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Such an age of wonders we live in.
Making tea in a kettle would I think anger any Brit more than the pot+mug combo, it certainly angers me and I’m just Anglophilic.
You just boil the water in a kettle, you make the tea in a teapot (or in the cup, if you must).
Yeah, I think Randall accidentally transposed the words “kettle” and “pot”.
He transposed them solely to anger non-American anglophones even more.
My son was on a school trip to the UK this past summer. He and his friends stopped in a Starbuck’s. He ordered a tea (he dislikes coffee), and was delighted and amazed that it was served in a pot.
This is really, really common. They just put the teabag in the pot and pour in hot water, obviously, but still.
I had an american friend who got themselves a kettle to make tea, and used to boil the water with the teabags in the kettle and pour it out. The very thought makes me ill, but they seemed to enjoy it.
I just make tea in a mug these days.
This ia not meaningfully different from putting loose tea in an infuser and the infuser into the pot before adding the appropriate-temperature water to the pot and allowing it to steep. Other than the tea itself can be better than the floor sweepings often put into tea bags.
All guides to how to make tea invariably skip the most important step: Use quality tea. It’s true that some teabags are of horrible quality, but there’s no fundamental law to that effect, and it’s quite possible to get good teabags, or horrible loose tea.
For metric sailors, there’s 1 m/s = 2 knots (error 2.8%).
The statute mile isn’t even the base distance measurement of the imperial system; it’s derived from the surveyor’s Rod (unit) - Wikipedia, forty rods to a furlong and eight furlongs to the statute mile.
\pi \cdot \text{surveyor's miles} = \frac{4992}{1589} \cdot \text{international miles} , correct to 0.000000645%.
That’s not that amazing since the international mile was created to reconcile really minute differences between the countries that still used British Imperial measurements, and a four-digit divided by four-digit number is by definition going to yield a ratio precise to eight digits.
I was hoping \frac{355}{113} would be close enough that I could use it, but it’s actually way too precise! I had to use a bigger denominator to get a worse result.
Having to spend more to get a worse result– there’s an allegory in there somewhere. 
BTW: the code for fractions is new to me. Is that Discourse or some more general provision of preformatted text? We really need a quick reference for all the things the general toolbar doesn’t cover.
It’s inline LaTeX code. Can do all sorts of stuff. You can write it manually or use an online editor like this one:
Once you have the code, put it between two dollar signs. The fraction above looks like this in the editor:
$ \frac{355}{113} $
It’s still a bit buggy here, though, especially when it’s quoted.