Mugs...rant

Philly_Q

I've probably got about 10 at home, but I always use the same one.  It's got Bugs Bunny on it.

And two others which I keep at work.  One regular size, one giant - which is handy, because I'm pretty much the only person who makes tea so I might as well make a lot.

Emp_Fab

How the feck have you all got Fretboard mugs and I haven't ?

That's just put the tin hat on today that has.

Handsome_Chris

@emp_fab, the tfb mugs, well they're just not for anyone.

Sambostar

lloyd said:

300 and they all look like this

http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/cunt-mug

That is especially brilliant because it's child friendly.  Think I'II get my sister one for her birthday.

Moss

http://blog.gpunktschmitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/it-crowd-moss-mug-richmond.png

TheBlueWolf

Might I enquire as to how I would acquire a tFB mug? Please and thanks etc

Moss

TheBlueWolf said:

Might I enquire as to how I would acquire a tFB mug? Please and thanks etc

You need to be part of the VIP club - the mugs ship with your free R9

TTony

All I'm saying is ...

Sambostar

That is a nice one, how much do they go for Tony?

hungrymark

Not so bad for mugs but my wife is obsessed with glassware. We have three different sets of sherry glasses, for example, which she only drinks at Christmas. Two sets of highball glasses, port sippers, martini glasses, Glencairn glasses, shot glasses of various descriptions (she never drinks shots), champagne flutes AND saucers, the list goes on and on...

TTony

Sambostar said:

That is a nice one, how much do they go for Tony?

Looks like we'll be able to do them for £7.50ea, delivered.  There'll be a proper thread when it's all confirmed.

(the don't come with the tea, that's just shown for illustration purposes).

Emp_Fab

The handles are too thin.  I'd break that in a week.  I'm assuming that because it's a cgi that it may not represent the true value of %handle and this may go up or down. 

mike_l

Emp_Fab said:

The handles are too thin.  I'd break that in a week.  

 

Nothing to do with you being a ham-fisted lunatic then?

TimmyO

Emp_Fab said:

The handles are too thin.  I'd break that in a week.  I'm assuming that because it's a cgi that it may not represent the true value of %handle and this may go up or down. 

When t comes to mug-using skills I feel as though you should have achieved more... 

digitalscream

I have this problem. We have - at last count - 46 mugs in the house, not counting all the ones in the shed. The thing is, they're all stupid sculpted shapes, and we don't have a single one which is just a straight, plain, easy-to-drink-out-of mug. Every time I buy one, it magically disappears to be replaced by something shaped like a gnome and with a design only related to the activity of imbibing hot beverages in the most vague, passing manner.

I tried buying 10 normal, plain mugs once. It took her and my daughter about 3 weeks to gradually phase them out, as though they thought I wouldn't notice if they did it slowly enough.

TTony

digitalscream said:

I tried buying 10 normal, plain mugs once. It took her and my daughter about 3 weeks to gradually phase them out, as though they thought I wouldn't notice if they did it slowly enough.

I'll put you down for 20 of our theFB mugs.

Sneak them into circulation a couple at a time.

octatonic

digitalscream said:

I have this problem. We have - at last count - 46 mugs in the house, not counting all the ones in the shed. The thing is, they're all stupid sculpted shapes, and we don't have a single one which is just a straight, plain, easy-to-drink-out-of mug. Every time I buy one, it magically disappears to be replaced by something shaped like a gnome and with a design only related to the activity of imbibing hot beverages in the most vague, passing manner.

I tried buying 10 normal, plain mugs once. It took her and my daughter about 3 weeks to gradually phase them out, as though they thought I wouldn't notice if they did it slowly enough.

This is where a tube of super glue could come in handy.

Before you put on the dishwasher, glue half a dozen of the cups you don't like together.

Make sure your wife unpacks the dishwasher and then feign any knowledge of how the mugs became fused.

Suggest that the water was set too hot and the ceramic must have fused together.

Job done.

digitalscream

@octatonic - that's a brilliant suggestion, and it'd be ideal if we had a dishwasher.

octatonic

digitalscream said:

@octatonic - that's a brilliant suggestion, and it'd be ideal if we had a dishwasher.

That makes it harder, I'll admit.

Handsome_Chris

TTony;1097983" said:

All I'm saying is ...


ko

@TTony, is that the tFB mug that anyone, even @emp_fab, can buy?