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It really helps distract from the societal and economic collapse.

Stop, you're making me want tea

Decades of economic stagnation and eroded public services have exacerbated long running discontent among less well off people mainly in the north and Midlands who feel left behind by "metropolitan elites" in London and the south.

Populist figures like Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson have landed on the traditional scapegoat of foreigners and whipped up tensions for years.

A brown person with obvious mental health issues has committed a horrendous act and these same people have used it as an excuse to loot shops, throw bricks at police and spray paint "p**is go home". Abetted by news that the prison system is full and they're releasing prisoners early to help deal with the overcrowding.

Anti racism protesters then showed up last night in huge numbers and along with a clear police presence and evidence of swift and strict sentences for the few people who have been identified meant that the latest round of pro fascist marches were abandoned and the nazis have gone back to hiding in their caves.

IIRC it started when some Brits targeted an immigrant recently with their racism only for oops no they were born in England and just brown. I don't know the details though, I live in America - the cops do that shit here, but only on days ending with "y."

If you pay attention to the footage, the riots are tiny. I think the biggest was around 100 people.

We finally managed to kick the right wing theives out, and some people are less than happy. They managed to rial a few idiots up, and the media have lapped it up.

So basically, a few kids got stabbed while attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance lesson (IIRC) and people started spreading rumors in Twitter that the attacker was Muslim. Nazis started rioting about it and kept doing it even after it was revealed that the attacker was not even a Muslim.

Apparently the police and anti-racist protestors have managed to calm the riots down now.

Do you want to end up in the harbor? Because that's how you end up in the harbor.

The actions of my fellow countrymen do not represent us as a whole. Instead of Tea people, please refer to them as Lager and Betting Shop people. Thank you 🙏

Ok I’ll bite, I’ve had Brit coworkers try to draw me into their tea cult with Yorkshire tea which they “promised” me was like crack in a cup.

Note before you say I didn’t make it right I have an electric tea kettle with options for all tea types and I steep things like black tea for 4 minutes as is recommended.

It was… ok, not worth the bother if I’m honest. I’ll stick to matcha or Japanese green tea personally.

But I will yeet any British tea into the nearest harbor out of spite to being told tea is the best beverage ever.

“It’s an acquired taste” is the same as “you just have to gaslight yourself into enjoying it.”

I think there's some legitimacy to "You have to get over the shock of a very novel-tasting or feeling food before you can really figure out if you like it", but yeah, I suspect that about a lot of acquired tastes.