[OFB Cafe] Climatology vs. Climatism

[Derek Broughton]

On July 25, 2008 06:49:58 saki wrote:

> Field Marshall the Earl Wavell (in "Other Men's Flowers" attributes the
> decline of Britain's Empire and fortune from "the time Englishmen
> stopped drinking beer for breakfast and started drinking tea".

I'm not sure how this came to be under Climate rather than the beer thread, 
but I'll just say I've been known to be a two-fisted drinker - with a tea in 
one hand and a beer in the other.  Tea is a necessity of life; beer is a 
pleasure.
-- 
derek