I mean, you can set it up with the handle on the opposite side. Or, my favorite way, you can reach across and drink with it in the crook of your elbow like an old timey moonshine jug.

Looks like she’s setting up an arm bar, though tough to tell without being able to see her left arm and weird that she’s not gripping anything with the right. Could be coming from a closed guard type position (with him between her legs) and then pivoted to get the arm bar. It’s entirely possible she just let go of both arms to give/receive instruction.

Edit: Although yeah…doesn’t make much sense for her left leg to be on the ground then. Who knows…

Andy Buckley, the guy who played David Wallace on The Office. He was a financial advisor at the time and they wanted him because he looked/sounded like an executive. Totally knocked it out of the park.

Article calls it “longlife,” not “lifelong.”