Tea Cups Without Handles

[sandyRoe]

Was the thought behind the design that if it was cool enough to lift the contents would be cool enough to drink?

[sandyRoe]

Nobody have any thoughts on this rivetting topic?

[bookbinder]

https://blog.teabox.com/teacup-got-handle

[bookbinder]

sandyRoe, I have, just this minute, seen your rivetting topic, and I felt - I just knew - that I had to reply. I hope that you find my reply as rivetting as your question, and I hasten to add that I think of nothing else.

[puzzled54]

A local trendy place uses cups with no handles. First time I went there I thought they had served my coffee in a sugar bowl. After that, I started asking for a cup with a handle. Last time (and it will be the last time I go there) they served my coffee and told me to be careful as it was hot. I remarked that it wouldn't be a problem if they had handles on their cups! 

[dustypuss]

I don't think I can handle this thread

[nicebloke1]

Sorry but I have my own fair share of puzzles to work out.

[douglas9401]

No Sandy, it was to avoid people having to go to great expense buying left-handed and right-handed cups and mugs.

[nicebloke1]

Thinking about it, I really dont think it worked out that way. The Chinese are always squinting, hence the slanted eyes. They must be burning their fingers.

[wolf63]

I can burn my fingers even when the cup has handles.  Cups with no handles seems stupid, must come from the land of the stupid people.  USA😂

[barry1010]

Bowls were invented long before they thought about putting handles on them.

It never was a decision to have cups without handles, that's just what they were

[Canary42]

There's the same options in a pub when it comes to pints (and halfs) of beer.

That's nothing to do with cool enough to drink.

Some folk say (not something I subscribe to I add) that the handle one are for heteros and the handle-less ones for homos.

[barry1010]

I'm so hetero I cried like a baby when the pub got rid of those manly, heavy dimpled pint pots with handles.

 

[DTCwordfan]

that's how it used to be served.......in cups like the Arabs drink coffee out of now.

[wolf63]

I don't like drinking from a pint glass with handles.  I want a delicate and pretty glass for my Pepsi or Lemonade.

[DTCwordfan]

Who comes up with that shytte, canary?

 

All those folk above the Mersey/Humber line and probably a lot to the south to be 'homo'??? - that's the inference and makes it the height of idiocy and probably the most inane/insane suggestion of the year. 

The straight glass is the preferred one up there and, if I have a beer/lager/cider, which is now a rare event, my preference too, having been born north of the 'Dixie Line'.

[dustypuss]

Have you ever had one of those stupid cups  where the handle is so small that you can't get your finger through the hole.

[DTCwordfan]

pinky up, dustypuss!

[Cloverjo]

This reminds me of a time years ago when my boyfriend and I asked for a pint of beer and an orange juice. My beer came in a big 'macho' dimple-glassed handled mug. His orange juice was in a tiny 'lady' glass. 

[Old_Geezer]

Are you sure your cup handles haven't simply broken off ?

 

If you have no handles it isn't a cup, it's a bowl. (And even some bowls have handles.) So your question is invalid.

[Countrylover]

Oh, you are  lot of mugs!