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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Good morning!
I forgot to get milk again yesterday. I've been needing a little coffee boost lately, but I shall have to have hippie tea.

Today I am going to continue the hardworking vibe, so that I meet my deadline early, get everything done and enjoy my weekend with impunity.

What jobs should you be taking by the horns this week?
Or do you like hippie tea?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 7:59, 154 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
I hate hippie tea
Earl Grey is the civilised brew.

Morning your Rootaship.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:02, Reply)
Morning Sir Bartsalot
Earl Grey tastes like grass
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:23, Reply)
I don't eat grass, so I can't comment
Thanks for the knighthood. Its been a long time coming.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:27, Reply)
It was for your services to cake

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:28, Reply)
There are so many reasons why I should be enobled
Cake is only number three.

Spelling isn't one of them.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:31, Reply)
Bart Le By
Baronet Le By. Already enobled and better than a mere "Sir".
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:34, Reply)
Don't encourage me
I may get ideas above my station.

Which is Nortfolt on the Central line.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:37, Reply)
I'm trying to reduce
the amount of tea I drink, so have a selection of green teas and twinings fruit infusions on my desk.

work wise I have a massive pile of stuff to do, currently doing the job of 2 people since the last bloke quit (thank god, he was an arse) and clocking up some impressive amounts of overtime due to weekend and evening releases.

Fucking knackered though
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:08, Reply)
I have shedloads to do but it's partly my fault for procrastinating earlier in the year
and also for not pushing the deadline to the staff. (I don't like bossing people about.)

I have some red fruit concoction.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:25, Reply)
Red fruit?
Sounds just grand. Prefer Irn Bru myself though.

You can get people to do stuff without bossing them about. It's just a question of psychology.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:31, Reply)
Used to be a hangover cure in my family
(Well it was actually 'Iron Brew' from the lemo man).
Not my cuppa tea.

I don't want to. I want to be a pleb all the time.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:54, Reply)
There's nothing
like proper Barr's Irn Bru for the job of clearing a hangover.

It's also the only drink in the history of the universe which tastes the same when consumed with fish and chips from the chippy.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:01, Reply)
I find it a bit too sweet

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:03, Reply)
Yeah
I prefer the diet stuff. Less sticky.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:20, Reply)
strawberry & mango?
or cranberry raspberry & elderflower?

They smell nicer than they taste is my only problem with them
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:42, Reply)
Lipton red fruits

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:52, Reply)
I agree
they smell delicious and then just taste like dishwater
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:57, Reply)
Mornin' all.
I don't mind hippie tea. And this week I'm mostly gonna be getting mah passport sorted and getting applications for work permits if I need them and all that, so i'm gonna need a few cups of real tea too. How's y'all?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:10, Reply)
Mornin'
Where are you going to work?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:11, Reply)
Thailand possibly
Basicaly looking to get a teaching english post and work abroad for a bit. Figured it'd be fun.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:19, Reply)
Sounds good
Maybe you could teach english to the swarms of gap yearers out there trying to get layed.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:22, Reply)
heh - it has become quite a popular place hasn't it?
Mind you, think I'm only going to be doing the training over there - takes about a month for the classroom experiance/learning thing. Then I can either take a job out there, or somewhere else. Kinda leaving my options open at the moment.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:29, Reply)
Wherever you go, take a large old fashioned map of the world
With all the pink british bits on. Use the word "empire" a lot.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:34, Reply)
This is definately a plan
I was thinking of employing a few locals to run errands for me, make me drinks, fan me with palm leaves and stable my elephant when I'm not riding it about town, that sort of thing.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:40, Reply)
Sorted
Have a nice time, and I'll listen out for your kidnapping on the world service.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:42, Reply)
It'll either be that
Or arrest for being in possesion of an elephant while under the influence. One of the two.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:45, Reply)
Please get one of those hunter hats
like the hunter out of Jumanji.

I can't remember what they're called. I want to say pith, but that's the annoying bit of an orange.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:59, Reply)
Solar Topi
Or Pith Helmet
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:18, Reply)
When you say 'employing'
it infers some sort of remuneration.

Perhaps 'exploiting' would be better!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:43, Reply)
Are you some kind of leftie
Its for their own good.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:47, Reply)
No, no.
I'm not criticising. Merely suggesting better English!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:49, Reply)
What could be more english than exploiting forrins?

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:52, Reply)
Nothing
I just queried the use of the term 'employing'. It sounds too much like it's an official arrangement!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:54, Reply)
Eh up Fredz!
When returning from Thailand, don't go accepting teddies from strangers in the airport.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:26, Reply)
Or wearing teddies either

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:28, Reply)
That's right

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:29, Reply)
But... but... but...
Why? Think that having a teddybear with me will distract me from smuggling all those hardcore drugs through customs?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:30, Reply)
True like...

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:46, Reply)
I don't do hot drinks, so no tea for me
Job to be taken in hand? Dissertation.......
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:37, Reply)
GET ON WITH IT!

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:46, Reply)
Trust me
The moment when you finish it is truly glorious. I did a little dance, then fell asleep.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:02, Reply)
I look forward to that day
Although it's about a month away.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:04, Reply)
Gutted
Ours are due today, but I submitted yesterday. Several people are still working on theirs...
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:06, Reply)
PG tips or Earl grey.
I did drink green tea for a while but gave up. Oh and hot Vimto FTW!

The only thing I need to get to grips with is my love life. The rest of my life seems to be running smoothly.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:43, Reply)
It's normally then that a beau appears

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:50, Reply)
Beau Bridges?
That's Jeff's dad you know.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:56, Reply)
Oh Christ
Yes, Blousie, Beau Bridges is going to turn up with a marquee and a shotgun ;)
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:58, Reply)
God! he's been married to the same woman since 1977.
I've got no chance.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:10, Reply)
I must Google this Jeff Bridges character
to find out who he is. I'm guessing he's an actor.

Fear not though, BGB. The right man for you may be right around the corner.

Hiding. Wearing a mask...
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:59, Reply)
Or reading these messages now.

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:12, Reply)
He's his brother

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:00, Reply)
Love is like a pothole in the road
If you avoid it, your life runs smoothly. If you fall down one, your knackered.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:50, Reply)
Not so much knackered
But it does cost you more money!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:52, Reply)
It does cost a bleeding fortune.
There was only one bloke who didn't cost me a fortune, but he wanted to pay for everything and then patronise me afterwards. So he got told.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:57, Reply)

toldlaid
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:59, Reply)

patronise shag
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:02, Reply)
I don't mind the cost if I'm the one with more money.
But sometimes they promise so much and deliver so little.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:05, Reply)
Why is money always an issue?
It seems parity in spending money is important to most women I've been with. This would never have happened in the 19th century.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:11, Reply)
Money doesn't bother me.
It's just the thought of wasting it on someone undeserving that pisses me off.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:13, Reply)
Investements can go up as well as down.
Make them pay until you feel that you like them enough to pay for something yourself.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:18, Reply)
It doesn't work like that.

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:22, Reply)
Well, tell me how it does
I ain't no expert here.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:29, Reply)
You meet someone.
You think they're great.
Turns out they're not so great.
You feel like a mug.

End of.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:46, Reply)
oo
you just described the last 9 years of my life
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:48, Reply)
I don't mind either
But love is costly, it canot be denied.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:12, Reply)
philosophic
I still want to fall in a pot hole...wait...no...hang on
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:25, Reply)
Nobody wants to fall in
but it happens.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:33, Reply)
I want to be in love
but I suspect I will regret that desire once I fall in love and it is unrequited. Love sucks
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:36, Reply)
This is too sad
Love came late to me, but I MTFU'd and never looked back.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:42, Reply)
I have normal tea with milk at home
But drink green tea or weird infusions at work to avoid dealing with my cow-orkers over milk clubs or rotas or whatever petty crap they come up with.

Plus itz' healthier.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:18, Reply)
Haha I have a stash of vile powdered milk!

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:23, Reply)
You could always have black coffee you hot drink fail.

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:20, Reply)
Really NOT in the mood for that.

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:21, Reply)
I'm going to a pub quiz tonight, I thought you should know.

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:23, Reply)
LAST NIGHT I DREAMT ABOUT MY QUIZ
I dreamt we ran out of quiz sheets
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:25, Reply)
OH NOES!!!!
Tonight is a science pub quiz, I bet it's going to be PACKED with hotties.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:27, Reply)
I would love a proper science quiz
Do you need support, or is under the table texting frowned on?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:32, Reply)
texting will result in boo's probably.
I think we're in a good chance of winning, I'm in a group with three other geeks and an IT person.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:58, Reply)
are you Penny
from the Big Bang Theory?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:06, Reply)
Our scientists are a mixed bunch

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:32, Reply)
we didn't do as badly as normal in our quiz last night
24/40, last week 19. It's like we know nothing
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:34, Reply)
pub quiz
name the actors who played The Magnificent 7.Go on.....
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:38, Reply)
Hörst Bucholtz

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:40, Reply)
That's your answer to everything

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:43, Reply)
It bloody well is
I adore him.
Tiger Bay, fucking hell.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:45, Reply)
I was mixing him up with Brad Dexter
And therefore thought you were very weird
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:55, Reply)
no
and this is why our quiz team are crap.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:41, Reply)
Without Cheating
Robert Vaughan
Yul Brynner
James Coburn
Charles Bronson
That's all so far.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:46, Reply)
our quiz is always about rivers
and lakes and things. I might have to revise them for next week
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:48, Reply)
Pick me I havea degree in Geography
so I'm good at rivers and coulouring in and shit
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:49, Reply)
do you know anything about sport
we're also crap on sport. And TV, and celebrities, and, well most things
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:50, Reply)
lemon tea!
I worked in Paris for a summer once, the people I worked with took the piss that I drunk tea, so I was too embarrassed to ask for milk, too. Lemon tea grows on you pretty quick.

/buys lemons
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:23, Reply)
Normal tea but with lemons in?

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:35, Reply)
yes
but you need good tea for it to work well. Also, don't make it too strong
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:37, Reply)
I mostly drink green tea
because it's nice. as long as you make it right i.e. not too strong, don't use actually boiling water, add sugar or honey.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:42, Reply)
It makes me feel sick

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:45, Reply)
It just takes a bit of getting used to
try with a nice japanese meal first
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:49, Reply)
that's how I got into it
because it is free at my favourite noodle place.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:52, Reply)
To help you get into it,
next time you do the washing-up, drink the water afterwards.

LUVVERLY.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:08, Reply)
smug bastard

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:50, Reply)
that was in no way smug
you twat :-P
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:52, Reply)
*throws croissant*

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:54, Reply)
I love a bity of green tea
and I've just discovered white tea which is also good, at this time of day however have black coffee, it's the only thing that works.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:43, Reply)
Proper Yorkshire Tea
Left to stew until it develops sentiency, milk and two sugars.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:48, Reply)
Or Ringtons (peculiar to North East)
Arguably stronger than Yorkshire tea. You can make a full pot of really strong (not stewed) tea with only 2 teabags. I only consider tea strong if you can pave roads with it.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:52, Reply)
I'll keep my eye out for it
Although I doubt my poxy Midlands supermarkets will carry something of such calibre.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:53, Reply)
I've never seen it in supermarkets
www.ringtons.co.uk/shop/
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:56, Reply)
My gran
used to boil her tea on the cooker for about 10 minutes before she deemed it fit for consumption.

The spoon almost stood up in it.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:52, Reply)
bloody hell
she must be brown on the insides
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:53, Reply)
She is now
She's been dead for well over 20 years.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:53, Reply)
perhaps the tea
has mummified her
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:54, Reply)
She was already
my dad's mummy.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:55, Reply)
Sounds like someone spent time in India.
Indian tea is the bomb.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:57, Reply)
Rooibos
It's not for hippies.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:55, Reply)
But is it
too orangey for crows?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 9:56, Reply)
tastes like sawdust

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:01, Reply)
Or humans.

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:01, Reply)
The guy who sits next to me at work drinks that
It smells funny. I don't trust it.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:02, Reply)
I'm on my second cup right now.

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:06, Reply)
Green tea tastes of dishwater
Herbal/fruit teas smell like they're going to be nice but don't: they also taste of dishwater, just a different kind.

Both sully the good name of tea and are, in my expert* opinion 'fucking shit'.


*I once had a job interview with Whittard's of Chelsea.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:01, Reply)
naa, the green stuff is good
you've got defective tastebuds from gargling too much jizz, you horrendous uphill gardener
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:01, Reply)
It's filth.
I AM RIGHT AS USUAL.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:02, Reply)
it's not
right as ravenous as a stoat
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:04, Reply)
Green tea's like licking a gardener's fingers.

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:09, Reply)
a sexy female gardener

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:10, Reply)

fingers minge
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:13, Reply)
The voice of sanity there.

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:03, Reply)
Just reminded me
I was in Monaco last week (flew in by helicopter, donchaknow) and ordered a tea with milk at a streetside cafe.

The tea bag they gave me was so weak it barely even threatened the boiling water. I was very disappointed, so I smashed the place up. It's the only language they understand.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:01, Reply)
Last time I was in Monaco
I found most folk understood French quite well.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:04, Reply)
Well...yes...
And my French isn't that bad, but it doesn't come as naturally to me as senseless violence and massive property damage does.

I mean, they had they called that tea?!! It might as well have been homeopathic tea!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:07, Reply)

www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com/
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:08, Reply)
love it
I did do a cursory hover-check to see that you weren't trying to send me to 'I love horses'
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:09, Reply)
I toyed with the idea
but I wanted to show the actual page too much
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:10, Reply)
Dulux would call it
Water, with a hint of tea.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:08, Reply)
Last time I was served too-weak tea
I was so miffed I savagely attacked a pensioner with a claw hammer.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:05, Reply)
How can they learn from their mistakes
If they aren't pointed out to them?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:08, Reply)
Precisely.
It's my little way of giving something back to the community.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:09, Reply)
To be honest, I'd be offended if I went to Monaco and received a teabag

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:11, Reply)
has anyone ever tried caffine free Red Bush tea?
It takes like someone vommed in it after a heavy night of cottaging
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:05, Reply)
That'll be Rooibos then.

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:07, Reply)
rooibos and vanilla is nice

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:09, Reply)
I read that as
rooibos and vanilla ice
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:13, Reply)
word to your mother

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:15, Reply)
kick it

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:15, Reply)
indeed
there's a clue though. Red bush implies a ginger snatch and they smell and taste bad as we all know.

QED.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:09, Reply)
What was it?
Rusty roof, smelly shed?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:15, Reply)
garage

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:16, Reply)
Big enough that you could park your car in there, eh?

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:17, Reply)
and some half empty paint pots

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:18, Reply)
Kinky...

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:20, Reply)
ha ha ha ha

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:16, Reply)
I don't like tea.
And as has been discussed before, I don't like cake.

Soon, I fear I shall be burned as a witch.

I should be taking getting a fancy dress costume by the horns, but I'm not.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:25, Reply)
You'll be scolded in hot tea
and then stoned to death with rock cakes
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:28, Reply)
*strikes match*

(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:28, Reply)

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