Actual things you actually said (or heard) in the last 24 hours

I like neither coffee nor tea, so it’s just soda for my caffeine intake.

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I do like my cup of milky coffee in the morning. But whenever I’ve tasted coffee without milk, it’s disgusting. So I think what I actually like is coffee-flavoured milk.

Tea-flavoured milk, however, tastes horrid.

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Marmalade merits a hard stare.

If any of us were to run out of digestive biscuits (not that any of us would), the government would send round the emergency digestive supply lorry to see us right.

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As in Queen Elizabeth II? She loved tea so much she used to take a kettle with her everywhere she went, as well as a supply of her own teabags

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“Your glasses are on the top of your head. Those are my glasses.”

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I took a tiny teapot with me on my trip to Europe last year, purchased various loose leaf teas in different countries during the trip, and considered it the very best item in my luggage.

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This is not consistent with what I heard, but I doubt it matters now.

Quote from today:

“Could this be an allergy to the absence of a cat?”

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No, you’re right, it doesn’t! But I can’t find a single source suggesting she didn’t. She was well known for liking Earl Grey

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Is that in the same way that the first queen Elizabeth was well known for liking the Earl of Leicester?

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I googled to remind myself who that was (Robert Dudley, should’ve guessed) and was served with an auto-generated ad from Amazon offering to sell me “low priced earls of leicester” :thinking:

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(Hans Kammler)
“He made a career for a few months out of being the calm guy who says that problems can be solved.”
“Until that becomes provably false, it’s a pretty good gig.”

(Why we can’t warn the Antarctic expedition we’re on the way)
“We’re going to drop you a one-time pad by penguin. No, no particular reason.”

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“I don’t really want to do it, but I would love to send the telegram. DUKE OF WINDSOR EATEN IN GAMBIAN ZOMBIE OUTBREAK. RETURNING REMAINS FOR BURIAL.”

“OK, so you’re going to distract them by feeding them alcoholic beverages.”
“And cigarettes.”

“Step away from the unexploded religious landscape.”

“We are determined not to play this like a Call of Cthulhu party.”

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Additions:

“We have someone to succumb to temptation for us.”

“What we need to do is put a hole in their gin bowser.”

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You - you - you - monsters!

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To quote a play I was once in:

“Underneath their clothes, everbody is naked.”

Oh, wait… Scrolling back up through the thread tells me this point has been covered.

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A wise precaution and one I follow when travelling in Forn Parts. Especially in America where they are convinced they know how to make tea and Are Wrong.

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“I’m sorry. We will inform our warehouse, which is full of the best people minimum wage can buy.”

“At our restaurant, we serve food off the floor. To advertise how clean we keep the joint.”

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Hot Water On Leaf. Is there more to it?

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Boiling water. Mr. Baker covered it in some depth: Masters of Reality: T.U.S.A.

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