Mugs

Voted "In total, more than one mug per resident, less than 10 alltogether"

Oh then I noticed tea cups as an option. A tea cup can never be described as a mug. Never.

10-20, but I always use the same mug

Possibly not, but I wanted to call it 'Mugs', so it's your call.

fwiw, I don't think we have any 'tea cups' anyway.

And my answer? 97.

(not kidding!)

In fact, that was before easter, and their 'free Double-Decker Mug with Choco Easter Egg' times six!

Mug:

1) a drinking cup
2) the quantity it holds
3) the face
4) the mouth
5) a thug
6) a fool
7) to pull a funny face
8) to rob
8) to study or revise
10) to photograph

in conclusion: language is ridiculous

You missed "to act in a Ben Elton sitcom"

Oh, 7) covers that... 6) covers Elton

2 confuses me a bit. "A mug of tea" I thought meant "a mug with tea in it", but 2 implies "an amount of tea that would fit into a mug, but the mug may or may not be present".

Maybe the tea could be frozen in the mug, then the tea could be tipped out and served to you without the mug.

Or some sort of tea drinking equivalent of a quart in a pint glass, a mug in a teacup

Makes more sense if you think about Q: "how much tea did you drink?" A: "2 mugs" i.e. that usage doesn't imply you consumed the actual crockery

aye like pint, litre, quart, cup.

10-20, leaning towards the topper limit. Almost all of them presents or mementos.

10-20, but I always use the same mug
This describes me, but now I rotate between two different mugs. My traditional favorite, and a new gift one with famous nude portraits that are clothed until a hot liquid is poured into the mug. I have to remember not to put it in the dishwasher.

Is the dishwasher easily embarrassed?

We have about 20, am erring on the 10-20 side. There's only 2 of us but we are somewhat lax about washing up, I'd say we use about half of them on a regular basis.

Everyone is hard at work today I'm guessing.

My main computer is borked so I'm sitting here hitting F5 over and over.

This morning, 18. Dropped one of my white Muji mugs before breakfast and now we are 17. Current mug: Walker Art Center CLOSED MONDAYS.

I live alone, all the mugs have to be a certain shape, and no fucker is allowed to drink from the VIZ comic/Human League promo mug.

All my mugs are the same shape as well, although this is by coincidence rather than preference. They're all boring patterns that you'd see in the kitchen area of a church hall though.

I mean, I'd love a Jet Set Willy heat reactive mug, but I know it'd get scratched or damaged somehow in fairly short order. Bland mugs seem to last longer even if I don't particularly care that they do.

I always use the same mug

This is mine:

http://www.right-note.co.uk/product_images/ma_150-1.jpg

There's only 2 of us but we are somewhat lax about washing up

Yeah, this is us as well. We cycle through all of ours, pretty much. They're a miscellany of shapes, sizes and capacities. My favourite is probably my Prisoner mug, though I have affection for a pair of badly-dones ones for my band that I did when co-running one of those Paint-a-Pot workshops. I also have a tiny wonky one with my name on that was one of the first pots my mum made when learning to be a ceramicist.

iS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE iN THiS WORLD WHO'S GOT A RiFF RAFF MUG LiKE MiNE?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFO8yYrCYAA4PUl.jpg:large

I thought that was Bono for a second.

ditto

I'll have to count them up at home, but my guess is that we're in the 31-50 range because we have about 3 different sets of mugs/tea cups that are used on various special occasions only.

This is my go-to mug because it is nice and large:
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=57076910

we have 10-20 but if we had a bigger kitchen we'd easily have 50. Heck I have 3 at my desk at work.

I have about 4 that I rotate through ... and 2 of them are those awesome heat-sensitive ones that have pictures/writing on them that disappears when you fill them with hot beverages.

like this one:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NzBQuUGkL.jpg where the losers of each case disppear when you fill the mug

and this one:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QX8AmriTL._SY450_.jpg

the Tardis one is cool because it's sort of squat and wide, and holds lot of tea/coffee. but the supreme court one is nice and heavy, I like that too.

i love coffee mugs!

I've been using the same mug ("Graceland, Home of Elvis") since 1989. The rest of mine are mostly pledge promo items from my community radio station. <10 altogether.

"You can never have too many mugs" is a statement that we have uttered on a number of occasions. 20 seems about right. Currently drinking from a MuseumsQuartier Wien mug with a big red camel on it.

I love mugs! I have so many. Too many.

This is my current favorite.

http://instagram.com/p/UH-2R9I81H/#

oh wow that is awesome

The annual worldwide sale of mugs in 2012 generated gross revenues in excess of $20 billion, with novelty mugs accounting for $11 billion of that, as reported in the February 2013 issue of The Mug Fancier online magazine. This caps a decade with an impressive 233% growth rate in the mug industry, mainly centered in the so-called Mugworks Triangle of Guangxi province in China.

^^ I made this up and wrote it on a piece of paper, so I could quote myself on ilx.

Still, that's amazing!

none

^^^siphons his vice directly from the veins of a porcelain cadaver

This is a terrible survey. The class sizes are ludicrous.

In total, more than one mug per resident, less than 10 alltogether

This is like a class size for adult male height 'between 5 feet and 7 feet'. Your histogram will feature a large central block and a few nakchivan-shaped outliers. Preposterous and dare I say malignant abuse of the scientific method, Mark G

You've pissed me off so much I've misspelled nakhchivan. Now you're really for it

things designed for tea/coffee/etc that don't have saucers are no good

also tea/coffee cups should have a brim wider than their height, i'm not entirely sure there is an ergonomic reason but it just seems intuitively aesthetically right, the inverse principle applying to room temperature/cold drinksi

however my main abhorrence of mugs is cuz the pseudo-demotic paranoid tony blair always directed his aides to provide him with mugs rather than cups in order to appeal to c1 or c2 or whatever demographic notionally distrusts teacups

this is a species of the wider 21st c british bourgeois paranoia about 'nothing fancy' seen in the pretentiously unpretentious aesthetics of gastropubs and high end grocery stores

think of the poor craftspeople of stoke, their ornate wares lying in abeyance

imago..

We shall see...

Nilmar, Tony Benn was a tea mug man...

why wouldnt he be? anthony wedgwood benn's curtailed forename another direct inspiration

i need to change the login on iphone huh

im in the kitchen and looking at these stupid porcelain teacups that are p much mug-shaped, a weird admixture of the effete and the inane

Between 10 or 20, but closer to 10. Maybe 11, maybe just 10 but I didn't want to get up to count.

We have six big blue mugs that match our dishes and 4 or 5 random mugs. My favorites are a blue willow mug from a thrift store and a mug with Abraham Lincoln on it, but both of them are really stained badly by coffee so I don't like using them. We also have a mug from a local brewery and a mug featuring a picture of Jeff in third grade that I can't quite bring myself to get rid of even though we never use it. And I'm assuming we have at least one more stashed in the dusty, hard-to-reach corners of the cupboard.

Clean the mugs! Bleach or denture cleaner diluted in mug will zap any coffee or tea stains.

I've tried bleach, denture cleaner, CLR, baking soda... nothing.

a weird admixture of the effete and the inane

photographic evidence is much desired

http://chinasearch.co.uk/images/gallery/70/866/1.jpg

kind of like these but with difft pattern

http://www.spencersonline.com/images/spencers/products/interactivezoom/processed/02342269.interactive.a.jpg

I saw one of those with a Tardis in it, and it didn't look like there was much room for the tea/coffee.

there's more room inside the tardis

Tea-dis

Tea And Relative Digestive (Biscuits) In Suspension

would you like a custos cream with that

those Mr Clean erasers will totally remove coffee and tea stains from mugs, seemingly miraculously

WDY mug and your mug LL?
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7286/8738399726_f196b6a1df_z.jpg

Ooh I had mugs like that. All long dead now though.

Bet they lasted a long time though. Ours are like 15+ years old. I've lost count of how many other coffee mugs we've been through here.

this morning i drank my coffee out of a mug emblazoned with the word SOUP in helvetica

They don't seem to like being used to microwave peas xpost

every year I donate to the local public radio station so that I may get a new mug

unfortunately, I broke my favorite of these

This is my favourite mug:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3197/3087487353_b30eba3065_z.jpg

Also, in Liverpool, at least for my parents' generation, "to mug" meant to lend someone money.

I used to have one of these..

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/m/mrI9bUxJUJyFC9yvOhym0Og/96.jpg

.. but i left it behind at my parents house, and when they left the country to work abroad, and rented out the house, when they came back, it had gone.

Of course, they'd put the 'valuable' stuff in storage...

I had a bit of a reckoning up last night, and have counted 110

Gonna pronounce your username as Marg from now on

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