Mid-Battle Tea Break: Difference between revisions

== Newspaper Comics ==

* ''[[The Far Side]]:'' "The battle came to an abrupt halt as both sides waited for the hornet to calm down."

 

== Video Games ==

* [[Real Life]] example: The famous [http://www.1914-1918.net/truce.htm Christmas Truce of 1914], whereupon fighting on World War I's western front abruptly halted for the holidays. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Hilarity did not ensue.]]

* According to legend, a pointless but brutal war in medieval Brussels was ended when a little boy who had been separated from his parents wound up high on a building and relieved himself all over the combatants below. Everyone started laughing, and kept laughing, and then realized they weren't fighting any more and didn't want to start again. The war was over, and the toddler was hailed as a hero. The "peeing boy" is commemorated with a statue that stands in Brussels to this day. If he ever existed, his name is lost to time, so the statue is called (roughly translated) "Li'l Pissin' Boy". Classy.

* The British tried this rather literally in WWII, when they tried to brew up after landing on the beaches on D-Day. The Germans were most probably a bit bemused, but didn't stop to observe the break.

* The Brits did it again in the Falklands. Trapped between the ocean and a brutal artillery barrage, the British grunts decided to put the kettle on while the ruperts were figuring out what to do. In an understated way this is is actually kind of [[Badass]].

* Some Yanomamo tribes of the Amazon tie their... man-bits up with a cord that fastens around the waist. Even if two men are involved in mortal combat, if one's cord comes undone both parties will stop everything and wait until he's fixed it before resuming the fight.

* From the strategic point of view. In many parts of the world war is a seasonal activity due to the fact that it needs [[Weather of War|weather]] that can take both the combat units and supply units. Except for the siege train, which tends to be big and clumsy it is often the supplies that are the biggest problem, because a combat unit is optimised for fighting while a supply unit is optimized for carrying and might have problems like being road bound. In the days of living off the land, there was more forage to be found at certain times of year. The tradition of "Winter Quarters" is an example of that. In Europe, winter was a time when armies stopped to find billets and take a breath. This was a convenient time for diplomacy as it happened. Sometimes a general would do a change-up (Washington crossing the Delaware for instance) but the reason for that was that he was not expected to. Not least because it would be hard to follow up any short term advantages.

**In the Roman Calendar March was named after Mars who was the god of both agriculture and war and which was probably why his month would be the one with the first week in the year when it was dry enough to, well, March.

**The famous "Winter of Valley Forge" when the Continental Army was staying put doing nothing except being sworn at by [[Drill Sargent Nasty|Baron von Stuben.]] This wasn't exactly a tea break but they were not fighting at least. It probably [[You Shouldn't Know This Already|was not]] a fun winter for the British either.

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