OT: The Stanley water bottle craze
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The technology of YETI bottles can be found in the Arctic Cool line found in Walmart for 1/3 the price.
Just like the YETI 5 gallon bucket goes for 40 bucks when the orange home depot bucket is $12.50
With a lid.....
Just like the YETI 5 gallon bucket goes for 40 bucks when the orange home depot bucket is $12.50
With a lid.....
Seriously, I was thinking the same thing. Its like kids spending 20 bucks on cool fidget spinners 10 years ago, or buying Z Cavaricci (sp?) jeans in the 80s that sucked. No different than a Kate Spade purse, or any other accessory,
If someone is dumb enough to pay that much for a water bottle, ok... but better than people that are dumb enough to pay a dollar or 2 dollars each for plastic throwaway bottles of water that are the purity of your filtered sink water and in a container that harms yourself with microplastics and the environment (the production of, and landfill of the bottles).
I know my daughter, who is 14, got one, and she is drinking more water now, not drinking water bottles, and really, is better off for it. Could be worse things to throw money away on.
I'm not here to talk about the economy, I'm just laughing at you, looking at literally only the things you see around you to draw a conclusion about everyone and everything. The economy may or may not be fantastic, your anecdote is in no way an indicator of that.
Yes, if you want to talk politics on a college football message board where political talk is prohibited, any of those things would be better evidence.
Again, you are comparing toys, clothes, and accessories with a water bottle. A water bottle is NOT an accessory but is being used as such. It would be like if some viral pencil came out and everyone had to carry it in their hand everywhere they go to show they have it.
Have you never looked at the fountain pen market?
Man. SMF taking L after L in this thread.
I think it's hilarious that he's this bent out of shape over a water bottle.
I'm guessing he missed the entire American Girl doll craze and $50 outfits for a doll.
Kids dont carry around Mont Blancs to be cool. If they did, I would say it would be similar. Also, whatever happened to Zebra Pen? Remember they sponsored our glorious CBI rub?
My daughter has them. And they are a toy. Not an accessory. Kids dont carry around American Girl dolls from class to class
It isn’t from a lack of trying.
What kind of water bottle do you have? And how old were you when you started carrying one? At some point in our lives it became an accessory.
I've never bought a water bottle for myself. We had water fountains in HS and college. In HS, the bball team gave us those Gatorade ones. When I got a house, I got one of those futuristic fridges that dispense water. I do not carry around a water bottle as an accessory. When did this start? People when leaving the house grab their wallet, keys, cell, and now water bottle. It needs to stop
Imagine if Chick fil A sold a water bottle? I’ll bet the drive through lines would go on forever…….
It doesn't do anything the one I bought at Sheetz for 14.00 doesn't do.What a rip-off. This one is only $3000. Water bottles becoming the new luxury accessories dampens my hope for humanity. But my God what a country we live in where people can afford stupid shit like this.
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The sad thing is that he really isn't trying, it just come natural to him!
I guess you can say that Prime is for boys what Stanley cups are for girls. Big differences though in that Prime is a legitimate flavored sports drink that has its own flavor. It does taste different than other sports drinks. Kids like it. A Stanley cup holds water the same way any other water bottle does and girls have it as an accessory. I wouldn’t say boys carry around Prime as an accesory.
When did Coke and Pepsi start selling cases of water? And why was there a market for it? What brought this all on? I drank a half pint of milk during the school day and that was it. All day.
Again, it tells you how great of a country we live in that we profit off of water. The water market in the US is lucrative.
Yeah I don’t get it either. Although I was cool dad because I got some Stanley insulated vacuum seal bottle literally like 10 years ago, and it’s sat in the back of the cupboard. told the kids and they didn’t believe me. Showed them, and now both daughters fight over who can take it to school.
the kids school did ban any metal bottles without these rubber band things around them. The school is kind of industrial so has polished concrete floors in the halls, and these really tall ceilings with exposed brick walls etc which looks great but not great for muffling sound. I guess the teachers were going crazy with all the metal bottles being dropped and clanging incessantly.
the kids school did ban any metal bottles without these rubber band things around them. The school is kind of industrial so has polished concrete floors in the halls, and these really tall ceilings with exposed brick walls etc which looks great but not great for muffling sound. I guess the teachers were going crazy with all the metal bottles being dropped and clanging incessantly.
Dude you're nuts. You take a position, often an absurd or extreme one, and refuse to give even the slightest ground on it or acknowledge the validity of a counterpoint no matter what. Like a dog with a bone.
if you had simply made your point with your OP, which is one I don't even disagree with (as a dad of two teenage daughters who now have 4 of these F'in things between them), all would be fine. But instead you have escalated the discussion to some absurd take that a water bottle is somehow not a trendy fashion accessory, but a pair of Uggs or a certain watch is.
Again, I have two teenage daughters. You apparently do not. Because if you did, you'd realize that everything they wear or carry on their person is a carefully chosen fashion accessory. Every girl in my daughter's middle school carries one of these Stanley sippers every day. They all have the same everything. Pajama pants on under the school uniform skirt, North Face backpack, high top Nike sneakers, Stanley sip straw water mug, etc. etc. God help the girls who don't have all that stuff. My daughters are both soccer players and won't wear any type of soccer shoes other than Nike. They all wear colored pre-wrap as head bands for games and eye black even on a cloudy fall day. It is all driven by social media influencers, and these trends explode now in a way that wasn't possible in my youth. Is it absurd over-consumption? Absolutely, in the tradion of our country. But is it crazy that a certain type of exepensive water bottle becomes a fashion statement? Hell no, this has been the way it works in this country forever.
important to wait them out....I just got a super cool Starter jacket at Walmart...
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My point is that a water bottle is NOT a fashion accessory but it is being treated as one. You dont wear a water bottle like Uggs or a watch. The fact that a water bottle is a fashion accessory is a sign we are doomed....and also that the economy is absolutely sizzling.
Record high today for the Dow. Its the 1980s again. Everyone is getting rich.
You understand that what that means is the Dow is now right around where it was two years ago, right?
Mr. 6,000 Dow back to commenting on the market.. hahaha
