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Who else is Tea Total ?

This thread reminds me of the 'I look down on him because...' 2 Ronnies sketch. I know brimz wasn't looking down on anyone, just stating a preference, but if I had an alcohol addiction I'd be feeling pretty looked down on right now.

It would make sense if it was tea total, I wonder why its tee? Ah a good way of wasting the next half hour on Google. Where do my days go.
 
badandwicked said:
This thread reminds me of the 'I look down on him because...' 2 Ronnies sketch. I know brimz wasn't looking down on anyone, just stating a preference, but if I had an alcohol addiction I'd be feeling pretty looked down on right now.

It would make sense if it was tea total, I wonder why its tee? Ah a good way of wasting the next half hour on Google. Where do my days go.
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The always reliable Wikipedia said:
One anecdote attributes the origin of the word to a meeting of the Preston Temperance Society in 1833. This society was founded by Joseph Livesey, who was to become a leader of the temperance movement and the author of The Pledge: "We agree to abstain from all liquors of an intoxicating quality whether ale, porter, wine or ardent spirits, except as medicine." The story attributes the word to Dicky Turner, a member of the society, who in a speech said "I’ll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total for ever and ever".[2]

A variation on the above account is found on the pages of The Charleston Observer: Teetotalers.--The origin of this convenient word, (as convenient almost, although not so general in its application as loafer,) is, we imagine, known but to few who use it. It originated, as we learn from the Landmark, with a man named Turner, a member of the Preston Temperance Society, who, having an impediment of speech, in addressing a meeting remarked, that partial abstinence from intoxicating liquors would not do; they must insist upon tee-tee-(stammering) tee total abstinence. Hence total abstainers have been called teetotalers.[3]

An alternative explanation is that teetotal is simply a duplication of the first 'T' in total (T-total). It is said that as early as 1827 in some Temperance Societies signing a 'T' after one's name signified one's pledge for total abstinence.[4] In England in the 1830s, when the word first entered the lexicon, it was also used in other contexts as an emphasized form of total; a comparable American English locution would be "total with a capital T" (an instance of the "[word] with a capital [word-initial letter]" snowclone). In this context, the word is still used, predominantly in the southern United States.[citation needed]
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So there you go. Or maybe not. ;)

I'm happy to be looked down on. I'm no alkie - just a common-or-garden skank.
 
So basically whether it's teetotal or teatotal comes down to how you phonetically spell the letter T?
 
lol, I thought this was going to be a thread about never drinking tea again until I finished Brimz's first sentence.

On the booze, no, I could never turn down a decent Belgian or German beer. Plenty of spirits I'd shake my head at though.

On the tea thing...I know, no one cares. But I am totally bored of normal, English breakfast tea. I've become some zen pretentious douche-bag with choosing green and allowing other herbals to enter my pathetic sphere. Eurgh. I guess one just needs some variety.
 
Sammy G said:
Try Camden. Or the 'Northern Quarter' in Manchester.

They've exhausted every other tea-related pun.
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Yeah it was a clever trick someone thought up a few years ago to keep the western cash economy going by getting people to accept paying stupid money for hot drinks in badly named bars.

It worked. T-T-Totally.
 
GodSpeedK said:
On the tea thing...I know, no one cares. But I am totally bored of normal, English breakfast tea. I've become some zen pretentious douche-bag with choosing green and allowing other herbals to enter my pathetic sphere. Eurgh. I guess one just needs some variety.
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Don't let these wowsers blind you from the truth. Tea is important. Designated drivers are nice to have, particularly if they get off their holier than thou soap box and shut up about alcohol being a drug (it's not, some people are just pussies), and sit quietly in the corner nursing their milk until the time comes to run us down the road to score at closing time.

But I digress. Rose and French Vanilla is my herbal of choice when I don't crave a milky sweet dilmar with one.
 
One Thousand Words said:
Don't let these wowsers blind you from the truth. Tea is important. Designated drivers are nice to have, particularly if they get off their holier than thou soap box and shut up about alcohol being a drug (it's not, some people are just pussies), and sit quietly in the corner nursing their milk until the time comes to run us down the road to score at closing time.
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Designated drivers? Is that actually a thing...? Heard about it, but theres no chance youd catch anyone I know willingly not drinking just to carry there mates about, theres taxis for that isnt there??

Anyway Alcohols the only thing to set off my anxiety very badly, to the point usually where I think I am about to faint/passout/stop breatthing the next day every few seconds, always need blues the next day or I cant drink. Either that or more booze but its just prolonging the anxiety, rarely often like alot here, but just weekends thur-sun or fri-mon or whatever. Love/Hate relationship with booze, if I didnt have such bad anxiety afterwards I would be drinking alot more
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
Can't stand drunks, never have, never will.
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This.

“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
― Bill Hicks
 
serotonin-system said:
Pissed the bed with the gf lying next to me and haven't touched it since
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i can drink big time when I want too, as most of the forum have seen more than enough times. Not big style as MickeyFinns 15 cans of Special Brew a day, fuck me his username is named after an alcoholic drink.... but one thing I have never done, is piss on the bed.

I've vommited a few times in my bed. Yes. But never pissed myself.
 
Closest I've came to spewing somewhere I shouldn't have was in a carrier bag in my mate's room. That was aMT though, not booze. With booze I always get plenty warning that I'm going to spew and I'm not stupid enough to just sit about and wait till I projectile vomit right at the telly.

Never pished myself, or the bed lol. I don't understand how people manage to get that drunk. I know one boy who pees the bed every single time he gets proper drunk. He fell asleep on my mate's dad's couch one time - pished it. Got woke up and put to bed - pished that an all.

StoneHappyMonday said:
This is pure bollocks
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I know ;)
 
I pissed the bed once, back when I was about 18/19. I went through a phase of staying up till the early hours watching shit TV with a three litre bottle of piss cider for company. Did it for about four or five years until I met the wife :) and eventually got hooked on codeine :\

I rarely drink these days and when I do it's usually a couple of bottles of Leffe Blonde or Hoegaarden, usually with some weed. Getting pissed just isn't worth the inevitable hangover.
 
one of my pisshead friends stayed with us all at the big grand posh home of the highest status middle class alpha male of our group one night after a very long drinking session, ie pub 'lock in' until 3 am or something. He pissed in the guys sisters cupboard and shit his bed on christmas eve. He thought that was hilarious, look what Santa left me. :\

Drink can fuck you up very badly, as of course can drugs, but in different ways. I could never imagine doing the pissing thing he did no matter how off my trolly on drugs ive ever been.
 
do you think alcohol would be popular if it had been discovered later and made illegal like other drugs? Interesting question.
 
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