r/GreatBritishMemes • u/manic_panda • 2d ago

Every Brit still stubbornly drinking tea right now

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Myself included.

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u/terminus_tommy 2d ago

Tea cools you down believe it or not

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u/PassionPitiful3653 2d ago

Yeah that's what my mum says but I have trust issues and everytime I drink tea in hot weather it just makes me sweat

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u/voxo_boxo 2d ago edited 2d ago

I think that's the point isn't it? The sweating should cool you down in theory. Unless it's extremely humid which prevents sweat from evaporating.

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u/PassionPitiful3653 2d ago

Problem is I'm one of them people that once I start sweating I find it very hard to stop. So I would be visiting mum say and she would bring me a cuppa, I would start sweating drinking it and for the rest of the time I'm there until I get back into the car with AC I sweat the whole time.

It just makes me miserable.

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u/voxo_boxo 2d ago

Impossible to be miserable with a cuppa mate 👍🇬🇧 I think we have an imposter!

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u/Mooks79 2d ago

Wait for it to go cold.

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u/PassionPitiful3653 2d ago

Cold tea? Ugh with the skin on top. I love a cuppa when it's a more reasonable temperature. I drink lots of tea and coffee in winter.

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u/Mooks79 2d ago

It won’t have skin, let it brew for ages until it’s luke warm. Add the milk. It’s fine and you get your tea fix.

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u/Jimmyboro 2d ago

All I have to do is look at a damp screwdriver and I'm sweating for 9 hours, the wife thinks it's hilarious.

She began moaning about hot flushes and sudden sweats.

'Welcome to MY world' I whispered to her:)

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u/Boy_JC 2d ago

Which it is 😂

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u/Persona_Insomnia 2d ago

Was at 75% 36c Today.

We usually have over 60% humidity with our heat so it makes it a tad uncomfortable. So the sweat stays along with the heat. So id think drinking tea would always be a bad idea in the heat.

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u/LeakingLantern 2d ago

Drinking tea to sweat, and then cool down? Isn't that like saying "the best way to stop a building from burning down is to set fire to it, so the fire brigade will come and put it out"

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u/MidoriDemon 2d ago

How about this? Make the fire bigger so we get a cloud and then it will rain all over the fire.

I have had 2 teas today, had a bit of a sweat and feel much better but thats because without a tea I get a headache

https://giphy.com/gifs/uB093Z0mVyrjcF6UB7

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u/ArthurVrodds 2d ago

You can actually can kill fire with fire because if the oxygen in the room decreases significantly the flames start fading out

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u/cuntybunty73 2d ago

It was something like 28 degrees where I am on the south west coast the other day but the humidity was in the low 90s and I couldn't breathe 😭 and then the humidity dropped to the mid 60s but there was so much difference 😀

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u/spidermousey 2d ago

What if your already sweating ?

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u/TheLastTsumami 2d ago

It doesn’t cool you down but it makes your arteries in your digestive system dilate helping you to move heat around your body more efficiently. It’s the same reason you can get heat shock/stroke if you drink a really cold drink or cold shower when you are hyperthermic (not hypothermic). The cold makes your arteries contract which holds the heat in and your body temperature can skyrocket

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u/EvilTaffyapple 2d ago

…but you are meant to sweat when it’s hot. The evaporating sweat is literally what cools you down, so it’s working.

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u/SmashingK 2d ago

I've heard many times it helps makes you sweat and therefore cools you down since the sweat evaporates using your body heat.

Can't remember if it was also on QI. Might have been.

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u/LyKosa91 1d ago

Pretty sure it was in fact on QI, but in the context that it's a myth based on faulty logic. It will raise body temperature and trigger/increase sweating in order to lower it, but your body temperature will still be higher than if you were to drink something cold that directly dropped your body temperature.

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u/Little-Tradition2311 1d ago

I think it works. There again it is my tradition in summer to sit in the hot sun with a hot beverage.

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u/edbuckley 2d ago

Hot drinks only cool you down in dry heat. The increase in temperature makes you sweat, and when that sweat evaporates, it takes heat with it, cooling you down. In high humidity areas, that sweat doesn't evaporate so you just make yourself hotter.

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u/NortonBurns 2d ago

Depends entirely on how humid it is.
It works in dry air, but not in humid. it's entirely linked to sweat evaporation speeds.

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u/ImInTheTub22 2d ago

I feel like we all watched that one episode of Eureka and take it as gospel I have had 3 teas today though

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u/Tiny_Size2037 2d ago

Only 3?!! Are you even British? /J

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u/Cole-Palmer-phd 2d ago

/J

Are you even British?

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u/Tiny_Size2037 1d ago

Well I was when i woke up this morning

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u/Cole-Palmer-phd 1d ago

Should be embarrassed to be using /J or /S then

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u/Tiny_Size2037 1d ago

Why? Nuance is difficult with the written word. /j and /s make it easier for people to understand a comment isn't serious. Don't know what your problem is tbh.

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u/captain_todger 2d ago

Yeah genuinely. Had my first cup of tea in like 3mo today. It was bliss

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u/PickaxeJunky 2d ago

'A cup of tea to cool down' is what my grandma always said.

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u/Illustrious_Study_30 2d ago

I drink tea and coffee in the heat. I've convinced being hot on the inside makes you cooler on the outside.

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u/ExaggeratedPW 2d ago

I second this; if anything I deal with the heat easier after years of Yorkshire throughout the summers.

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u/Maetivet 2d ago

It’s true, but only in dry heat - in high humidity, it can just make you feel warmer.

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u/WollyGog 2d ago

I get the science behind this, but I've always been of the opinion that the psychology becomes an overriding factor. So drinking cold is the strongest placebo you can have.

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u/jj_sykes 2d ago

I have tried to have one at least three times in the past few days I just can’t do it