Which mug gets the sugar?

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Here's the scenario - we have two contractors working on our house, roofers, although their profession has no bearing on the correct answer in my estimation.

One of the roofers has sugar in their coffee, the other does not - to help differentiate the coffees we give one a white mug, and the other a blue.

I personally put the sugar in to the correct mug, but my partner puts it in the wrong mug - but which is which, which mug gets the sugar? A poll would be appreciated so I can show my partner my intellect is superior.

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Pretty sure you can make your own polls my brother.

:edit: sugar is white so it goes in the white.

:edit2: you have some nice biscuits and there's absolutely no way they'd survive long in a house with me, especially being on display like that. Phwoar.
 
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I can see two logical but conflicting answers here within moments of reading OP...

White mug, because there is white sugar in the mug
Blue mug, because the white mug is pure coffee and uncontaminated by sugar

I'd probably use the white mug for one with sugar.
 
What colour are the rest of your mugs and do either of you normally take sugar? For example, if neither of you take sugar and most of your mugs are white then I would put sugar in the blue mug because it symbolises the odd one out.
 
Hades said:
What colour are the rest of your mugs and do either of you normally take sugar? For example, if neither of you take sugar and most of your mugs are white then I would put sugar in the blue mug because it symbolises the odd one out.
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We've got 6+ of each colour. My partner takes sugar, and will only drink out of a white mug. I'll use any mug, and don't take sugar. This only strengthens my argument and weakens hers, coincidentally.

koolpc said:
You skimp on the coffee by the look of it!! Lol
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Or over indulge in delicious Guernsey milk, you decide...

Noxia said:
Good job that jar has a label to state it's a biscuit jar or you'd never know.
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Correct - as it's empty over 99% of the time, biscuits were purchased due to the workers being here.
 
You can afford to pay people to do work for you...
You can afford to just give away increasingly-expensive things like sugar and coffee, and even luxury items like biscuits...
You publicly flaunt your buying power with fancy Guernsey Milk, and display jars to show off your high-end cuisine...
You're even trying to get the comoners of this forum to do your work for free, in this case chastising your wife...

Worst "Look at me, I'm rich" thread ever....!!

The answer is simple - If you throw your dogs a bone, you don't care to hear how it tastes. Just chuck it at them and let them fight over it. Take bets from your friends and neighbours over who will win.
 
Blue because it’s a nicer, non basic mug. For a fancy, non basic worky that likes a bit of sweetness.

Or, the black coffee chap is more of a connoisseur so should get the quirky worky mug.

Who knows, pass the biscuits
 
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what's with the half cups ? Why not fill them up. I would put sugar in blue just because
 
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whitecrook said:
what's with the half cups ? Why not fill them up. I would put sugar in blue just because
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Milk still to go in. Winds me up when people moan when the mugs not brimmed, it’s a spillage waiting to happen and you need to do that awkward concentration walk back from the kitchen.
darael said:
Whoever put the label on that biscuit jar is simply in the wrong. There's no two ways about this.
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Looks M&S or Waitrose, OP clearly has a gucci belt and isn’t afraid to show it.
 
I think the roofers would be complaining about half measures (mine, who did front door complained about tea that wasn't strong enough - and left it)
doesn't identification have to be memorable to the roofers, too ... with a male & female roofer you give blue for the boys, and put sugar appropriately.
 
shifty_uk said:
Milk still to go in. Winds me up when people moan when the mugs not brimmed, it’s a spillage waiting to happen and you need to do that awkward concentration walk back from the kitchen.
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That's a lot of space to fill with milk. The cup looks barely/just over half full currently. Damn brutha.
 
PermaChanged said:
We've got 6+ of each colour. My partner takes sugar, and will only drink out of a white mug. I'll use any mug, and don't take sugar. This only strengthens my argument and weakens hers, coincidentally.
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No, I would say this strengthens her argument of putting the sugar in the white mug. There is a clear precedent that white mugs usually have sugar and blue mugs never have sugar in your household. Therefore I'm going with white as the only logical answer for your household. I can't see the argument for blue at all anymore.
 
just say which cup has the sugar when you pass it over like an adult.

they are probably fine with working it out on their own btw.

They are adults after all with problem solving skills, one will say "oh this one has sugar in it" the other will take the cup and life goes on.



by now they probably realise which cup has the sugar anyway, its not a hard pattern to spot, they would have got it after the 2nd or 3rd time as long as they know who made the drink.

its not some huge mystery for them that's unsolvable



What is this mumsnet? people panicking over whether the builder gets the cup with the sugar knowing one drop could kill him.


just add tiny bowl of sugar with a spoon, calm down and carry on!
 
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arknor said:
just say which cup has the sugar when you pass it over like an adult.

they are probably fine with working it out on their own btw.

They are adults after all with problem solving skills, one will say "oh this one is yours mate" the other will take the cup and live goes on.
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That's no fun, he can't subtle brag his fancy biscuits that way :D
 
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