NEW Tokyo Afternoon Tea Club!

britishcult, what a wonderful idea. Will you allow some universal culture lover rather then just British culture lover? If you don't then I would like to belongs with the afternoon tea lover group-:) I drink tea all day long so some of them must be considered as afternoon timing. Too bad Tokyo is far from here. Please tell us more about your tea club. I might pop up some day if I can qualify any of your categories-:)

Ripon Maputo, Mozambique

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And, as Gandhiji suggested, they ought to try it. Or was that civilization? Well, it's clearly too late for that.

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It's too bad talk of tea has to be ruined by memories of the horrific actions of Britain in trying to obtain it. Pushing other nations toward halucenogenic addiction, starting wars, and enslaving entire populations do not make for very good tea banter in my opinion. The doings of a small group of island thugs resulted in the communist revolution in China, slavery and complete cultural destruction in Africa and Asia; not to mention the closing of Japanese harbors for several hundred years due to infighting between European factions - only to be followed by entry into World War II when a naval oil embargo was illegally placed upon Japan by the same small island nation. A dead empire clinging to its scones - that is a poetic sentiment. I would be happy to join you if you were a citizen of the world and not of Britain.

Rufus T. Firefly Tokyo

Are you sure you are not confusing Britain with Japan the little Japanese island who invaded the Philippines, China, and set about killing women and children.

Are we talking about the little island called Japan Who tried to create an empire who did medical experiments on Chinese people.

Don't try to teach other people morals because that little island called Japan doesn't have any..

Consider yourself very lucky that you got away with so many War crimes.

Mind you we could have written about the American genocide against the native American Indians or the carpet bombing of Vietnam.

Or we could have written about the cultural Revolution in China and the killing of innocent people.

Or we could have written about the Zulu nations genocide campaign killing women and children.

Or we could have written about India and its genocide campaign.

Now imagine that the British Empire, did not exist and instead it was a Japanese Empire how many native people would still exist if it was under Japanese rule or under American rule.

Now why does the Commonwealth still exist? If Britain is so bad then why do they all want to be in the Commonwealth.

And if the Japanese, are so decent and moral then why do all their neighbours despise them.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility, but when the blast of war blows in our ears then imitate the action of a tiger, stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard favour'd rage. On, on, you noble English whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof. Dishonour not your mothers, now attest that those whom you call'd fathers did beget you. And you good yeomen, whose limbs were made in England, now show us here the mettle of your pasture... I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The games afoot, follow your spirit, and upon this charge cry God for Harry, England and Saint George!

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in article snipped-for-privacy@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, Philip Davidson at snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote on 4/1/05 4:08 AM:

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I think he was talking about the First Opium War (1839-1842), where Britain fought for the right to continue exporting opium to China. Their previous illegally exported opium had resulted in widespread addiction that caused serious social and economic disruptions in China. In effect, they were fighting in the war on drugs, on the side of the drugs.

Every major nation has done bad things, and the Opium Wars should definitely be on the list of bad things that Britain did.

No I looked him up he is one of those people who travels around newsgroups trying to provoke people.

Opium was given to babies in Britain, to stop them from crying the drug addiction in Britain was out of control it was freely available in the shops for anybody the same as bread and butter. A certain English Queen was addicted to it.

Charles Dickens unfinished novel writes about opium addiction in Britain. Eventually they banned the selling of opium in British shops.

People who do not know their history should not try teaching it to others.

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Yup. Nationalism sucks. Religion sucks. Capitalism sucks. Your dopey posts suck. Sorry. I'm actually really enjoying them.

Michael Drinking of a YiWu tea of ashy-floral quality, and listening the Jerry Lee Lewis singing the songs of my ill-spent youth.

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I saw JLL at a caberet in Albuquerque in the early seventies. He had people dancing on the tables.

Jim

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Were they naked? Were there any virgins among them? We could be on to something here.

Michael

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This is true. BUT the latest panyong congou tea is excellent. It doesn't suck at all, although you can suck it.

--scott

This was a two hour dinner show starting at 6:30. By 7:30 the waiters were simply clearing the tables by hauling away the tablecloth with the contents. It was popular to dance on tabletops by the Hispanic women to Boogie music as they did to Mariachi. Not ever table but enough so each became it's own show. I can only guess what was happening at the midnight performance.

Jim

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