Things we hate

Scented toilet paper and tissues.
Soft mattresses.
Bucket sized cups, mugs and wine glasses.
Spoilers on cars.

Don't worry, I have loads more.

Drivers who drive 45 km/h where 50 km/h is allowed.

Brits who are in Poland and Irish nannies and housekeepers.Esp the Irish women with beard and moustaches.

Whiny voices. Drives me crazy.

Immigrants who can't speak decent English after half a century.

Immigrants with hyphens.

Immigrants who teach their kids the old language.

Immigrants who bring their parents for Medicare benefits.

Movies where a 100-pound blond chick beats the crap out of six WWE 250-pound dudes with ARs.

Fair enough,your English is perfect, but can you honestly say that you no longer have a hint of a Polish accent?

I also hate when milo checks his wife purse for my picture and for JRs pic under her pillow:)

I hate:

1) Gays
2) Blacks
3) Jews
4) Overweight people
5) Ugly people
6) Stupid people
7) Transformers
8) Socialists
9) Vaccines
10) Women
11) Asians
12) Microsoft Excel
13) Vegetarians
14) Vegans
15) Children
16) Volleyball
17) Europe
18) Jews
18) Muslims
19) Hindus
20) Arabs
21) The US dollar
22) Cryptocurrencies
23) AI
24) Jews
25) Smokers

I'm sorry, I meant to say - these are the things I love!

I do have it and I hate it!


Novichok: He who loves everything loves nothing.

you forgot to add:
cyclists
peeing into the wind
everyone living in caravans
all believers in UFOs
women smarter than men
all with rotten teeth
all with a smile for $1 million
wrong parking drivers
policewomen giving fines to wrongly parked drivers
men with beer bellies in small T-shirts
women with thick thighs in miniskirts

that would be for now

Teabags with strings attached.
Grating onions.
Ironing.
Smartphones.
Predictive texting.
Microsoft Windows updates.
Induction hobs.
Fan assisted ovens.

Isn't this fun :)

Eww. Evil things.

And I hate most of all, anyone who thinks that a glass of hot water with a tiny tea bag in it is somehow tea.

And computers that aren't from Apple.

Instant coffee. Raw tomato. Dripping wet salads. Anyone who can name more than 10 current soap opera characters.

With tea bags I prefer those with strings to those without.


Same. Plus grating potatoes.


Love those.

Hate Apple with a passion.


Love it, can't stand grilled tomatoes or in any got form when it still resembles tomatoes.

Hate weed smell.

Cleaning bathroom

I think it's a very European thing. Good British Isles teamaking requires a teaspoon.


Basically only the Brits and the Irish understand how to make tea - maybe the Chinese but even in India they do very weird things with tea. Not sure about Russia. Although samovars are beautiful there's a bit too much brewing and stewing. Tea should always be freshly made in my view.


Me too.

Also:

Topiary in small suburban gardens.
People who don't say excuse me when they should.
Washing cutlery.
Leather sofas.
Limescale.

Not so sure. Teabags are not good tea. 😛


Can I ask what's that?

I hate all leather seating. Including cars.

Always better to do it the real way, warmed pot, three minutes brewing with a cosy on. In the absence of that, a Yorkshire tea bag will do, especially if you leave it in the cup.


And some Arabs plus probably the Japanese. I've never actually had tea in Poland unless I've made it myself. In cafes or people's houses it's just warm tea-coloured water.


People in terraced houses who change the size of their windows or make some other change that makes the house look like a gap in a row of teeth.

And plastic windows. They're cheaper but look worse and do people out of jobs.

And satellite dishes. Yuk.

Weed smell? I like it if I've not had it for a while and like the smell of hashish however I don't like going round town smelling weed. I was in Scunthorpe last summer on a muggy day and I could smell it everywhere.

Vile idea to me. I hate strong tea.


Not a pretty thing.

Gay rainbow

I tend to make it strong at first (even with a tea bag in) then add some more water when it's half way drunk to 'refresh it'. It's been many years since I've seen in England (outside of fish and chip restaurants in small+town Yorkshire, the hardcore ethnic England -my favourite is in Osset and has a giant picture of Gail from coronation street in the entrance) proper tea where they bring the pot and also a pot of water to add later to refresh it, all in stainless steel and the sugar bowl and milk jug matching.

Hedging, clipped into shapes. You see it in formal Italianate gardens and it was popular in Elizabethan manor house gardens.


There's nothing wrong with teabags if they're good quality and contain actual tea rather than sweepings from the blending room floor or some cheap and horrible blend. Having said that, I drink loose leaf myself and indeed was brought up to do so. We had a huge tea caddy (tin) and a little shovel inside it with which my granny or mother would measure the tea out. The idea behind teabags was not that they should be cheap and nasty but they should be a quick and convenient way of making a single cup of tea.

We had a shovel (for best, i.e. never used) made out of bone with a rabbit's foot or what's left of one. A bit manky. The posher type of shovel is a spoon with a sort of oyster shell on.

Bonus points if it matches the tea strainer (never a plastic one, ever, though we usually used them back home.

Back at home we used the glass pot with a basket. Put a lot of leaves in and make esencja. Later on you could make your tea as warm as you wanted.


You probably know that anyway but it was invented by a guy to distribute samples of his different teas.


Yeah, not my kind of thing at all.

Guys pretending to be women.

This is important. It has to brew.

Topiary? Looks quite sweet.

Based on what you are writing here (and Jon as well) - it is you that doesn't know how to drink tea.

What the hell does it mean: "as warm as you like it", or dumping a whole half-a-cup's worth of water into a cup "to refresh it". Tea must be scalding hot, and impenetrably dark (like the cup on the far left, below) or alternatively... a ruby red. You must be able to smell your tea from another room.

Also, why not add a teaspoon of raspberry or blackcurrant preserves, and some lemon? Milk just cools your tea down excessively.

When I have to travel around the US, I carry a little tin of tea and my own boiler (the type that causes fires and electrocutions). Everybody laughs, but as for me - I can't imagine how to get through the day without at least 2 or 3 good tea sessions. To Americans this seems to signal some homosexuality on my part.

Also: people mentioned the Chinese and Indians, but no one mentioned the Turks or Central Asians.

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My gay detectors went crazy a long time ago. Men don't "prepare", "spice", and "delight". What else...to the sound of gentle soothing music?

To me, eating is the first phase. Defecating is last to keep me going. I would gladly skip both.

From a distance, watching a man eat is barely passable. Close up ... and you want to throw up.

Ahhh... you should come to Russia where the men are quite expert in "delight" and "spice". Whether it is tea, shashlyk (meat skewers), a lovingly rolled cigarette, or a caught fish garnished with some fresh picked herbs - wouldn't let a woman anywhere near it.

Russians are a lazy and contemplative folk. Nothing better than to sit under a tree, by the river, perfecting your snack and your tea.

They would chase me away in the first 5 minutes.

My worst moments are when I contemplate. Like when I am driving.

Contemplating is way too close to brooding...

Within a certain context it does. If it's a 1920s or 1930s house that hasn't been grotesquely modernised.


Au contraire. A good blend of loose tea, freshly boiled water, warmed teapot, water goes onto the leaves while still on the rolling boil. Let it 'draw' for a few minutes, stir, pour through a strainer into the cup. Lovely cuppa :)


I never said that.


Because it adulterates the taste of a good blend of tea. Just as one shouldn't add sugar. Of course it's useful if you're drinking some vile, cheap stuff that I'm sure abounds in Russian villages. You're also making the mistake of assuming that Brits and Irish always drink tea with milk.