kenya and whatnot...but these are not excuses to just "go to bag"-we need strength! Guidance! Foresight! And the only way to get these is through loose leaf tea.

    I get sick at the smell of coffee. Once i picked up a cup of which i thought was my tea, took a sip, swirled it in my mouth to get that great tea flavor and was shocked to discover coffee. I promptly spat it back in my bosses cup, ran to the toilet and started retching.. i probably should have told the boss not to drink his coffee.. but it serves him right. I also dont drink coffee out of superstition - long story.

    Ah! Care to elaborate? Many Irish country people in olden days thought that coffee was the seed of Satan...

    Indeed. I would like to step up and mod the forum as i feel my love for tea surpasses most peoples. I dont mind working along side others. I have many tips and such to share, such as kettle rotations and circular breathing for the morning "im in a rush" cup of tea.

    Hmmmm...not sure the admins/mods (or I) would approve of you puttng yourself forward like that in such a wanten manner. Tea drinkers are naturally modest and bashful, unlike those slaves of the whorish Java.

    May you be guided on your path.


  • #45
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    I don't drink tea or coffee. I just don't get the attraction at all. It's terrible, I feel like a social pariah most of the time, like I can't call myself Irish if I don't drink tea. How can I make myself like it?


  • #46
    Caliden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,981 ✭✭✭Caliden


    watna wrote:
    I don't drink tea or coffee. I just don't get the attraction at all. It's terrible, I feel like a social pariah most of the time, like I can't call myself Irish if I don't drink tea. How can I make myself like it?

    Don't join the evilness!

    Milk lovers UNITE!


  • #47
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    watna wrote:
    I don't drink tea or coffee. I just don't get the attraction at all. It's terrible, I feel like a social pariah most of the time, like I can't call myself Irish if I don't drink tea. How can I make myself like it?

    Let me ask a few questions first...

    Did your parents set a good example and introduce you to tea at an early age? What sort of tea drinkers were they? If so, when did you start to slip? Did you start to question tea around that awkward/fight the power/rebellious teenage period? This could be just a phase, you know.

    The tea drinking community is wide and diverse. Perhaps my particular appproach may be a bit extreme to you, but as you see with red_ice above, there are many different ways of enjoying tea.

    Nobody can make you enjoy tea...but I find, in a group setting, it is easier to let the cups go down. Do you have anyone in your area where you could go to for a cup of tea? Its as much a social outlet as a beverage you know.

    Tea drinking is a way of life.


  • #48
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    Yay... an ally! That is weird, I do drink a lot of milk and always have a cup if other people are having tea. I always thought I was alone!:)

    P.S. Caliden, when we are all in our eighties and we have fabulous healthy bones we can casually kick aside the weak-boned and frail tea-drinkers!


  • #49
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:
    Let me ask a few questions first...

    Did your parents set a good example and introduce you to tea at an early age? What sort of tea drinkers were they? If so, when did you start to slip? Did you start to question tea around that awkward/fight the power/rebellious teenage period? This could be just a phase, you know.

    The tea drinking community is wide and diverse. Perhaps my particular appproach may be a bit extreme to you, but as you see with red_ice above, there are many different ways of enjoying tea.

    Nobody can make you enjoy tea...but I find, in a group setting, it is easier to let the cups go down. Do you have anyone in your area where you could go to for a cup of tea? Its as much a social outlet as a beverage you know.

    Tea drinking is a way of life.

    My parents are obsessive tea drinkers and used to give me and my brother tea in a cup when we were about 5. Neither of us liked it and we wouldn't drink it. My mum is regretting not putting it in my bottle. 20 years later I still don't like it! My other half is big in to tea and makes it with a strainer and tea leaves but I still can't get in to it. I think I'll have to stick to the milk!


  • #50
    Spud83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,608 ✭✭✭Spud83


    My observation for the day is how quickly threads can change. In the matter of a couple of posts this has turned into a thread on the best cup of tea.


  • #51
    red_ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭red_ice


    watna wrote:
    I feel like a social pariah most of the time, like I can't call myself Irish if I don't drink tea.

    And so you should.
    watna wrote:
    How can I make myself like it?

    put time and effort into your cup. What you put into tea you will get out. Maybe we should do some sort of "how to" for you. Experiment with your tea - we didnt just wake up one day and decide to make a cup of tea and say "i take 2 sugars and make it strong and milky pet". We put work into it. I would recommend you let the teabag soak, squeeze it till its dark brown, add 2 sugars, then milk it till its a light tan. Thats the average cuppa right there. Fkin brilliant!



    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:
    Well, I don't approve of this type of a la carte-ism I see these days when it comes to tea. Adding things to tea (other than an occasional squeeze of a lemon, mind) seem inherently wrong...but I won't judge you, red_ice. Being a tea drinker seems so...uncool these days, like you're some sort of barborous leftover from the Dark Ages.

    each to his own. Every stoner i know is fanatical about tea. It sooths the throat. Each has his/her prefared method of tea, to which i am judgemental towards. I suppose tea drinking is the same as whiskey drinking.
    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:
    There are many people who don't follow the path, and start on the slippery slope of coffee until they end up drinking, God forbid, smoothies as a subsitute for tea!:mad: Unnatural, immoral...such behaviour leads to blindness and deviantism in my opinion.

    I couldnt lower myself like that.
    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:
    Excuses. It is so sad to see this. If you just thought of your Grandparents and what they would say...?:( You need to be more confident-forget the detracters and the mockers-invest iin a small lunchbox and bring your tea-leaves to work. Do not be ashamed! God knows, look what shame is costing in the tea-drinker community these days what with the plantation scandals of Kenya and whatnot...but these are not excuses to just "go to bag"-we need strength! Guidance! Foresight! And the only way to get these is through loose leaf tea.

    Now your hitting low blows. Im sorry, but my grand parents could only afford tea as a luxury. To them the mear possibility of having tea around is a joy and would be welcomed in any form. We dont have a tea squeeze in work either.

    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:
    Ah! Care to elaborate? Many Irish country people in olden days thought that coffee was the seed of Satan...

    I would rather not, its a personal matter. Nothing physical.
    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:
    Hmmmm...not sure the admins/mods (or I) would approve of you puttng yourself forward like that in such a wanten manner. Tea drinkers are naturally modest and bashful, unlike those slaves of the whorish Java.

    Tea drinkers come in any form. Which is why people who are accepting like myself should be put forward. I respect your love of tea jeremiah, but i am saddned by your, in my eyes, refusal to accept the average tea drinker. The joy of drinking tea should not be restricted to lose leafed tea. Tea is a drug which will give me my hit in any form.


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  • #52
    Smellyirishman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭Smellyirishman


    Jigsaw wrote:
    A cat will always land on its feet.

    If you drop a piece of buttered toast it will always land buttered side down.

    This brings me to the observation of buttered cats. If you attach a piece of buttered toast to a cat and proceed to hurl the beast from a top floor window, what will you observe?

    Well the can't cannot land on it's feet as for it to do so would contradict the buttered toast theory, nor can the toast land buttered side down as this would contradict the cat landing on its feet theory.

    What actually happens is that the cat will fall as normal until it reaches approximately 2.5538 metres from the ground and will hover on its side as a theoretical anomaly has been created, not allowing either theory to be followed through to its conclusion.


    Anti-gravity


  • #53
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    watna wrote:
    Yay... an ally! That is weird, I do drink a lot of milk and always have a cup if other people are having tea. I always thought I was alone!

    P.S. Caliden, when we are all in our eighties and we have fabulous healthy bones we can casually kick aside the weak-boned and frail tea-drinkers!

    You ask for our help, and then you mock us. I feel sad for you, truely.


    My parents are obsessive tea drinkers and used to give me and my brother tea in a cup when we were about 5. Neither of us liked it and we wouldn't drink it. My mum is regretting not putting it in my bottle. 20 years later I still don't like it! My other half is big in to tea and makes it with a strainer and tea leaves but I still can't get in to it. I think I'll have to stick to the milk!

    Might you consider the possbility that you were both adopted? My!-such a marked contrast to your tea-loving parents...I fear a great calamity sometimes for us tea drinkers. More and more non-drinkers are being born to us-pretty soon we'll be killed off or extinct.

    I'm getting pretty worked up now!

    Watna, milk has a place n the world but not at the expense of tea. May you be guided to the true path.


  • #54
    TequilaMockingBird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,392 ✭✭✭TequilaMockingBird


    looksee wrote:
    Answer to the thin cup/thick cup question - when you pour in the tea (from a teapot, one of those round ones with a good layer of tannin inside) it has to heat up the mug/cup. A thin cup will heat up much quicker than a pottery mug, thus absorbing less heat out of the tea so the tea stays hotter. Not a great advantage though as you have to wait longer to be able to drink it anyway.

    My granny used to solve this problem by pouring her tea from the cup into the saucer and drink it from the saucer. Don't try this with a mug.


    You've cracked it Look-See! Many thanks. Bring on Tea Forum.
    Coffee - Down with that sort of thing.


  • #55
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    sueme wrote:
    You've cracked it Look-See! Many thanks. Bring on Tea Forum.
    Coffee - Down with that sort of thing.
    Off you go.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=461


  • #56
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    red_ice wrote:
    And so you should.



    put time and effort into your cup. What you put into tea you will get out. Maybe we should do some sort of "how to" for you. Experiment with your tea - we didnt just wake up one day and decide to make a cup of tea and say "i take 2 sugars and make it strong and milky pet". We put work into it. I would recommend you let the teabag soak, squeeze it till its dark brown, add 2 sugars, then milk it till its a light tan. Thats the average cuppa right there. Fkin brilliant!

    Whatever it takes to get the young people involved I suppose. You could at least use a pot though (I know, I know, I'm being judgemental)



    each to his own. Every stoner i know is fanatical about tea. It sooths the throat. Each has his/her prefared method of tea, to which i am judgemental towards. I suppose tea drinking is the same as whiskey drinking.

    It is more, far more, believe me. Tea is a way of life...haven't you heard of taoism?



    Now your hitting low blows. Im sorry, but my grand parents could only afford tea as a luxury. To them the mear possibility of having tea around is a joy and would be welcomed in any form. We dont have a tea squeeze in work either.

    I was not casting any doubt on your grandparents and their devotion to tea, believe me! Never! I guess I'm just a tad too enthusiastic at times with this frevour I have in me...I can feel it simmer and soak within, diispersing it's holiness throughout my being.


    I would rather not, its a personal matter. Nothing physical.



    Tea drinkers come in any form. Which is why people who are accepting like myself should be put forward. I respect your love of tea jeremiah, but i am saddned by your, in my eyes, refusal to accept the average tea drinker. The joy of drinking tea should not be restricted to lose leafed tea. Tea is a drug which will give me my hit in any form.

    Well, I by no means would shun another tea-drinker if that is what you mean. Each to their own, indeed, no matter how you enjoy tea.

    A most interesting tealogical debate so far, I might hasten?


  • #57
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Smellyirishman wrote:
    Anti-gravity

    That's the very one my friend!!


  • #58
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    looksee wrote:
    My granny used to solve this problem by pouring her tea from the cup into the saucer and drink it from the saucer. Don't try this with a mug.


    my granny does that - do we have the same granny?


  • #59
    irishguy00
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭irishguy00


    Heres one for you... One which i have ALWAYS wondered;

    When you are reading a book (not out loud), or thinking, or whatever that involves the mind, is the voice speaking (i'm not crazy, you know what i mean ;) ) in your head YOUR voice or is it a generic, non-accent voice?


  • #60
    red_ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭red_ice


    irishguy00 wrote:
    Heres one for you... One which i have ALWAYS wondered;

    When you are reading a book (not out loud), or thinking, or whatever that involves the mind, is the voice speaking (i'm not crazy, you know what i mean ;) ) in your head YOUR voice or is it a generic, non-accent voice?

    What does that have to do with tea? j/k


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  • #61
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    Terry wrote:
    Anyone ever see those dairy promotional campaign ads?
    They have cows sitting around eating dairy products.
    Wasn't it this sort of thing that started the whole BSE problem?

    Not quite, otherwise all bovines would be fcuked from the beginning, considering they live on milk as calves, and dairy products are made from milk, not chunks of cow. Most rennet used in cheese these days is artificial, as it's cheaper to manufacture (afaik). BSE arose, they believe, from meat and bone meal (ground up raw/tainted meat and bones from factories that couldn't be processed for human consumption) being fed to animals. Cross contamination between chickens, pigs and cattle occurred when they were fed the remains of eachother. It's all pretty manky, but has nothing to do with dairy products.

    Why isn't the food pyramid in Egypt?

    Observation - time drags when you know you should be doing something but don't bother, but as soon as you start working time disappears.


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