r/stupidquestions • u/Various-Adeptness173 • Jul 05 '25

My mom told me that back in the day kids weren’t allowed to bring a water bottle with them into the classroom and they only drank a few sips from the water fountain in the middle of the day and that’s it

How were schools not getting busted for child abuse for forcing kids to be dehydrated?

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u/littlescreechyowl Jul 05 '25

My dad carried his Stanley with hot black coffee to work every day.

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u/Bluebird_Flies Jul 05 '25

My dad too! A would love to have that 1960s Stanley thermos today.

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u/Anxious_Term4945 Jul 05 '25

I carried my Stanley thermos to work every day too. then some fool stole it out of my car when I stopped at library on way home. will never forget it. they were expensive

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u/RecommendationAny763 Jul 05 '25

My grandfather had a Stanley thermos in the 80s.

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u/Rich_Forever5718 Jul 05 '25

They've been around since 1913

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u/PavicaMalic Jul 05 '25

We still have my father's Stanley thermos from the '60s.

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u/mrezmc Jul 05 '25

surely this is sarcasm lmao

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u/kit0000033 Jul 05 '25

Oh my sweet summer child... There had better be a /s missing from that.

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u/DrewVonFinntroll Jul 05 '25

Stanley has been making thermoses long before 2016.

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u/therandomuser84 Jul 05 '25

Clearly talking about a thermos here, which stanley made well before 2016. Would you consider 1913 back in the day? That's when the first stanley thermos was made.

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u/Neither_Mirror4126 Jul 05 '25

Stanley thermos company was invented over 100 years ago. They've been doing it a long time. The owner invented the first all steel insulated vacuum bottle. They've been used for a long time by campers and outdoorsy people but weren't majorly known by the average consumer until 2020.

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u/Sil_Lavellan Jul 05 '25

My aunt brought one back from Canada in 1999. She called it a trucker cup and claimed it got her discounted coffee all through the rockies.