Comments on: Would you like some tea with your climate change? https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/ Wed, 06 Dec 2017 04:18:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Wow https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536188 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:02:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536188 PS “knocking someone up” also means “putting them up the duff” or “in the family way”.

I.e., like everything in England, it’s a euphemism for sex.

]]> By: Wow https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536187 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:00:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536187 “I never understood why the English are regarded as an authority on tea.”

Just because someone has a huge, complex, and pointless, ritual to drinking tea doesn’t mean they’re any form of authority on it. It only proves them an authority on tea-drinking rituals.

In the UK, we have discussions about “milk first, or last?”, “milk, lemon or nothing?” and “sugar or no sugar”. You know, things about ACTUALLY TASTING THE TEA.

]]> By: Blooming tea guy https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536186 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:11:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536186 Just to answer “MadScientist” comment. According to Wikipedia, ‘Since the 18th century the British have been the largest per capita tea consumers in the world, with each person consuming on average 2.5 kg per year.” this explains why they know their tea pretty well.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536185 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:27:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536185 You need to consult the Chinese and Indians (and to some extent the Japanese) about tea. I never understood why the English are regarded as an authority on tea.

]]> By: Ð?еÑ?аÑ?Ñ? визиÑ?ок сÑ?оÑ?но https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536184 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:19:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536184 Oh, yes. One of the staples of international humor is the look on the young American man’s face when the lovely young British woman asks him to knock her up that evening.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536183 Sun, 31 May 2009 11:50:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536183 These days in the British context, I have heard this phrase used mostly for waking someone up, but it also means “to summon” and I’ve seen it used in that context in 19th century and early 20th century literature at least as often as “to wake” someone.

]]> By: Jen W https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536182 Sun, 31 May 2009 11:23:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536182 I had thought that to knock someone up was specifically to *wake* them by knocking on the door? Is it more general than that? Just to get their attention/announce your arrival?

]]> By: ItsAboutTea https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536181 Sun, 31 May 2009 10:27:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536181 That is a great story. I can only imagine your response when you could only find tea in bags. It does not compare does it? Loose leaf is the only way to go. Bravo to Nikki for teaching you how to make tea the proper way.

]]> By: Kim https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536180 Sun, 31 May 2009 00:17:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536180 As a tea drinker I had the same experience when asked to make coffee, but I’ve learnt now!

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536179 Sat, 30 May 2009 23:24:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/30/would-you-like-some-tea-with-y-1/#comment-536179 Or this phrase:

“He asked me to knock him up in the morning”

“But why?” I ejaculated.

(something late 19th century I was reading)

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