I'm a brit living in America. At my office there's no kettle, but we have a hot water dispenser. Today it's broken. When I lamented I can't make a cup of tea, a colleague suggested I microwave the water. Trump is not the only thing that makes this place a hellscape.
@fesshole Honest question: why not? The tea won't care how the water got hot.
@virbonus @fesshole because you’re the one that must live with yourself afterwards ?
@kc
British people don't even like the taste of tea, by and large: they drown it in milk and sugar.
@virbonus @fesshole

@spacehobo @virbonus @fesshole we also enjoy boiling the colour out of vegetables, we’ve all got our quirks.

In more seriousness it’s more of a whole affair, generally you can diffuse a dispute between people by angrily and silently watching the kettle boil then being more chilled out by the time the tea is at a drinkable temperature before recommencing. Generally the monster sugar thing is what we call a builders tea