The silver lining.

[leahbobet]

And springing from the previous post like a daisy:

coffeeem: "I think it's time we asked the really important question here:

"Tea bags? Are Americans really so fixated on convenience, so limited in their tastes, that they no longer consume loose tea?

"Or are they afraid the very concept of "looseness" will be too much for impressionable, weak-minded citizens to resist?"

cristalia: "I now want a Loose Tea for Loose Women icon.

"Full of sexy, sexy darjeeling."

---

I don't have working Photoshop. But I will pay a hefty bounty for this icon.

In blood.

(Or maybe chocolate.)

Comments

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

Awww. Upton has a very nice image of loose Darjeeling, but I haven't been able to get a design incorporating the text that I like. (I hoped they'd have a shot of one of their nice metal tins with a label, but noooooooo.)

I'm sure one of us will, though!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I am rather liking this (http://www.the-color-of-tea.com/images/loose-tea-pic.gif).

But it is a little surprising how many unhot pictures of tea there are on the internet.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Ooh nice. Inna bowl, no less.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

This reminds me that I do actually possess a tea bowl or two and should probably use them more.

Usually I'm using the mug THIS BIG.

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

There is some sex in that one.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

That is my kind of tea.

Indeed, that is how I drink tea, by and large.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I usually make it by the pot and just work downwards... :)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

La.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that one's ladylike!

I will soon have tea-and-promiscuity icons for all occasions. :D

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Ooo, pretty! I like that font...

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

This one is jasmine pearls. Are they more or less loose than Darjeeling?

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I think by being pearls they are fantasy-novel dirty, and thus win.

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

Heeee heeheehee! (Or maybe what I mean to say is, "Teh seks is strong in this one!")

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Hee! Here you go, assuming I uploaded everything properly:



If you like them, help yourself (pass along, free for whatever, etc)

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

!!!

*STEALS* *...with credit*

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

Those are awesome, and I've swiped them all. ^^

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...you are wonderful and I love you.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

:) Always happy to pshop for a good cause...

[um, the cause in this case being praising looseness, not praising right-wing tea parties]

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

And, of course, praising tea. *g*

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

(You will notice the tea in this icon is loose. But subtly so; just a glimpse.)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

It's the tea equivalent of showing ankle.

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

Stolen, with a note as to source, but hoarded away for now.

It's funny how almost the only reason I ever contemplate a paid account - aside from lack of ads, though I started before they were applied to all freebies - is so i can have enough icons to suit my various moods.

[haruhiko.livejournal.com]

I despise, DESPISE tea bags. I always prefer to keep it loose whenever possible. XD

Teabagging is fine though. *flees*

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...that icon is so multi-thematic to this post that I can only bow in awe. :D

[haruhiko.livejournal.com]

Yes, bow to my icon! Worship it! XD Gay German boys FTW!

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

Thanks - you just reminded me to run off and hunt for a beloved loose tea that's hard to find (As far as I can tell, available only at a half-thrift department store, none of the real tea places have it).

As it happens, there are a number of bagged teas I rather like (Well, I can be made happy with almost any un-Lipton English Breakfast, and Red Rose is a good catchall tea for a crowd of varied tastes), and oddly, it's the bagged teas, not the loose ones, which have forced me to formulate the theory that the more annoyingly pretentious the packaging, the better the tea within.

But my favourites seem lately to come loose-only.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

the more annoyingly pretentious the packaging, the better the tea within.

This is true. I have some ball jasmine from Harney's that's in silk teabags. Silk. I have to use silk teabags in my tea and throw them out and stuff.

It's incredible tea.

[strayfish.livejournal.com]

loose = bad

but

teabagging = okay?

Silly Americans.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Well, then the tea isn't loose so it's all okay? :D

[strayfish.livejournal.com]

Ah - so monogamous, consensual teabagging is okay. But flashing your teabags all over the place, giving them away to whomever is around - not okay.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Ahem.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...that is fabulous. :)