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A spoon is a little cup with a long handle

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you think about it, your house is a big cup for your cups

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I drive back in my mobile cup and enter my roofed cup

I empty an enclosed tin cup of chili into a heatable metal cup

I pour the contents of the cup into my handleless cup then grab my mini cup with a long handle and proceed to cup this chili out of the handleless cup with my long handled mini cup into my biological cup

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

This whole thread is twisting my melon. Im gonna be wondering whether or not this object counts as a cup all day now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

But are there more bowls or handles in the world?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I told my partner “I don’t like setting my water bottle down on the table with the top off. But then I thought… that’s just cups”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorta but not really. Bottles are much taller than cups and thus are more likely to tip over

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

My water bottle is very wide and bottom-heavy. I just don’t like the look of it with the top off hahaha

My cups are more unstable than my water bottle for sure

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tables are really flat cups

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Like giant plates with legs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

You've made me reconsider my thought. Tables are upside down cups that don't hold liquids very well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A bra is just two soft cups strung together.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Your toilet is a cup for old food and drinks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does that make my ass a drink dispenser?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

With the amount of alleged ass eating these days, 1000% yes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a bowl that has two handles

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're telling me there's a cupbowl handles?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

How do you know that's a bowl not a cup?