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Sundray to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

I like tea!

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I like tea!

Sundray to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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Azul Crescent’s silly scribbles

I’ll never stop being amused at the idea that “tea” is also means “gossip.”

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    Im-sorry-is-this-some-sort-of-peasant-joke-meme-8-3041815135

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      I think they’re trying to reference “spilling the tea” i.e. gossip. Never seen it as “having tea”, and I can see why; it’s confusing.

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        Yeah. If Azul would have gone for “I like knowing the ‘tea’🤫” the punch🧃 might have landed.

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          I’d go with “Sometimes it spills. Delightful!”

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        In Renaissance era high society, a tea party is often the place where rumors brews. So basically, “having tea” implies discussing the latest rumors.

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          The etymology is from “t”, being short for “truth”.

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            I looked into it, and you seem to be right.

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          Did renaissance even know about tea?

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            Tea began to be commercially imported in Europe around the early 1600s.

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              Ok, That’s technically still the renaissance.

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        Why make a new expression when we already have “spill the beans”? Can we stop wasting so much food‽

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          There’s no use crying over spilt milk.

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        You don’t have any tea to spill?

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          I watch over my tea like a british colonialist. Not a drop spilled. Not even for Christmas. Damn good thrashing is what you lot deserves.

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            Lol, well, I’m an American. I’ll just throw your British tea into a damn harbor, because I can’t afford your damn tea. Guess I could’ve just stolen it, on second thought, rather than… throwing it in the harbor. Shit. We really are a bunch of tea wasters. My bad.

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              Of course, this means war ol’ chap. Wheres’s my thrashing cane?!

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            It’s tough but fair.

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      This guy kinda looks like Reese from ODS.

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        My dad owns these streets

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          Presumably that’s a reference, but I don’t get it, sorry.

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            Something Reece used to say back in the older ODS vids

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              Oh, I see. I never watched the older ones. I’m honestly still not sure whether I like them, but I like some of their (newer) videos.

              Thanks for explaining, as well as teaching me how to correctly spell his name!

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                It’s actually Reice. We both had it wrong 😂

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                  I was going off of the subtitles so that makes sense.

                  I bet if we keep trying we can come up with further incorrect spellings.

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