Yeah, I’ll cop to that.
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What? The title text clearly mentions the proper method: “No, of course we don’t microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.”
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I once superheated water in the mug, I think because I heated it, forgot and left it in the microwave, then heated it up again when I remember. Boiled over onto my hand when I picked it up. Not fun.
This sometimes happens in the opposite direction in water bottles left in the car. Gets below freezing but the water doesn’t freeze. I can tap it and watch the whole thing freeze almost at once.
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I would take it one step further and say that you have to “hot the pot” first; fill it with boiling water, empty it out, put your teabags in and only then put in the boiling water for making tea.
On the other hand, when I was digging a Saxon site in Milton Keynes, we had a huge metal tea canister that we’d fill,bring to a boil and throw in 20 or so tea bags, wait 5-10 minutes, lean out of the trailer and bellow “TEA!”. And get out of the way of the stampede.
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[hangs head in shame]
Tell you what, let’s call it a draw.
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What can I say; when I was growing up, we only had teabags in the local stores. Loose tea was fahncy and not widely available.
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My tea making alignment is chaotic so i might heat the water in a microwave with the bag or just heat up the water itself. I don’t care, i’m not fussy about my tea but most of the time i’m making herbal tea and not actual tea so again it’s like… whatever man. Get mad for all i care UK 
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All I know is don’t try to make hot chocolate in the microwave!
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Everything involving a microwave is worse.
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I always thought those would be useful as a foot warmer.
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My wife crocheted a tea cozy years ago. But we don’t use pots. I like black tea and she likes green (some of which smell terrible IMO).
We keep our mugs separate.
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No idea if the sound is SFW, watching it muted is fine. This had me rolling.
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At least we have not entered into discussion of the original sin of tea making, namely putting the crap swept off the factory floor into bags and selling that to ignorant rubes. Loose leaf or death!! 
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It my house!
Avoids microplastics too. Tea makers should have to identify on the box which bags do or don’t contain plastic, sez I.
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