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Unfortunately for my opinion of the intelligence of the human race.

The missions can be found at http://agenttrojie.livejournal.com/65922.html#cutid10, which is Trojie and Pads's RC. Good reading if you can handle references to extreme squick.

I like to fill my teacup with rice and tea and then eat it.

And why is it that I can never find the stuff at stores? I mean, the restaurants have to get it somewhere...

My bike is called alternately Skysong, Kitten, or 'Bleddy fecking gorram heavy why the 'ell have the gears busted and feck it the breaks are wearing down mumble grumble mumble...'

She's blue and pretty and occasionally more trouble than she's worth.

I've only had one accident on Kitten, which resulted in me in the hospital with a gash in my patellar tendon, and the foam covering on Kitten's handlebars being rather torn up. But it's all patched up now and that is in the past, SO!

Biking is fun...

Have a winged kitten, and watch out for giant glass jars.

Over on this side of the Big Pond, white tea means tea picked when the leaves are brand-new. It's supposed to be sort of a delicacy-type thing, but I find it pretty boring for the most part. On the other hand, if the idea is to make it taste like other things, then it works pretty well.

~Neshomeh

You can't blame me for something that happened before I was born. *shoves TARDIS in corner sheepishly*

Would it help if I said I don't like coffee either? Or eggs, deep fried food, beetroot and smoked fish.

Honestly, and you call yourselves English! It's no wonder the Empire went down the toilet.

(No, actually, knowing my little sister, you just got that spot on...)

But I like ginger tea as well. And chai, can't forget the chair. We make the best chai where and I work and I always end up drinking gallons and gallons of it. It helps me not want to strangle my boss.

I named her Alpina (no idea why). She's purple and amazing. However, I manage, with alarming frequency, to run into parked cars and always when there are a bunch of people around to gawk at me.

I just don't particularly like hot drinks very much. I'll make an exception for a deliciously chocolately hot chocolate now and again, and if circumstances really require it I'll take a coffee loaded with sugar, but tea... just no. I don't even really like the smell of it.

I've had tea before and didn't like it. May try it again one day, just to see if my dislike is purely pushy-doesn't-understand-the-meaning-of-no-I-don't-want-that-it's-too-hot-family-member related.

Have a cup of tea and a flatcap. Handy for, er, disgusing yourself as a grumpy old Yorkshireman. Guaranteed to confuse Sues.

I'm lucky enough to live near a regional park and a sizeable creek, so now that it's summer, my mom's taking me out more often to ride around. I think we actually did a nine or ten miler the other day, and so far I've almost run over a dead skunk and a live ground squirrel. The skunk was not pleasant.

I expect he means with milk. You can get white tea though - like the stuff with strawberry I mentioned in a higher post. So far as I can work out they pick the tea rather earlier on, before it's turned into proper black tea.

They'd none of 'em go for it anyway - herbal dishwater just doesn't work the same, so there'd be no point.

Unless it was mushroom tea... hmm. :P

*poke*

Welcome to the Board. The only required reading is the Original Series and the Board Constitution. Everything else is just details.

Entertaining and often useful details, yes, but still just details.

Enjoy. {= )

~Neshomeh

Have a shapeshifting plushie. It can turn into anything, depending on what you want. It can become a flying monkey, and I've seen one turn into a baozi fairy before. And Cthulhu sometimes appears, for those into Nightmare Fuel or cute stuffed eldritch abominations.

No encouraging dangerous and addictive habits to minors. {= P

~Neshomeh

Do you mean with milk?

~Neshomeh, attempting Brit to Yank translation.

Each one is a little different, but the basic idea is spiced black tea with milk and sugar. You can drink it straight, but it's just not the done thing in this case. The sugar brings out the flavor of the spices, so that's important.

Most chais include some combination of cinnamon, clove, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cardamom, and/or anise. Some are more complex, some more simple. I prefer the ones without anise, but if you like that sort of thing, it's up to you. {= ) They come in teabags, as a powder, or as a concentrate. I like all kinds of leaf chai, but I prefer Oregon Chai as a powder and Tazo Chai as a concentrate. If you get concentrated Tazo, though, I warn you that they take the "spice" part seriously. You really, really want to make sure you get the balance of milk right so as not to hurt your throat. Believe me, I've done it. Their ginger is really potent.

I hope you try some chai soon, and enjoy it. {= )

~Neshomeh

Dear Eru, I need a Bleeprin scrubbing brush to erase that image from my brain.

And you have just cursed that fic into existence. As if trojie and Pads didn't have enough to do with the threat of more LxC, you just gave those two poor, brave women (well, technically both women) the threat of SxD. Ew ew ew.

Ew.

*goes to drown self in the Fountain of Bleepka*

I like my tea to be proper tea. Camomile, cinnamon and mint do not count as tea. They are herbal infusions, and thus weird flavoured water.

I have been known to have the odd cup of white tea with strawberry, or green tea with blueberry, pomegranate and red grape, but this is because my friend Becky doesn't drink normal tea and so only has crappy red label in the house, which tends to taste of dishwater.

For preference I take my tea in a pint and a half mug. Which is never cleaned inside - I've been working on its innards since Christmas, and have got it to a lovely state of black-and-flaky (although my housemate has a tendency to stir it too vigorously and knock off flakes, and has even on one memorable occasion attempted to wash my mug).

A pint and a half mug takes a long time to brew, so I've got lazy of late. Teabag goes in first, then water, then a quick stir and then milk, and the bag's left in to brew. Takes about half an hour, by which time the tea is just cool enough to drink. Which also takes half an hour, by which point it's time to empty the bladder. Which involves passing the kettle, and getting another brew on the go.

Yes, I take my tea seriously. I'm a Yorkshirewoman, what do you expect?

In other people's houses it's a pint mug, brewed for the length of time it takes to smoke a cigarette. No sugar. Biscuits may be the ginger nut or the chocolate suggestive, though cake is an acceptable alternative. Ideal biscuit accompaniment is the fruit shortcake. Tailors are required for special occasions, but for day-to-day consumption, a hand-made cigarette is necessary with every cuppa.

Also, you can't beat a cuppa and a smoke in the bath.