The 'Rate My Tea' Twitter Account Is The Height Of Britishness

Procrastination at its finest.

Forget rating meal deals. Nowadays it’s all about embracing one’s heritage by offering up opinions on other people’s tea-making skills.

In what is a very British way to pass the time, Twitter users are submitting pictures of their cups of tea to a special account which then retweets the images and lets others rate their brewing skills.

Everything is at stake: from the colour of your beverage to the mug you serve it in. And woe betide those who don’t serve theirs with a custard cream.

Some of the reactions can be supportive and, you know, really positive.

It's made with Hard Water so I doubt it'll score highly. But the colour looks good at least. Top mug. @Rate_My_Tea pic.twitter.com/Yl7PNTcXSd

— #teaclub (@_TeaClub_) August 8, 2016

@_TeaClub_ @Rate_My_Tea Good colour, top marks😋

— George Sabapathy (@mutantteenager) August 8, 2016

@_TeaClub_ @Rate_My_Tea deep bronze indicating depth of taste, light bubbles give character, hard water makes hard tea. Be proud, man!

— Mr Blachford (@MrBlachford) August 8, 2016

But others can be downright brutal...

@Rate_My_Tea unacceptable tea 1.far too light 2.bubbles

NO TEA SHOULD HAVE BUBBLES pic.twitter.com/XBz6K02ucy

— Lord2Dope* (@SweetBastard82) August 5, 2016

If you don’t have Twitter, fear not. You can rate other people’s tea-making skills on the ‘Rate My Tea’ Facebook page.

Us Brits really do know how to par-tay.

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