Theres not really much you can say about crockery. It has a handle, and it stops your tea from sploshing all over your lap. It isn’t really very exciting, or much likely to get you respect down the local pub.
Unless you’re packing The Mug! (From now on my grammar will get all squiffy because you can’t write The Mug! without the ‘!’. It’s, like, a rule). The good people at Thabto let me get my unworthy female hands on what is truly the most masculine mug I’ve ever seen. Honestly, if it had any more testosterone, I’d have a moustache by now.
The Mug! is very much a case of what you see is what you get. It’s a cup. But its a damned big cup, and theres a knuckle duster attached to one side, as a novelty handle. It does actually look pretty cool, and if you’re in an office where people keep stealing your tea cup then it’s not likely to go missing in a hurry since it’s so distinctive. It could do with some colour (I’ve seen pictures of possibly customised Mug!s with blood splatters on the cup area, which looked pretty cool) but over all it’s a very unique idea.
My only real issue with The Mug! is that it’s evidently designed for men. Not because of the weapon element, but because the finger holes in the knuckle dusters are rather far apart, as you can see from the photos (all taken in my kitchen I’ll have you know, in the name of investigative blogging). It’s uncomfortable to hold if you have smaller hands. There needs to be a ladies equivalent methinks. It is a great size though. Bigger than your average mug, so you get more tea for your troubles. Or hot chocolate in my case- I hope I didn’t devalue the manliness with my girly drink?
Ability to pick the thing up nonwithstanding, The Mug! is a cool little gadget. It looks stylish in a ganster thug kinda way. And the company make it very clear that The Mug! is a ‘drinking vessel’ not a weapon- it says so twice on the back of the box, and once on the bottom of The Mug! itself. Hows that for health and safety?
Enjoy your tea fellas, safe in the assurance that you’ll look so hard drinking it no one will dare try to steal it or try and tell you to do some work.
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