Our submitter in London snapped a photo of this note in the kitchen of the PR agency where she works. Exactly what you’d expect to find at office full of “communication professionals,” no?
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168 responses so far ↓
#1
erik
actually, that is pretty funny.
Sep 10, 2008 at 6:24 am rating: 90
#2
gwennie
Those evil person(s) probably also cause unrest by putting olive oil with the EVOO…
If tea is their sole complaint, they most likely don’t have a microwave.
Sep 10, 2008 at 6:25 am rating: 90
#3
Wade
I can understand their concern. The last time tea caused unrest didn’t turn out so well for the British.
Sep 10, 2008 at 6:36 am rating: 90
#4
anglophile
The careful use of the (s) leads me to wonder if the note writer envisioned a network of tea-corrupters intent on destroying the purity of tea everywhere. Who knows what the next step will be? Chai mixed up with the Earl Grey? Chamomile in with the Russian Caravan? Black Currant polluting the Lapsang Souchong? The mind recoils from such horror.
Sep 10, 2008 at 6:53 am rating: 90
#5
Holiday Djinn
Wow, Unrest eh?
When I hear unrest I think police action beatings, crowds going unruly, riot police, smoke grenades, firetruck hoses going full blast, aging regimes trying to keep power through force.
You know, a typical Saturday night at Mishee’s!
Sep 10, 2008 at 6:54 am rating: 90
#6 passive-aggressive fame «
[...] September, 2008 by blue soup Passive-Aggressive notes has posted my submission of the note in the kitchen that made me laugh on the day of my third-round interview at PR [...]
Sep 10, 2008 at 6:59 am rating: 90
#7
TygerAKC
I like how someone scribbled out the “Not” showing that they think it IS funny!
Sep 10, 2008 at 7:34 am rating: 90
#8
Canthz_B
And thus the War of the (Four) Roses was begun…
Sep 10, 2008 at 7:54 am rating: 90
#9
Canthz_B
Unrest? I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.
Sep 10, 2008 at 7:59 am rating: 90
#10
Lola Snow
Far funnier when swap is made by putting expresso in the decaf container!
Sep 10, 2008 at 8:12 am rating: 90
#11
claw71
Office unrest? In London? Surely the maximum extent of this alleged unrest would be the posting of a note such as the one seen here. OOOOOH. So scary. In Scotland hooligans would pound each other. Here in the States we’d dress up like Indians and dump the tea into the ocean and if this had happened in Northern Ireland throats would be slit and bombs would be detonated. That’s unrest. London. Please. Here’s a thought, Liam, take a whiff of the tea bag before you steep it. Peppermint is pretty hard to miss unless you have some sort of olfactory disorder in which case you probably wouldn’t notice the difference anyway. And get your teeth fixed, you limey fop.
Sep 10, 2008 at 8:37 am rating: 90
#12
GhostWriter
Hargreeves did it again.
He didn’t finish his product placement report, so instead of attending the department meeting, he concocted an outrageous tale of being “…allergic to peppermint tea” and that somebody slipped him a “not-funny” tea bag.
Now, he’s off on a recuperation holiday, and I’m doing his report.
Whatever, Hargreeves- just WHATEVER!
Sep 10, 2008 at 8:56 am rating: 90
#13
Dave Knapik
Peppermint tea? Green tea? Chuck all of it in the bin and make a proper British cuppa. You’re making the queen cry.
Be careful though, this note author seems agitated. Being London and all, he might stab you.
Sep 10, 2008 at 8:58 am rating: 90
#14
Mishee
As long as they don’t the green tea in the peppermint bin…
Green tea is NOT fucking delicious and I would not find that funny at all.
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:03 am rating: 90
#15
Mishee
If I were a man, I would write a response note:
I’ve got your teabags right here, bitch
But that’s just me….
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:04 am rating: 90
#16
claw71
In my office there’s a creepy guy who teabags the teabags. I don’t know about unrest but there sure is a lot of unease.
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:05 am rating: 90
#17
GhostWriter
“Hey, how’d you secretly mix up the peppermint tea with the green tea so fast?”
“I didn’t- I just switched the lids!”
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:15 am rating: 90
#18
Lildonbro
I enjoy the “not funny” at the end. Really makes the point. I personally would have made a threat about how I can find out who they are with fingerprint analysis and DNA…but that’s just how my office works.
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:20 am rating: 90
#19
claw71
You can’t have unrest in London without The Clash:
London’s bawling to the corporate office clowns
the tea’s been swapped and unrest is coming down
London’s bawling to people ’round the world
the tea in the cupboard isn’t fit to give a swirl
London’s bawling look what they did to us
All that phoney instant cuppa is just bitter dust
London’s bawling the tea’s got a minty tang
I thought is was green and now I want to gag
The migrane is coming, the walls are closing in
The water’s stopped boiling and mint tea is such a sin
It’s a tea time error, and it makes me feel queer
In peppermint I’m drowning and I don’t want to be here
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:22 am rating: 90
#20
amy d
Kitchen unrest? Is the dish refusing to run away with the spoon?
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:47 am rating: 90
#21
Mishee
This is why I prefer Bigelow teas – they are individually wrapped to maintain freshness and the wrapping is labeled!
No unrest in my kitchen!
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:51 am rating: 90
#22
aaa
Maybe the peppermint tea wants to be with the green tea. Maybe the teas are tired of your tea segregation. What unrest? The green tea now tastes like peppermint? Maybe the teas want to be more like each other. Maybe we should be more like tea.
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:55 am rating: 90
#23
Pwntastic
To the person putting up passive-aggressive notes trying to get me to stop switching the peppermint and green-tea bags. Not stopping me.
Sep 10, 2008 at 10:03 am rating: 90
#24
Holiday Djinn
Apparently even Green doesn’t like a teabag!
Sep 10, 2008 at 10:07 am rating: 90
#25
I've got big bags
I’m the guy who’s been teabagging the tea-bags. Suck on that one peppermint.
Sep 10, 2008 at 10:16 am rating: 90
#26
I've got big bags
.
Sep 10, 2008 at 10:16 am rating: 90
#27
djr
As communication professionals I expect them to have better grammar than they apparently have.
Sep 10, 2008 at 10:35 am rating: 90
#28
Red Letterboxer
I would bet that the tea was getting mixed up due to simple carelessness at first. Seems like a jumped-to conclusion to lay blame for something so lame. But once the note went up, the idea had been planted. That would be the point that someone decided it would actually be funny to drive the note-writer a little more insane than they already are.
Sep 10, 2008 at 12:00 pm rating: 90
#29
Ryan
To the team of deadly terrorists set to sabotage my day……
Nice BOLD writing, asshat!
Now with that note on the wall – the first thing I would do if I were alone in that room was mix those tax bags up!
Sep 10, 2008 at 12:13 pm rating: 90
#30
Elizabeth
I’d feel the need for a PAN also.
Sep 10, 2008 at 12:17 pm rating: 90
#31
Brian
Correction: WASN’T funny until I overreacted and put up this sign. And then “kitchen unrest” put it completely over the top.
When will people learn?
Sep 10, 2008 at 12:18 pm rating: 90
#32
Quite Contrary
Why wasn’t this PAN filed under “Stick up their ass?”
Sep 10, 2008 at 1:31 pm rating: 90
#33
Summer
peppermint green tea is fucking delicious, by the way.
Sep 10, 2008 at 1:33 pm rating: 90
#34
Lorelie
To the person(s) causing kitchen oppression by separating the green and peppermint teas.
Who the fuck are you to stand in the way of true love?
Thanks!
Sep 10, 2008 at 2:28 pm rating: 90
#35
secondsout
Green and peppermint teas in the same container? Creamer in the oatmeal? What is this world coming to? First, it’s kitchen unrest, then the whole world crumbles.
Fortunately, on my way to work this morning, I encountered some kind souls handing out fliers for Dianetics. Just when I thought all was lost, L. Ron came to the rescue.
Sep 10, 2008 at 2:42 pm rating: 90
#36
secretly Passive Aggresive
Actually, I think Teabagging IS funny, especially if caught on film.
Sep 10, 2008 at 3:26 pm rating: 90
#37
ansco
actually, the person that put up the note was looking for someone to teabag with
Sep 10, 2008 at 5:23 pm rating: 90
#38
agirlie
“person(s)” teehee and then someone scribbled out “not” double teehee
Sep 10, 2008 at 6:39 pm rating: 90
#39
Canthz_B
Maybe they were just trying to ‘cut’ the “pure peppermint” in the container on the right (enlarge picture) by placing a few bags in with the green.
No one wants to pure peppermint OD on the job!
Sep 10, 2008 at 7:02 pm rating: 90
#40
Woman on the Verge
What do they have against a little multicultural tea? Who, exactly, is at unrest in the kitchen? And if they had a little more pepperminty green tea would they consider the whole matter just a little more funny? Why am I asking all these questions? Mishee, can you help me?
Sep 10, 2008 at 7:42 pm rating: 90
#41
Sydney
I can’t believe no one’s said “it’s people like you what cause unrest” yet. Hmm, maybe there’s a good reason for that.
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:37 pm rating: 90
#42
hizzle
This reads like a White Whine!
Sep 10, 2008 at 11:32 pm rating: 90
#43
creamy
Leave my stash alone, and don’t give me no lipton. For peets sake, I’m sick of all the unrest and intertwinings. You fluzianne! You teaGschwendner! I’m warning you, I’m no Yogi – if you push me it’ll be tit for tetly and I’ll be seeing you in teavana.
and have a nice day
Mighty Leaf
Sep 11, 2008 at 7:13 am rating: 90
#44
Scaryduck
Yes. Yes it is funny.
Sep 11, 2008 at 10:20 am rating: 90
#45
Lurker
In these times of great kitchen unrest, we need a spiritual leader who can inspire and guide us through the troubled waters.
Even though we face the difficulties of peppermint tea and green tea, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the breakroom dream.
I have a dream that one day among the white tiles of this kitchen, the drinkers of refreshing mint and the drinkers of soothing verdant brew will be able to sit down together at the Formica table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even my cup of Earl Grey, a drink sweltering with the heat of boiling water, sweltering with the heat of steamed milk, will be transformed into an oasis of flavor.
I have a dream that my two little officemates will one day drink in a kitchen where they will not be judged by the color of their tea but by the content of their teabags.
I have a dream that one day, down in General Services/Accounts Receivable, with its vicious no-popcorn policies, little coffee-drinking boys and coffee-drinking girls will be able to join hands with little tea-drinking boys and tea-drinking girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
And when this happens, we will be able to speed up that day when all of us will be able to join hands and sing: Tea at last! Tea at last! THX SANDRA Almighty, we have tea at last!
Sep 11, 2008 at 10:57 am rating: 90
#46
rie
I like that someone has crossed out the “not” just before “not funny”
Sep 11, 2008 at 12:12 pm rating: 90
#47
raiseyourglass
I did it, and I’m still laughing.
And since no one else has said it. The tea was fucking delicious.
Darn it I missed #32!
Sep 11, 2008 at 11:26 pm rating: 90
#48
bigoted bores
God, you Americans are OBSESSED with your tedious stereotypes.
You mention the “Revolutionary War” by the THIRD comment, for fuck’s sake.
Bad teeth by the eleventh comment.
The Queen by the thirteenth.
And, of course, there’s a Monty Python reference in comment 41.
Change the fucking record, you fat, pizza-faced, baseball-cap-wearing, Vietnam-losing morons.
Sep 17, 2008 at 11:12 am rating: 90
#49
Canthz_B
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Sep 17, 2008 at 11:26 am rating: 90
#50
bigoted bores
I think “let it go” is what you lot should do. It’s been (more than) 200 years, as you say, so SHUT THE FUCK UP.
If only we could be as great as the nation founded on genocide. How d’ya like those poisoned blankets, Mr Red Injun?
Sep 17, 2008 at 11:29 am rating: 90
#51
bigoted bores
That’s right. In fact, if you go to India today, there are only a few hundred thousand “Native Indians” left, and they all live on reservations. That’s because we massacred them all with our Tenth Cavalry and spent much of the latter part of the 19th century in “Indian Wars” to exterminate them.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee… bitches.
Sep 17, 2008 at 11:54 am rating: 90
#52
park rose
That’s right. In fact, if you go to India today, there are only a few hundred thousand “Native Indians” left, and they all live on reservations. That’s because we massacred them all with our Tenth Cavalry and spent much of the latter part of the 19th century in “Indian Wars” to exterminate them.
Well, BB, that’s because in the countries where the population was too numerous for the Brits to commit genocide, they actually ‘just’ colonised and reaped the profits.
Most of the European powers were guilty of the same, and a fair few Middle Eastern ones as well.
Oops, didn’t gigglebrax, hope Mishee doesn’t kill me. Just blame it on being a colonial, Mish.
Sep 17, 2008 at 12:10 pm rating: 90
#53
Lurker
Heck, sometimes it looks like we Yanks and Brits are the only ones left in the world who can stand each other! If we argue amongst ourselves over tea jokes, what’s next? Swapping Posh and Becks back for Madonna and Gwyneth?
Oh, and Mishee, compare and contrast older and newer pictures of Mr. Laurie’s teeth. He’s been to a nice expensive American dentist at some point in the last few years.
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.”
–Serlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
Sep 17, 2008 at 1:02 pm rating: 90
#54
lalanii
at least you didn’t accidentally buy ORGANIC CHAMOMILE tea… it hurt my heart when i drank it.
Trynna go GREEN, i tell ya.
Sep 17, 2008 at 1:47 pm rating: 90
#55
The Style PA
I love this site. Oh and by the way, I have those tea/coffee jars. I also am partial to a peppermint tea
Oct 19, 2008 at 3:38 pm rating: 90
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