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”
Damn, that’s a quality shitpost. Well done
Thermos culture is weird/cringe. Everyone circle jerking their $100 water bottle, trying to outdue each other.
We get it you drink water.
I don’t get it. Why is it weird?
I purchased a sigg stainless steel for less than 20$. If has served me for 4 years, full of dents on the bottom, and still going strong.
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…
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.
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.
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).
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.
They actually do perform the best in tests
In tests of what exactly? Drinkability? Containing liquids?
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.
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
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.
That car fire was after stanley cups were already huge
Nalgene bottles were pure BPA, stainless and vacuum insulation are huge upgrades.
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.
Tritan plastics are used in labratory environments, I feel like we would have heard something if it was leeching anything. The high usage rate in those environments are what gives me faith in the product.
Are they single use or multi-use in the lab?
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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?
You can clean cups with straws on the regular with antibacterial denture cleaning tablets
Nah, straws suck anyway
- 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.
Yeti didn’t even make the meme.
Just saw one at goodwill today.
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!
f@rts
You’re allowed to say fart on the internet. You’re even allowed to say fart in real life.
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.
See? I knew I was out of touch with what “it” is.
Kleen kanteen gang rise up!
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.
The quiet true choice
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?
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.
Shit, I still use one of those. Keeps coffee hot and secure for the commute.
I still use the one my dad had back in the 80s. It’s my road trip thermos. It’s been beat to shit but it still works.
Wait, I’ve still got a few of those out in the garage I think
The same Stanley and these specific ones recently became insanely trendy.
Bruh you can see the “since 1913” right there in the meme
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
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.
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).
I mean, that’s hardly new. Crystal light and the like have been around for a good while.
i thought they were sugar-free water flavors
“sugar free water flavors” is just a nice way of saying “artificially sweetened juice”
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.
