Comments on: Tea Rounds: Liberalism Vs Socialism

By: Jock

Jock — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:19:51 +0000

Eeee-eck. I know it can be quite wet in Pickring, but I would not describe Dalby as the “Yorkshire Rainforest Project”.

By: Jack Hughes

Jack Hughes — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:09:21 +0000

Saw this on T'Yorkshire Tea website and thought of you...

By: bob

bob — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:51:51 +0000

what if they haven’t washed their hands?yuk.i’d rather make my own.carrying a tray full of hot mugs is a health and saftey issue!

By: Favfly

Favfly — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:13:33 +0000

All this talk of tea got me thinking: if office desks were kitted out with chamber-pots, would this argument translate to toilet breaks? “I’m just off to the loo… anybody?”
Surely, the efficiency argument would still apply? Perhaps, the coercive-collectivist just hasn’t made the necessary leap of imagination yet.

By: Andy Hinton

Andy Hinton — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:38:29 +0000

I sympathise with you instinctively, Charlotte. Might I suggest my own solution: get yourself an office of which you (and Radio 4) are the only occupant, and do what you like.

By: Jock

Jock — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:07:02 +0000

Toynbee? They couldn’t afford her! Howevre I do think there is clearly a job for Trevor Phillips in getting the racism out of work-day beverage abuse.

By: Rob101

Rob101 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:24:20 +0000

Bernard:

“Of course, the Green Party response to all this would be that you shouldn’t be using all that power to boil kettles anyway and should be drinking cold water instead.”

Plus all of the “food miles” in shipping the tea and coffee here from South America/India. You should be drinking cold English nettle tea.

By: Rob101

Rob101 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:20:38 +0000

There is clearly deep inequality in beverage enjoyment there. Some greedily drink a cup every hour, others more sparingly have one a day and feel guilty even about that.

You need an Independent Beverage Authority. Budget of £50m, offices on the north bank of the Thames. Each beverage drinker has to fill in a questionnaire about their beverage drinking habits. The IBA dispenses beverages on a schedule determined by Polly Toynbee as the most egalitarian possible way.

Sadly because of mission creep and paranoia the IBA blacklists everyone from drinking beverages and you are driven from your home by a howling anti-beverage mob after an IBA employee leaked your details.

By: Gav

Gav — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:11:03 +0000

I couldn’t be doing with having to wait for whoever’s round it is before getting a cup of tea, I need at least 10 cups a day!

Why can’t people just get their own tea when they want one, and announce that they are making a cup and ask “does anyone else want one?”. That way, only the people that actually want tea end up with a cup, and they don’t have to wait around because it’s the turn of someone that has one a day.

That would meet demand perfectly and people wouldn’t be going backwards and forwards to make one cup for themselves each time.

It might turn out that people that drink more tea end up making it more often for others, but as long as you’re on an hourly wage then it doesn’t matter to you – you’d only be stuck in front of a computer or phone otherwise.

People that like tea get to skive off while still having a more efficient system – everyone wins. Unless I’m missing something.

By: Henry North London

Henry North London — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:39:06 +0000

Whats the Libertarian party position?

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never make tea for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to make tea for mine.

With apologies to Ayn Rand