From the Rubber Hose, things that are annoying.
…who decided that fancy brands of tea bags should no longer have strings? it seems that the more expensive and highfalutin a teabag is, the less likely it is that it will have a string attached. of course the really highfalutin tea snob will only drink loose tea, but if you’re gonna lower yourself to the level of a bag why must you burn your fingers getting the damn thing out?
What’s crawled up your butt lately?
the only thing that pisses me off more than stringless tea bags are people who won’t give me rides home.
but thanks for the link!
you’re welcome. How often do you actually manage to get a ride home?
i got one this week.
more often than not i don’t. but with a quick car rental you could fix that!
8 year old kids that talk like 18 year old kids.
mouthy children?
speaking of Mouth, they really need to get cracking on a sequel.
that sounds like a parenting problem…I have some green pepper chili, it helps cure that
18 year old kids that talk like 8 year old kids.
My laptop is fried and I am suffering withdrawal when at home 🙁
But just ordered a new one, should arrive late next week.
You don’t need to burn your fingers if you use a spoon. Sheesh, tea heathens. Oh, and the loose leaf tea, that’s what a tea ball is for. Obviously, you don’t take loose leaf tea to make in the office microwave. It’s strickly for serving where a kitchen is close to hand.
Or to make the analogy clear, if you want box wine, get box wine. Leave the stuff that requires extra steps, like un-cork and let breath, to the people who appreciate it.
you’re asking noz to use a spoon? He can’t even get a ride home 😉
If I lived anywhere near noz, I would surely give him a ride home (hitching in Tasmania is fairly common, and I pick up anyone who doesn’t look scary – but only when I have Luna in the back seat [which is most of the time]). I’d gladly give him a spoon, as well.
here’s the problem with the spoon:
if i get tea to go in a coffee shop they don’t give me one. so i run off to catch my train, and then realize that i have to fish out the damn thing with my fingers to avoid my tea turning into ink
here’s the other problem, you can’t dunk the teabag up and down with a spoon. or if you can, it requires more coordination than i have.
i have no objections to tea-balls, or strainers. that’s really beyond the scope of my post. all i was saying is that tea bags used to come with strings. now, for some reason many of the fancier brands don’t. i have no idea why. those strings were useful.
Kinda feeling a little sad for Kevin Garnett (yeah, I know, in the scheme of things…but we all need a little break from tragedies now and again…)
Courtesy of The Onion:
Kevin Garnett: ‘I Want To Stay In Minnesota Because I Like Losing’
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/59176/print
Little Ricky is signing with the Faux Noise Channel
I love nothing like being called a “really highfalutin tea snob” Gotta love that!
🙂 🙂
This made me think of my girlfriend, who I poke fun at frequently because she really is one of those people for whom the least convenient way of doing something is clearly more wholesome and high quality.
But she doesn’t stop at no string, she skips the whole tea bag business entirely, and makes it in the hardest to &^%&#! clean teapot.
Actually, I also quite like loose leaf tea, to be fair.
Today, I was annoyed because my lab partner in a class got miffed with me for refusing to fudge data so we could get a couple of extra points on a lab assignment.
We recently got a new teapot, because the old one was so hard to clean. I’m not one to complicate matters unless there’s a good reason for it.
I’m sorry to bring the “trailer trash” aspect into this, but I’ve recently taken to drinking tea. I used to be a coffeeholic, but found tea to be cheaper and more soothing. Using a cheap coffee brewer and a quart sized teabag works wonderfully. Do the coffee thing as usual, but leave out the coffee, and put the big teabag (loose tea in a strainer would also work) in the pot. Brews up nicely, lasts well, and is very cheap. I shut the coffeepot off after about 30 minutes, then just microwave my cups of tea afterwords. Tea doesn’t suffer (for me, but I’m old and smoke) from the bitterness old coffee develops.