Tea News...

[Moonwaves]

I'm sure lots of you know this but I always feel obliged to post this link when the dm comes up in discussion

The Daily Mail Song

[Jessiebean]

I hadn't seen it before. Very entertaining.
In my defence I became a Daily mail reader because one of my more diligently work avoiding colleagues in my former life as a Public Servant found a way into the Mail website through great chains of links so that other diligently work avoiding sorts could check the football gossip which is so sadly lacking in Australian Newspapers (they think it is sad- I don't care about football in the slightest). We only had very limited internet access for "legitmate research" so being able to rort the system by reading the Mail was relished.
Now I own my own business and have absolutely no reason why I am reading the Mail when I can read any online newspaper I choose.
I have given up the Mail and now spend too much time reading the Guardian and feeling informed and just a little pompous but at least I am not all squinty and paranoid and spreading salacious gossip anout a minor celebrity wearing an unflattering dress.. again!

[Moonwaves]

Still, it's good to know what other people might come up with in a discussion sometime. I actually had a discussion forced on me by a complete stranger while waiting at a traffic lights recently and he wanted to convince me that the reason Israel was right for their response to the aid ships entering their waters is because women who wear burkhas might be 'nice, decent, muslim women' but on the other hand any one of them 'could have a bomb hidden underneath there'. I just had to think of that song, laugh to myself (while weeping for the world at the same time) and escaped into the next shop I came too.

[Millymollymandy]

and spreading salacious gossip anout a minor celebrity wearing an unflattering dress.. again!

Oh but that's much more fun! I haven't had time for reading the celeb goss lately so I only recently found out that Cheryl had got malaria! I've missed out so much I don't know who's shagging whom anymore.

[kompost krazy]

Off topic a bit but some time ago we discovered that most tea bags are put together with polypropylene glue and as I don't like the sound of that have gone back to loose tea..........side benefit I had forgotten how much better it tastes.Jessica

Not only does it taste better, and is more compostible (because not only do the bags use glue, but some of them are made from non-compostible material), but you can get better-quality tea loose. Bag tea has to be the smallest grade of leaf, but you can get larger grades loose, and, though they need longer to brew, many of them are better quality. My usual tea is 'Yorkshire Tea', by Taylors of Harrogate, which is good 'n' strong, and very flavourful, if you use a rounded teaspoonful per cup or mug and give it a full five minutes to brew. It is actually a fine-grade tea, so it could (and of course does) go into bags, but I prefer the loose version for the reasons given above, and also out of sheer bloody-mindedness.

[kompost krazy]

I'm sure lots of you know this but I always feel obliged to post this link when the dm comes up in discussion

The Daily Mail Song

Brilliant! Seen it before, because someone posted a link on another forum. A Youtube classic.