Nasty habits?

[Hilarity_N.Suze]

This has perplexed me for years. A Rolling Stones song called “Live with Me” starts out, “I got nasty habits / I take tea at three . . .”

Okay, it goes on to shooting water rats and things like that. But what on earth is wrong with taking tea at three? It should be . . . earlier? Later? You should drink it instead of taking it? By “tea” he means weed? (In which case that seems a bit late.) Sorry I’m such a philistine, I just don’t know.

That and the subject of this thread have mystified me for decades. Damn those Brits.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

Tea is traditionally taken at four o’clock. Now, only the snootiest of the snooty pay strict attention to such a rule, so this is an example of Sir Mick’s arch sardonicism at work. I bet he’s so evil he doesn’t even stick his pinky out when he lifts his cup!

…Nah. Even Mick Jagger wouldn’t be so boorish.