The circle of life

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!"

I still prefer nalgene bottles. They're cheap, indestructible, dishwasher safe, and aren't a pound of loud metal to carry around when empty.

Damn, that's a quality shitpost. Well done

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 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.

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.

I wont buy anything reusable that has valves or straws... Because I've taken a microbiology class.

Nalgene bottles were pure BPA, stainless and vacuum insulation are huge upgrades.

Yeti didn't even make the meme.

Kleen kanteen gang rise up!

Me drinking out of my reused aquafina bottle - "Mmm microplastics" 🤤

Are those Stanley cups, like, the Stanley brand that's been around forever or another Stanley?

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.

Did someone else just watch the SNL “Bug Dumb Cups” sketch?

They're not even good cups...

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

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.

Bottle-obsessed weirdos

Glass bottles walk in…

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.

I rock a stainless nalgene. Best of both worlds.

It’s pretty funny that kids are saying “sus” again though. Have those Coca-Cola “spinner” yo-yos come back round again yet?

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.

This may have had something to do with it.