[LBraden]

Yeah, that's because of one MAJOR reason--

The British Army marches on its spent tea-bags, not its stomach.

Seriously, I got addicted to tea because of my father, I can easily use up 80 teabags (2 bags in a 2 litre (4 pint) teapot) in about 2-3 weeks, depending how much free time I have, which is a lot now I am out of a job.

Other funny story that I have from my father, also happened in Northern Ireland.

One day while my father was helping the REME rewire one of the "police stations" (more like armoured citadel), my father went to give a cup of tea to the guy in the raised turret that gives the commanding view of the area (like on old castles), my dad left his cup of tea on a window sill and climbed up, just as he reached the top, an explosion pushed him up a bit, spilling a hot cup of tea, well....

The explosion was attributed to a SAM launched by some pissed off Irishmen, and had hit the window my father left his cup of tea in, the downside, was that it took 6 months to get a replacement cup from the QM Sgt, as no one would believe "Cup destroyed acting as decoy to shoulder launched SAM missile"