Describe your coffee mug thusly

Not very fancy, but keeps coffee warm for hours. (I make myself a cup first thing in the morning, and that usually lasts me through lunch.)

I'm really sorry this is irritating Mark P. I am sad now.

At home, my favorite is a white Cafe du Monde mug from New Orleans, or a black oversized Farscape mug.

I was totally joking. As far as I know, there is no official "This is A Low" mug, or I would have already bought and broken it.

I drink coffee from one just like this every morning.

We just got an exciting cafetiere that is also a Thermos! Evenings on the beach have acquired a whole new fresh-coffee-shaped dimension!

I don't often drink tea or coffee at my desk though so I haven't got a mug to describe.

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The ones I actually drink out of are many and varied, though at work I mostly drink out of whatever paper cup my morning coffee happens to have been purchased in.

http://www.crateandbarrel.com/images/itemgroup/Drinkware%5CPintTumbler_lg.jpg

Mine is now sadly empty of the extra-strength iced latte I made a few minutes ago.

wakes you right up

!!!

that's what I'm currently drinking out of

Also I have a ton of Japanese manekineko mugs to distract people with. Am very fussy about mugs.

Work:

Safety Thirst, just a standard mug with Safety Thirst written on it.
One with a green bus on it.
One with a guy sitting on a donkey.

Home:

Garfield one.
One with an old fashoined car and James written on it.
One with balloons on it.

I really need a cup with a guitar and Jel written on it. I am very possessive of my mugs, they're all I've got.

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The other is white, and says "CUPE Works!", with a CUPE BC logo below. it's the Canadian Union of Public Employees, btw, for those who don't know.

...or the mug I got from Iron Maiden.com.

Though I just recently received one from the American Red Cross with their logo and "Thanks For Donating Blood" on it so I've been thinking of retiring the Ford mug after 12+ years of service.

Then a fish thing, then: The rest of us think you're a wanker

My mum saw it and thought I'd got religion.

It is currently lined with 2 week old tea and some mould. Yes, I am a slob.

Someone has NICKED my work mug, which makes me very upset.

My coffee mug is a huge yellow and orange mug with a red heffalump on it. HSA has a much cuter mug, with Louis Wain corkscrew-tailed cats on it, but he's too scared of breaking it to use it.

"RELAX, THERE'S A WOMAN ON THE JOB"

(And I'm not talking about HSA's Moomins coffee mugs which we're not allowed to use for every day use in case they get broken either.)

my chances of getting a good answer of this are not good, but...

what is the best affordable coffee mug? i just lost my beloved coffee mug of the last 4-5 years. i need a new one, but if i'm going to use one for 1/10th of my life i want it to be a good one.

oh, and i'm talking travel mug, if that wasn't apparent, not the open lid kind that you drink from while watching cartoons

affordable?? I had no idea non-affordable coffee mugs existed xp

oh okay

still tho, is there really a difference? you put coffee in it and it keeps it warm and you can get one for $5. why do you need a powermug?

i'm going to great lengths to avoid someone posting a picture of a coffee mug with HDTV embedded in it or whatever. i want REALISTIC options here!

there IS a difference. for example, for my birthday the other day, i received a coffee mug. and it turned out that with every sip, it leaked coffee all over my shirt and crotch. word on the street is that the mug was $5. i knew there and then that i needed a powermug

but I have used non-powermugs that didn't leak coffee all over my shirt. what other benefits come with powermug other than that and HDTV?

there's also the "how long does it keep the coffee hot" factor

there's ease of cleaning

does it have a handle? if so, how is the grip?

special buttons

durability!

shape of the mug, the grip factor

OH SHIT, look at mug #16 in this:

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/product-testing/reviews-tests/food-beverages/best-travel-coffee-mugs

Pros: You can sip from anywhere around the perimeter of the lid thanks to a large, push-button opening in the center of the mug's top.

that is a fucking POWERMUG

well I guess if these are all $20 or so that's not so bad

whoops, i meant #14, not #16.

but look at #15! TIME MUG, with embedded clock on the front, whoa!

they all pretty much seem the same to me tho, except some have handles

I used to fuck w/ zojirushi double walled thermoses but they keep the coffee hot for too long. also they're heavy.

you'd make tea at 6 AM in the morning and by 5PM in the evening it'd finally be cool enough to drink

they keep the coffee hot for too long.

impossible! i'm a slow sipper, so this actually sounds good to me.

also they're heavy.

for some reason, that really appeals to me!

if that's the case, go to amazon.com and type in 'zojirushi mug' into the search bar, my man... I think you'll like what you find. I guarantee it.

don't be that theonion.com guy who spent $5000 and a year of his life finding the... perfect mug

ok, it's down to these two:

http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-SM-AB35XA-Stainless-Steel-Tuff-Mug/dp/B0016S4T16/ref=sr_1_3?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1305861237&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.com/Thermos-16-Ounce-Vacuum-Insulated-Tumbler-Stainless/dp/B0039SLSU6/ref=pd_sbs_hg_5

is the top one the one you had, dayo? the tuff mug? i like it, but is that a sticker on the front that peels off, or a permanent logo? i'd like to go logo-less

Zojirushi's Tuff Mug is unbreakable

we'll see about that, amazon.com, we will see

no I bought a mug with a tea strainer I can't find the model anymore but I think it's like that nissan mug in one of the links you posted

I think it's a sticker, I could do some ~investigative journalism~ for you and stop in at one of the numerous zojirushi displays here in asia later

it's too late, i bought the Thermos Sipp 16-Ounce Vacuum-Insulated Travel Tumbler, first because it's almost called the Tumblr, but mainly because of this A-type review:

I bought this tumbler for my girlfriend. When I got it home; I opened it and poured in water from the teakettle. Using a instant read food thermometer I checked the temp. I started at 206 deg, closed the lid and let it set. at 1 hour the temp was 193 deg. At 2 hours 182 deg; at 4 hours 164 deg; and at 6 hours temp was still 152 degrees. over a 6 hours period the temp only decreased 54 degrees. During my test I noticed that the outside of the cup did not feel at all warm to the touch; the only part that changed at all was the top and then only slightly warmer. I also tested the seal by turning the cup upside down for one of the hours with no leaks at all.

I have a Sbux one Mr Veg gave me for Christmas a few years ago...I can fill it with coffee at 7am and coffee will still be hot at 9am. It's pretty awesome. Stainless steel inside easy to clean, pretty good seal in the lid, has lasted me a long time.

It makes me ;_; to go back to the cheapass travel mug I used to use...leaks all over the place and coffee is practically cold by the time you put the lid on

and coffee is practically cold by the time you put the lid on

I think your mistake here was using a travel mug made out of ice

still highly, highly skeptical of powermugs tbh

stupid eskimo travel mugs

revisit!

when i was in law school i kept seeing this green mug on a ledge in the ladies' room, day after day. no one claimed it so i took it. it's pretty nice. i've had it for like 9 years now.

You may now describe it thusly!

bathroom mug is still a bathroom mug, you know

Big, maybe half liter, Starbucks with white silhouettes of London landmarks on a black background

It's very me I like to think

Maybe 350-400ml, cheap-feeling, white with a big b&w photo of Viktor Tsoi playing the guitar.

A yellow medium sized cup with the global alarm installation mega-company ADT logo on it, and their "Always There" slogan written underneath. It reminds me I used to do something in the wider world and get paid for it and perhaps it might be some meta-commentary on mortality or something.

the mug will always be a bathroom mug, yes, that is why no one wanted it. i love to take abandoned and unwanted things. my cat was in the shelter for months. no one wanted her because she was a shy cat. she goes with the green mug.

we only use the beer tankards from ikea as mugs. I think it fits about 20oz, 60cl. When we go to UK, EU we actually take a couple with us because we can't stand the tiny mugs there. And we tend to drink ice coffee so it withstands hot liquids and you are able to put ice in it.

harbl <3

Can we see a pic of the cat and her mug please?

The whimsical stoneware Owl Buddy Mug features hand-illustrated, fine-feathered friends against a straw-colored field, with a creamy interior and narrow brown rim.

Definite notes of whimsy in every sip.

It’s a good sized white mug with a nice weight to it that used to have United States Secret Service stuff printed on it in a nice shade of blue, but the dishwasher scalded that off a while ago so now it’s just plain white like it came from a big box housewares store.

Heh as opposed to the hi quality gov stock where the paint comes off in the wash right

Mine is a heavy ceramic job that's as wide as it is tall, with a big handle you can get four fingers into. It holds 16 ounces. The inside is white (as white as I can keep it), the rim is black, and the outside is bright orange speckled with tasteful white and black speckles.

the dishwasher scalded that off a while ago so now it’s just plain white

more secret that way

mine is artisanal

it looks like a product of the earth

instead of a handle it has a hand-warmer pocket of empty space folded into the side

my coffee mug prior to my current one

I want everybody to know that I am motivated in my coffee drinking by the prospect of seeing gudetama's bare ass pic.twitter.com/CNOxfeazkD

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My current is a mid-80s white ceramic mug with a picture of the racehorse Ferdinand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_(horse)

I most likely received this mug as a free entry gift to the 1986 Kentucky Derby, which Ferdinand one.

Much to the outrage of many horse racing enthusiasts, reports indicate that in 2002, Ferdinand was sent to slaughter in Japan with no fanfare or notice to previous owners. He likely became either pet food or steaks for human consumption.[1]

one = won

Ferdinand I

lol

In approximate order of acquisition:

Your-olde-name mug with image of olde motor car gifted by grandfather who died circa preteens and acquired or at least produced in metro Miami to which I've never been anywhere close but in which my Dad oddly spent a few years growing up. Still in use, moreso than in childhood, but design fading sufficiently that it should maybe be retired soon.

Elaborately-drawn (vaguely Russian?) oceanic-themed heavyweight childhood cocoa mug I believe still somewhere in the depths of storage

(25+ year) Old Starbucks mug with colorful (but similarly sadly fading) logo of one of their early geographically-described bean varieties. Still in use and favorite for combo of design and satisfying weight/width.

Plastic camping mug(s) from high school-age western backpacking trips with outfitter logo, no longer in use (also in storage?)

20+ year old plastic travel mug from local public radio station, no longer in use

Frank Lloyd Wright art-glass-design-printed mug retired due to fading

Decade-old plastic camping mug from adult western backpacking trip with outfitter logo, no longer in use

Unique and nice dark ceramic mug with logo of umbrella public interest advocacy organization under which friend runs a program; largely unused

Several-year-old tiny espresso mug in deeply satisfying le creuset color

Recent gift of tourist mug with stylized pencil-drawn skyline of prominent western Canadian city in its typical colours. In use.

More recent gift of weighty, richly-textured outdoor-western-themed gag mug, sometimes home to small, excitable grizzly bear

It is very rare for me to put any sort of hot beverage in any but the creates

i have a lovely handmade mug from Bendigo Pottery that mum gave me for xmas one year

my current fave is a Bobs Burgers mug
it has Louise on it and says
WHY DONT YOU SPEAK TO ME IN WORDS INSTEAD OF YOUR DAMN DIRTY LIES <3

Heh as opposed to the hi quality gov stock where the paint comes off in the wash right

Believe the USSS zippo is in storage as well

large faded "The Brown Mug - use it again and again and again ..." rescued from unwanted kitchen items box in the house I lived in in college 20+ years ago. one of my housemates had converted a similar mug into a bong for a different type of fading.

^ holds approx 32 oz of coffee

How much does the NIST mug hold

5E15 femtoliters

Keep cup, glass, green silicone band, red lid, small. I wish they did a 6oz one in glass.

i need a new travel mug

Beige (the color of coffee with too much milk), tall and slim, from ikea
The diameter of the top fits my drip apparatus perfectly

tmi calstars

Ah lads

If you teach grade school, and you drink a lot of coffee at work, and your students see you drink a lot of coffee at work, by the time you retire, you'll have enough coffee mugs to stock a Starbucks.