UK - USA Differalities (2) : Tea
“Listen and learn, son. Tea is a herb that’s been dried out so to bring it back to life, you have to infuse it in boiling water. That is boiling water and everywhere I’ve been in this country, they slap down a cup of tepid nonsense, you know, with the tea bag lying beside it, which means I’ve got to go through the ridiculous business of dunking it in the lukewarm piss waiting for the slightest change of color to occur. And at my age, I haven’t got the time.”
💬 Muriel - The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
One of an occasional series of posts commenting on ‘Differalities’ (the ‘commonalities’) that divide the UK and the US.
Emails Show Facebook Is Well Aware That Tracking Contacts Is Creepy.
”The Facebook executives who approved this ought to be going to jail. Facebook is to privacy what Enron was to accounting."
John Gruber
”If you set out to design a platform that would poison America’s discourse and its politics, you’d be hard pressed to come up with something more destructive than Twitter.”
Cal Newport
W.H.O. calls to reclassify weed.
”If the changes are adopted, it would serve as an admission by world governments that they were wrong about marijuana."
Kevin Urgiles
”We think as we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.”
💬 John Fowles
Definition of A Mellotron?
“A synthesizer in a drinks cabinet”
(Source unknown and the origianl video no longer available. 😞
🎬 The Hundred Foot Journey
I saw something this morning float by in the stream claiming that France has the ‘best restaurant in the world’. Quite apart from a personal objection to applying words like ‘best’ to something that is a qualitative opinion … I was reminded of this exchange from the movie.
Madame Mallory
”What is this flavor that is fighting against the chicken ?”
Hassan
”I added some spices for flavor to the sauce, and coriander for garnish and freshness.”
Madame Mallory
”But why change a recipe that is 200 years old ?”
Hassan
”Because, madam, maybe 200 years is long enough."
A piece by Robert Scoble on 🔗 ‘Why Tim Cook better worry’. Scoble opens with his take on ‘the fourth visible user interface of the personal computer era.’
The first was …
- The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, ‘If you were my husband I’d give you poison,’ and he said, ‘If you were my wife, I’d drink it.'
2) A member of …