One of the best places to get really top-notch mugs by the way, are those little gift shops you find in art museums and high-end botanical gardens. The only downside is that mugs there are never sold in sets, only as separates, and they are ruinously, even comically expensive.
Oh! I am sorry. You've boarded a ship captained by infirmity, crewed by quarrelers, without navigation or helmsman, beset by violence, senseless, narcotic stupors, mutiny and plotting, raiding of the stores, and abuse of the clear-eyed?
You must be like a chimpanzee in the zoo, who pretends to like a new chimpanzee and offers it fruit when the other chimpanzees are watching. Only when the other chimpanzees are looking at something else can you step on the fruit, spoiling it for everyone.
