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Tiny Easter Egg Mugs

  • 02-04-2013 09:12PM
    #1
    Koptain Liverpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 505 ✭✭✭


    I've only gotten around to opening my Yorkie easter egg now and to say I'm disappointed would be an understatement. The box claims to contain 'Milk Chocolate Egg with 2 Yorkie Bars and a Yorkie Mug'. The chocolate is up to scratch but look at the state of the mug.

    It's not a mug, it wouldn't hold half a cup of tea.


    I got a smarties egg/mug last year and the mug was great but guess what - they didn't sell it this year. Every egg with a mug had the same ****ty mug.
    The mugs used to be great when I was a kid. I'm fed up with this downsizing. First cereal toys went, now this.............


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  • #2
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Koptain Liverpool wrote: »
    I've only gotten around to opening my Yorkie easter egg now and to say I'm disappointed would be an understatement. The box claims to contain 'Milk Chocolate Egg with 2 Yorkie Bars and a Yorkie Mug'. The chocolate is up to scratch but look at the state of the mug.

    It's not a mug, it wouldn't hold half a cup of tea.


    I got a smarties egg/mug last year and the mug was great but guess what - they didn't sell it this year. Every egg with a mug had the same ****ty mug.
    The mugs used to be great when I was a kid. I'm fed up with this downsizing. First cereal toys went, now this.............


    Anything to use as a scale OP?

    In fairness that mug could be the size of a barn. Without placing it beside something to use as a scale, we'll never really know.


  • #3
    666irishguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭666irishguy


    The handle is the biggest part of it.


  • #4
    Koptain Liverpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 505 ✭✭✭Koptain Liverpool


    No don't have scale picture but trust me its small.

    What makes it especially small is the way it narrows down.

    I remember when I was young having a Yorkie mug that held 3/4 pint of tea!! Now that was a mug


  • #5
    Steve O
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Steve O


    It's not for girls...


  • #6
    lachin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 250 ✭✭lachin


    Ya but you can't have the egg looking small then!


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  • #7
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    SamHall wrote: »
    Anything to use as a scale OP?

    In fairness that mug could be the size of a barn. Without placing it beside something to use as a scale, we'll never really know.

    A bic biro is the usual object used for scale comparisons.

    But if the biro is also the size of a barn then we're none the wiser.


  • #8
    Chemical Burn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Chemical Burn


    Koptain Liverpool wrote: »
    I've only gotten around to opening my Yorkie easter egg now and to say I'm disappointed would be an understatement. The box claims to contain 'Milk Chocolate Egg with 2 Yorkie Bars and a Yorkie Mug'. The chocolate is up to scratch but look at the state of the mug.

    It's not a mug, it wouldn't hold half a cup of tea.


    I got a smarties egg/mug last year and the mug was great but guess what - they didn't sell it this year. Every egg with a mug had the same ****ty mug.
    The mugs used to be great when I was a kid. I'm fed up with this downsizing. First cereal toys went, now this.............

    I got one of these from my mammy in law and I'm very happy with it :) I drink very concentrated coffee (7 table spoons) and fill the aforementioned cup with water.


  • #9
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123


    They get smaller every year...


  • #10
    Tearwave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭Tearwave


    What if you are a leprechaun, then this new trend would be more beneficial.


  • #11
    tempura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭tempura


    egg in a cup.JPG

    Boo hoo op, this is what I call small !


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  • #12
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    Its small so it makes us manly men feel strong like ox as our hands devour it.

    It's not for girls.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    SamHall wrote: »
    Anything to use as a scale OP?

    In fairness that mug could be the size of a barn. Without placing it beside something to use as a scale, we'll never really know.

    Yeh OP, lob your willy up beside it there and take a pic, we'll have a much better idea then.


  • #14
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yeh OP, lob your willy up beside it there and take a pic, we'll have a much better idea then.

    He might have a monstrous willy?

    Making me feel less manly.

    I object.


  • #15
    Mr Cumulonimbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Mr Cumulonimbus


    SamHall wrote: »
    Anything to use as a scale OP?

    In fairness that mug could be the size of a barn. Without placing it beside something to use as a scale, we'll never really know.

    Smaller alright. Old v new. Erm, the handle is bigger????


  • #16
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    I never got why Easter Eggs came with mugs in the first place...?


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    I never got why Easter Eggs came with mugs in the first place...?

    Egg cup?


  • #18
    Mr Cumulonimbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Mr Cumulonimbus


    Imagine the outrage if they shrank them further...........


  • #19
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Egg cup?

    I see the link but still don't get it tbh


  • #20
    tempura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭tempura


    Mr Cumulonimbus wrote: »
    Imagine the outrage if they shrank them further...........


    Your floor needs a sweep. :D


  • #21
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭hfallada


    In Italy a cup of coffee is like 100 ml of quality. Here it's a bucket of watery piss. Irish people are size queens. The bigger the better regardless of if it's good


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  • #22
    Mr Cumulonimbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Mr Cumulonimbus


    tempura wrote: »
    Your floor needs a sweep. :D

    Aye. Cameras in phones are getting too good!


  • #23
    Steve O
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Steve O


    Mr Cumulonimbus wrote: »
    Imagine the outrage if they shrank them further...........


    One more time Dougal, OK, one last time. This cup is small... but the one out there is far away.


  • #24
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    hfallada wrote: »
    In Italy a cup of coffee is like 100 ml of quality. Here it's a bucket of watery piss. Irish people are size queens. The bigger the better regardless of if it's good

    Different style of coffee brah.

    The espresso is the one that comes in the tiny cup but is the strongest and gets diluted with water over here for a regular coffee called an americano, so bigger and not as full as an Italian.

    Murica


  • #25
    Rayne Wooney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    Mr Cumulonimbus wrote: »
    Imagine the outrage if they shrank them further...........

    Dust on top of skirting board is distracting me


  • #26
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Koptain Liverpool wrote: »
    The mugs used to be great when I was a kid. I'm fed up with this downsizing. First cereal toys went, now this.............

    Agreed. I still have the Bosco mug I must have got over 20 years ago, now that's a man-mug.
    I'm pretty sure the lead based paint on it still adds to the flavour all these years later.


  • #27
    Mr Cumulonimbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Mr Cumulonimbus


    Rayne Wooney wrote: »
    Dust on top of skirting board is distracting me

    Ethernet cable running along the top of it plus peeling paint? Must admit I took a closer look. Now I'm getting paranoid......


  • #28
    Koptain Liverpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 505 ✭✭✭Koptain Liverpool


    mloc123 wrote: »
    They get smaller every year...

    Exactly. Absolutely scandelous. I'm starting a petition


  • #29
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yeh OP, lob your willy up beside it there and take a pic, we'll have a much better idea then.
    lkionm wrote: »
    He might have a monstrous willy?

    Making me feel less manly.

    I object.

    Or.....

    He could have a tiny one, therefore making the cup look like a five gallon drum in comparison.

    Poor OP, your life is full of dilemmas.


    Get your lad out.......


  • #30
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    SamHall wrote: »
    Or.....

    He could have a tiny one, therefore making the cup look like a five gallon drum in comparison.

    Poor OP, your life is full of dilemmas.


    Get your lad out.......

    I'll feel even more emasculated knowing I do not own the largest mug on boards.

    Can we lock this thread, it is making me depressed I do not have a 5 gallon drum of a mug


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