To not get the Stanley Cup thing

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They're 45 quid. It's a water bottle. I just don't get it.

@SayFuckTheLemonsAndBail

it’s not that I’m massively bothered just slightly curious!

couldn’t you just wait til you get home and have a drink then? Do you not get fed up of lugging water bottle everywhere ? What if you want to use a little handbag?

Thanks for stealth editing out the ignorant ableism in your post.

I use cheap cups/water bottles, and those cheap cups break and need replacing.

The Vimes Boot Theory.

Buying cheap repeatedly ends up being more expensive in the long run, both to your pocket and environmentally to land fill as you just chuck the broken one away.

If its something you use day in, day out, every day, week on week, month on month, why wouldn't you buy the more expensive one that'll do the milage?

Why are you morally superior for using cheap tat that you have to replace every 3 months because the spout degraded or it started leaking?

It's just a silly fad, popular among the children too. They're impractical and they're not leakproof.

Sorry, I'm more just baffled at various people on the thread being so anti-water. I totally understand the cup thing but I don't understand why drinking water makes others angry.

I like drinking water. I drink it so often that my mouth feels dry if I can't have a sip. So even if I'm popping out in the car, I like to have some on the passenger seat so I can grab it as I need it.

My bottle does fit in a small handbag. It's a flat bottle of 300ml capacity. It's part of my routine - keys, phone, wallet, water.

I should mention I also need to take medication when I'm out so it's handy for me to have water lying around. But I would take it with me anyway. From when I was a child, my favourite drink has been water. Since it's practically free, I spend all day drinking it.

you do know we can still see what you said originally right?

"MumblesParty·Original·Today 10:51
OK so I see that poster has ADHD, but drinking isn’t complex. It’s something you have to do every day. Surely if someone has the ability to understand the complexities of marriage vows, they can remember that they need to drink."

Abelist.

They make adults look like toddlers with sippy cups.

I always have a water bottle or flask with me, (sigg, Klean Kanteen), so understand that aspect, but I exercise most days so I have an electrolyte tablet in mine. I also carry hydration gels.

People, children and adults alike, want these Stanley cups because it's the must have, fashionable item, because they're not practical or leakproof. When they become unfashionable again many will end up in landfill.

There are many other good quality, huge water bottles or cups available, and far more practical than this one. To pretend this particular cup is needed for hydration is laughable.

The water bottles that scare me are those 2.2 litre ones with lines on telling you how much you should have drunk by each hour of the day. I could never drink that much water!

There's some great positive affirmation versions of these too!

The UK is culturally and commercially "downwind" of America. Sadly the UK is also a vastly poorer country and this leads to surreal outcomes.

In America 1/3 of workers earn more than $100,000. Half a million Americans earn over $1,000,000 a year. There is a huge potential market for a "fun" $45 drinks bottle.

Of course, the trend then comes to the UK, but here it's a £45 drinks bottle - it only works as a bizarre "status symbol".

Perhaps you might be old enough to remember the East European communist countries going crazy for Levi jeans...

I don't think the people who use them get it either...

Yet if one reuses a single-use bottle there are dirty looks all round from the people who would call themselves ecologically aware! Simpletons.

The sort of post I would have used in my statistics class, What's wrong with this? Any conclusions drawn from income data without reference to other conditions, chiefly cost of living, are a waste of time.

What does it do that other bottles don't ? Do they turn the water to wine or hover along beside you so you don't have to carry it, what makes it the best ever ?

Well the bottle i bought from Wilko's just before lockdown is in daily use and cost me £2.50. Looks like my cheap bottle can do the mileage.

That's it, this post has peaked. We can all go home.

Turn water into wine…the Jesus Bottle! I think we have a new, winning concept.

It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work. We could call it homeopathic wine - so dilute you can’t taste the wine, but very powerful for all that. After all, endlessly glugging water has no health benefit and people by the million have been taken in by that.

HA!😂

People with these bottles must have well developed upper arm strength! I only fill my small water bottle half full , and top it up when needed, because otherwise I am carting around unnecessary weight.

Very sorry. I was trying to write for a different audience. I didn't realise statistics professors would be marking my homework!

For the benefit of your statistics class:

Mean average cost of living in the USA is 10% higher than in the UK.
Mean average disposable income in the USA is 50% higher than in the UK.

I have bought myself one (I only paid £20, though) because my SIL promises me that it keeps drinks with ice in cold for ages, and I want ice cold water available in the summer.

Ds3 also told me an anecdote about one that was retrieved from the remains after a car fire, and still had ice in it - that may be apocryphal, though.

How bad are the other water bottles that there’s now a “best water bottle I’ve ever had” thing

In fairness, different vacuum mugs/bottles do vary in how well they work, @Changeusernameseeusernamehistory. I have two that I use for coffee on long journeys. One doesn't keep the coffee hot at all, whereas the coffee in the other one was still not completely cold 6+ hours into the drive.

I like mine because I can get my hand right in to scrub it. I have other (smaller) travel cups and they're hard to clean inside.

@Chipsweep
There's no need for your link, maybe if you'd mentioned you had adhd before allowing lots of comments, then reporting my comment is petty.
I have a DC with asperger's I don't need your attempt at 'educating'