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    3 months ago

    See - he’d be a disaster for international diplomacy, because this is guaranteed to make Englishmen tut or even shake their heads slightly.

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      My Australian friend thought I was a complete barbarian for heating water for tea on the stove in a pot

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        That at least has the weight of tradition behind it.

        Wait, you do mean a stove kettle, don’t you? You don’t mean just a normal vegetables pot? You can’t mean that, surely?