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This reminded me of the worst thing about getting tea at a cafe, which is that if you ask for a splash of milk with your breakfast or earl grey tea they bring out a jug with an entire udder’s worth of milk, which then sits there turning sour. I suppose they must have once had a customer who wanted some tea with their milk.
TIL that people get ragged on for not having enough tea in their cup.
_Well, well, look at ol two sips over ere. Twice as many cups as the rest of us today. Looks like the tide's all the way out on this one. _
A fundamental law of the universe is Brits will take the piss out of anyone for any reason. It is a sign of affection, and also a sign of intense dislike.
"Are you feeling a bit pessimistic?"
"Pessimistic?!?"
"Your cup's half empty :) "
I will have it filled to the tipitop and spill some on my way to the computer thankyouverymuch
You leave enough room so that the marshmallows don't cause it to overflow. 🤷♂️
Please do not introduce fun to our national drink. Thank you.
How about whipped cream?
Unfortunately, I'm afraid we'd have to categorise that as fun.
TIL Brits put a little tea in their milk
There's 2 tea cultures in the UK. Upper class is straight, perhaps with a little lemon and honey, in quite delicate teas. Working class is strong tea with milk and sugar.
Milk was originally to stop factory tea from cracking cheap cups. It's now just a cultural thing, normal teas taste weird without milk.
Yeah, first they make it super strong by just leaving the bags in. Then they add milk because it’s too strong.
I love them anyway
Then they discuss how many centimeters from the rim it should be to avoid the real problem going on in their heads.
I remember being bullied about some weird random things growing up, but are people really out there talking smack about the not-quite-fullness of your cup of tea?
My first thought was that that looks only like 1cm, but with the tape measure there I'm going to have to conclude that the mug is GIANT
Gonna be real, if someone is petty enough to comment on how much tea is in my mug I'm never talking to them again
Loving the fact they included the tape measure in the pic.
I'm also dyspraxic so I'd probably drop the tape measure into the cup, causing it to spill and then I'll realise that was the last teabag
Also dyspraxic. I could never risk filling the cup that high, it's going to go everywhere.
Are adult tippy cups socially acceptable?
Be the change you want to see.
I fill it to the absolute brim and just walk slowly from the kitchen to my living room.
When my wife makes me a brew, she only fills it to 3/4. Now I just decline her offers and make them myself. What's crazy is that she'll fill her cup to the normal amount; and I'm not known for spilling my drinks.
That's illegal.
What’s crazy is that she’ll fill her cup to the normal amount; and I’m not known for spilling my drinks.
This is an outrage. You're getting the dregs of the kettle, pal. She's misjudging the amount of water to put in for 2 mugs and pours hers first. I'd bet money on it.
Oh 100%. But she also doesn't see the problem with it being so low and thinks I'm fussy!
Madness. Absolute madness. Sorry for your troubles.
You clearly cannot be trusted with the power of a full mug of tea.
Which is wild as the sofa is riddled with evidence of her tea & coffee mishaps!
You can easily get another cm in there and not be at significant risk of spilling it and I'm dyspraxic so more likely than the average person to just randomly fuck up carrying a cup of tea.
I'd go 5mm gap if you're not leaving the room with it, 7mm if you're nearby on the same floor, 10mm if you're up or down stairs, or far away :)
I had never figured to leave more of a gap if going upstairs but it makes a lot of sense...
Hi fellow dyspraxic! How many things have you banged into today?
wait is that what that means? like i just sorta called myself accident prone but basically I tend to bang into things more often then others.
4
4 ain't bad at all nice work!
Nice colour too.
You know this content was brought to VeryBritishProblems by a spy when they talk about tea and CENTIMETERS.
Nothing wrong with centimetres, though I need to call you out for spelling it like a yank!
Haha, sorry, I'm not even native. We spell it like that. I think it's only the French and the Brits (also because of the French) spelling them like metre or litre.
But yeah, I gave it away regardless.
I think more that it's just the Americans who spell them as "meter" (for the distance) and "liter". I think Australia, New Zealand, India, Canada etc all spell it as "centimetre" and "litre".
Also, in response to your first message, you're not going to find many Britons under ~60 who would ever use inches... except for measuring TV screens diagonally (for some reason).
Oh, now that you mention these countries, it all makes sense. True. I have overheard a couple of British youngsters (read: ~20-25 yo) recently, and they talked about their weight in stones and whatnot. It's weird because you can buy beer by the pint, but milk by the litre.
Yeah, there are weird holdovers and inconsistencies hanging on. Object weight is kilograms, but babies and drug weight is in either KG/G or "pounds and ounces". Human weight is in kg or "stones". Object height is in CM, but human height is in either CM or feet. Distances are measured in CM and Metres... until it's the distance travelled between cities or the speed of cars and then it's "miles".
It's a mess, really.