Sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoWhere's the tea?lemmus.orgimagemessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1340arrow-down17file-text
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minus-squaretarknassus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 days agoI feel old. Never heard of gossip being referred to as tea.
minus-squareVelypso@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-23 days 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-squareThis is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days 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.
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoWould being served a beverage at your aunt’s not also be a given, though?
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.
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.
Would being served a beverage at your aunt’s not also be a given, though?