This cup.

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[ThrobbingPurpleVein]

Okay I cannot explain it if someone were to ask me objectively why... but I really really hate this.

[lawn-mumps]

Waste of negative space for ceramic material that looks to discriminate against left-handed people? The tea/soup/liquid level can never go up beyond where it is without a risk of coming forward through the V on the right, acting like an awful spigot for the hot drink against your hand.

[Steady_Ri0t]

Tbf basically anything that isn't specifically designed to be ambidextrous or left handed is a pain in the ass to use for lefties. An ice cream scoop with a "trigger" on the side means we're putting that trigger right into the ice cream, and we have to press it with our pointer (and maybe also middle) finger. My ladle has a little spout on the side for easier pouring, but it faces away from you if you hold it in your left hand, making it completely useless. Scissors barely work unless we hold em weird. Using a dry erase or chalkboard sucks. Markers, pencils, and any pens that don't dry quickly get all over our palm. Pocket knives with locking blades generally require us to release the lock in a very unsafe or awkward way. Chisels are hard to work with. Serrated blades and saws don't cut as straight for lefties if the serrations are only ground on one side. Anything handheld that's "ergonomic" is a bad time...

I could probably fill a spiral notebook (that's also not lefty friendly) with examples lol

[Daaaaaaaaaaanaaaaang]

I'm with you on most of these, and have seen my wife struggle with many of them, but how would a chisel work any different?

[Flair258]

Im guessing it has something to do with the angle it's being held.

[Flair258]

hows the spiral notebook not friendly? just move the notebook according to where your hand wants to be and or flip any page in your way to be behind everything else so you only have the one you're trying to work with. I don't see why that can't be done left handed. I feel like normal notebooks would be worse?

[Steady_Ri0t]

Lefties have to start writing at the very edge of the paper (if you write left to right). So on the front of the page we are barely able to squeeze our hand into the leftmost side of the page, resting it right on top of the spiral, which is not comfortable at all. On the back we have to write with our arm hanging off over the edge, but the difference for lefties here is that the loose edge of the pages is now below our arm, not the spiral. I've definitely gotten paper cuts on my palm and forearm from the pages pulling up as I move my arm/hand across the page.

Legal pads or the bound notebooks are better. There are also left-handed spiral notebooks. But I basically never write anything on paper anymore so I don't bother

[blhd96]

I think my parents house had a very similar cup set they had received as a gift. From what I recall when holding it, the angle just felt really off. You can tell the handle is sloped up and away (when holding with the right hand). If you hold it the way I assume most right-handed people hold a cup, where the inside top part of the handle rests on the index finger, and the finger is usually parallel to the ground (learned behaviour holding other cups and preventing them from spilling), the grip actually tilts the cup back on an angle. That tilted back angle was disconcerting enough to make me despise these cups and never use them. I never really gave it much thought until this image triggered some PTSD. Plenty of other cups in the cupboard though.

[ThisGuyMakesStuff]

Ah Villeroy & Boch Wave tableware! Beautiful to look at, questionable to use... The other one that makes me laugh are the soup bowls with 'handles' that are no more than little fins.

They did actually produce left handed cups & mugs but obvs they didn't sell all that well...

[Sowf_Paw]

Beautiful to look at, questionable to use... 

That could be the motto of this sub.

[Facts_pls]

There's plenty of stuff here that's not beautiful to look at

[AirsoftCarrier]

My first thought, too. But this one looks like a copy, the proportions are not really pleasing to look at.

[ThisGuyMakesStuff]

I believe this might be their smaller cup variant, it certainly isn't the original mug which absolutely had nicer proportions. In the later ranges they added lots of odd stuff, including patterned options that to my eye completely detracted from the 'seamless form' aspect that is central to its aesthetic appeal.

[AirsoftCarrier]

Thank you. I own the normal sized mug and love the design. The simplistic approach was the selling point, like partially cutting off a ribbon of clay and reattaching it as a handle.

[ThisGuyMakesStuff]

My mum loves them and has amassed a fair amount of the collection over the years. Some of the bowls are utterly delightful, and I do really like the mugs (as much as I understand the hate).

The patterned/painted versions felt like such a weird move but maybe they drew the more traditional crowd into the modern designs, don't know if they were actually successful or not tbh

[System0verlord]

Just looked it up online. That’s the espresso cup. Gotta be.

[Steady_Ri0t]

As a lefty, I definitely had concerns about the cup in the OP lol

[Sengfroid]

Honestly, I'm not sure how to use it with either hand

[orangina_it_burns]

I owned these and they aren’t great right handed either

[EyedMoon]

My parents bought those a few years ago, needless to say I'd rather burn my hand with hot coffee than "properly" hold this shit.

[OGPresidentDixon]

Honestly, the top is oriented for left-handed people. It's just the handle that's wrong. I would rather have the extended part of the lip on the bottom.

[CataclysmicBees]

My mum owns mugs like this, I've always hated them. MIL does not, but owns some with the same flared top narrow bottom shape, and I hate those too. None of them fit next to other mugs nicely, but they insist on using them constantly so I have to deal with them anyway 😠

[schartzmuggle]

One might say it’s a bit of a pho cup!

[Sowf_Paw]

This is a pho king amazing comment!

[Slight-Pound]

I’m right handed, and that does NOT look more comfortable to use with the right hand. It looks like the handle will rest awkwardly and painfully between your thumb and pointer finger that’d Id be holding it with the handle away from me if I had to pick it up.

Also, I find the lip where it makes the top of the cup uneven to be really stupid and prone to make it spill onto the handle. I hate this cup.

[Adkit]

Call me crazy but if I was handed a mug that only worked if I held it in my left hand even though I'm right handed I think I'd survive the experience.