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Cost of a cuppa set to rocket

Chris

question 

IT Angle

eummm What's the it angle? Apart from that it ppl also need tea breaks

voshkin

We, The IT 

IT Angle

We, the IT people drink coffe. at least, during the daytime.

So What's the IT angle?

Anonymous Coward

tea? 

Flame

..and the IT infrastructure that the tea depeneds on.... wait.... what's this story about again?

graeme leggett

cost of a cuppa 

Coat

raw ingredients (tesco prices)

3 teaspoons sugar, about 1 pence

1 pg tips teabag, about tuppence

splash of milk, about halfpennyworth

boiling water, not that much

So even a 100% hike wouldn't actually affect underlying costs.

ingie

reading lessons 

IT Angle

reg hacks need to swot up on the difference between "IT" and "High Tea"

Charlie Clark

Something must be done! 

Flame

Don't give a shit about the price of oil and petrol. But a cuppa is every man's right. The government should introduce a "windfall" tax on Brooke Bond, et al. and cut their bonuses. I bet MPs get an increase in their expenses to cover the dramatic rise but what about the man in the street?

Sarah Bee

Re: question 

(Written by Reg staff)

I don't know. What's the IT angle of your face?

Toastan Buttar

IT angle ? 

IT Angle

Never heard of the Lyons Electronic Office ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)

Besides, I may have to cut down my usage of my Infinite Improbability Drive if the cost of a nice hot cup of tea goes up much more.

Henry

Who cares about the IT angle?? 

Unhappy

... this is serious business. As such it should be reported in ALL British publications from the Beekeeper's Almanac to the Cottager's Daily...

Anonymous Coward

Re: question 

IT Angle

By Sarah Bee

I don't know. What's the IT angle of your face?

Please don't ask Professor Kevin Warwick that question!

alan

re sarah 

Happy

touché

Made me laugh :)

Jeff Power

Yes, but... 

Coat

Okay, we got the price in Kenya, the drought situation and production reduction in India - but what we really want to know is, what's the price of tea in China?

weirdcult

@Sarah Bee 

Coat

please see piece on "luteal phase". Or maybe you already have?

Jason

@ Sarah 

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I'm sure we can arrange an IT angle on his face with a few 4U servers I have knocking around....

Sarah Bee

Re: @Sarah Bee 

(Written by Reg staff)

I don't need hormones to make me angry. I just need hundreds and hundreds of commentards like you. You're like living, breathing, belching, prattling, sniggering internet hormones who struggle to come up with original ideas.

Psymon

@sarah bee 

Coat

Thanks for that!

I laughed so hard a little wee came out!

mines the one with the curious stains in the pocket

Wize

@voshkin 

Coat

"We, the IT people drink coffe."

Less of the 'we'

I'm the IT guy in my office and I can't stand coffee.

Mine's the one with the flask of tea in the pocket.

Anonymous Coward

Re: Re: @Sarah Bee 

Flame

Don't worry Sarah - he's only showing off because he learned things about women's bodies from that show on channel 4 last night.

Most of those hormonal teens were far more experienced and mature than weirdcult can ever hope to be - he probably lives in his mum's box room and has a circle of stiff socks around his workstation.

Yorkshirepudding

@ sarab bee's comments 

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haha snap she's got you owned fellas

Will

I Tea 

Stop

Everyone knows computers are run by brownian motion devices at their core, such as a nice cup of tea. CPU prices will soar.

Anonymous Coward

@Sarah Bee2 

Well why don't YOU come up with an original relevant article idea, then we won't complain!

Tom

So we will need a subsitute* 

Happy

It would of course be... almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

*a product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

Coalescence

Ban the sugar lover 

Sugar in tea is just plain wrong.

Yorkshire Tea all the way

Simon Rowsby

Oh for fucks sake. 

First the Scottish government decide I'm not paying enough for my lager, and now this. I might as well just stock the cellar full of bottled water and tins, then come out when everything is better again.

Irk

IT angle 

Stop

What's the IT angle? *I* need *TEA*. Isn't that enough?

Anonymous Coward

Lovely tea 

Just had 3Kg of loose-leaf Welsh Brew delivered to the house- cost us about a tenner. Me & the Mrs love tea. Once that supply runs out (in about a month, maybe), then we'll be seriously concerned about a doubling of the wholesale price. Mind you, if we stopped snorting it off the naked derrieres of the local rugby team's hookers and started boiling it, maybe that would help..?