Whispers from the Myth Teller

Everyone knows I'm not a coffee drinker (except for those damnable Iced Cappacinos from Tims). I drink tea, all kinds of tea; I started with Orange Pekoe, but now I drink mostly King Cole and my fav is Lady Grey.

sarahcarotte has very strong ideas about tea. She gets these ideas from her time living with the British during her touring days (she toured Europe/States/Canada with a troupe of actors for eight years). I know how the Brits feel about their tea: if you want to horrify a Brit, pop a tea bag into a cup of warm water and microwave it. This action causes a chip in their brains to activate and they fall into a finger-wagging trance, ranting about the history of tea, how it's be made properly, and how the Queen could take back these colonies if she really wanted to (you Canadian savages).

So help me out on this. I just think it's traditional, psychological madness, but I could be wrong. When I make the tea, sometimes I'm not right next to the kettle when it boils, so it may stop boiling for a couple of minutes before I actually pour the water. To me, it's still hot water, so it's enough to steep the tea. So here's the disagreement:

Will the tea taste better if you pour the water as it is boilong onto the tea bag?

Tea drinkers! Correct me or agree with me! Of course, this changes nothing about how I will prepare the tea for sarahcarotte in the future, but I was wondering if I'm the only colonist with these heathenistic ideas about tea.