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> 2. Tea, and teapots, originate in China. Coffee, incidentally, has African and Islamic origins. "I'm a little teapot" is a British nursery rhyme... are you b
by heywhatupboys 3y ago
> 2. Tea, and teapots, originate in China. Coffee, incidentally, has African and Islamic origins.
"I'm a little teapot" is a British nursery rhyme... are you being deliberately daft? Of course I am not referring to the origins of the plant
- Dalewyn 3y agoThat's actually American.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Little_Teapot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Little_Teapot
- heywhatupboys 3y ago[flagged]
- dragonwriter 3y agoYou did not specify—or even mention the term—“anglosphere” previously in this thread, actually.
- heywhatupboys 3y ago"2. reeks of anglo-centrism."
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- paulddraper 3y ago418 gives no details as to the size of the teapot.
- inopinatus 3y agoIn a sensational burst of further irony, that remark is the most parochially anglo-centric to be found in the entire subthread, for implying that knowledge of colonial nursery rhymes is some kind of fundamental prerequisite to participation; even more egregiously, it depends on misconstruing the technical document: if a pedagogical verse in respect of vessel morphology was normative for the RFC, it would be a) correctly quoted, and b) referenced in section 10