Bath in a Cup

So, I don't know if it's a midwest thing (though, I'm pretty sure it is) is the use of the GIANT coffee/soda mugs.  Not big as in 20-30 oz, I'm talking HUGE, as in 60-80-100 or more ounces.  You know, the ones with the large bore flexy straw/hose shooting out of the lid; with the little cap for the end of the straw, as if that's going to make it sanitary.  You still don't know?  Well here's an example. (and to give you scale, those are actual life-size people on the cup).  Anyway, I just love how the secretaries around here all walk around with this ginormous cups full of coffee with cream and sugar or soda; all the meanwhile complaining about how their diet isn't working.  Dear lord, I don't think I drink that much liquid in a week.  When I was travelling in India and Africa, we would take baths from buckets smaller than that.  And you know it's getting ridiculous when you see a cup with TWO handles for each hand, as a woman had this morning.  When will this mad cup-race end, people?

 

And I know folks have been clamouring for more links and pictures (yes, that's right, clamouring!; they're from the UK mostly, and thus the "ou")  So, here's a few, and if I have time later, you will be sorry....links galor (or is it galour?)...just space them out over a week, 'kay?

 

-Why is my energy bill so high?  Besides the fact that we leave lights on at all hours and have the heat cranked up too high....this could be a contributing factor.

-Hey! look at that jerk talking into a banana, you know, just like a jerk! Har Har, that looks HI-larious. Hey! I wanna talk into a banana, too!

-Mash ups - 50 cent mixed with queen = Q-unit.  I haven't downloaded the mashups yet, but the cd cover with fitty sportin a freddy mercury 'stache is pretty funny

-Make a poster of words and pictures....look, i can't describe it, if words and pictures and poster all interest you, this may be the link for you.

-The NY Times has this great series of articles about being a patient, the most recent one is very interesting, essentially it's about what to do if your doctor is a jerk.

-Tired of poluting the earth with your filth (like a jerk)?  Well, you can't help it, that's just how you are, you filthy polluter.  But these bike lights powered by magnets may help your filthy jerk image.

-Does your cell phone signal die inside your own tomb/apartment?  Well, stop being a jerk, and look into one of these signal boosters ...and tether your cell phone to the antenna!