tea is actually an integral part of british culture even though it isn't british, strictly speaking. we're british we just steal stuff and claim ownership it's been in our blood since forever
i'm not even sure if it's a british thing, it might just be an english thing
i'm kind of uneducated on british culture okay we don't have much that's actually ours but that is beside the point ok shh
anyway the funny thing is, everyone thinks that the national love for tea is just a stereotype, and it's really not
a good way to show your anger at someone is, if they've made you a cup of tea as a peace-offering after an argument, you throw that cup of steaming forgiveness down the sink. no harsh words, violence or hostility is necessary. just a wasted cup of tea is enough to prove a point. (p.s. if you actually want the tea, don't let the temptation hold you back, just throw it away and make yourself a new cup, that proves your point even further)
you cannot have tea without biscuits if you don't have an appropriate reason. I can't even think of one right now. there probably isn't one. biscuits are an actual necessity.
the worst thing ever is probably the moment you're dunking a biscuit in your tea like the respectable law-abiding citizen you are and a big bit just breaks off and falls into the murky unreachable depths of your cup, then you send another biscuit in on a rescue mission and that breaks too. biscuits may be necessary, but they're also risky, so watch out. you don't want your cuppa to ruin your day.
the undeniably incredibly british thing to do during an emergency is make a cup of tea. tea fixes everything. well, not really, but we like to believe it does. (also during tv breaks, everyone gets up to whack the kettle on. the national grid even has to up the power input across the nation for it. it's called tv pickup.)
i don't know about the rest of you, but something that really annoys me is when you have friends or family round, and you offer to make the tea, and there's always that one interfering person who says "it's okay, i'll do it." excuse me, but you will bloody not. i just offered to make the tea, and i will continue to do so magnificently. you, however, will do a shoddy job of it.
there's also the major problem of buying teabags that, no matter how long you brew them for, never seem to make strong tea. they're just crap. then you're just sat there drinking a mug of what tastes like milk-infused, warmed dishwater. unappealing is an understatement. it's just wrong.
i can't believe i just wrote a whole post on the prominence of tea but whatever