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I felt your arguments were completely valid until that. And I don't buy your analogy with the exploding lawnmower, either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffrey Lebowski
Absolutely fine, I don’t expect to change any minds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
My point with the lawnmower is two-fold:
1) I personally think you can make some assertations on someone’s mental state based upon choice of target. You can disagree as Jim did, and of course that’s fine.
2) You won’t change the minds of die-hard liberals, and of course I agree with that. But if I’m some middle-of-the-road politician (or just regular dude) with neither interest nor animosity towards guns and I start seeing these videos, maybe when “common sense xxx laws” start being pushed, I’m all on board in ways that the membership here is not. It is certainly a jump from a paper target, to a cooler, to a mower blade, but maybe I don’t want my neighbor exploding a cooler since he might be the one dude potentially not smart enough to think through mower shrapnel.
http://floridapolitics.com/archives/...-marion-hammer
I misremembered, it was an "agreement', not a contract.
Bottom line, I don't think blowing up or shooting Yeti products does anything to the company but I still think Yeti is lying through their teeth. There are plenty of people making stainless steel thermal tumblers and bottles for a lot less than Yeti. There are cheaper alternatives to their cooler line-up. The only reason for buying their products in the past was marketing and some would say that that marketing is now damaged by their sudden politically-correct decision to not do business with the NRA Foundation or NRA-ILA.Quote:
YETI severed ties with the NRA and is now engaging in damage control after a backlash from many of its customers. In early March, YETI refused to place a previously negotiated order from NRA-ILA, citing ‘recent events’ as the reason – a clear reference to the tragedy in Parkland, Florida. YETI then delivered notice to the NRA Foundation that it was terminating a 7 year agreement and demanded that the NRA remove the YETI name and logo from all NRA digital assets, as well as refrain from using any YETI trademarks in future print material. While YETI is trying to spin the story otherwise, those are the facts.
I generally hate "+1" posts ... but +1Quote:
Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter
Didnt take long for this merchant to dump Yeti in favor of Pelican:
https://grabagun.com/pelican-cooler-...=Daily%20Email
Of course, Pelican isn't known for being inexpensive, either.
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Originally Posted by Irving
I'll buy the travel/eat out of cooler for work reason, which is rather niche.
I don't buy the beer/ice reason. That's a ridiculous reason to spend (for example -https://www.yeti.com/hard-coolers/tundra-160-cooler/YT160.html) $679. Last time I spent 2 weeks in the woods (2009), I had no cooler. I didn't need one because there is no need for one when you resign yourself to adjusting to not having things which need a cooler. I ate MRE's, mountain house, and canned goods. I had warm mountain dew and water.
Please, describe for me the situation in which someone needs to immediately throw a field dressed animal into a cooler. You've filled your tag, take it to the processer, done. A buck antelope would = what, 50# or so of meat? My rationale for hunting is to save on meat cost, which means I'm substituting X meat for beef. Beef is ~$3.50 pound...ish? 50*3.50= $175; this means you need 3.88 situations in which that cooler definitely saved the day to break even -- considering this usage as a sole reason.
The dimensions of the Tundra 160 are: 12 1/4” × 16 1/8” × 37”; you're probably not fitting much more than an antelope in that thing.
I think you are grasping at straws. The only viable reason you gave was the one you edited in: true need due to a crazy work situation. Everything else you listed is either delusional or luxurious, wrapped in the veneer of utility.
I probably am just grasping at straws. I think I only spent just over $200 for my big RTIC a few years ago and don't really feel like that is much to have to justify. Just trying to throw out some potential situations. In reality, most people aren't fully utilizing their purchase, but that can be said about EVERY luxury item IMO. $400 auto blade that never cuts anything? Porsche Cayenne with electronic sway bar disconnect that never even sees a dirt road? $200/mo for cable when you don't even know any of the channels?
All that said, not having to drive into town to keep my beer cold is for sure a luxury. My work example would work for a week of hunting and eating out of the cooler if one didn't hunt out of a cabin like I get to do. I've had deer, bear, cow, and turkey tags all at the same time. I do bring my meat to a processor in the town closest to where I hunt, but I'm sure not everyone does. For example, I probably wouldn't leave elk camp to get a turkey somewhere cold, and I probably wouldn't leave elk camp to keep a doe cold, especially if I had a bull tag. Again, that's all just luxury decisions. I guess my point was that when one uses their cooler often, and for long periods of time, the cost is averaged out over years. I'm just throwing ideas out here.
As others have posted already, everyone has something they wouldn't pay for. I'd rather a one time $800 cooler purchase compared to years of $500/mo car payments (even though I'd get way more use out of said car). Heck, in about a month I'm about to pay that much for a full coyote mount from last year. It's going to serve exactly zero utility in my life, just like my buck shoulder mount that was $550. Those animal mounts don't even keep beer cold or act as wifi hotspots or anything. Shrug.
The NRA should come out with some classy vinyl "NRA" stickers in various sizes made to cover over the Yeti logos on coolers and mugs. They could make it a fundraiser.