My mug turns 35. Still going strong.

by Wonk_Majik

20 comments

  1. God, I had the same mug, didn’t realise I missed it till now.

  2. my favourite mug is from the 80s and is still going strong!

  4. Yooo i got this mug when i was about 10 years old with a matching wallet haha im 35 now . That brought back a memory 😁

  5. I’ve got a I ❤️ Leicester City mug I bought at University, I left uni in 1994 so that’s at least 31 🙂

  8. I remember when Virgin Trains used to give free Dennis & Gnasher backpacks to kids full of stickers, reflective bag charms etc. you’ve literally taken me back to a very good time ☺️

  9. So the average number of cups of tea is 2-3, given the time span let’s call it 2.5 cups per day.

    35 years x 365.25 days is 12783.75 days, or 31,959, let’s round it to 32,000 in case you drink more than 2.5.. so around 32,000 cups of tea.

    And if you’re a moo and two kind of person. That works out to 255.675 kg of sugar. Assuming two 4g teaspoons of sugar in each cup.

    Assuming it’s just a splash of milk 5ml that works out to 159.797L of milk, or 281.203 Pints of milk. Or a bit more and call it 10ml of milk 320L or 563.121 pints.

    A cow will produce 11,000 gal of milk in it’s life time, or 88,000 pints. You drank approximately 0.64% of that cows total life time production.
    Though considering dairy cows only liveto about 5 years for production. Your mug has outlived 6 dairy cows and drank about 0.12% of their total production.

    Now the real question is, if we assume that in those 32000 cups of tea, you stir it say 5 times to make the maths easy. Say the mug is a standard 76mm, multiply that by 5 and we get 380mm. Which works out to 1,216,0000mm or 0.756 miles of stirring.

    Edit: silly me, the circumference is 238.761mm, so that would make it 7,640,352mm or 4.75miles

    Edit 2:
    A dairy cow produces between 250-500L of methane per day. Let’s call it 375L. That’s 26,845,875L across 6 cows of methane of which this OPs mug is responsible for at least 0.12% of that or 32,215.05L of methane.

    Edit 3: It just dawned on me. This works out to about 707.212 gallons of methane. Your mug was getting 0.00672 mpg on methane.

    Edit 4: I was asked what the total carbon footprint would be:
    Making some assumptions a Tetley Tea Bag produces about 20g CO2, 8g of sugar is about 4.8g of CO2 and 10 grams of milk is 0.37g of CO2, that’s 25.17g of CO2 per cup or 805.44kg of CO2 after 35 years. Your mug has produced between 0.8 and 1.3 tonnes of CO2, if we account for boiling the kettle. ( If we assume 0.015kg of CO2 from the kettle boiling 2.5 times a day for 35 years it’s 479.0625kg of CO2)

  11. Is “massive crunching kick” from the anime version of Dennis where he has to announce the name of his attack?

  13. That’s pretty good going.
    I’ve gotta weetabix bowl that must be getting on for 40 years old. Collected the coupons for it and became a member of the weetabix gang

  14. I’ve got a Smurf mug my best mate got me for Christmas 1980.

  15. I don’t know a world where you haven’t had that mug. I turn 35 this year.

  20. Childhood memory unlocked. Were these issued out to everyone in the late 80s/early 90s or something?

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