Iced Tea V Tea

**Red Peasant** · 06-25-2006, 22:33

Originally Posted by Aenlic

Iced tea when it's going to be 101F (that's 38.6C for you Brits) outside, like umm... today.

We understand and prefer fahrenheit, yards, inches, gallons, pints, etc thank-you very much.

We have never got the hang of metrics, although it did make the monetary system easier.

**Marcellus** · 06-25-2006, 22:59

Originally Posted by Red Peasant

We understand and prefer fahrenheit, yards, inches, gallons, pints, etc thank-you very much.

We have never got the hang of metrics, although it did make the monetary system easier.

You speak for yourself. Metric all the way here (except for road distance...out of necessity).

**Aenlic** · 06-25-2006, 23:03

Originally Posted by Red Peasant

We understand and prefer fahrenheit, yards, inches, gallons, pints, etc thank-you very much.

We have never got the hang of metrics, although it did make the monetary system easier.

I was just teasing! Pfft.

Gods, not the metric system. I was in primary school when the U.S. first began making a big push to get us switched over. Liters this, meters that, etc. It never took. That was 40 years ago. It still hasn't caught on. I don't think it ever will, here.

**Geezer57** · 06-26-2006, 00:15

Originally Posted by Aenlic

Gods, not the metric system. I was in primary school when the U.S. first began making a big push to get us switched over. Liters this, meters that, etc. It never took. That was 40 years ago. It still hasn't caught on. I don't think it ever will, here.

I grew up as an American kid overseas - so I learned both systems side-by-side, and am equally comfortable with either. For most average (non-technical/scientific) folks, I really don't think either system is "better" than the other. People are just most comfortable with what they learned growing up.

**rory_20_uk** · 06-26-2006, 00:32

With easier money came a worsening grasp of Maths: take away the incentive of knowing how many groats in a florin and suddenly Maths has no point for loads of people.

**Aenlic** · 06-26-2006, 04:02

What do florid goats have to do with it?

**English assassin** · 06-26-2006, 09:54

Imperial certainly has its uses, but this weekend I had to work out how many tiles I needed for my bathroom and I was very happy to be working in square metres thank you very much.

OT, iced tea is rampantly metrosexual. Oh, and BTW all these fancy teas are not tea either. If you can't imagine it being brewed by a sapper on the north west frontier* than its not tea.

(I'll make an exception for chinese tea since a billion people can't be wrong).

(*this means the Khyber pass, not Seattle)

**DukeofSerbia** · 06-26-2006, 12:24

Both. In summer ice tea, in winter (hot) tea.

**Red Peasant** · 06-26-2006, 14:15

Depending on circumstances:

In summer: Beer or Hot Tea
In winter: Beer or Hot Tea

**drone** · 06-26-2006, 15:45

Never acquired the taste for hot tea (or really any hot beverage). Don't drink iced tea that much either, it's only good if it's early in the day, and you are sitting in a restaurant in the south with a hangover. Sweet brewed iced tea is just the thing. Unsweetened iced tea is somewhat pointless.

**Drisos** · 06-27-2006, 08:11

call me crazy.. always ice tea. I am just so hot that I always need something to cool down

**Avicenna** · 06-27-2006, 14:16

Tea.

I get a choice between English and Chinese.

Chinese tea with ice is just...

**Ayachuco** · 07-01-2006, 02:44

I prefer Iced tea over any other tea. Particularly lemonade iced tea. Not just tea is for me or any other tea but plain iced tea. Down here in texas we drink lots of iced tea.