A certain sartorial dyslexia

[hirez]

[Poll #1631145]

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[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

However if he is so busy trying on the teacosy for size that he allows the tea to get cold, then he is a cad.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Quite so. Although this sort of thing generally seems to happen when the host(ess) beetles off for the biscuits and/or cake. Thus there is a rattle of crockery and an odd atmosphere when they return with the comestibles.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

I would never do such a thing.

There's too much risk of looking like N'Dubz.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Good point. Friends don't let friends ... look like Dappy ...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

You young people and your popular beat combos. Where I'm from, tea-cosy wearing is accompanied by running around with your arms out while humming the theme from '633 squadron'

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Well, the other option is to shout out "You're unbelievable!" while wearing it ... but it needs to be quite a tall tea-cosy for that. Otherwise, you're more at risk of looking like that there Badly Drawn Boy ...

[quercus.livejournal.com]

'808 squadron'...

Needs to be done.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Even Simon Amstell doesn't, and he's no friends at all.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I can't remember the last time I saw a tea cosy, so that would be an ecumenical matter.

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Tea rarely lasts long enough in the pot for the cosy to be dug out of wherever the cat hid it last.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

We have an excellent badly knitted orange and black stripes teacosy for our enormous teapot at work. It looks like the pot's being eaten by an obese, drunk hornet.

[janinemarriott.livejournal.com]

There are two tcosies in the house. One is a spider web cosy. very cool. DO come up and see my cosie sometime

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

I would go further, that anyone who doesn't try on a tea cosy whether they're alone in the room or not is lacking some basic component of their humanity.

FWIW, we have a black sheep and a chicken currently doing service downstairs. The duck, sadly, died.

[jendama.livejournal.com]

I know nothing of this tea cosy phenomenon. This is due living in America where we drink lattes and drip coffee more than tea and, when we do drink tea, we get it from the latte store in a paper cup. Not many own teapots here. But we have the Revolution to thank for that, I suppose.

When you listed trying it on for size, my thoughts went south of trying it on as a hat. *hangs head in shame* Well, it could have been a _tiny_ teapot.

[much googling on "tea cosy" . . .]

Now that I understand what one is, I want one!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Your hotels don't have 'tea and coffee making facilities' either. If this is progress and civilisation, then I'm not impressed.

In my family, tea cosies were generally knitted by Aunts and handed down, but I imagine one could knit one's own.

(The coffee shop next to work does offer a particularly robust type of tea, as well as their fine array of interesting coffees. None of this venti or blended malarkey, either. I suspect opening such an establishment next door to a building suffed with hackers was a profitable move.)

[jendama.livejournal.com]

It is rather sad how making tea in America has changed since the later half of the 18th century. Switching from tea to coffee is a silly form of continued revolt, in my opinion. An entire cultural beverage vein severed due to politics! Oh, how my life would be different if we grew up making pots of tea instead of ground drip coffee from a tin can! But that is a story for another day.

Since our tea is largely in paper bags tied to strings which are then stapled to a bit of paper that never tears off the packet properly, I'm not sure that you would want a tea making facility in your hotel room anyway. Our tea is pure crap. That's why we have to import it, if we want the good stuff. I trust that you're bringing your own bags for the trip? The sad state is that your hotel room coffee maker will likely have coffee residue on it, making it a horrible thing to use to get hot water for tea. Hopefully there is a hot water option in your hotel's lobby or restaurant. Microwaved water for tea making is horrible!

I have a small glass teapot but have never used it. It even has a filter insert thing inside it for the leaves. Loose tea is such a boggle to Americans; we don't know how to use it. We've lost that cultural link.

All this being said, a venti nonfat latte is pretty good from time to time. However, the caloric content is insane so tea drinking, even with adding heavy cream and sugar, is considerably more healthy (just less profitable to corporate entities). I waiver between both tea and the occasional latte. Still, I think I'll have to create a tea cosy if for nothing more than the cuteness factor.