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**Kilkrazy**

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26123944

... tea crops the world over are facing multiple threats ...

**Daba**

This is the greatest threat to the nation.

**KingCracker**

If ever there were a time for her enemies to strike........ nows that time

**Redbeard**

The last time tea was threatened, didn't we go to war to force the Chinese to be opium addicts?

**Tibbsy**

Ready the Navy!

We must re-conquer the tea producing nations of the world to secure this most valuable of resources!

Also - We can't let those darned colonies throw any away this time!

**Mr. Burning**

Redbeard - If the price of tea skyrockets I think I will be resorting to a nice pipe of opium in the morning.

**iproxtaco**

Send a telegram to the Raj at once.

**Hivefleet Oblivion**

Kilkrazy wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26123944

... tea crops the world over are facing multiple threats ...

I've had it with this blinkin' middle class inflation (this is Hivefleet Sr here, the one who pays the bills).

Prices for coffee have doubled over the last five years.

The price of a nice, basic bottle of Muscadet has increased by 50% over the last five years.

Olive oil has doubled in price (and lots of sneaky people are shoving dodgy stuff in there.

And now cups of tea are under threat? What (apart from cheese) is there left to live for?

**Mr. Burning**

Hivefleet Oblivion wrote:
Kilkrazy wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26123944

... tea crops the world over are facing multiple threats ...

I've had it with this blinkin' middle class inflation (this is Hivefleet Sr here, the one who pays the bills).

Prices for coffee have doubled over the last five years.

The price of a nice, basic bottle of Muscadet has increased by 50% over the last five years.

Olive oil has doubled in price (and lots of sneaky people are shoving dodgy stuff in there.

And now cups of tea are under threat? What (apart from cheese) is there left to live for?

swingers parties with your chums from down the tennis club?

**Soladrin**

You can have my tea but you will never have my cheese!

**Paradigm**

NOOOOO! Without tea, I am... nothing... powerless... I cannot function!

To quote Winston Churchill, 'Continuous tea- not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.'

(ok, he may have said 'effort', not tea, but the two are interchangeable in my experience)

**curran12**

iproxtaco wrote:
Send a telegram to the Raj at once.

This is the Raj.

What up?

**ZoeDaze**

Sweet mother of god. Get the nukes. Actually get everything

**Avatar 720**

This is nothing short of a calamitea.

The price for inaction here will be steep, and we must leaf to find a solution at once. Dark forces are stirring, and trouble brews; we cannot afford to be weak. Be strong, my friends. Be strong.

**djones520**

I'll pour one out for my brothers across the sea. You have my sympathy in your trying times ahead.

**Corpsesarefun**

Flooding, huge storms and now no tea?! This is surely the end of days.

**ZoeDaze**

Someone get me a rope

**purplefood**

Well what's the point of it all now...

**daedalus**

Avatar 720 wrote:
This is nothing short of a calamitea.

The price for inaction here will be steep, and we must leaf to find a solution at once. Dark forces are stirring, and trouble brews; we cannot afford to be weak. Be strong, my friends. Be strong.

You've percolated my interest.

( yeah, that's the best I got :( )

**Grey Templar**

So what do Brits actually drink if there isn't Tea?

Is the whole country going to die of thirst or will they turn to, heaven forbid, Coffee!

Anyway, I think I better dump my Crumpet stock before it takes the massive hit.

**daedalus**

Warm lager, I suspect.

**djones520**

daedalus wrote:
Warm lager, I suspect.

Such a backwards land...

**Corpsesarefun**

It's ale! Lager is for the weak.

**daedalus**

Right, right, sorry. Warm ale.

**Ninjacommando**

KingCracker wrote:If ever there were a time for her enemies to strike........ nows that time

Tibbsy wrote:Ready the Navy!

We must re-conquer the tea producing nations of the world to secure this most valuable of resources!

Also - We can't let those darned colonies throw any away this time!

Avatar 720 wrote:This is nothing short of a calamitea.

The price for inaction here will be steep, and we must leaf to find a solution at once. Dark forces are stirring, and trouble brews; we cannot afford to be weak. Be strong, my friends. Be strong.

hmmmm

GO Britain take your rightful place in the universe!

**purplefood**

Grey Templar wrote:
So what do Brits actually drink if there isn't Tea?

Vodka.

**daedalus**

I thought you just absorbed that through your eyeballs.

**Corpsesarefun**

That's something unique to Purps, Kevin and Perry.

**purplefood**

daedalus wrote:
I thought you just absorbed that through your eyeballs.

Eyeballs are for tequila...

**Godeth**

Kilkrazy wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26123944

... tea crops the world over are facing multiple threats ...

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!