Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Hidden Dangers: The 10 Side Effects of Green Tea
I get asked a fair few questions on Quora along the lines of: What are the side effects of Green Tea? To save wasting my valuable time, I’ve decided to offer one comprehensive answer to the question, and hopefully this means that all those people who apparently can ask questions on Quora but can’t actually…
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‘Tis the Season To Be Hinting
This is my fifth Christmas as a tea blogger, and I must say, I’ve done an awful lot of work on your behalf to make Christmas better. Over the years I’ve published bad Christmas Poetry time and time again, shared my long lost childhood letters to Father Christmas. My Steps To A Tea Spangled Christmas is of course a…
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Conflicted: BAGS for 170 points
A few days ago I was contacted by Brooks Peck. No, that’s not a tea company, it’s a guy. A guy who is a museum curator and who has co-written a Zombie film and a Yeti film for the Syfy channels. (That’s is gold in term of ‘street cred’ amongst most of my readers. I…
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Carry On, or rather, Continuez, avec du thé
. You’ll notice the blank area above this first line. That’s a moment’s silence for the victims of the terrible attacks in Paris in the last 24 hours. It’s three hours later than I normally write my blog, and it’s a struggle to write my usual semi-pointless, mildly aggressive half rant. Seems a…
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The Tea-minator
The guy had sunglasses on. A singlet. Shorts. A large takeaway beverage cup in his hand. He looked vaguely dangerous. Lady D was rearranging the stock, so it was down to me to offer him some tea samples. I didn’t. I waited for him to pass our stall. He didn’t. The takeaway cup turned out…
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Ceremony
Lady Devotea and I spent Saturday evening attending a wedding in Melbourne, an Australian city that is quite acceptable* despite us not living there. The wedding was of a childhood friend of mine, Stefan and his partner Julia. Stefan and I played together is several incarnations of a rock band from the time we were…
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Let’s Take Tea In The Parlour
The best place to take tea is often in your own parlour, with friends. Despite this, few modern homes have a parlour. And you have to ask why. Or not merely ask, but demand to know. There are rooms for cooking in, rooms for eating in, rooms for sleeping in, rooms for watching TV in.…
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Why Saying “I Don’t Like Tea” Makes You Seem A Bit Stupid
As I write this, I am seated at my desk and Jango.com is providing “We Are The Champions” for my listening pleasure- and indeed, what a pleasure it is. As Lady Devotea, both Devotea Juniors, and others who know my musical taste well – or at least as well as jango.com does – can attest, I really like…
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