Glass bottles walk in…
I use a handle bottle of vodka as my water bottle. I haven’t gotten in trouble yet.
I don’t really get what this Stanley trend is, can someone explain it to me? I don’t think I interact with the portions of the net where a bottle trend would spread.
I thought this was a good explanation https://youtu.be/vrUWQ56GeyU
But the gist is that it was some very clever marketing.
Speaking of clever marketing… here’s that video with the tracking (back to your Google account) removed. (Piped mirror)
Much appreciated.
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People paying way too much money for absurdly large cups because “influencers” told them to.
Don’t get me wrong. If someone wants one of those things, they can go right ahead. Not my business. But, every day I watch my 15 year old get out of the car and carry one of those things into school with her and all I can think is that it seems like a glass of water that markets inconvenience as a feature.
If it’s the ones pictures above, they’re actually really decent at keeping things cold/hot, not overpriced at all at their performance. This guy I follow does a lot of weird shot for shot tests and tumblers were one of them.
Totally not weird. Just comparison reviews.
Wife has one of the giant Frank Green waterbottles. Goes through 3 or 4 of them a day at work and bedside.
Beats the hell out if the three giant energy drinks she used to have.
I’ve got one, but I’ve had it for years and years. It was a gift from my kids. I think for Father’s Day.
It’s awesome. I just use it for water. Load ice and water, carry it through the house. Keep drinking water. If I wake in the night feeling thirsty, there’s ice water right there. In the morning when I need to take meds, I’ve got ice water. Nice secure lid, so if my clumsy self knocks it over, it isn’t a disaster.
I’ve got gout, so one of the easiest things I can do to avoid pain is to drink a metric shit-ton of water every day. I think it ended up being a much better gift than my kids thought it would be.
Of course, like I said, I’ve had mine long before any influencer was talking about them.
They actually do perform the best in tests
In tests of what exactly? Drinkability? Containing liquids?
As much as I like Stanley’s thermos’ - I own 3 of them. One is 50+ years old and still has the silvered glass flask inside that is sealed with a real cork, the other 2 have the stainless flask. The glass flask one is very fragile if dropped. The “newer” ones have been beaten like rented mules and still work like new. One fell off the tailgate of my pickup on bounced down a gravel road and I ran the other one over with a disc while doing spring field work. The hot stays hot and the cold stays cold all day.
The old glass model I inherited. The other 2 I bought. The newest one is a bit over 25 years old and cost me $40 new. But I don’t get the $100 cups. I have had an enameled stainless 12oz $10 knockoff for 2 years now and it works very well. It keeps my tea hot while I’m sitting on the ice of a frozen lake and fishing for at nearly an hour at a time.
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There has never been any proof that it has ever happened. Like a lot information floating around out there, there is no real proof.
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I rock a stainless nalgene. Best of both worlds.
You missed the best parts of his line. The full quote is:
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!"
On the internet, nobody knows you’re not “it”
Wdym, hydrohomie is hydrohomie, only thing that truly matters and unites us is that fresh water, that H2O matter which we thirsty as fuck for, the thing that tastes as the best thing in the world when you drink it at 3am
Bruh that was inspirational, ima find the nearest tap rn
Thermos culture is weird/cringe. Everyone circle jerking their $100 water bottle, trying to outdue each other.
We get it you drink water.
I don’t get it. Why is it weird?
I purchased a sigg stainless steel for less than 20$. If has served me for 4 years, full of dents on the bottom, and still going strong.
Mine’s < $10 and going on for that last 10 years. These things are well made and worth keeping at least one. Multiple dents seem to have made it a little less efficient though (Vacuum insulated).
The weird obsession with Stanley cups and people buying 1 for each outfit they have. Like people having fucking 30 of the damn things. Or the literal riots and mobs for the pink Starbucks Stanley cups. Capitalism makes us all stupid.
Ahhh, I get it. Yes, that is indeed very stupid. Idiot trends…
So? I have multiple for sizes depending on if I’m drinking coffee or water or if I’m on the go or if I can’t find filtered or if I need back up water on a long trip. So that’s all it takes to make a person mad? Then I think outrage over something dumb makes people stupid.
I’m with you, I don’t get the draw - I’m not a fan of the clutter it would cause but whatever floats their boat, it’s not sinking mine :P.
I feel like it’s the same as collecting shoes or purses - fashion/collecting just of something else. The abe meme is spot on.
Me drinking out of my reused aquafina bottle - “Mmm microplastics” 🤤
They’re not even good cups…
They’re fine. Stanley has made perfectly decent, tough thermos products for a century. The green coffee thermos has been a staple for decades.
My biggest fear of this craze is that it’ll kill the company when the fad ends and their stock drops and they get bought out by Chinese conglomerate number 8762.
It’s already owned by HAVI, a privately owned Indian conglomerate.
I don’t know why anyone thinka these old American brands are still independent, or even American.
Bottle-obsessed weirdos
What? You don’t stan for bottles? You’re not a patriot if you don’t have an assortment of stickers on your rear window that include:
- Jason silhouette
- Calvin pissing on Ford/Chevy
- Bill Murray silhouette
- Punisher
- Glock Protection
- YETI
And coming soon the Stanley logo over a scratched out YETI sticker.
It’s true though. It WILL happen to you. I’ve been around long enough to see the full cycle over and over. In the 60s when I was kid, everyone was with “it,” now we’re all old f@rts who think those very same 60s values are weird and scary - peace? love? wokefulness? IT’S too horrible to think about!
I think many millennials and zoomers recognize the hypocrisy of the boomers and the damage it’s done. I’m hopeful that we stand in stark contrast to those before us and refuse to falter in our ideals.
I’m a millennial, but what is the hypocrisy you speak of? The world leaders are all armed with nukes and the choice was to either be homeless hippies who can’t feed themselves or cogs in the capitalism machine. Unless everyone is ready to have the revolution right this second, the status quo will always prevail.
Here’s a few examples. Also, you can get a job without selling out entirely. Although, I agree that most people have to make compromises as they grow.
f@rts
You’re allowed to say fart on the internet. You’re even allowed to say fart in real life.
See? I knew I was out of touch with what “it” is.
I just said f@rt in real life and now I have three weeks community service. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
It’s harder to say with the “@” symbol in it. And even harder to do it. WELL - on a side note, it’s weird how in American magazines they print the word “f*ck” but in magazines from other countries, they just print the word “fuck.” Like, here in America we’re so fragile we can’t handle seeing the actual word, and might be fooled into thinking maybe they were just trying to say something else.
This may have had something to do with it.
never mind the bpa when there’s the microplastics issue.
Besides: Most recent food grade plastics are BPA free now.
most travel drinking vessels (even metal) should be replaced every 10-20 yrs. Plastic even sooner than that (2-5). And if you have any deep scratches or visible on a surface(even metal) it should definitely be replaced immediately.
I don’t trust the plastic vessels anymore because they should be replaced because of microplastics. Whenever you twist a plastic cap on something with an internal helix, you’re grinding more microplastics into your drinking liquid. Try to get the screw tops that have the helix on the outside and a silicon seal to have a barrier.
BeePA!
Nalgene bottles are advertised as BPA-free.
Nalgene only started to transition to BPA free plastic in 2008. They sold so many in the 90s and 2000s. Any “old” Nalgene should just be disposed.
But what if I want to become a walking Superfund site?
You already are. Blood full of PFAs, bones full of lead, lungs full of flame retardants and a gut full of microplastics, not to mention all the agrochemical exposure and their effects on the endocrine system.
It could be worse tho
True! I could be a radium girl and have my bones disintegrate while I’m still alive.
Good idea I gotta get some radium too
Most drinking bottles from then had bpa. The ban didn’t come until 2012 for all baby products.
There’s another theory running around that Stanley cups are also growing in popularity due to a demographic focus of Mormons.
It didn’t take long before netizens began pointing to a connection between the popularity of the tumblers and Mormonism in the United States. For those of you who don’t know, Mormons are taught to not drink hot beverages, as they believe that “hot drinks are not for the body or belly,” thus avoiding tea or coffee and instead turning to alternative fizzy drinks for caffeine.
To keep them at an approved temperature, the Stanley Quencher’s ability to keep a drink cold for hours makes it a perfect option, thus making it extremely marketable to this particular demographic.
Source [blog]: https://screenshot-media.com/the-future/trends/mormons-stanley-cup-craze/
I believe the “hot beverages” claim is a bit misleading. I’m not a Mormon, but my understanding is they “hot beverages” only applies to coffee and tea. It was interpreted as a medicinal phrase (like how a “cold compress” might refer to a particular medicinal application of cold rags and not any cold rags?). The Mormon Church allows members to drink some cold caffeinated beverages since they are not “hot beverages”. However, I think they weirdly still ban iced coffee despite it being cold…
Anyways, they represent a sizeable 2% of the US population. 6.5 million people who generally abide by these cold/hot beverages principles. So a running theory is they command a decent portion of the thermos market share.
I’m not an expert. I’m just sharing what I’ve heard.
Did someone else just watch the SNL “Bug Dumb Cups” sketch?
I tried, but it just seemed cringey. It’s a 30 second joke that got stretched too long.
Agreed that it went on way too long.
That’s been snl for as long as I can remember
I wont buy anything reusable that has valves or straws… Because I’ve taken a microbiology class.
Can’t you just put the bottles in the dishwasher?
I won’t really worry about it until there is evidence that there is anything to really worry about.
The water never really gets up the straw properly and I’m not about to crack out a bottle brush and do it by hand. A nalgene will hold 1.5 litres and is hygienic.
- You can buy an isolated bottle without straws.
- Insulated bottles are very nice because they isolate the water.
- The potential bacteria obviously doesn’t really matter much anyways.
- You can buy an isolated bottle without straws.
- Insulated bottles are very nice because they isolate the water.
Now I don’t know what to think!
I have a steel thermos for keeping my coffee hot, but I don’t see it being necessary to keep things cold. I usually only take water if I’m going somewhere without access to tap water or clean streams.
Cold water is much nicer to drink and IMO much better than coffee.
I live in the Arctic. The water is always pristine and cold.
I live further north than most but not that close to the Arctic Circle (around 7-8 degrees further south), but it’s not like I have that cold inside, we insolate our homes. If you live in the ice hotel I guess you don’t need an isolated bottle (As long as you don’t expose it to negative for too long). IMO a bottle is just really convenient compared to a glass of water which is very limited in capacity.
The vast majority of humanity lives very far away from the Arctic. The Arctic is one of the most desolate places on earth. Only around 4 million or 0,05376% of humanity live above the Arctic circle.
I have a steel thermos for keeping my coffee hot, but I don’t see it being necessary to keep things cold. I usually only take water if I’m going somewhere without access to tap water or clean streams.
Enjoying those endocrine suppressors? You definitely want aluminum, but Stanley isn’t the only way to do that. My wife got a pretty good Yeti with a pretty nice drinking spout, I think it’s the magdock?
Either way, stop drinking out of plastic.
I had a little silver glass handed down as a child. Used it only for water. Don’t think that kind of thing can be afforded nowadays.
What’s the problem with
Ag?I only carry water with me very rarely. like only when I go on long hikes. Even then, the spring water on those hikes is pretty good. I probably use a drinking bottle less than once a month.
Besides aluminium leads to oxidative stress. There’s a reason you don’t see aluminium cookware in the shops.
You can clean cups with straws on the regular with antibacterial denture cleaning tablets
Nah, straws suck anyway
