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# Some go into accountancy, but in the main they're secretaries and personal assistants.
Oh hens!

I thought you said 'Moderately trained lower-middle class types'.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 17 May 2011, 15:15, archived)
# I need a well-trained lower-middle class type
the last one put the milk in first
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 17 May 2011, 15:21, archived)
# That upsets me so much
so very, very much.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Tue 17 May 2011, 15:24, archived)
# If the tea was in a pot, and they were pouring into your finest china (I can't imagine a man of your standing would have them do anything but)
then good on them.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 17 May 2011, 15:25, archived)
# isn't it because poor-quality china would crack if you didn't put the milk in first
and good-quality china could withstand the heat?
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 17 May 2011, 15:51, archived)
# Quite the opposite. The better the quality, the "finer" the china, the thinner it was, and thus the more likely to crack on exposure to boiling tea.
Putting the milk in first curtails the boilingnessing of the tea, and thus prevents the crackery (from which, obviously, the word "crockery" is derived).
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 17 May 2011, 15:53, archived)
# I think the practice became outdated as china manufacture improved
and therefore "milk in first" became something only commoners did

having said that, the internet doesn't really know either, so it's all speculation
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 17 May 2011, 16:06, archived)
# Yes,
but it makes shite tea and, at the end of the day, that is what matters most.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Tue 17 May 2011, 16:06, archived)
# Not if the tea's brewed correctly it don't not make no shite tea or nothing.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 17 May 2011, 16:07, archived)