A casual place for banter and anything that doesn't fit in anywhere else.
Have chat and a natter. Talk about anything and everything that's not political!
Keep it casual.
Here:
Elsewhere:
More importantly, what's the brand of tea you've been given?
Unless you've snuggled some Yorkshire in?
Call the firebrigade
Suicide.
Murder/suicide if you're with company.
I had to live in one of those hotels for almost two weeks. I ended up going to a hardware store for a bottle of yellow HEET and a soda can to make an alcohol stove. I carefully situated it on top of the sink drain and balanced my camp cup on two crossed coat hangers above it. I made soup. That was what it took to make fucking soup.
No, not from out of the country, I live here. I was homeless, and needed to make some fucking soup in the only place I could stay.
Lol lucky you even had a microwave
You use the coffee maker. Just don't put coffee grounds in it and it makes hot water. Its a bit slow but it does work. Or use the microwave, it works too.
That coffee water temperature is too low, it will make horrible grey dishwater tea.
Toffee. Blegh
Right but they're in America so they've probably been given awful tea bags anyway, so it probably won't matter.
You microwave a cup of water for 3 minutes.
Or use the coffee pot and make coffee, like an American.
While tea was a reflection of America’s Colonial heritage, consuming coffee was considered both a patriotic alternative and an act of outright defiance against British rule in the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party.
However, it was coffeehouses themselves—defined simply as places where men of all backgrounds and statuses could come together and converse about a wide range of topics over coffee, chocolate, tea and sometimes alcohol—that served as breeding grounds for political discussions and resistance against the British.
You'll be wanting to look for your nearest Starbucks.
Depending on the hotel they might have hot water in the lobby or wherever they serve breakfast.
Hot water <> boiling water
Hot water <> boiling water
Does the water still reach 100 degrees... Our toilet paper must mortify you. We have workarounds for these inconveniences.
>Be british.
>Food on my island has no flavor.
>Conquer half the planet looking for spices.
>Accidentally find tea leaves along the way.
>Adopt tea as national drink.
>FFW
>All the brits with ambition and ability don't want to return from conquered lands.
>No one on this inbred island brave enough to cook with spices.
>Emprie crumbles.
>Travel to former colonies to experience sun and flavor.
>They let me enter for some reason.
>Go to hotel.
>It's not like home.
>wtf
Is this the point where you are the traveler who cannot adapt? I kid as this is a minor issue to address and you deserve tea.
I don’t know but every instance I’ve been told is that I’m the traveler, Im the asshole… I am the person who should buck the fuck up… not because I’ve done anything wrong but assumptions were made.
I’m well travelled and appreciate all cultures but when I receive European travelers they mock me incessantly about the imperial system while I smile and nod…
No, this is a unique case of two dog shit cultures smashing into each other. If in doubt I'm going to side with the invader.¹
So if you dont mind it being slightly coffee flavored, you can put tea bags in the drip coffee machine. Puts boiling water on leaves. But as mentioned they dont really clean the insides of those-it's sanitary enough with the boiling water, but youll still get some coffee contamination. On the plus side, the Lipton twigsnroots tastes about the same as the cheap coffee already.
¹what the fuck else do you call someone from either of these cultures when they go outside?
Maybe a lack of kettle isn’t anything bigger than camping… assuming you can do that.
Are you advising a camping stove in a hotel room?
No sweet pea… just noting any number of ways to find hot water and poking holes in a reliance of tea?
Think of US tourists who fail to adapt to local culture and raise a stink…
Then imagine the same but based around tea time… then imagine the same folks mocking you for not being metric.
Oh yes, it's exactly equivalent to US tourists wanting their Starbucks.
Although boiling water is much more universal than a pumpkin spiced oat milk latte.