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[theinevitable]

the sinking feeling as I realize that yes, I did remember to set my clocks back, so no, I don't get to go back to sleep.

Or, rather, the realization that all of my clocks set themselves back. Which is cool, I guess.

[lprkn]

working an extra hour on Sunday because I didn't set back the clocks.

[Lister]

My team of 9, that was already too small to support our users?  Now it's a team of 5.  The others were yoinked for a new project.  They say it's just for three months, but none of us believe them.

Management has decreed that we're going to pretend they weren't yoinked, because lying to your users is a great policy.

[wombat]

Your VP is obviously related to my editor.  Seriously, if you want a story about the history of previous president's pets to run after the election - which, aside from a brief mention of the president-elect's pet status, will be entirely composed of facts that existed before the election happened - why wait till after the election is over to ask for it? It's not like we didn't know when the election would be over, right? I think we could have predicted this.

Sigh. There is a reason I didn't go to journalism school. I hate working on short deadlines. I am not sure how I ended up in this situation, at all.

[wombat]

Opening a box of a new brand of teabags and finding that they have no strings.

WTF whoever thought this was a good idea? And don't tell me it's more environmentally goddam friendly. I don't have to throw strings away but I have to use water to wash the utensil with which I remove the teabag, so neither is free.

[pmcd9]

English teabags don't have strings.  Teabag strings is an American thing.  Most of the rest of the world doesn't even have the bag.

[wombat]

Mostly I don't use bags either, actually. So when I do use a bag the whole point is to dirty nothing but the cup.

The world has adopted many other American inventions. What is wrong with these foreigners? They eat McDonald's, but don't have the sense to use teabag strings!

[pmcd9]

I know, I know...

[Doc]

Stringy teabags are the norm down here. I remember there were some stringless ones around for a while but I thing the idea was that they somehow got better circulation or something.

The latest in teabag technology of course is the bags with two sets of strings that you pull tight to wring out the bag after use, maximizing taste and minimizing unsightly tea-drip stains. The fact that this may be construed as wasteful and environmentally unsound just adds to the hedonistic joy of using them.

[theinevitable]

my mother taught me as a child that you put the bag on the spoon you used to stir the sugar in, and wrap the string around it so that it squeezes out all of the tea.
I found this brilliant, and still do.

[Choop]

Most of my teabags float regardless, so I use a fork to keep them sunk anyway. For shame! i know whatever

...but really i've only just gotten into drinking tea. I'm into chai, yerba maté, earl grey (of course), and I've got a nice white tea I found. What else should I look into?

[wombat]

Stringy teabags are the norm down here. I remember there were some stringless ones around for a while but I thing the idea was that they somehow got better circulation or something.

The latest in teabag technology of course is the bags with two sets of strings that you pull tight to wring out the bag after use, maximizing taste and minimizing unsightly tea-drip stains. The fact that this may be construed as wasteful and environmentally unsound just adds to the hedonistic joy of using them.

You mean the bag divided into two parts for the better circulation? I hate to break it to you, Australia, but Lipton teabags with strings have been doing that for years. They are not mutually exclusive properties.

The two strings thing is hysterical.

Choop, this is a good place that sells lots of kinds of tea in sample sizes. Of course you want to ditch the teabags and make tea from loose leaves if you want to be serious.

http://www.uptontea.com/

If you like Earl Grey maybe try a good Darjeeling, it is similar but without the additional flavoring.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Watch the Good Eats episode on tea.  He explains why tea bags make sub-par tea.

[pmcd9]

I fuck*ng knew this was going to descend into tea snobbery.

[CortJstr]

I fuck*ng knew this was going to descend into tea snobbery.

It's all tea-snobbery and pube shaving on this board.

Well, that and Education.