Your fingers and thumb will not meet on the other side. If you'd like to subtly check your drinking glass without arousing suspicion, try to wrap your hand all the way around it. This works for all glasses, except for only the skinniest of champagne flutes. Producing a tape measure at this point may cause your victims to question the spontaneity of the whole exercise, so use a nearby straw, or its protective paper sleeve, as a makeshift ruler. If there is a ‘pot' beer glass (the ones with handles) in the pub, or an obscenely large mug in the café, then you're sorted: they are typically three times as far around as they are tall, so you can dramatically stack three of them and claim it is still further around than up. Using this to your advantage is easy enough: when you are next drinking in a pub, café or whichever drinking establishment serves the sort of beverages you enjoy getting for free, bet someone that their drinking vessel is further around than it is high. A standard ‘tall' takeaway cup from omnipresent high-street coffee shop Starbucks is actually 2.3 times further around, but yet they refuse my requests to rename it the ‘squat'. Something like a pint glass may look like it is definitely taller than it is round, but a standard UK pint glass is actually around 1.8 times greater in circumference than in height. Despite appearances, almost certainly the distance around the glass will be greater than its height. Have a look around you and find a drinking vessel, like a pint glass or a coffee mug.
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