Someone got their buttons pushed

I agree, restaurant tap water can be very hot … there is even a faucet in some places I’ve seen from coffee machines that can dispense hot water. But all of them fall just below the threshold of boiling water which is 100 degrees C.

Tea needs boiling water at least for a moment in order to brew properly. I don’t know the science of it … I just know from experience and having had tea all my life. If you place an orange pekoe tea bag in anything but boiling water, it will never steep properly. In any other heated water, orange pekoe tea just comes out bland and not as tasty. Like I mentioned in my early comments, my family used to throw tea bags into boiling water and let it stay in rolling boiling water for about 30 seconds and it immediately brews a potent mixture of dark red liquid that has as much caffeine as coffee.

The only other great sin to steeping tea is to place the tea bag in boiling water and immediately mix it all with milk - that guarantees a ruined steeped tea. You wait about five full minutes for the tea to steep before mixing anything with it.

I’ve been frustrated by friends and family all my life who didn’t grow up drinking tea because they’ll boil some water, leave the water sit for a minute or two until it cools off from 100C or even wait several minutes until it cools off to 80C and then try to make a cup of tea. It drives me nuts when they serve me luke warm tea and then pour in a bit of milk into it all and everything turns white.

As you might have guessed … I love my tea.

An easy way to avoid anything like the French Revolution … or any kind of revolution … is to just feed people.

You can do whatever you want, abuse people, jail people, arrest people, even start a war, build concentration camps and for the most part people will go along with it all, as long as you keep them fed. You don’t even have to feed them much … just keep them fed enough to keep them from rioting and revolting.

Millionaire CEO warns … WANTS … US economic situation could … TO … lead to revolution

Fixed your headline

Angels answering your question at the same time: … YES!!!

Any question: … YES!!!

All questions: … YES! YES! HALLELUJAH! YES!!!

meh … I’ll wait a while so it gets more pickled … more pickled means more RAM speed.

It says a lot about a group that has to hide behind some really stupid looking costumes to hide their identity because they know full well that the things they believe and say are completely wrong, unacceptable and won’t be tolerated.

They know what they are doing is wrong so they feel the need to hide who they are.

They are cowardly to their own beliefs.

Because if they truly, honestly and passionately believed with all their being in what they thought and said … they would never feel the need to hide who they were.

Then America keeps taking it up the ass

Take it as a life lesson … if anyone says or does anything abusive or manipulative, stand up for yourself … always.

And a step beyond that is … if you see anyone being treated that way, also stand up and say something. Sometimes all it takes is for one person to say something to stop any abuse.

The more you do things like this in a kind respectful and thoughtful way of protecting yourself and others, the more you will be recognized as a strong individual that everyone can rely on or respect. It builds a shield around you that will allow fewer people or systems to want to abuse you.

Sometimes, just the act or saying you don’t like a behaviour or you don’t accept that is more than enough to stop someone from starting any abusive behaviour.

But even when you look back on that data and information, the majority of it was skewed and manipulated to conform to and confirm a very specific set of values, politics and beliefs … much of whom didn’t have the best interests of people but rather in coddling corporate interests, the economy, money and power.

50 years later … parking enforcement is still placing paper tickets on the windshield.

The US government shouldn’t be relied on for credible or reliable information.

They can’t be relied on for anything.

The weirdest time I had snow blindness was in the early spring when I was about ten years old. Dad was taking us out for a ride and told us to get our sunglasses. I was a dumb kid and ignored him. Outside it was slightly overcast with a hazy kind of cloud cover, just enough to let a bit of sun through. The light was completely diffused everywhere … not bright, not harsh but coming in all directions … the sky, the horizon and bouncing off the snow on the ground everywhere.

I lasted a couple of hours in that … but by the end the day, I couldn’t keep my eyes open, I was so irritated. So it doesn’t take bright light to go snow blind … just constant steady bright light everywhere all the time.

My parents were old time hunters and trappers who were born in the wilderness … so they weren’t up to date with the latest pediatric recommendations at the time.

This was an old time diner style highway restaurant … they were using the same hot water to make tea as they were using to wash the dishes

Eskimo … you can thank my people, the Ojibway and Cree for that description … in our language it literally just translates to “raw meat eater” … (‘ishishkeh’ … means “raw uncooked meat” and adding the ‘eemeh-oo’ just denotes that the word is describing a person or group of people)

But when it comes to snow blindness, it’s a terrible condition. I had it three or four times when I was a young kid. It’s like having sand INSIDE your eye and no amount of scratching can relieve it.

We’re south of the Inuit so we are less prone to snow blindness because we have trees and few open spaces. But it’s dangerous in the spring time. The combination of snow covered land, longer days and brighter sun is the time for snow blindness.

We never had any real use for snow goggles because the times we needed them were too few in the year. We just avoided going out during those times.

EDIT: … I wrote ‘raw meat water’ … lol … corrected

I usually give that look to the table on the other side of the restaurant that didn’t finish their fries and let the waitress take them to be thrown away in the trash.

I grew up drinking orange pekoe tea from the time I was born. I’ve seen my mom prepare tea with milk and sugar in a baby bottle for my younger brothers so I can safely guess she did the same for me.

And we liked to make it strong! We’d have a giant metal pot that held about 2 liters of liquid, get it at a rolling boil, throw in eight tea bags and let it continue boiling for a minute until the liquid turned into coffee.

I left home when I was 20 to live in other parts of the country and I’ve never met anyone else that made tea properly.

I’ve seen people mildly heat water or microwave it.

The best one was a restaurant I used to go to for great breakfast … I asked for tea a few times because I’m always nostalgic for it. They always made shitty tea and I wondered why … until one day the waitress admitted to me that the hot water tap wasn’t so hot today and she didn’t know why … THEY USED HOT TAP WATER TO MAKE TEA!!!

They should know better … no better way to start revolutionary thought than to make people hungry.

We are animals and you can abuse humans in many ways but as soon as you go after their food … they’ll fight to change things.

Every revolution in history started with hunger, near hunger or the threat of hunger.