The biggest crime committed by the Boston Tea Party wasn’t the destruction of property; it was the fact that they brewed a horrible batch of tea. Salt water, hardly any heat, and nowhere near a high enough tea:water ratio.
Bet my wife and I could impress you. 😉 We are meticulous about our tea brewing from water temperature to time of brewing and even what kind of cup it is served in. 🙂
Not sure if Bug Martini has rich text, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a site that used [] syntax. I’ve always used that as a stand-in when I want to explain the markup without actually triggering it.
Why are the bugs in panels 3 & 4 Indian/Native American stereotypes, of all thing…?
The Boston tea party was rather famously American colonists rebelling against Britain, not Native Americans against their colonizers. And if it’s supposed to be a rather in a cap, then why are they headbands instead of hats?
This is a weird look that’s not super racially sensitive…
Tesset, I was under the impression that all students of American History were taught that the protesters in the Boston Tea Party dressed up as Native Americans. (To be fair, I can’t tell if you’re American, so there’s no way to know if you would have been taught that.)
“In an effort to hide their true identities, [the colonists] attempted to pass themselves off as Mohawk Indians because if caught for their actions they would have faced severe punishment. … The disguise was mostly symbolic in nature; they knew they would be recognized as non-Indians. The act of wearing “Indian dress” was to express to the world that the American colonists identified themselves as “Americans” and no longer considered themselves British subjects.”
Of course, you can always make the argument that what the colonists did wasn’t racially sensitive, but you can’t blame Adam for that. (Adam may say he’s old, but I’m sure he’s not THAT old!)
I’m pretty sure the term “tea party” is exclusive to children who see any gathering of friends as a party. Among adults, it’s simply “having tea”.
And the “Boston Tea Party” was using “party” in the “group of warriors” sense.
The biggest crime committed by the Boston Tea Party wasn’t the destruction of property; it was the fact that they brewed a horrible batch of tea. Salt water, hardly any heat, and nowhere near a high enough tea:water ratio.
Not to mention that fish pooed in it.
Which brings up the point that there was fish in the tea.
And since then all tea served in the US tastes like it came out of Boston harbour (at least to this originally English guy).
Bet my wife and I could impress you. 😉 We are meticulous about our tea brewing from water temperature to time of brewing and even what kind of cup it is served in. 🙂
Once again, the second panel made me laugh out loud.
(Those second panels are golden!)
I’m going to try to work “hootenanny” into a sentence today.
Hire an owl to watch your children, and you can use that word every day.
Also the phrase, “owl pair”.
Well this proves that you’re clearly not British.
[i]Crap[/i] on tea… Brown water… Thanks for the mental image.
…and I apparently got it wrong which syntax to use for italics.
Not sure if Bug Martini has rich text, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a site that used [] syntax. I’ve always used that as a stand-in when I want to explain the markup without actually triggering it.
Why are the bugs in panels 3 & 4 Indian/Native American stereotypes, of all thing…?
The Boston tea party was rather famously American colonists rebelling against Britain, not Native Americans against their colonizers. And if it’s supposed to be a rather in a cap, then why are they headbands instead of hats?
This is a weird look that’s not super racially sensitive…
Many of the Americans who threw tea into the Boston Harbor dressed up like Native Americans.
Tesset, I was under the impression that all students of American History were taught that the protesters in the Boston Tea Party dressed up as Native Americans. (To be fair, I can’t tell if you’re American, so there’s no way to know if you would have been taught that.)
According to https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/boston-tea-party-disguise :
“In an effort to hide their true identities, [the colonists] attempted to pass themselves off as Mohawk Indians because if caught for their actions they would have faced severe punishment. … The disguise was mostly symbolic in nature; they knew they would be recognized as non-Indians. The act of wearing “Indian dress” was to express to the world that the American colonists identified themselves as “Americans” and no longer considered themselves British subjects.”
Of course, you can always make the argument that what the colonists did wasn’t racially sensitive, but you can’t blame Adam for that. (Adam may say he’s old, but I’m sure he’s not THAT old!)