Psyop by the NHL to get people talking about the Stanley Cup
Was wondering if the NHL was popping off when I started reading that people were going crazy for the Stanley Cup.
I’m not sure why there has to be a new fad drinking vessel every 6 months. In the US it seems driven by preteen and teen girls. They used to obsess over having a Hydroflask with custom stickers and shit. Now its these things. It will be some other overpriced cup craze by summer.
People are atomised to hell and back and the most accessible sense of belonging one can find is consumer identity. I don’t know that young girls are in any way special in this. With boys it’s primarily video games. Adults are not that much different.
Schools allow these so it’s a status symbol of wealth. Yet another way to differentiate the “popular” (rich) kids from the “unpopular” (poor) kids
Capitalism inserts itself into the process of identity creation to create new feelings of lacking in its consumers. More “socialization” means more opportunities for “earned media” which makes people feel like they need to have The Thing.
Back in my day, if you didn’t have a Nalgene you were a nobody
stickers on water bottles are fun. mine has stickers of mobile suits i got at a con. i have a sazabi, a zaku, and the turn a gundam
This just looks like a normal water jug. Am I missing something?
Basically they did Sneaker Culture for the things. Limited edition “drops”, artificial scarcity, a big influencer campaign on TikTok and Instagram that pushed collecting them. Prior to that the only people who bought Stanleys were hikers and preppers who kept complaining about them not being as sturdy as they used to be.
In South America a lot of people use Stanley thermoses for their hot water to drink 🧉
It’s branded and expensive, therefore it’s a status symbol
what’s the deal with americans and obscenely large beverages? i looked up a picture of one and these things are enormous
These are for putting in car cup holders. Many Americans commute 2+ hours per day. Their entertainment while driving is radio and drinking beverages.
I know somebody who puts Netflix on their phone and sticks it in the gauge cluster to watch while driving and also never wears a seatbelt.
take out a life insurance policy on them
Believe it or not that’s the best possible system for humans to travel to work. Death machines where the pilots are barely paying attention.
but what about the piss
When your cup is empty you can piss into it
Everyone develops as much bladder control as they can. If that fails, there are gas stations every few miles of highway.
For people doing long drives regularly, people pee in bottles.
It’s a bad place.
In America, drinks that taste better than water are so expensive that we have to make them at home and carry them around in big jugs
Being very thirsty and urinating often are common diabetes symptoms. In people who have diabetes, extra sugar — which also is called glucose — builds up in the blood. This forces the kidneys to work overtime to filter and absorb the extra sugar. When the kidneys can’t keep up, extra sugar goes into the urine.
It’s a whole thing. Instead of refreshing a cup throughout the day or getting new beverages as you’re thirsty, you simply fill up one cup at the beginning of the day and carry it around everywhere you go. Some people do it because they have a hyper specific (read: hyper branded) preferred beverage. Some people do it because they read an article that told them that if they didn’t drink 12 gallons of water a day that their asshole would fall out (they don’t trust their kidneys). Some people carry around several cups: one for caffeination, one for hydration, one for taste, etc. A lot of people just carry their caffeinated coffee milkshakes around.
I use a water bottle because then i dont have to go out of my way to refill it every time i need a little sippy sip
Valid. I like to fill a cup with so much ice that it hurts my throat when I chug because it’s so cold. Despite my disdain for the consumerism involved, I also have a giant cup on my desk most times.
i use a water bottle with ice so i have water at hand without needing to worry about it, i drink when i’m thirsty. it’s smaller than ones a lot of people i see have though
Yeah that’s the only way I can drink water is having it on hand. I will go completely without hydration otherwise.
man idk i just live here
I know a I can drink an an entire japanese water bottle in one sip. Maybe our bodies are trying to balance out all the chemicals?
Mormons are a damn strong argument against being straight edge (beyond being straight, gross).
One small thing I noticed driving across the US, they have signs about drunk driving everywhere, but Utah was the only state I saw with public road signs about driving drowsy instead.
Their bar laws encourage binging before they close early. They have a ton of drunk drivers too, but as with many fundies are wont to do they have euphemisms that step around addressing the issue.
Mormons are a damn strong argument against freedom of religion
Someone from China is making a killing selling these on Ebay
Apparently the “authentic” Stanley cups contained lead lol. It would be funny if the Chinese knockoffs were safer
The lead is under the label on the bottom, which is two layers away from the surface that touches your drink and one layer away from your hands, so unless you deliberately break off the label and lick the lead solder you should be fine.
so unless you deliberately break off the label and lick the lead solder you should be fine.
Well there goes my weekend plans
The post-collapse Mormon theocracy seems more inevitable every day. I knew those insulated drink holders were up to no good.
Honestly their entire organizational structure seems to be designed at acheiving the swift enactment of Greater Deseret the second Balkanization really takes hold.
Oh yeah, they’ve literally had a committee who’s job it is to do that since the 1800s
I just don’t understand how one can be so brainwashed by consumerism to think that a 45€ cup is something special…
Maybe the cup doubles as fancy sex toy ?
I knew they were popular but ffs
The product, Stanley’s most successful item among female customers, has propelled Stanley’s annual sales from US$70 million in 2019 to $750 million in 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_bottle
I assume you’re in Europe, I think people like them in the states because they fit into car cupholders, they are massive and well insulated. Other types of insulated bottles are popular but I don’t know any major brand with such a volume that fits into the car cupholder.
Salt Lake City
What would compel someone to build a city on a lake made entirely of salt?
Well according to the Wikipedia:
Upon arrival at the Salt Lake Valley, president of the church Brigham Young is recorded as stating, “This is the right place, drive on.” Brigham Young is said to have seen the area in a vision before the wagon train’s arrival. They found the broad valley empty of any human settlement.
There were several tribes in the area, but at least from the accounts I’ve heard before they wanted to avoid a place already settled so at least that maybe was cool, many settlers didn’t care who was there. Since there were people already in the area for at least hundreds of years there was probably a good reason there wasn’t a settlement there lol.
because they got thrown out of Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, etc
Crackers and salt, name a better combo
I work in a place that sells those and we get like 20 online orders a day for them. It’s really fucked up the inventory.
I’ve seen these here down under and I don’t get how this became a thing. They seem bloody expensive for a drink bottle
American brainpan is 1/3 hamburger grease, 1/3 advertising, and 1/3 fossil fuel
They are a bit much, but I think it’s similar to the hydroflask, I have one and I have used the same bottle for years and it keeps water ice-cold or tea hot for at least an entire day. People in the US and many elsewhere are serious about beverage temperature. I wouldn’t spend that much though, I got mine at goodwill for $5, normally around 30-40 I think
Yeah I get actually spending money on a bottle you’re going to keep for years. I mean, I spent like 15 bucks on my hpdl Nalgene I’ve had for 7+ years now. But like I don’t care about water temp at all. So if you wanted something quality I’d understand spending 30-40 on a good bottle. I DONT get collecting them though
I don’t get the handle part of these, it looks like it won’t fit comfortably literally anywhere a normal cup or thermos would fit, you have to just hold it all the time?
Car
After the next colorful collectible comes along these will make a dazzling landfill
Ok I didn’t know that Stanley is a Mormon thing. I had one of their coffee mugs years ago and it was quite good.
I don’t really get using this thing for water though it seems like it could leak pretty easily
i thought you meant the hockey thing and i was so confused
oh its for hockey. I knew there was some kind of sports thing that was called Stanley, but I didn’t know people were fighting for Stanley’s cup in Hockey.
