The circle of life
The circle of life
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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!"
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On the internet, nobody knows you're not "it"
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I still prefer nalgene bottles. They're cheap, indestructible, dishwasher safe, and aren't a pound of loud metal to carry around when empty.
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I still have a nalgene that was made in '97. the lid snapped, but their lifetime warranty really is lifetime, they sent me a new one free of charge when I reached out to them.
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Mine rolled off a >100ft cliff once. I climbed down to retrieve it and it was still perfectly intact. Still using it to this day.
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I was showing the guys at work in a warehouse how indestructible my nalgene was, I put it against a barrier drove a forklift against it. It just left a small dent when it popped back to shape. Still have that bottle.
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Damn, that's a quality shitpost. Well done
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Thermos culture is weird/cringe. Everyone circle jerking their $100 water bottle, trying to outdue each other.
We get it you drink water.
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I don't get it. Why is it weird?
I purchased a sigg stainless steel for less than 20$. If has served me for 4 years, full of dents on the bottom, and still going strong.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I thought this was a good explanation https://youtu.be/vrUWQ56GeyU
But the gist is that it was some very clever marketing.
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Speaking of clever marketing… here’s that video with the tracking (back to your Google account) removed. (Piped mirror)
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They actually do perform the best in tests
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In tests of what exactly? Drinkability? Containing liquids?
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They’re popular because some lady’s car caught fire and her Stanley cup survived virtually unscathed and it still had ice in it while the car was completely destroyed.
Then the company saw that her video was viral and bought her a new car.
I feel like that warrants their popularity right now.
I personally prefer Hydroflask because it’s easier to carry around and I don’t care for a straw or side handle. But I see no reason to hate on these.
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The funny thing about that is that it could've been any properly made thermal cup in that place and results would be pretty similar. So it was pure luck that Stanley not some other brand got such big ad
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I love my Nalgene; it's survived countless blckpacking trips and accepts a variety of water filtration systems.
But it sucks day-to-day in a domestic situation. The screw cap is inconvenient, there's literally zero insulation, and I've knocked it over in the middle of the night while reaching ior a drink of water mutiple times, dumping a liter of water oveg my nightstand, books, and carpet.
So at home I'm using a Coleman with a self-sealing top. Insulation isn't spectacular, but I can take a quick sip of water fron any position and just drop it whereveg with no concern for spillage. I wouln't take it backpacking, though.
The right tool for the job.
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That car fire was after stanley cups were already huge
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Nalgene bottles were pure BPA, stainless and vacuum insulation are huge upgrades.
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Technically, the Nalgene in the picture is the revised Tritan BPA-free design. But your point still stands. BPA or not, the less plastic touches my food and drink, the better.
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Nalgene has been BPA free since 2008, don't hate on them!
Additionally, the minimal materials and manufacturing process are more environmentally friendly than metal vacuum seal bottles.
Vacuum seal bottles use a lead plug in the bottom, not so healthy when things go wrong with them.
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Lead in vacuum seal bottles is avoidable, if it’s something you’re worried about it’s not hard to get lead free. I also highly doubt anything plastic is better for the environment in the long term, given that no plastic is going to last without degradation for that many years compared to something made of metal. And once that plastic does degrade it’s going straight into a landfill or the environment with all the other microplastics. Maybe optimistically it could be recycled once or twice, but beyond that you get diminishing returns and it’s trash again.
They might technically edge out metal production on one or two measurements, like power used (since you don’t have to smelt plastic), but as a society we have to stop pretending the plastic we use isn’t going to degrade. Plastic is temporary, then it turns into brittle, environmentally poisoning trash. There’s not a good reason to use it for something that can be easily replaced by metal.
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Kleen kanteen gang rise up!
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I keep meaning to get one of those but I have a metal insulated water bottle I already use and is in fine condition. I can't justify buying a new bottle to brag about how good it is when the whole point is I have one that works for me already and save me throwing away more.... One day maybe but I fear I missed that train for my slightly worse bottle that will last my full lifetime already anyways.
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The quiet true choice
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Are those Stanley cups, like, the Stanley brand that's been around forever or another Stanley?
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The same Stanley. They still sell those giant green thermoses our fathers and grandfathers used to take half a gallon of stale coffee to the coal mine or steel mill.
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The same Stanley and these specific ones recently became insanely trendy.
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Bruh you can see the "since 1913" right there in the meme
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Me drinking out of my reused aquafina bottle - "Mmm microplastics" 🤤
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What people don't talk enough about the cup trend is that people aren't even drinking water out of them. The new thing is to gaslight yourself into thinking you're drinking water by mixing high fructose corn syrup drink mix into their water. It's chemically different but somehow people think they're doing their bodies a favor by drinking soda 60oz at a time.
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Where are people getting HFCS drink mixes? Are you talking about the sodastream type bottles of mix? I only ever see people with the artificially sweetened tiny squirt bottles of flavoring. Which, healthy or not is up for debate but they've gotta be better than 150% of your sugar for the day in liquid form from HFCS/soda (in whatever container).
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People fill those Stanley cups with pop?
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No, they use artificially sweetened syrups that have "0 calories" to make flavored and colored "water". Some will violently defend that it is still water because there aren't any calories. Even though they added all the flavors, colors, and sweeteners, just no carbonation. Basically flat coke zero but in tons of schizophrenic flavor name and neon color combos. It's a weird world of cope.
Be thankful my comment is the only level of awareness you'll be about this. Do not look into this deeper, there is nothing good to be found. Forget this and return to your life. This will be your only warning.
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I mean, that's hardly new. Crystal light and the like have been around for a good while.
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i thought they were sugar-free water flavors
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"sugar free water flavors" is just a nice way of saying "artificially sweetened juice"
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I think Burt Kreischer is kinda hacky but this comes to mind often when I see huge water bottles:
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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
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Bruh that was inspirational, ima find the nearest tap rn
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Did someone else just watch the SNL “Bug Dumb Cups” sketch?
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I tried, but it just seemed cringey. It's a 30 second joke that got stretched too long.
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Agreed that it went on way too long.
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That's been snl for as long as I can remember
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IKEA has a nice 4 euro glass bottle that is a classier version of Grolsch Beer bottle. It is sealable and works like a charm.
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Glass is fragile though. I've accidentally dropped a 20kg plate on my hydroflask and all it got was a small dent. It also won't keep water cool all day.
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They're not even good cups...
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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.
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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.
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Bottle-obsessed weirdos
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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.
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Glass bottles walk in…
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I use a handle bottle of vodka as my water bottle. I haven't gotten in trouble yet.
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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.
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I rock a stainless nalgene. Best of both worlds.
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It’s pretty funny that kids are saying “sus” again though. Have those Coca-Cola “spinner” yo-yos come back round again yet?
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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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This may have had something to do with it.
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BeePA!
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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.
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