Should have ended with tossing the tea and filling the cup with whiskey.
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What kind of blasphemy is this?
You drink half the cup, then proceed to top it up with whisky. Repeat once it's half empty again, until you're asleep or out of whisky. It's a homeopathic recipe.
Could be worse. The bag could have tore, filling your cup withbtea debris
Then finally enjoy your microplastic drink!
Everything in this video is 'fixable' : hold the damn tab while pouring water, install the bin liner properly, cellophane is not that difficult, etc.
But the thing that triggers me like nothing else is the semi-perforated 'easy opening' half-circle of that carton box. Those fail without fail and I am convinced it is constructed by satan himself, just to mess with your mind and propel your anger to new heights. Same as with those easy to tear strips, they never rip in one go and always fail at about 5% of the tear-action. May the gods of retribution take extra notice and effort to espouse their vindictive cruel ways upon these so called 'designers' who invent them. May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person. And may their arms be to short too scratch.
My wife and I have been joking about the perforation machine conspiracy for a couple of years now
Easy tear strips you should pull slightly down as well as across, I basically never have an issue with those.
Easy opening perforated boxes are a lie and I just open them like a normal one because tearing the glue designed to be permanent is a lot easier than opening the easy open section.
WTF is this string squeeze technique?!
Squidge the bag against the side of the cup with the spoon.
What now? Why is anyone squeezing a tea bag? Is this some sort of catholic, I deserve to be miserable kind of thing? Why ruin your tea with fines and bitter tannins?
I like it because it reduces bin juice.
Welp my super catholic mom squeezes her teabags until not a single drop more comes out. It's awful. I never squeeze a teabag!
But I like the tannins!
Maybe I enjoy the misery.
Otherwise the teabags drips all over the surface!
If you must know, most of the time I don't use a teabag. I use loose leaf in a teapot. No squeezing required.
I could relate and have experienced at some point in my life all of these issues except that squeezing method. I personally just let tea bag in cup for 5 min or so and then squeeze it with my fingers when it is not boiling hot.
Yo, they put each teabag in plastic in the US or what? It's always paper where I live. You guys are crazy.
It's a British (registered there) brand of tea, produced in Ukraine and Russia, and mainly distributed in Europe (I personally have seen it in several EU countries). And yeah, this type of tea is always packed like this. At least they stopped using metal clips for teabags lately, from what I've seen.
It's super common around the world. My friend group is starting to focus on loose leaf tea for that exact reason.
I usually see them in paper here in the US, too. But I would imagine it depends on brand. I'm a cheapskate so I usually just get Bigelow or Lipton.
It’s also paper for some types of tea in Europe. Especially anything medicinal often has plastic.
Infomercial VO: "Has THIS ever happened to YOU?"
I've definitely destroyed the box of many a thing trying to open them with the pre-made perforations. Kraft mac and cheese is, by far, the worst offender.
This is like ASMR for masochists
Upvoting angrily
Funny, but I'm not sure I understand how they got footage of every moment of my life for the past couple of decades?
Loose leaf for the win!
Holy shit, that hit the spot. The bag fucking up at the end is just the cherry on top. Chef's kiss!
Every little thing just gives a small "..eghhhhh..." Feeling
Ffs why is so much packaging like this? Does anyone actually USE it before it's mass produced?
They forgot the part where you sit on the couch waiting for the tea to steep and then remember you made tea 45 minutes later.
Or finally take the first sip, then get distracted by something else and discover your cold cup on the counter hours later.
Go to warm it up and find yesterday's tea in the microwave...
Now you've done it! You made me laugh uncontrollably! Pfff.
THIS TEA IS IN AN UNACCEPTABLE
CONDITION
UNACCEPTABLE
aaaand I'm going to bed upset. Thanks OP
Tell me you're not British without telling me you're not British
Do the British not drink tea in bags?
Yeah, but not annoying individually wrapped bags like this.
British problems
I was waiting for it to transition to throwing raw eggs and gasping.
Why do some teas come in individual packets like that?
Ease of use, apparently
But it's an extra step. When you buy a regular box of tea, all the tea bags are just in the box, not individually wrapped.
'Freshness' or other bullcrap
I would imagine it's for shared spaces, including cafes, where you want to be dealing out individual teabags but don't want other people touching the one you'll be using.
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There’s your problem right there, bucko. In the words of the last great American… pigeon sweat.
Whoever had the bright idea to turn teabags into flails should rot in an oubliette.
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