• @[email protected]
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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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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    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

    • 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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    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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    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

    • PLAVAT🧿S
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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.

  • @[email protected]
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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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    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!

    • SuperDuper
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      f@rts

      You’re allowed to say fart on the internet. You’re even allowed to say fart in real life.

      • BeegScaaawyCripple
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        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.

        • tygerprints
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          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.

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      I think many millennials and zoomers recognize the hypocrisy of the boomers and the damage it’s done. I’m hopeful that we stand in stark contrast to those before us and refuse to falter in our ideals.

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        I’m a millennial, but what is the hypocrisy you speak of? The world leaders are all armed with nukes and the choice was to either be homeless hippies who can’t feed themselves or cogs in the capitalism machine. Unless everyone is ready to have the revolution right this second, the status quo will always prevail.

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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.

    • umulu
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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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        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.

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          Ahhh, I get it. Yes, that is indeed very stupid. Idiot trends…

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          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.

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          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.

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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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    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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      Don’t Stanley Cups become lead poisoned if damaged? In opposition to almost every single other thermos…

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        There has never been any proof that it has ever happened. Like a lot information floating around out there, there is no real proof.

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

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      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.

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        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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          You can clean cups with straws on the regular with antibacterial denture cleaning tablets

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          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.

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            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.

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            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.

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          1. You can buy an isolated bottle without straws.
          2. Insulated bottles are very nice because they isolate the water.
          3. The potential bacteria obviously doesn’t really matter much anyways.
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            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.

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                  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.

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            1. You can buy an isolated bottle without straws.
            2. Insulated bottles are very nice because they isolate the water.

            Now I don’t know what to think!

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            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.