Cuppa tea

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:48 pm

So i did this today as apart of my daily photoblog.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XMiG9cVPbEk

You can visit the daily photo blog by going here or here. There's a higher quality version of the video on the site.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:08 pm

Real men drink coffee.

Strong black coffee. With pepper. And some nails.

Great video. Making the mundane exciting for the attention span challenged.

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Funny story:
I went to the WAWA the other day for some coffee. Two very weird looking olderish people (50-65) were at the coffee fixin's counter. The crazy scary looking woman started grabbing huge handfuls of the tea bags. Then her creepy looking husband came up with the bag of stuff they bought (obviously hendpecked. He doesn't wear the pants in that couple).

She started to shovel big handfuls of tea bags into the bag. I stood right in front of them staring the whole time and they ignored me. I didn't say anything on the chance they planned to purchase the tea but I kept staring directly at them and stood right in front of them as they walked past. They just waddled out side and left with me watching them with my mouth hanging open. They left bunches of tea bag packets all over the floor.

I regret not saying anything. I told the management to watch them if they came back. They were so casual about it it kind of threw me off balance. She looked evil... like she would have put a curse on me. He looked like she did put a curse on him.

-vern

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:32 pm

I love tea. Chai's my favorite. Winzor, Winzor, where's my tea? Ohh.... just remembered I don't have a butler.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:54 pm

there are two kinds of human beings, those that drink coffee and which drink tea.

**edit: I'm proud to be of the second type.

(humans which drink both belongs to the coffee drinkers. in the tea team we don't accept ambiguities. no this kind of).

i like your video.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:42 am

Brazil's next door, isn't it? Apparently they have an awful lot of coffee there...(or maybe my geography is out again?)

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:41 am

I liked this video. Even if I drink more coffee than tea, a good cup of Twining's English Breakfast is a treat, and this video is a fine celebration of caffeinated beverages.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:53 am

brazil and colombia. they have a lot of coffee, they drink a lot of coffe. chile is far of both.
for go to brazil, first to east there is an Andes mountain range, then an Argentine piece of earth, and then a brazilian piece of earth.
for colombia, first you walk to the north and there is a long and dry desert (the driest of the world, would say some proud chilean person, thinking that is great believe you are owner of a piece of dust. proud of to have a little colored flag similar to the texas' one). then there is some perú and ecuador, beautiful third world countries which are losing step by step his own personality, desiring to be blond one day. ok, ok, there is colombia. a little far away from chile.

what i wanted to say (sorry if sometimes my pessimism escapes) is that chile is the country which drink more tea in all latin america. we have our own chilean breakfast and our own five o'clock tea (closer to a seven or eight o'clock tea).

without tea, chile would disappear as the Buendía family.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:31 am

selgin wrote:without tea, chile would disappear as the Buendía family.

I hate to keep displaying my ignorance like this(!), but who are the Buendia family? And, with all that tea drinking, Chile sounds like England (apart from the desert bit of course)!

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:46 pm

jahnocli wrote:I hate to keep displaying my ignorance like this(!), but who are the Buendia family? And, with all that tea drinking, Chile sounds like England (apart from the desert bit of course)!

Buendía family is the protagonist of Cien años de soledad (one hundred years of solitude?), the Gabriel García Márquez's novel. i remember i read in someplace that this was one of the favorites books of lostmarble.
the colombian García Márquez is one of the biggest writers in latin américa, and Cien años de soledad is just wonderful.
well, i don't want to tell you the finish of the novel, but i sincerely recommend you to read it.

chile is not like england. well, i don't know england (just tv and books), but chile is a third world country which want to be like an european country. it's sad, because we are loosing our personality every day more and more and even thinking our skin has not the earth color.

ok, ok, again the le monde diplomatic tone... sorry.

in chile we drink tea -actually we drink tecito (little tea)- but not in an english way... in a thirdworld way (we don't care some much about temperature, or origin, or hour, or with what is flavored). a tea bag and a bred: a happy chilean.

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:26 pm

I like the video. Could be the next viral video series on YouTube: making mundane actions into something exciting. "I want tea", "I have to poo/pee", "I have to go to work/school", "I have to stuff some food in my face", "I have to watch the daily news", all things you don't see in the movies, because they're supposed to be too boring to watch.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:41 pm

selgin wrote: ...a long and dry desert (the driest of the world, would say some proud chilean person, thinking that is great believe you are owner of a piece of dust

I'm sure I've seen a TV programme recently about this desert -- it was about how vegetation grew in the desert near the sea, because it could get moisture from fogs that drifted inland. Absolutely fascinating. "A piece of dust"? No, it was a lot more than that.

I've read a "Hundred Years of Solitude" (a long time ago). I didn't remember the family name. It is a great book, but I preferred "Love in the Time of Cholera". Maybe it's time to read it again...!

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:17 pm

Rasheed wrote:I like the video. Could be the next viral video series on YouTube: making mundane actions into something exciting. "I want tea", "I have to poo/pee", "I have to go to work/school", "I have to stuff some food in my face", "I have to watch the daily news", all things you don't see in the movies, because they're supposed to be too boring to watch.

Mmm, i was thinking of doing that. I have access to this semi-professional camera, so i might aswell abuse it.

And thanks for the rapid discussion on tea. I myself love tea, being British, i think it was in my veins.

Coffee... hmmm... if i have to wake myself up.. that stuff is horrid. Would rather have a red bull.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:12 pm

jahnocli wrote:I'm sure I've seen a TV programme recently about this desert -- it was about how vegetation grew in the desert near the sea, because it could get moisture from fogs that drifted inland. Absolutely fascinating. "A piece of dust"? No, it was a lot more than that.

we could talk all day about garcía márquez. he has something more experimental, called El otoño del patriarca (The Autumn of the Patriarch), a great book about a latinamerican dictator. note: it has only 4 aside points (i mean, it has just commas and points into five big paragraphs which conform the novel).

about the piece of dust. for me, it has more a philosophical meaning about private propriety and countries limits than a pejorative meaning.
i know the Desierto Florido (flowered desert), it's beautiful and a little bit intimidating wonder. each four years you can see lot of flowers in the middle of the desert, god should be drunk.

human · Post by **human** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:44 am

Yeah, I liked the video too.

At the risk of repeating myself (because I said this about someone else's work), I think it shows a deep understanding of the medium.

Moreover, it's like somebody above just said: if you can turn something trivial into something fun, that's art.

NukaCola · Post by **NukaCola** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:03 pm

Is it you in the video? Or you are a cameraman?

Very nice to see a classical Brittish tea with a milk... thats cute