Favourite Coffee/tea Mug

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    Then you’ve done well to manage more than 19k messages in the brief time you are.
     
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    david-bowie-ziggy-stardust-mug-1.23.jpg Bought by my son who has also turned into Bowie freak. Everyone knows not to use this or put in the dishwasher. Serious consequences would happen.
     
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    Funny, I didn’t notice the K West sign before and I’ve had that album for ten years! My first thought was it had been superimposed on the original cover art as Kanye West is a big Bowie fan.
     
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    Ban please.
     
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    I used to have one with Milla Jovovich on a little while back. Loved it, but smashed it accidently when drying it up. I cannot find another one online with the exact design anywhere.
     
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    Charlie Buchan... Good lord.
     
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    Milk in the cup first if you're using a teapot. If brewing in the mug, milk in last. Tea needs to brew and infuse at near boiling and cold milk prevents that.
     
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    But he got the ball so no foul.
    Those were the days.
     
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    It gets on my **** when someone gets overly prescriptive on a matter of trivial preference like saying a bacon sarnie HAS to be brown sauce or crumble HAS to be custard not ice cream.

    But on this matter I’m shocked, appalled and frankly sickened at your method. Tea bag in the cup, boiling water, leave it well alone for five minutes and then remove the bag and splash in a little bit of semi skimmed.

    Then comes the sugar if you’re seven years old or a complete fanny.
     
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    Didn't he wind people up saying that he's the only one capable of covering Bowie songs...
     
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    Logged in just to like that.

    In life, there are several key giveaways to a persons trust rating. Sugar in tea is one of those giveaways. Never, and I mean never, trust someone who has sugar in their tea. If I have any of the trades round for a quote I always ask them if they want a cup, if they say yes and with x sugars please then they won't be getting the job.
     
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    Brother in law has four. FOUR chuffing sugars in his tea. I want to be a good host to people but it breaks my heart a little bit when I make him a brew. He’s a great lad too but I’ll never truly be able to accept him as family because of this tea issue.
     
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    Starting from the age of nine, it took me a fair while to appreciate tea because my parents insisted I should have either tea without sugar or none at all.

    I suppose Filbert you’re going to say they were right as for the last twenty odd years I have always had tea without milk or sugar. :)
     
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    Any tradesman who wants tea in a cup can do one ..
    Proper salt of the earth tradespeople have builders tea in a mug mate ..
     
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    Yes, but the phrase is not “Would you like a mug of tea?”
     
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    I don’t consider myself to be particularly OCD about things, except tea and coffee mugs. My “special” WFC mug is a 1982 signed mug to commemorate promotion to Division 1. But I only use it for tea - never coffee - and only use it on match days. I have certain mugs I like for tea and other, different, mugs that I like for coffee. I have no idea why.
    I also have to have specific cutlery at home - a “small”, rather than “big” fork, a specific spoon if I’m eating cereal and a different knife depending on if it’s for eating with or being used to spread something on toast.
    Actually, writing this, it’s occurring to me that maybe Mr HH was right when he claimed I was like Sally from “When Harry Met Sally” - high maintenance but thinks they’re low maintenance...
     
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    Is he a fat *******?
     
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    Nope, he’s RAF.

    Go figure.
     
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    Maybe not in your house, but in ours it’s “Would you like some tea” - yes- “is it OK in a mug”?

    Of course the posh well spoken tradespeople that fancy dans can afford may well reply “no thankyou, I only take my tea in cup and could you please ensure that it’s Earl Grey”.
    No offence
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    We don’t actually possess any teacups so if we asked someone if they wanted a cup of tea, a mug would ensue.
     
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    You farking plebs - tea is served in a подстака́нник.
     
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    One of them’s not practical mate ..
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    Alice in Wonderland espresso and tea set.
     
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    I saw on QI once, that most people can't even tell the difference between red and white wine, in a blind test, if the red is chilled and the white is room temp, though I haven't tested the theory myself.
     
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    Yep, the whole scone **** between Cornwall and Devon is a prime example. Something that only a dullard would find important enough to argue about.

    I like brown sauce and ketchup both on a bacon sarnie, but I'll take one or the other, or even butter at a push. None of it will kill me.

    However, I have sugar in coffee. I find your insistence of the way to drink it totally out of keeping with your position on the weird fetishes people have about how other people consume their food and beverage.

    Tea and coffee don't taste that nice. A single sugar (or sweetener) gives it the palatability it needs against the natural bitterness of the raw ingredients. I don't drink tea though, but if I did, it'd have 1 sugar in it. And no milk.
     
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    Five minutes is way too long (scum forms on the top), unless you drink out of a Sports Direct mug. Then 24 hours is about right.
     
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    I don’t drink plain coffee much (quite like cappuccino and espresso though), and when I do I’m pretty fussy about what I add to it - a dash of milk and a little sugar, no more, no less. Or if I’ve had little to no sleep, I have a strong black one, purely for medicinal purposes.

    As for the red/white wine thing, that surprised me because they’re quite different in flavour and sweetness and I can’t see how the temperature would make that much difference. I’m not a great fan of red TBH, and unlike other types of wine, I find I can only enjoy it with food.
     
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    I bet you like beer too, only with lots of lemonade. ;)
     
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    Get a kettle with a water filter and you can let that baby stew for as long as you like.
     
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    I have sugar in instant coffee because that really doesn’t taste nice. I like the rich, bitter flavour of tea so no sugar in that but I was taking the anti sugar stance for a slight comic effect.

    Black, thick as tar coffee is my go to. I’ve cut right back now but I used to make coffee every morning in one of those stovetop espresso kettle things. I’d drink a mug of that, so about 10 shots of espresso I guess and have a fag with it for my breakfast before work. They were dark days. No wonder the ex who I lived with at the time hated me, my breathe must have smelled absolutely appalling.
     
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    Oi, now listen ‘ere, the scone controversy is a vital part of everyday debate in the West Country.
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    Jam on top is the proper Devonshire Devonian English way.
    Anywhere across the Tamar’s not even in England ffs.

    Some people down ‘ere think jam on top or not is a matter of life or death, but I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
     
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    I used to have about 12 double espresso strength coffees per day. If using a filter machine or caffetierre, I would make it so strong as to repel colleagues who would water it down 2/1 just to make it drinkable.

    I've now massively scaled back due to the jitters, edginess and volatile temper it was giving me, combined with the inability to sleep.
     
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    **** off Devon scum.
     
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