YIKES!

I bet they read the tea leaves, too.

TN -

The Queen must have forgot the proverb:

"Even little pitchers have big ears"

She must be so tea'ed off.

TN - You're on form today

Yup, I'm on a roll, baby!

(A tea roll?)

Blame it on too much caffeine.

Coffee drinker, eh? That explains it, barbarian. Let's see if I can wean you off that stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA

or maybe something a little stronger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNMdUAyHxuU

Haha, those were funny!!

barbarian

It's my Viking genes!

(No, that explains my love for beer...oh well. :roll

I shall never convert!! I'll never give up the sacred coffee shrubbery. Keep those wimpy tea bags away from me or lose an arm!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQfGd3G6dg

Now, GO!

*throwing up my coffee mug-armed hand, encouraging you to cower in fear of me saying NI at you.*

Oh, what dark times are these when a wild-eyed, caffeine 'n' alcohol addled beserker may post (at will) links to those perilous knights of the shrubbery. (Damn it! There's very little come back to that).
All I sought was to free you from the cursed bean and lift your barbarian (colonial) soul with the blessings of the sacred leaf. The darling leaf held out before you like an olive branch set to soothe your savage breast (I heard it was the left one) but cruelly cast aside with a spittle-sprayed curse. You make me sad. Very well, you leave me little choice - put the bloody kettle on . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPXG4pdPj4w

Hahahaha! OMG...

caffeine 'n' alcohol

You're forgetting something...

lift your barbarian (colonial) soul with the blessings of the sacred leaf.

The darling leaf held out before you like an olive branch set to soothe your savage breast

I see a treaty coming about here! A road to peace between our warring nations! Put that silly kettle on let's have some of that famous *high tea* of yours. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Btclf3jWA

You people have obviously never read the Asterisk story about the Brits at war and how tea was a sacred drink, and all stopped to take the tea. hahahahahaha.

I have lived now for 30 plus years in Spain but still drink about 2 litres of tea a day from my traditional big brown tea pot :-0))

TN - Very well, in the name of international accord I accept your invitation - although you will not be getting very far along the road to peace by calling a chap's kettle 'silly' - I'll supply the tea, pastries and Toots and the Maytals; you bring along the best that Amsterdam has to offer. Don't fear the Babylon, I have diplomatic immunity.

brightlight4 - Actually I have read that particular Asterix tale but one must remember that Barbarians can't tell the time. It's all very well stopping for tea at the god-appointed time but what does one do when a horde of hairy, shear-toting, Vikings stagger head-long into one's favourite shrubbery?

@Cakebelly: If one is a true Brit, then when the Vikings stagger headlong into ones favourite shrubbery, one keeps ones composure and tells them to "hang on a minute" while one finishes the sacred tea!!! What a silly question!!! jajajajaja

Brits CANNOT go to war without a cuppa char at the right moment can we?

As for coffee!! THAT should be drunk with a piece of chocolate in the mouth to enhance the flavour and it should be made Spanish style and not those great big bathtubs of hot dark water that are drunk in Anglo Saxon countries, which is neither coffee nor is it anything. A thimble of coffee is delicious, trouble is, it doesn't allow me to sleep, so I can only drink it early in the day and with a lot of sugar.