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[–] [email protected] 83 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But in their case, dishwasher safe means safe for the bottle, not for your endocrine system.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (4 children)

They've been BPA free since 2008... So... Plus I've heard they're finding lead leaching into water from vacuum sealed metal bottles. Can't win.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Gonna start only drinking from my hands

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Switch to goat bladders.

  • naturally produced
  • reasonable capacity
  • durable
  • biodegradable
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, plastic is not the only thing you can make a bottle out of. Metal or glass could be appropriate options, perhaps.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Glass breaks, metal has the aforementioned lead problems. I shall create a water pouch from the bladder of a steer.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Heavy and fragile. Fine for around the house but a poor choice for throwing in a gym bag and should not be used near pools or other bodies of water where broken glass is an invisible hazard.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago

Damn, that's a quality shitpost. Well done

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (6 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (14 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeti didn't even make the meme.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Or Hydro flasks. Those were a thing a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Consume!

I wonder what the hot must-have plastic junk will be next year.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Still got my half gal, use it every day. Best bottle I ever owned.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (7 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Kleen kanteen gang rise up!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

The same Stanley and these specific ones recently became insanely trendy.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (16 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're not even good cups...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

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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