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14 Apr 2006, 2:15 pm
Tequila wrote:
TigerFire wrote:
I don't think I have any tea to go with my lunch if that's what you mean. I actually don't have a tea time. I just have lunch usually either at 1pm or at 2pm.
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As well as referring to the beverage, Tea is the afternoon/evening meal, called that even if the diners are drinking beer, cider, or juice. It traditionally takes place at sometime around 6pm (though these days, it often takes place as late as 9pm).
Throughout the UK (especially in working class areas), New Zealand, and sometimes in Australia, tea as a meal is synonymous with dinner in Standard English. Under such usage, the midday meal is sometimes termed dinner, rather than lunch. The prominence of this usage in Australia and New Zealand is almost certainly due to the influence of Scottish people for whom dinner is a meal eaten at midday and tea is the evening meal, the proportion of Scottish settlers being much greater in New Zealand than in Australia. Note that in modern New Zealand, the midday meal is still termed lunch. Hence Australians and New Zealanders commonly describe the three main meals as breakfast, lunch and tea.
Throughout the UK (especially in working class areas), New Zealand, and sometimes in Australia, tea as a meal is synonymous with dinner in Standard English. Under such usage, the midday meal is sometimes termed dinner, rather than lunch. The prominence of this usage in Australia and New Zealand is almost certainly due to the influence of Scottish people for whom dinner is a meal eaten at midday and tea is the evening meal, the proportion of Scottish settlers being much greater in New Zealand than in Australia. Note that in modern New Zealand, the midday meal is still termed lunch. Hence Australians and New Zealanders commonly describe the three main meals as breakfast, lunch and tea.
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The person below me is hungry for some food?
Tea should be ready in about an hour or so.
The next person will be drinking fruit juice.
I had a carbonated orange flavored water for lunch if that counts.
The person below me is not at all amazed like I am about how long this thread is that's my prediction.
14 Apr 2006, 3:22 pm
TigerFire wrote:
The person below me is not at all amazed like I am about how long this thread is that's my prediction.
Not at all, not at all.
The next person will be having a right good rummage round in their nostril.
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14 Apr 2006, 5:35 pm
14 Apr 2006, 9:57 pm
14 Apr 2006, 10:32 pm
15 Apr 2006, 5:44 am
15 Apr 2006, 5:45 am
Tequila wrote:
(sighs)
OK, what's the animal in your avatar Tiktallik?
OK, what's the animal in your avatar Tiktallik?
This
And I think inanity is the point of this.
The next person will have voted in the last 3 months.
15 Apr 2006, 11:58 am
15 Apr 2006, 6:36 pm
15 Apr 2006, 7:55 pm
15 Apr 2006, 9:53 pm
should eat lots of lion? or lamb?
The next person should be doing there homework but instead they are going to respond to me!
15 Apr 2006, 10:27 pm
15 Apr 2006, 10:58 pm
Close...I will go outside tomorrow and smell the Hyacinth!
The next person will be in a striped nightshirt and no slippers drinking hot cocoa and listening to Black Sabbath. ( 
what a weird combination, but I just had this "vision"!)
16 Apr 2006, 12:35 am
No I'm wearing an olive green sweater.
The next person will be dreading something
16 Apr 2006, 5:18 am
16 Apr 2006, 5:23 am
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