Yes, nearly always.

All the time.

A good book, cup of tea, fire, and cat in the lap makes for the best way to spend a rainy day

No, you faggot.

And if I did, I wouldn't act like it matters.

No.

Takes two hands to read. One to hold the book, the other to flip pages/write.

So, no.

Nah just do a lot of blow.

>>304759
I've heard of these magical "surfaces" where you can place items not currently in use and still keep them within reach.

Sometimes.

So, does anon prefer white, green, or black tea when they read?

I prefer black tea.

>>304778
black tea, or herbal if I'm going to have to sleep soon.

Yeah just because of this thread I got myself a pot

Most of the time. A good book always goes well with tea or coffee and cigarettes.

A nice cup of green whenever possible.

Yeah, sometimes.

"I say, I am quite possibly the MOST cultured and civilized person on this board, because I have allot of pretentious affections and it's important I use my tobacco pipe every thirty seconds."

tea's for faggots

>>304778
green, always green.

Earl Grey.

That's dignified as fuck.

You guys should pick up some Kava sometime :) Feels good, man.

Black, no sugar.

>>304766

Are they available in the accessory section of a bookstore or should I look for them online?

Do you have a name or a brand? I don't get any result for "magical surface"...

Earl Grey tea is for vicars and old ladies. Herbal tea is for buddhists, hippies and natural food freaks. Putting the milk in first is a foppish English middle-class pretension.

You want tea? Real, British Army let's-go-and-conquer-an-empire-spanning-a-quarter-of-the-globe kickass tea? Old-fashioned Here-come-the-fucking-Zulus Somme-El Alamein-Arnhem-Falkland Islands, get-your-kukhri-out-and-take-some-Jap-heads, lets-have-a-brew-up-skipper-while-25,000-feet-over-Hamburg tea?

1. Boil the water. If it isn't on a rolling boil, you're a Frenchman.

2. The tea: it's not fruit-flavoured, it's not green, it doesn't smell of fucking flowers. It's black, it comes from Assam, or Poona, or Candy in India; Ceylon (or whatever the nignogs renamed the place) in a pinch. Don't fuck around with Red Rose or Salada or those other brands that are made of floor sweepings and packed by leperous monkeys. Get the good shit, like Marks & Spencer's strong blend. Loose tea is better, but bags are OK if the tea is quality.

3. Pre-heat the ceramic pot with some of the boiling water. If you have an aluminum or metal pot, I'd better fucking look down and see a cunting tea cosy in your white little hand, friendo. Don't have one? Lean to fucking knit. Take your granny's meds away until she makes one for you, like a demented spider on LSD.

4. Boil the fucking water. I know I said it before. It's important.

5. For each cup add a heaping teaspoon of leaves (or one bag per two cups. BUT then add another big spoon (or bag) "for the pot." If you fail to sacrifice to the Tea Gods in this way, ruin and misfortune will attend all your efforts in life until you propriate their anger.

>>304919
Such arcane items cannot be found online. Not even on Craig's List.

6. Put it on a warmed surface. Not hot enough to re-boil the water, but enough to keep it piping hot. The top of a recently-turned off stove is good; close to the fire is good if you're camping (remember to turn the pot around to keep both sides warm). Cunt.

7. I SAID FUCKING LEAVE IT! 8 to 10 minutes. You don't want some abortion of weak brownish fluid like the pathetic discharge of a dying Calcutta dysentery victim in your mug, do you?

8. Pour. You will be rewarded with a truly deep golden elixir, steaming hot in the chill air, with that lovely rising musical tone of a porcelain mug being filled. If you're using plastic, get the fuck out. No, seriously, get the fuck out.

9. Add sugar and milk to taste. Only fucking Hottentots drink it black. We are civilised fucking people here. Lemon? What the fuck are you, some scabby Russian gangster? Some midwestern minister's wife? Save it for curing your scurvy later on, mate. Cream is not acceptible. Neither is non-dairy whitener, except under extreme duress, such as battlefield conditions. (The British Army has used tea for three centuries as the panacea for any injury, save a stomach wound).

10. Swirl the complex product around. Feel the tannins fur your teeth, the sugar attack your dental enamel. This is fucking tea. This is Gerald Butler-Sean Connery-Michael Caine-Daniel Craig tea.

Go now, gentle traveller, and commit the sin of weak tea no more.

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee.

We conquered the British so we could be rid of their damn tea.

>>304939
fakking saved

>>304939
I approve of this.

I must rebut that Patrick Stewert drinks Earl Grey. Hard Earl Grey.

>>304946
>>304939
shit did someone call /ck/ for an order of FUCKING AWESOMENESS?

>>304939
>>304946


I feel like a just got a version of Arthur Dent's tea speech catered to anon's style of speaking.

Also: THE WATER DAMNED WELL BETTER BE BOILING YOU TWITS. BOILING NOT HOT, FUCKING BOILING.

So many people MICROWAVE their water for tea.

WHAT THE FUCK MAN, WHAT THE FUCK

I love sweet tea. Hot tea can suck balls.

>>304946
>>304939
Sounds glorious. Until I remembered that even the manliest of teas are no replacement for a cup of hard-ass coffee.

I drink a fuckton of Barley and Corn Tea.

Oolong! Oolongs are the best damn teas with the greatest range, fuck. I want some darjeeling right now.

There's a tea store near me that sells 'Library Tea' in honour of a library that opened several years ago. It's delicious.

>>304901
Where can one purchase Kava?

>>305019
k. barley tea. where the hell do you find yours? I've been looking for it for ages.

>>305029
mmmh, oolong tea. now I'm craving.

I drink black tea with rose petals in out of a prissy little china cup, and I am not ashamed.

>>305074
The only place I've so far been able to find it (other than the internet or Samao) is a brand called Yogi Tea.

>>305086
There's a few Asian shops near my place where I can buy them. They come in both bags and roasted barley seed variants. I prefer the latter because that way I can try and figure out exactly how much is good for me when I boil the tea.

Barley tea is really good though, because you can have it hot in the winter to warm you up or cold to cool you down in the summer.

>>305104
I drink oolong out of a chinaman's butt crack, and I am not ashamed.

>>304946
Excellent troll. Masterfully execited. Almost all of the advis is true with the BIG EXCEPTION of points 7. and 9. Yout are not supposed to brew the tea for 8-10 minutes. At most you have to brew up to 3:30. Otherwise there is too much tanin and the flavour of the tea is gone, leaving you with a cup full of bitter brew, tasting like motor oil. 3.30 mintes at the most!
And fpr point 9, a bit of milk is fine, but not too much (1-3 spoonfuls) and absolutely no sugar - the flavour will be diluted. Got that? Otherwise, all good advise.

No, just a damn fine cup of coffee.

>>305372
Black as midnight on a mooooonless night.

Wow, what a coincidence. I didn't even make this one. Looks like I was right about the shit extending all the way to page ten.

Thanks to whoever dug this gem up!

Usually tea or coffee, sometimes I am boring and drink water.

I drink anything while reading I'll just end up waking up in the middle of the night.

You guys ever drink red tea? Like Rooibos? Oh, man. Red tea is soooo gooood.