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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 83 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it

[–] odium@programming.dev 97 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Tea is slang for gossip

[–] 314xel@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago (5 children)

UK?

[–] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Surprisingly it was pretty popular as slang about 10 years ago. I remember being in high school here in the US and hearing students say "here's the tea" when they're about to bring up gossip

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had literally not heard this before until Hazbin

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"spill the tea" is a known idiom.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It is?

I've heard "spill the beans", but never "spill the tea".

[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

We're two of today's ten thousand!

[–] Denvil@lemmy.one 4 points 4 months ago

I haven't heard it very frequently, but enough to know it

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It comes from the drag community. The "tea" is short for "truth"

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Also "dish".

[–] Kna@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

UK here, no.

[–] Brekky@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It started getting popular as drag slang on Ru Paul's Drag Race

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 4 months ago

It's a thing in the US for sure, though relatively recent (10-15 years?)

[–] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And doesn't that imply that her offer for coffee was for sex?

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Don't mind if I do.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wait what?? I've not heard this one. Is it regional?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know it sounds silly now but this was really an actual big thing discussed in the mainstream for a hot second. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_(minigame)

[–] waz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Oh I thought it was going to be a reference to Eddie Izzard's joke in Dress to Kill.

[–] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_(minigame) I don't know, I remembered it as coffee when I learned about it.

[–] pm_me_your_thoughts@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

would have been funnier if she spilt the tea first

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Oops, she spilled it!

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

From coffee or tea.