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Re:ISO Standard for Preparing Tea by keiferski on Sunday March 07, 2021 @05:18AM (#26374704)
On the contrary, knowledge of aesthetic standards is something that is sorely lacking these days. Thousands of very thoughtful, very intelligent people have spent time thinking about things like the proper way to drink tea.

Perhaps instead of brushing them away with a middlebrow dismissal, open your mind a little to the possibility that the world is more complex than you think it is.

Edit: to add to that, for anyone that is curious. There is a pretty rich history in writing on tea, especially in China and Japan. Food aesthetics is also becoming a bigger subfield in philosophy too, usually categorized under everyday aesthetics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Tea

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tea_ceremony

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetics-of-everyday/

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/769

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Re:ISO Standard for Preparing Tea by brokenkebab on Sunday March 07, 2021 @06:35AM (#26375050)
This comment sounds very snobbish to me. If OP likes his tea simple without ceremonies, reciting poetry, or measuring temperature of water to 0.1°C precision it gives you no logical reason to claim he's not smart, or enlightened enough.
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Re:ISO Standard for Preparing Tea by keiferski on Sunday March 07, 2021 @06:59AM (#26375198)
OP is allowed to do so. But if he/she insists that anyone who recognizes further depth to the topic is wrong or stupid, then responding to that doesn’t make me a snob.
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Re:ISO Standard for Preparing Tea by brokenkebab on Sunday March 07, 2021 @07:50AM (#26375474)
I re-read the comment in question with great attention, and found nothing OP insists on except for being left alone with his tea. Quote: "Use the combinations you enjoy"
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