Comments on: Just A Cup http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/ Scattered values and the chance of philosophy. May contain funny. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:01:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Jim Mirkalami http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-73355 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:25:59 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-73355 I have been a frequent visitor of this blog for some time now, so I thought it would be a good idea to leave you with my thanks. Regards, Jim Mirkalami I have been a frequent visitor of this blog for some time now, so I thought it would be a good idea to leave you with my thanks.

Regards,
Jim Mirkalami

]]> by: Louise http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1924 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:03:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1924 Jeremy has it, about the teacups and saucers being a quintessential British impress-your-inlaws thing...afterall, you're going to look pretty naff sticking your pinky finger out from a mug handle, what? If you want to look naff, do that. If you want to look quintessential, do the whole teacup/saucer thing, if you want to look like you're just having a coffee and it's not an effort to seduce anyone around you, use a mug and just drink the sucker. Anyone's mum who insists on little cupsful that turn quickly cold just so they can justify a saucer, can go scald themselves with the boiling tea they made which no-one got to enjoy. I think I need a coffee... Jeremy has it, about the teacups and saucers being a quintessential British impress-your-inlaws thing…afterall, you’re going to look pretty naff sticking your pinky finger out from a mug handle, what? If you want to look naff, do that. If you want to look quintessential, do the whole teacup/saucer thing, if you want to look like you’re just having a coffee and it’s not an effort to seduce anyone around you, use a mug and just drink the sucker. Anyone’s mum who insists on little cupsful that turn quickly cold just so they can justify a saucer, can go scald themselves with the boiling tea they made which no-one got to enjoy. I think I need a coffee…

]]> by: John http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1921 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:37:30 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1921 Like anxious, I also need saucer to catch my tea. But I have developed a chopstick-like hold for cup and saucer. Thumb and index-finger for cup-handle, and pinkie and 4th finger hold saucer (chopstick-like). So you need only one hand, and no spilling on the carpet. Like anxious, I also need saucer to catch my tea. But I have developed a chopstick-like hold for cup and saucer. Thumb and index-finger for cup-handle, and pinkie and 4th finger hold saucer (chopstick-like). So you need only one hand, and no spilling on the carpet.

]]> by: justin http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1910 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:23:29 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1910 No saucers here (except for a few in a bone china tea set that's boxed up and hasn't seen the light of day for 30 odd years)... we're mug-lovers like you. I'll post a photo of my favourite one soon. No saucers here (except for a few in a bone china tea set that’s boxed up and hasn’t seen the light of day for 30 odd years)… we’re mug-lovers like you. I’ll post a photo of my favourite one soon.

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1889 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:46:28 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1889 Anxious - it's a tough one. Do you take the saucer despite or because of your shaky hands. If you have it, you don't spill a drop, but risk dropping the saucer. If you don't, you definitely have wet burned feet. Welcome by the way. And to you Gordon. With you on the side plates. Anxious - it’s a tough one. Do you take the saucer despite or because of your shaky hands.

If you have it, you don’t spill a drop, but risk dropping the saucer.

If you don’t, you definitely have wet burned feet.

Welcome by the way.

And to you Gordon. With you on the side plates.

]]> by: Gordon http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1886 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:52:03 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1886 Uncouth fellows deem the saucer unnecessary? What folly. If you served tea properly, with milk in a jug, sugar in .. pot? and biscuits and cakes on one of those quaint little cake stand thingies... then you'd know why you need a saucer. But as you MUGS are defiant, I'll leave it at that. Mind you, I can't stand the bloody things. P.S. Side plates are for biscuits, not saucers. I mean saucers are not for biscuits, that's what you use side plates for, I don't mean that side plates are for placing saucers on as that would just be completely and utterly ridiculous. P.P.S. First visit here. Blame mike. I'll be back. Uncouth fellows deem the saucer unnecessary? What folly.

If you served tea properly, with milk in a jug, sugar in .. pot? and biscuits and cakes on one of those quaint little cake stand thingies… then you’d know why you need a saucer. But as you MUGS are defiant, I’ll leave it at that.

Mind you, I can’t stand the bloody things.

P.S. Side plates are for biscuits, not saucers. I mean saucers are not for biscuits, that’s what you use side plates for, I don’t mean that side plates are for placing saucers on as that would just be completely and utterly ridiculous.

P.P.S. First visit here. Blame mike. I’ll be back.

]]> by: anxious http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1885 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:29:54 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1885 As a clumsy person with shaky hands, I fear the saucer. Especially if someone expects me to stand there, holding it, whilst conducting a conversation. As a clumsy person with shaky hands, I fear the saucer. Especially if someone expects me to stand there, holding it, whilst conducting a conversation.

]]> by: Suzer http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1884 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:29:36 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1884 it tastes better....with saucer. heeeeeeeeee it tastes better….with saucer.
heeeeeeeeee

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1883 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:01:47 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1883 WHat's interesting is tha tthe Cuppa - no milk- garnered exactly zero comments, while the lowly and oft-unwanted cypher-saucer has now chalked up ten. And what does THAT say? WHat’s interesting is tha tthe Cuppa - no milk- garnered exactly zero comments, while the lowly and oft-unwanted cypher-saucer has now chalked up ten.
And what does THAT say?

]]> by: Jeremy http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1881 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:53:53 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1881 I dont know either way but i would have to say there is somthing quintisentialy British (apparently though it was invented in europe http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/thieme/archives/000733.html) about the humble saucer and that when sitting down for your everyday cuppa it is not an essential part of the process but when trying to impress the inlaws it may prove a winner (bone china and all that). I dont know either way but i would have to say there is somthing quintisentialy British (apparently though it was invented in europe http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/thieme/archives/000733.html) about the humble saucer and that when sitting down for your everyday cuppa it is not an essential part of the process but when trying to impress the inlaws it may prove a winner (bone china and all that).

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1880 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:57:47 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1880 So let's recap. On the one hand, you've got your practical aesthetes like Katy and Mike, and on the other you've got your functional ranters like me and Mr Angry. Writersmoll offers a personal anecdote, Murphy provides some political insight, while Mel and Tanya are quick to jump to my defense. I don't mind opening a can of worms. Just so long as the can is of a decent size and I can hold it with one hand. Oooh, it's like Question Time, only bollocks. "Lady in the back with the floral basque. Yes. Oh, sorry - I beg your pardon, with the floral <i>castilian</i>." So let’s recap.

On the one hand, you’ve got your practical aesthetes like Katy and Mike, and on the other you’ve got your functional ranters like me and Mr Angry.

Writersmoll offers a personal anecdote, Murphy provides some political insight, while Mel and Tanya are quick to jump to my defense.

I don’t mind opening a can of worms.

Just so long as the can is of a decent size and I can hold it with one hand.

Oooh, it’s like Question Time, only bollocks.

“Lady in the back with the floral basque. Yes. Oh, sorry - I beg your pardon, with the floral castilian.”

]]> by: Katy Newton http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1879 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:06:25 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1879 I am an inveterate tea spiller. I need saucers. Also, what Mike said. I am an inveterate tea spiller. I need saucers. Also, what Mike said.

]]> by: mike http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1877 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:29:14 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1877 Pah. Why does everything have to be streamlined and functional these days? How dreary! Let's hear it for the beautiful but useless saucer! Pah. Why does everything have to be streamlined and functional these days? How dreary! Let’s hear it for the beautiful but useless saucer!

]]> by: Murphy http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1876 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:58:27 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1876 I think you'll find that Wagon Wheels used to be up to 18 inches in diameter in the early sixties. And your pin up photo demonstrates that Mr Blair forgot to ask not to have a saucer. Or an illegal war in the middle east based on a trumped up dodgy dossier. I think you’ll find that Wagon Wheels used to be up to 18 inches in diameter in the early sixties.

And your pin up photo demonstrates that Mr Blair forgot to ask not to have a saucer. Or an illegal war in the middle east based on a trumped up dodgy dossier.

]]> by: Mr Angry http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1875 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:57:26 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1875 It's also very rare to find a cup that acually fits snuggly in it's saucer, so it's inevitably easier to spill the contents of the cup into the saucer, which it is obviously designed to catch. It's almost like the worlds most lame self-fulfilling prophecy. I also hate saucers, in case you hadn't noticed. It’s also very rare to find a cup that acually fits snuggly in it’s saucer, so it’s inevitably easier to spill the contents of the cup into the saucer, which it is obviously designed to catch.

It’s almost like the worlds most lame self-fulfilling prophecy.

I also hate saucers, in case you hadn’t noticed.

]]> by: writersmoll http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1874 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:20:07 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1874 No you're quite wrong thinking saucers are for putting the cup on, they're for putting the tea/coffee in. When the grocer delivered our groceries he always poured his tea straight into the saucer to drink - that way it cooled quicker and he could have a quick cuppa and be on his way. That's the only use I've ever seen for saucers anyway - except for putting the cat's milk in. No you’re quite wrong thinking saucers are for putting the cup on, they’re for putting the tea/coffee in. When the grocer delivered our groceries he always poured his tea straight into the saucer to drink - that way it cooled quicker and he could have a quick cuppa and be on his way. That’s the only use I’ve ever seen for saucers anyway - except for putting the cat’s milk in.

]]> by: Tanya http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1873 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:26:05 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1873 Hear! Hear!!! My mother made us use a saucer for every cup of tea - AND coffee! - we made. She was a bit of a cleaning freak. I rebelled. You get your tea and coffee in a mug. That's it. Live with it. Hear! Hear!!!

My mother made us use a saucer for every cup of tea - AND coffee! - we made. She was a bit of a cleaning freak.

I rebelled. You get your tea and coffee in a mug. That’s it. Live with it.

]]> by: Mel http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1872 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:20:22 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/09/28/just-a-cup/#comment-1872 And another thing, they give them to you at seminars and similar gatherings and then when you actually utilise them by slurping up the spilt tea and biscuit crumbs, they accuse you of being uncouth! Go figure. And another thing, they give them to you at seminars and similar gatherings and then when you actually utilise them by slurping up the spilt tea and biscuit crumbs, they accuse you of being uncouth!
Go figure.

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