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50There is a water jug & mug manufacturer named Stanley. Apparently these "Stanley" brand cups went viral on TikTok, and TikTok users proceeded to buy them all up in a craze. The meme shows homer sitting next to the championship trophy of the National Hockey League, which is called the Stanley cup (no relation whatsoever to the Stanley name brand).
162Love the thoroughness of this. The only detail I could add is that the pink version pictured is a Starbucks exclusive version. And if an expensive cup wasn't enough, there is a market for add-ons to the cup like phone holders and shoulder straps.
18TikTok is probably the most effective marketing platform in decades. Probably this generation's equivalent of G.I. Joe and Transformer
commercialscartoons.8Thanks
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Stanley cup craze. No, not the hockey Stanley Cup.
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Whenever there's a stupidity expensive version of a functional thing, Coleman makes a version that's as good or better for half the price: https://www.coleman.com/coolers-drinkware/drinkware/.
32https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3S51X9h6K6g
I really like the project farm video on this, fairly good information on the quality of these.
9That’s a great video! Looks like I need to upgrade my whatever-brand water bottle to a Stanley!
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I have a travel mug from Stanley that I love
https://www.stanley1913.com/products/classic-travel-mug-french-press-16-oz
It fits the water bottle holder on my bike. It secures well. I can use the French press part for coffee or loose leaf tea. It's pretty bomb proof.
It's weird to me to hear Stanley is big suddenly.
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Is this a trend or something? My grandma got a two pack for $5 and i thought it was just some generic grandma cup. The thing sucks, it isn't anywhere near worth that much money. It's shitty for traveling (too big and unwieldy) and it doesn't even seal as well as an actual thermos or bottle.
I prefer the crappy plastic bottle i got from work years ago, i could strap that thing to my belt if i went anywhere. Or wore belts.
21Fuck plastic bottles especially older ones. Yeah, w all have a fuck ton of microplastics in our blood but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care about it
20There's no way your grandma bought two Stanley brand cups for $5. I've been using a Stanley pint glass for years, and if I put ice water in at at night, there will still be ice in it in the morning. It's vacuum insulated.
$45 for a 30 or 40 oz cup with a straw is too much because there are cheaper brands that do the same thing for half the price.
You will have to pull my 40 oz insulated cup out of my cold dead hands. Waking up in the middle of the night in the summer thirsty and being able to sip on water that's still ice cold from 8 hours ago is so nice!
9I recommend Zojirushi thermoses.
3Zojirushi anything. High quality stuff, that.
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I don't get it. Men go around for years carrying Yeti tumblers and no one bats an eye. Women start carrying a similar cup with a handle and everyone acts weird.
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Because limited edition cups of the brand I used to buy at the Flying J truck stop for $12.99 now costs $150, and the resale value is $200. People are buying a half dozen or more to go with whatever they’re wearing. They’re Stanley mugs for heaven’s sake.
It’s absolutely stupid, and Yeti was just overpriced trendy stuff, not the equivalent of a Beanie Baby fad as a fashion accessory.
Can’t wait until these fools are stuck with piles of worthless mugs they wasted money on. You’ll find these mugs at yard sales or Goodwill in a few years. Good for Stanley makers, though. Hope they laugh all the way to the bank over this vapid trend.
Edit: TBC I think the overpriced Yeti gear is dumb, but I never thought of it as being “gendered”. Plenty of women had Yeti gear. The levels to which this Stanley thing is being taken is ridiculous, and it seems to be predominantly a female thing as a fashion accessory. It’s not dumb because women are the ones buying it up, it’s just dumb because it’s dumb. IDC who the suckers are.
4Maybe because the yeti tumblers tiktoks don't go viral and reach outside their bubble.
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Marge is in the back with her hair down.
15That doesn't look like Marge at all.
6No she´s not
3You think she's cheating on Homer?
2Marge is faithful to Homer, when she had the opportunity to cheat, she did not do it in the end.
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I'm just amazed that anyone thinks a metal coffee tumbler is superior in any way.
Here's the ultimate way to drink coffee, after years of experience trying different things:
- large double-walled borosilicate glass mug. You can find several versions of this on amazon, get one that fits your cupholder.
- plastic lid from any other travel cup for when you need it, usually it fits pretty well
The only downside is you will occasionally drop it and it will shatter into a million tiny pieces.
14I'm just amazed that anyone thinks a metal coffee tumbler is superior in any way.
The only downside is you will occasionally drop it and it will shatter into a million tiny pieces
Hey look, you were able to think of a way that metal coffee tumblers are better!
25lol yeah I'm not bringing that monstrosity in my car. Stainless steel is perfectly fine.
14No way! Ceramic Le Creuset mug, sitting at my kitchen table, waiting for my brain to activate for the day.
1I agree for drinking at home, but for travel, get a ceramic-lined double-walled steel cup like a Fellow Carter or a Stanley Ceramivac. (I use the Carter and love it.)
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I've seen people make jokes about those. I thought the thing was the joke at first, it's so uncomfortable and strange looking. I guess it was a popular Christmas gift for some reason.
7It's like that because the thinner part fits perfectly inside a car cup holder.
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I would not have understood this at all, if not for having had dinner with a highschool teacher tonight who had one, and I noticed it.
5Made by a mediocre hand tool manufacturer no less
3Nope. Completely different companies. They’ve been making insulated bottles since 1913.
20The bottles are a different company, but I'd say that calling Stanley tools "mediocre" is generous of you.
7Perfect if you only drink with your right hand!
2I 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.
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Now anyway
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