Bring back the kylix. If we're not allowed naked people on our pens by turning them upside down, we should at least be allowed them in our cups.

@jacquelinedavis6607

18 күн бұрын

The principal where I taught had that pen

@jacquelinedavis6607

18 күн бұрын

I think he took it off of a fourth grade. We teachers had fun gaping and laughing.

Whisky drinking Scot here, seen plenty quaichs but never seen a glass bottomed one.

@Tao_Tology

18 күн бұрын

That's because we live in safer (boring) times.

@andrewklang809

17 күн бұрын

Glass is just too cheap and too practical. Though I do sometimes drink my Scots whisky out of ceramic sake cups. When I'm feeling especially pretentious.

@alanshand829

17 күн бұрын

In that case I hope you noticed that they spelt whiskey with the e on the wee bottles as they should have if its from outside scotland (apart from a couple of exceptions such as makers makrk and yamazaki.)

Why would he be disappointed? He's probably just put it somewhere safe.

Sandi was the randy scandi in this clip!

"Waiter! Waiter!" "Yes, sir? Is there a fly in your soup?" "Something's in it!"

The info about these cups was new to me, but I did know about the glass bottomed English beer tankards in the 18th century. The army recruitment gangs of the time would offer to buy a man a beer and drop a shilling coin in the tankard & once the beer was drunk, claimed the man had 'accepted the King's shilling' or in other words 'you're in the army now mate!', but with a glass bottom tankard the prospective victim could look & see the coin & avoid the trap.

@twocvbloke

18 күн бұрын

They covered that one on QI before, turns out it's more of a myth than anything, as it was classed as entrapment and therefore not legally binding to recruit people, even if those times were less lawful, they still had some standards!! :P

@sooskevington6144

18 күн бұрын

@@twocvbloke I should imagine they got away with it quite often as the people the targeted would almost certainly have been illiterate & would not have known it was illegal. Also the army of that era would almost always been in need of more 'cannon fodder' so I expect the military authorities would very likely have turned a blind eye to such practices.

Wonderful!

Feels like it'd be a bit more effective to just have the entire cup made from glass

I'd really love to know whose idea that was. Was it an elf, or is Sandi more mischievous than all the elves put together?

To see up his kilt, of course.

Better a glass bottom than a glass jaw.

Easier to just drink right from the bottle, they have glass bottoms too... :P

Stopped drinking a long time ago. I rarely drank alcohol before that anyway but I did find myself in Edinburgh. One of my favourite places I ever went to was The Scotch Whisky Experience. It really is one the most extraordinary places to visit. On the cups thing, I do agree with Sandy, I’d love to see those types of fun paintings the Ancient Greeks designed on or inside novelty mugs.

A friend had a set of four mugs that looked like ears of corn on the outside. Inside, *one* of them had a worm on the bottom (a cute cartoon worm). You couldn't tell which one until you drank enough to see it!

@Rennrogue

18 күн бұрын

Fun!

I honestly thought the answer was going to be "so not to be pressed into naval service"

Any half-decent anthropologist could give a three-hour lecture on the symbolism of flutes. And no, it generally isn't subtle...

Just like with a well-made horror scene: the reality is NEVER going to measure up to whatever it is you were imagining.

Wouldn't be the first time a woman was disappointed when everything else was out of the way.

The other reason Brits would want a glass bottom in their cup/mug/drinking vessel of choice, is so they can see the shilling the recruiting sergeant dropped in it before it ends up in their mouth so they don't wind up in the army.

@denisepurcell4031

18 күн бұрын

Now you tell me 😂😂

@andrewklang809

17 күн бұрын

How drunk do you have to be to drink a coin without knowing it? Not every glass is a fraternity pledge.

SPOILER: I'm with Alan.. Those pixels were somewhat, er, improbable

Betcha a bar or pub could make that their whole thing. "Drink like the Greeks, get a surprise every time." I don't doubt that somehow, I'd always wind up getting the one non-sexual one in the batch, every single time. "Oh, gee, it's the dove again. What're the odds."

This should have been from the P Series, for the visiting panel's pulchritude.

Pity Sandy can't pronounce "Quaich" properly. Only the Scots and Arabic speakers seem to be able to do it.

When a TV show explores the topic of interesting drinking vessels - have the host mimic the appearance of the vessels instead of showing them. 🙄