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And you never learn to swear like you mean it until you try fixing said car.
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1. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
and, while stumbling about dizzily, an Occident waiting to happen?
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Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
And, conversely, do Nescafe employees take tea breaks?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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take tea breaks?
NOBODY takes tea breaks...
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NOBODY takes tea breaks...Uh-huh. There's that "if it ain't used in the US, it don't exist" attitude again. Well done, Kaintuck! 
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I thought Pommy's and the rest of you lot took "elevenes" -- unless you had stopped for the day, and went home had your tea. american take coffee breaks, (during which we might or migh not drink coffee) and you guys take elevenes at which you might or might not drink tea. but you don't take tea breaks.
Tea, when you take it, and how, is determined by class. Tea means very different things to different people. In US, Tea is a 2pm to 4pm womens social.
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Uh-huh. There's that "if it ain't used in the US, it don't exist" attitude again. Well done, Kaintuck! Uh huh, right. Well, people may take breaks, and they may drink tea during those breaks, but nobody in all the world ever takes a "tea break". So, hah! 
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People in offices have a tea break in the morning and another one in the afternoon. Elevensies, to me, is what you actually consume during the morning one, maybe some biscuits (preferably chocolate digestives) and a cup of tea or coffee, rather than the break itself.
To me, tea is a light meal for children when they get home from school in the afternoon.
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Every factory in the UK is structured around tea breaks. It's a national fetish - just kaint leave it alone.
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To me, tea is a light meal for children when they get home from school in the afternoon.
and high tea is a heavyish meal in lieu of a supper, usually when people do not cook because they are too busy watching a coronation or a royal wedding on the telly
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