I bought a coffee-making thing. You know, a pot, coffee here, water there, flick a switch and in a while you have a pot of coffee. Then I poured it into my cup. Or, more accurately, all over the counter because the spout didn't pour cleanly. Amazing.

Here we are, a tool making species who have been making pots with spouts for … what? Tenty thousand years? … and there are people who design and manufacture pots with spouts that don't pour. Welcome to the 21st century.