That bastard of a garage coffee cup lid !!!

Colash

How is it that no matter how hard you try to secure the white lids on garage coffee cups, it still spills all over your jeans and shirt !!!

anncoates

You put the wrong sized lid on.

Muise...

get a flask!

Colash

anncoates wrote: »

You put the wrong sized lid on.

I spent a good few seconds checking and double checking the lid after I secured it and still a spillage . I usually don't moan this much lol

WilyCoyote

Flagons of Cider are screw top

vandriver

Thinly veiled 'I can still afford shop bought coffee' thread

anncoates

Colash wrote: »

I spent a good few seconds checking and double checking the lid after I secured it and still a spillage . I usually don't moan this much lol

Probably your hand squeezing the cup popped the lid off.

I always keep my thumb pressed hard on top of the fuckers to stop the lid popping off.

Kenny Logins

Yeah, wrong size lid. Happened to me once, and a lad from the deli immediately ran out with a cloth (good lad), he then mentioned that it had been happening all morning because they got the wrong lids in (stupid kid).

Colash

vandriver wrote: »

Thinly veiled 'I can still afford shop bought coffee' thread

€1.50 is stretching the wallet seriously in today's downturn !!

anncoates

Colash wrote: »

€1.50 is stretching the wallet seriously!!

Would you not get a bigger wallet?

Muise...

vandriver wrote: »

Thinly veiled 'I can still afford shop bought coffee' thread

Shop bought coffee is rank! Mocha pot coffee in a flask with a cup for a lid is both cheaper and way more expensive-tasting.

Temptamperu

Dont put the little drinking hole on the side of the cup with the seam.

Muise... wrote: »

Shop bought coffee is rank! Mocha pot coffee in a flask with a cup for a lid is both cheaper and way more expensive-tasting.

What does expensive taste of?

sidneykidney

Temptamperu wrote: »

Dont put the little drinking hole on the side of the cup with the seam.



What does expensive taste of?

Swan :pac:

Muise...

Temptamperu wrote: »

Dont put the little drinking hole on the side of the cup with the seam.



What does expensive taste of?

Black velvet ink from a poet's pen.

Shop bought coffee tastes like mud from the ruins after a fire has been put out.

bumper234

The answer to all of your problems

http://www.starbucksstore.com/starbucks-reserve-stainless-steel-tumbler-16-fl-oz/011020993,default,pd.html?&srule=Featured&start=0&sz=16&cgid=tumblers-and-travel-mugs

Alf Veedersane

Muise... wrote: »

Black velvet ink from a poet's pen.

Shop bought coffee tastes like mud from the ruins after a fire has been put out.

Maybe it is mud.

And the sugar is actually dandruff.

jester77

wtf type of a cup is a garage coffee cup so that I know to avoid it?

Maybe they had oil in it beforehand and it was slippy!

MagicMarker

vandriver wrote: »

Thinly veiled 'I can still afford shop bought coffee' thread

Where else are you going to buy it?

Banjo String

Topaz Thai veg soup ftw

jester77

MagicMarker wrote: »

Where else are you going to buy it?

Apparently in a garage!

Colash

I must admit though , Topaz lids are like the gates of Alcatraz . Nothing is getting through them bad boys !!!

Baze

What I hate is when you're getting tea and put the cup under the wrong spout, resulting in boiling water scalding the back of your hand.

Just me? That's what I thought.

I also hate when they have no cardboard sleeves and gets too hot to hold and so you end up dropping it on the way to the car.

Just me? That's what I thought.

bumper234

Baze wrote: »

What I hate is when you're getting tea and put the cup under the wrong spout, resulting in boiling water scalding the back of your hand.

Just me? That's what I thought.

I also hate when they have no cardboard sleeves and gets too hot to hold and so you end up dropping it on the way to the car.

Just me? That's what I thought.

Double up the cups FTW

Triangla

My manager showed me this morning how she just spilt coffee down the front of her shirt.

She has huge kahunas.

I won't have a bad word said against them lids.

Muise...

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Maybe it is mud.

And the sugar is actually dandruff.

and let's not think about the milk.

FreshKnickers

Worst country song ever.

Capt'n Midnight

Temptamperu wrote: »

What does expensive taste of?

Mermaid's tears.

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.livescience.com/20246-coffee-spill-walking.html

Ever wondered why it's so hard to walk with a cup of coffee without spilling? It just so happens that the human stride has almost exactly the right frequency to drive the natural oscillations of coffee, when the fluid is in a typically sized coffee mug. New research shows that the properties of mugs, legs and liquid conspire to cause spills, most often at some point between your seventh and tenth step.

Frosty McSnowballs

Always take the third/fourth one down.

A guy I know takes ridiculous amounts of pleasure in running his manky fingers around the part you drink out of.

Mint Sauce

Even worse when someone spills it in my car.

dmc17

Colash wrote: »

How is it that no matter how hard you try to secure the white lids on garage coffee cups, it still spills all over your jeans and shirt !!!

There's a hole in the lid. It allows you to drink it without taking off the lid.

Sky King

OP place the coffee on a flat surface before you attach the lid, dont try to just hold it in one hand and put the lid on with the other like a spa.

When choosing a flat surface, move away from the coffee machine, don't stay there stirring in your sugar thoughtfully while a queue of enraged caffeine deprived consumers forms behind you

Cork selfbuild

When you put the lid on, twist it a quarter, and as mentioned earlier make sure not lined up to seems... makes a better seal...

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Always take the third/fourth one down.

A guy I know takes ridiculous amounts of pleasure in running his manky fingers around the part you drink out of.

Not I feel less weird for never taking the top lid on the pile...

Baze

bumper234 wrote: »

Double up the cups FTW

I did that in Londis on Dame St a few weeks back and the twonk guy on the till said he was charging me 50c for the extra cup :cool:

Sir Arthur Daley

The best answer to elusive coffee lids is insulating tape.

Capt'n Midnight

WikiHow wrote: »

The best answer to elusive coffee lids is insulating tape.

LOL
that stuff isn't water proof and it gets real tacky when it gets hot


http://www.livescience.com/20246-coffee-spill-walking.html

Coffee drinkers often attempt to walk quickly with their cups, as if they might manage to reach their destination before their sloshing java waves reach a critical height. This method is scientifically flawed. It turns out that the faster you walk, the closer your gait comes to the natural sloshing frequency of coffee. To avoid driving the oscillations that lead to a spillage, walk slowly.
...
Secondly, watch your cup, not your feet. The researchers found that when study participants focused on their cups, the average number of steps they took before spilling coffee increased greatly
...
Third, accelerate gradually. If you take off suddenly, a huge coffee wave will build up almost instantly, and it will crash over the rim after just a few steps.

But the best way to prevent coffee spilling might be to find an unusual cup. According to Krechetnikov, ideas from liquid sloshing engineering studies, which historically were done to stabilize fuel tanks inside missiles, indicate three possibilities for spill-free cup designs: "a flexible container to act as a sloshing absorber in suppressing liquid oscillations, a series of annular ring baffles arranged around the inner wall of the container to achieve sloshing suppression, or a different shape cup."

SamAK

Muise... wrote: »

Shop bought coffee is rank! Mocha pot coffee in a flask with a cup for a lid is both cheaper and way more expensive-tasting.

Amen brother!

I also have a mocha pot and bean grinder so I enjoy coffee almost as fresh as is practically possible every morning

But hey if people want to spend up to three quid every day for a cup of decent coffee that's up to them!

Topaz serves piss-in-a-cup compared to my freshly ground and brewed Illy single roast! Or the Colombian musicas I had last week, dat sh1t was bangin'!