Sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoWhere's the tea?lemmus.orgimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1348arrow-down17file-text
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minus-squaretarknassus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoI feel old. Never heard of gossip being referred to as tea.
minus-squareVelypso@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-21 month agoIt’s a relatively old term in the south that is now being used in the mainstream. If your aunt told you she had tea for you, you were at rapt attention, cuz there was about to be some good fuckin shit.
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoWould being served a beverage at your aunt’s not also be a given, though?
minus-squareThis is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoWhenever I see ‘tea’ in this context, I imagine upper class women at their afternoon parties talking shit about women who are not there. Oh, men gossip too but for them it would be ‘smoke’. Yes, I am probably influenced by Mad Men.
I feel old. Never heard of gossip being referred to as tea.
It’s a relatively old term in the south that is now being used in the mainstream.
If your aunt told you she had tea for you, you were at rapt attention, cuz there was about to be some good fuckin shit.
Would being served a beverage at your aunt’s not also be a given, though?
Whenever I see ‘tea’ in this context, I imagine upper class women at their afternoon parties talking shit about women who are not there.
Oh, men gossip too but for them it would be ‘smoke’.
Yes, I am probably influenced by Mad Men.