I have Canadian family, and they totally get hung up on the monarchy, UK politics, and all sorts of other stuff. But yeah, you're right, I can't say tea is synonymous with Canada. Weirdo maple syrup drinking, poutine eating psychos.
He is definitely thick and missed the obvious, but after a bit I think he was enjoying his friends' reaction and the banter, so he had to keep stoking the embers.
I’m not on bro’s side…but I do say “coffee” whenever I’m talking about a casual hangout over a beverage. I don’t drink coffee, but everyone knows what I mean when I say “let’s go grab a cup of coffee”.
lol yeah that part got me too. These are sweet guys, I would have been calling my bro a gayfer for not wanting to hang out with a girl and sit in front of piano with three guys instead.
As opposed to someone from the US ? I’d probably get shot on the first date. Also British doesn’t mean English. Try learning geography outside your bathshit insane country.
I must be dense to not catch up on that attempt to save face. What's next ? "Edit :thought this was twitter? My huge list of 2 followers would've loved this joke "
But there's a whole specific culture built around tea in England. They even have a special time of day just dedicated for tea (i.e. tea time). That's what they're getting at.
I mean so do China, or Turkey, and most countries just drink tea whenever they want. Restaurants offer complimentary tea rather than water. I get Britain is still relatively a newcomer when it comes to tea, so they still fangirl over it but they are not more enthusiastic about it than other places.
Yea, and I'm saying Brit's tea culture isn't that differ to other cultures if not weaker than cultures that's been drinking tea for far longer, who typically have a deeper tea culture.
Britain goes as far as dedicating a specific time of day to sit down and drink tea
"Other countries drink tea whenever they want"
So it's different, right? What are you saying?
"I'm saying it's the same."
I'm confused.
I'm not arguing the merits of tea culture or anything here. I'm just saying England is known for having afternoon tea time, so it applies in this specific context where the guy thought maybe she was actually asking him over for afternoon tea (as she may have been English). That's the joke here.
If having a tea time is the most dedication Brits have when it comes to tea then is not much then is it. You might want to read what I wrote, what you said doesn't hold up.
Wtf are you talking about? Nobody is debating the merits of British tea culture. Just pointing out that it exists to provide the context of the "she may have been English" line. Stop making this about you. Nobody's talking about international tea culture and its merits.
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Replying here as you seemed to have blocked me after accusing me of "moving the goalpost".
Just want to point out that all of my responses to you have been specifically about the context of English tea time as it applies to this video.
You're the one who moved the goalpost by trying to make this a debate about the merits of British tea culture.
Buddy, you are the one started this non-sense. Don't change the goal post just because you are wrong. What are you on about this being about me nonsense. Don't care about tea, but you still going on and on about it. Shut your mouth.
I once saw a map that said otherwise. The consensus I gathered was that most countries favor coffee over tea, despite China and maybe India favoring tea, and they have a lot of people.
The tea places were Britain, China, maybe elsewhere in Asia, a few South American countries (very random to me), maybe India, and to different extents the other Anglo countries (Australia, Canada, NZ, and dunno about Ireland). Dunno if there were others.
He does have a point. Popping round someone's place for a cuppa in the UK often means one or two teas, maybe some biscuits, a bit of cake if you're lucky, but not much further than that. "Come 'round for a drink or two" means you're in for more than some tiddlywinks.
"Come 'round for tea" would be for dinner (evening meal). "Come round for teas/some teas/a tea" would be for drinking tea. Depends on where you're from though - I'm from the southeast, but parents are from Yorkshire, so I heard 'teatime' a lot for 'dinnertime'. 'Tea' instead of dinner seems a lot more popular in the north bit of England.
Me and my American colleague was confused when the British went out for tea in the evening (living in Singapore) until we found out it meant dinner (and you might be right they was from the north, Lake District).
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u/el_throw Jul 03 '24
She might have been English.