Glass bottles walk in…
I use a handle bottle of vodka as my water bottle. I haven’t gotten in trouble yet.
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 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.
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
That car fire was after stanley cups were already huge
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.
You can clean cups with straws on the regular with antibacterial denture cleaning tablets
Nah, straws suck anyway
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 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.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
- 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!
It’s pretty funny that kids are saying “sus” again though. Have those Coca-Cola “spinner” yo-yos come back round again yet?
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”
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.
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).
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…
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.
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.
This may have had something to do with it.
Nalgene bottles are advertised as BPA-free.
Nalgene only started to transition to BPA free plastic in 2008. They sold so many in the 90s and 2000s. Any “old” Nalgene should just be disposed.
But what if I want to become a walking Superfund site?
You already are. Blood full of PFAs, bones full of lead, lungs full of flame retardants and a gut full of microplastics, not to mention all the agrochemical exposure and their effects on the endocrine system.
It could be worse tho
True! I could be a radium girl and have my bones disintegrate while I’m still alive.
Most drinking bottles from then had bpa. The ban didn’t come until 2012 for all baby products.
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.
BeePA!
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.
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).
People fill those Stanley cups with pop?
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.
Ya know some people just don’t like drinking something “flavorless” 24/7…
While it may not be as “healthy” as drinking just water, it’s like 98-99% water, and as you said, it’s zero calories so it’s far better for you than soda and fruit juice which has a fuckload of sugar/HFCS in it.
It looks like HydroHomies is leaking…
Okay. Drink your literal copium.
Protip: Ice makes any water taste better
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But then you have to make ice all the time!
An ancient secret: Tea.
Mericans be weird.
Imagine thinking you are superior because you said the word tea, as if tea isn’t a famously high profile drink in the United States.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_tea
Seriously as an American, I don’t know a single person who doesn’t drink some type of tea.
Y’all can keep downvoting, but iced tea and sweet tea are both hugely important cultural drinks in the United States, so implying that Americans haven’t heard of tea is just wrong.
Their point is *water is healthy because it doesn’t contain any additives". Then the Brit popped in with the Tea idea and they put far less sugar in their tea, if they put any in.
Us 'Muricans need ten pounds of sugar in everything in order for it to be palatable, so a Sweet Tea and store bought teas are loaded with sugar/HFCS.
I like tea, but I can’t see myself drinking like a gallon of hot tea a day, cold brewed is generally bitter.
I think Burt Kreischer is kinda hacky but this comes to mind often when I see huge water bottles:
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”
Bottle-obsessed weirdos
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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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
Bruh you can see the “since 1913” right there in the meme
The same Stanley and these specific ones recently became insanely trendy.
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.
Kleen kanteen gang rise up!
The quiet true choice
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.
I rock a stainless nalgene. Best of both worlds.
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.
Don’t Stanley Cups become lead poisoned if damaged? In opposition to almost every single other thermos…
There has never been any proof that it has ever happened. Like a lot information floating around out there, there is no real proof.
What? They openly admit it.
The pellet seals the product’s vacuum insulation, and it is not accessible unless the stainless steel barrier comes off — which is possible but “rare"
- Stanley spokesperson
