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Your favourite mug

 
 
that
15:20 / 23.02.03
We've had thread about the contents of your wallet, and it never ceases to surprise me that we've never had one about favourite sexual positions, but I thought it was time the lowly mug got a mention at least. What does your favourite mug look like, and, if you know, why do you like it so much?

My favourite is by a company called Ashley in Staffordshire. I think it was probably bought at a school fair one year, or something, by someone other than me, or possibly borrowed and never returned from one or the other of my nans. It's fine bone china, and very out of character for me. It's white, with a green lip and a rose motif - large yellow and pink roses on one side, and a single small pink rose on the other. It's a big, bulbous mug, kind of looks like it's an octopus in bloomers, with a little line of bumpy bits just above the base. It's not quite round - probably due to a manufacturing error, it's very slightly oval. I like it because it feels nice, it's a good size and weight, and it's kind of quirky. How about you?
 
 
Sax
15:36 / 23.02.03
My favourite mug is standard mug shape, but it's got a little caricature and potted biography of Jack Kerouac on it. I think I bought it in Oxford about ten years ago.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:36 / 23.02.03
My current favourite is the one my brother (or his girlfriend, or maybe my brother AND his girlfriend; the lable wasn't too specific) got me for Chrimbo. It's got Bagpuss on it! And his friends! And it says "And when Bagpuss wakes up, all his friens wake up" on it! ROCK!!!
 
 
The Strobe
15:45 / 23.02.03
Easy. It's this hot chocolate mug I got last Christmas. I hate hot chocolate, so dispensed with the hot chocolate powder, ate the biscuits, and donated the whisk to dad. I make tea in it.

The thing that makes it so good is that it is absolutely fucking ginormous. We're talking about 2.5 normal mugs volume here. Gargantuan. I never put it in communal kitchens for fear of it being stolen. It is comfortable to hold and well made, and it just holds enough tea for anybody. Especially me. I love my mug.
 
 
Baz Auckland
15:56 / 23.02.03
I'm not up on my pottery specifics, but mine's my coffee cup, which has been used many times daily for years now. My brother picked it up for me a the big SCA get-together-and-fight even in Pennsylvania years ago. Nicely glazed brownish with celtic knotwork on the sides. Fits half a pot of coffee nicely. Mmmm. Time for more coffee...
 
 
Trijhaos
16:03 / 23.02.03
It's a 13 year old black plastic mug with a picture of the helmet of some American Football team on it. I've tried to find a replacement for it, but I don't much like drinking out of ceramic mugs and the other plastic mugs I've seen aren't made like this one. I'm not sure why I like it so much. Sentimental value I guess.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:18 / 23.02.03
Ooh, Mordant- a Bagpuss mug must surely rock.

My favourite one (well, it's not actually mine, but bear with me) is at my work. I have no idea who it originally belonged to, or whether they were taking the piss, but it's plain white, and has a smiley face on it, beneath which is writ "I'M A KEY PLAYER IN REVENUE GENERATION". Which always makes me laugh.
 
 
Van Plague?
18:41 / 23.02.03
I love this thread idea.

I have a few favourite mugs at the moment:

The oldest favourite came from my nephew, who was 3 years old when he picked it out. It is a bright yellow over-sized mug with pictures of Pooh bear smiling gaily, gorging on honey, and angrily flipping the bird (probably supposed to be a “thinking hard” pose). The bird flipping interpretation is even better because it was hand picked by a three year old that I love more than any other child in the world, who truly believes to this day (he is nine now) that his auntie really loves Winnie-the Pooh stuff.

Another favourite comes from same nephew. It is a tall mug that has a horribly tacky picture of a duck and her chick smiling lovingly at each other. He gave this to me shortly after our parrot joined our family and we had talked about why auntie doesn’t have kids. I explained to him that Gypsy was just like my kid in every way, save for species. He thought that was pretty funny/great and the mug came shortly thereafter. Ugly, but it makes me grin every time I use it.

A long time childhood favourite that resides at my parents’ home has a cheesy picture of a cat silhouetted in a windowsill, white bone china with blue glaze, three chips on the lip and one big crack down the side and will NEVER get tossed out for fear that eldest adult daughter will throw a large tantrum. The mug drives my mother nuts because she is quite particular about her dishes and this one is glaringly hideous beside her perfect matching sets.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
18:50 / 23.02.03
I don't have a favourite mug, though I have so many of the things that at one point my mother packed half of them away in a box labelled 'Mugs for the future'. What I do have is a Bunnykins bowl which I have had since the year dot. My sister has one too and we both use them when we go home - mine has a seesaw, hers has an artist bunny. My mother sneers at us for using them, my father pretends to find it terribly amusing (but we all know this is because he is still distraught that his parents gave his bunnykins bowl to their dog).
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:33 / 23.02.03
I have a Bunnykins mug and a heavy bunnykins porridge bowl. And they ROCK. And make me go all aww.

My favourite mug at the moment is one I've not used for a while as it's been packed up. But it's like a big builders' one - it's that dodgy brown mottled stoneware colour - glazed, so it's smooth - and holds approximately two mugs' worth of tea. It has chunky goodness attached.

And it doesn't poke my eye like the big green mug I've got that has a frog wearing a crown sitting on the handle, to remind me of my true nature.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:02 / 23.02.03
I have two, the first is a Hogwarts mug (yeah I'm that pathetic) and the second is made of stainless steel but has two layers so that it's not too hot to touch. Alas the steel belongs to my housemate who will no doubt whisk it away in June.
 
 
A
03:12 / 24.02.03
I'm "between" mugs at the moment. I had a Superman one that I really liked (even if it dated from his "mullet" period), but it got busted when I dropped a chopping board on it. I shall have to get myself a new one.
 
 
Lilith Myth
05:43 / 24.02.03
For no reason except it reminds me from home, is a pre-superior mug design, plain white ceramic, that says in red uncool-font "I'm a mug from Cheadle." There's no place like home.
 
 
doglikesparky
07:18 / 24.02.03
Mine's a big black mug with a silver Babylon 5 logo on one side and a silver picture of the station on the other side.

It's cool as hell - because i'm a nerd.
 
 
rizla mission
15:25 / 24.02.03
My favourite mug is (snigger) a big brown one.

There's nothing special about it, except it's really big and heavy and probably wouldn't break if you hit it with a hammer. Which somebody probably will do if I persist in not washing it for days on end.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
16:43 / 24.02.03
My mugs. I love my mugs. "Oh mugs, dear mugs, I love you all, but there are so many of you!"

Will it be:
BITE ME BEAT ME WHIP ME FUCK ME
I bought this one for a boyfriend with S/M tendencies and liked it so much I got one for myself. I love it for its exciting conical shape, the 50s-style dominatrix on the front, and the fact that it's a mug, for God's sake! What could possibly be less sexual than a mug?

WALLACE & GROMIT
Has a picture of Gromit looking aggressive and glum and n sore need of coffee, which saves me the trouble in the mornings. Also it's 1.5 times the capacity of mere workaday mugs. From my sister.

THE A-TEAM
Another gift from my sister. Needs no explanation. It's big and red and white and it rocks.

CARTMAN
Legend: "Screw you guys, I'm going home!" Big & fat like Eric. Sturdy, has a picture of Cartman on it. What more could a girl ask? Except for one which says the quote in a Cartman voice whenever you pick it up. I can dream ....
 
 
Lilith Myth
17:36 / 24.02.03
Off-topic, I know, but I have a t-shirt that says
BEAT ME
WHIP ME
PAY ME
I always find myself making new friends when I wear it.
 
 
that
17:41 / 24.02.03
Oh, dear lord, I so want that t-shirt.

I actually think, instead of the hanky code, people should design their own t-shirts with a list of their sexual orientation(s), proclivities, fetishes, etc. and get CafePress to print them. I nearly made myself a shirt that said Stone Switch on my site, but in the end I decided it sounded too much like a nu-metal band.
 
 
Brigade du jour
22:04 / 24.02.03
Big, like one and a half times the size of your average mug, with Bloom's Coffee, Portland, Oregon written on it.

A friend of mine gave it me for no better reason than simple generosity. For that she'll remain forever in my cool book.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
22:17 / 24.02.03
Current favourite is a big, big mug with an all-over love hearts print. V.comforting. (came filled with chocolates, not love hearts, of course. ? )

Used to have a Jarvis print mug someone made me, it was my pride and joy. But he rubbed off in the end.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:33 / 24.02.03
Chol: you should so make that shirt. In that Metallica font. It would rock.
 
 
that
07:45 / 25.02.03
Ha! Well maybe I will.
 
 
that
07:49 / 25.02.03
The Metallica font is a stroke of genius.
 
 
invisible_al
08:26 / 25.02.03
Well my Orc's Nest mug needs supergluing the handle back on but it's worth it. What more could you want than a picture of a gurning orc with it's tongue up it's nose on your coffee mug
 
 
Dances with Gophers
09:24 / 25.02.03
My favorite mug was Garfield on a broken bike given to me when I was a mad keen cyclist. Now it's to become home to a cactus. All replacement since the handle broke have also got broken. As the logo on the Garfield mug states Somethings aren't meant to be!
 
 
Cherry Bomb
09:56 / 25.02.03
My favorite mug is a very cute blue and white mug that my parents own and when you first look at it it looks like just a bunch of cuddly bunnies on a mug, but when you look closer you realize they're all bunnies fucking like bunnies! I'm so obvious sometimes...
 
 
Loomis
10:05 / 25.02.03
My favourite mug last year was painted exactly like a can of Heinz baked beans, and as they're of similar size you'd do a double-take if you saw it on the shelf. I used to love that mug, but alas it wasn't mine so when I moved out of that house we had to be parted. Sniff.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:42 / 25.02.03
Chol: just for you.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
14:16 / 25.02.03
wow.

Chol, you *must* get that made up.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:55 / 25.02.03
Does that have to do with the "are you a sponge or a stone?" question?
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
15:08 / 25.02.03
Have a mug somewhere showing Cartman with flames coming out of his bottom. I think it read Ow, my ass! but I can't be too sure.
 
 
that
15:19 / 25.02.03
Oh my god! Rothkoid, that is so damn cool - thank you!

Whisky: Stone is lesbian terminology. I'm not sure what the sponge or stone question is...?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:24 / 25.02.03
I used to have a big dark brown near-pint-sized Scooby Doo mug which I filled with strong coffee several times a day in my old job. When I left, I bequeathed it to the pale shadow of myself who took over custody of my unwieldy cudgels. That mug had magic(k)al powers.

Now my favourite mug is a large transparent glass one without a handle, kind of gothicky gobletty type mug, which takes over half a bottle of Rioja per fill.
 
  
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