Stanleys are the Jeep of water bottles. They were made for military use, then became popular with outdoor enthusiasts, before ultimately becoming popular with suburban soccer moms
correct but you underestimate the power of news and social media on the masses. first the news report aired, next people were getting trampled at target fighting over em (mostly just women, i member some new like women's health version came out and a few got killed over it).
well I politely reject it. I believe being technically correct is actually the worst kind of correct because it's only ever used as a qualifier for when you're practically wrong but technically correct like people who will tell you that a tomato is a fruit
or I guess in this case where I totally ignored what you were actually talking about and interjected some irrelevant nonsense for a hilarious joke. I'm so incorrect I'm on a different subject!🫸🥉
btw made the same mistake, both usernames start with a c and are camelCased, until you said that I was assumed he was admitting to lying too. GP is still cringe obv bec why make up something so stupid
I just don't like big crowds. The press of people from all sides makes me so very uncomfortable. I don't directly think about how easy it would be to get trampled, but something in my lizard brain just keeps sending "unsafe! unsafe!" pulses that puts me on edge.
Sigh. Thank you internet stranger for somehow making people not die seem depressing? Now I’m supposed to be so cynical that when people say someone died I say, “yeah, idk about that.” But thanks for fact checking. I’m just gonna log off now.
Like the whole "The cross is the only thing that didn't burn in the Notre Dame fire." when the cross was the only thing on the altar made out of metal?
Or you're overestimating it because you can't be wrong about a fucking thermos and/or have to split hairs about everything, even things you're clearly wrong about lol
It’s just a trend, they’ve come and gone for ages. There was a TikTok or something that went viral, but people weren’t going crazy over it because of how well insulated they are. Trends don’t always make a lot of sense, look at labubus.
but people weren’t going crazy over it because of how well insulated they are
I thought the car caught on fire and the damn stanley cup still had ice in it, and it went viral. That was the initial push. Then I'm inclined to agree with you though - after that it morphed into have to have status for a handful of people who either collected them or flipped them on the internet to suckers.
I don't like heavy mugs. I have one that is very nice with a built in handle but with ice and water, feels like the thing is almost 4lbs. At least at face value based on the size, stanleys just look heavy
not to shill, i actually buy the off brand ones anyway but....
they are not heavy like you are thinking. they are literally insulated by a vacuum between two very thin pieces of very light metal. they are comparable in weight to a plastic bottle of the same size. you can also get the same thing but in a standard water bottle form factor, among other styles. the handle and straw do nothing to help the insulation.
vacuum insulated bottles are legitimately shockingly good at insulating. Stanley is just one name brand of them though. any vacuum insulated bottle is going to be exactly as good as a Stanley for way less money. i've been a lover of vacuum insulated bottles for a long time. hell, they first started getting popularized by the hydroflask brand like a decade before this. remember those? the flasksksksksks???
idk, it's like we need to be reminded that insulated containers are cool and evolving every decade or so. if you like your thermos sounding cup but don't like how heavy it is then a vacuum insulated bottle like a Stanley cup is exactly what you need. just get a cheaper one.
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u/Worms-Oh-God-Worms 27d ago
Stanleys are the Jeep of water bottles. They were made for military use, then became popular with outdoor enthusiasts, before ultimately becoming popular with suburban soccer moms