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”
I still prefer nalgene bottles. They’re cheap, indestructible, dishwasher safe, and aren’t a pound of loud metal to carry around when empty.
But in their case, dishwasher safe means safe for the bottle, not for your endocrine system.
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.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200218182202.htm
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/08/health/bottled-water-nanoplastics-study-wellness/index.html
BPA isn’t the only problem with plastic. It’s plastic itself that is the problem.
Gonna start only drinking from my hands
Switch to goat bladders.
- naturally produced
- reasonable capacity
- durable
- biodegradable
Can I use sheep instead? I can’t get as good goat out here
I mean, plastic is not the only thing you can make a bottle out of. Metal or glass could be appropriate options, perhaps.
Glass breaks, metal has the aforementioned lead problems. I shall create a water pouch from the bladder of a steer.
It shouldn’t be that hard to figure out if there’s lead in a metal bottle I think, but I see your point for sure. It can be hard to find non-terrible stuff.
Glass is much better because it has no taste. I would expect people to care about that if they use it all day. How often do you break a glass bottle? That’s the thickness of glass you need.
My grandfather has a glass Gatorade bottle he still reuses. That’s the kind of shit I expect from today’s hipsters. Do they even retro bro?
I’m a big fan of the single wall stuff. It works pretty well for water carrying at least. For hot and cold stuff you could always add a cozy. Certainly not as effective but no lead!
On the other hand, I dream of the day when I make my own wax lined leather bottle like the days of old
Can’t win.
Dat Glass
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.
What’re the lids mad out of huh?
Death!
Still even if you store it sideways at all times, you’re still reducing plastic contact/leaching by what, 95%? Or more like 100% if you use a glass straw and store it upright.
Can you link anything for lead getting into the water? I’d be interested. Everything I’ve read about it (with respect to the Stanleys) says it’s virtually impossible to be in contact with any lead containing bit unless you’ve purposely damaged the bottom and are basically licking it. One of the quoted experts was says depending on where you are in the US, your tap water is a much more likely vector of lead exposure.
I can’t, I’ve heard it in passing, so very well might’ve just been some doomer bullshit or sensationalizing the facts. It seems that it’d be unnecessary for them to use lead at all in the creation of a drinking implement, but I’m no material scientist. I guess I’ll have to look into it more.
I still have a nalgene that was made in '97. the lid snapped, but their lifetime warranty really is lifetime, they sent me a new one free of charge when I reached out to them.
Mine rolled off a >100ft cliff once. I climbed down to retrieve it and it was still perfectly intact. Still using it to this day.
I was showing the guys at work in a warehouse how indestructible my nalgene was, I put it against a barrier drove a forklift against it. It just left a small dent when it popped back to shape. Still have that bottle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If it’s the ones pictures above, they’re actually really decent at keeping things cold/hot, not overpriced at all at their performance. This guy I follow does a lot of weird shot for shot tests and tumblers were one of them.
Totally not weird. Just comparison reviews.
I thought this was a good explanation https://youtu.be/vrUWQ56GeyU
But the gist is that it was some very clever marketing.
Speaking of clever marketing… here’s that video with the tracking (back to your Google account) removed. (Piped mirror)
Much appreciated.
😎
They actually do perform the best in tests
In tests of what exactly? Drinkability? Containing liquids?
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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.
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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.
What’s the problem with
Ag?
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- 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!
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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.
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
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.
Yeti didn’t even make the meme.
Or Hydro flasks. Those were a thing a few years ago.
Consume!
I wonder what the hot must-have plastic junk will be next year.
I dunno, the insulated water cup I use is made of metal. A lot of them are.
I wonder what hot must-have mass produced junk marketers will convince people is hot next year.
Still got my half gal, use it every day. Best bottle I ever owned.
Swell too.
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.
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.
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.
Here’s a few examples. Also, you can get a job without selling out entirely. Although, I agree that most people have to make compromises as they grow.
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
Kleen kanteen gang rise up!
The quiet true choice
Me drinking out of my reused aquafina bottle - “Mmm microplastics” 🤤
Did someone else just watch the SNL “Bug Dumb Cups” sketch?
I tried, but it just seemed cringey. It’s a 30 second joke that got stretched too long.
Agreed that it went on way too long.
That’s been snl for as long as I can remember
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
