I hate this age-based bullshit. I was born in 2001 and drank from the hose whole childhood. Its not called being old its called being stupid.
“Unlike today’s snowflakes I do (incredibly common thing that never went away).”
I do have respect for the generations that grew up without running water or electricity
Oh definitely. That’s a much more relevant generational gap than “we both have running water but I’m tough because I didn’t put it in a cup first”
The older generation can’t stand that Gen Z might actually be functional. In the end generations don’t vary that much.
More specifically, kids don’t think much further than thirsty? Water
They distract you with generation wars so that you don’t notice that you’re losing the class war.
We all drank from a hose, we get it. Thats why we are all mentally deficient from lead posioning.
I might be wrong here, but playing a game when your friend is hurt but doesn’t have a broken bone, so you don’t care, is called having bad friends. If I’m playing with my friends and someone gets something in their eye or rolls and ankle I’m not going to dunk on them. How is that fun?
Yo, the rubbery plastic hose water taste was THE taste of summer 1985.
I was drinking hose water well into the 2000s. Shit hit different.
An 1995.
Funny that some would consider this a flex, not considering that there’s still LEAD PIPES around being used.
Lead pipes aren’t inherently leaching lead into your water, as long as the chemistry of the water moving through the pipes is correct. Problems like what happened in Flint happen when the water chemistry is wrong
Yeah but what if they used something that it doesn’t poison you if the water changes a little? Wild take, I know.
why would you have to filter it? it’s just tapwater isn’t it?
the hose water comes from the same line as all the tapwater in the house.
The ‘danger’ comes from hoses and bibs not being sold for potable use so you get lead in the hose bibs even today and god knows what they put in the hose rubber as it didn’t have to pass any safety regulations and our dads were largely buying whatever was cheap at the hardware store.
I grew up on a farm. I realized how differently city folk think about water when I drank out of the horse’s trough by just dipping a hand in and drinking from my hand. For me that water’s perfectly fine to drink since it got refilled daily and the horses seem fine drinking it. The look on my friend’s face suggested that I had drank sewer water.
Animals drink it and backwash into it, but you think that makes it fine? I mean, ignoring medical science because “it seems fine” is very hick farm boy thinking. Are cigs good because I know a lot of smokers who seem fine? Come on man, what is this?
If you’ve kept horses, you know that intestinal parasites are a common problem. Well let me share with you where those parasites are most often picked up…
From water sources. There are only really a few diseases that can crossover though and most of those are already problems for humans in stagnant water (giardia and salmonella being the big ones). My horses were healthy and the water was changed often so it wasn’t a huge risk.
But it’s a risk. Why take the risk when you can avoid it by having a bottle of water? You’re rolling the dice every time because why? It’s convenient?
It was the 80s. There was no bottled water and I’m perfectly healthy as an adult so obviously it was fine.
The bottled water industry exploded during the 80s, that’s when it became big. But even without that, a canteen is a thing.
Lol, thinking you’re healthy now so it has no impact is a little silly. That not always how long term exposure presents itself. But either way, you might not have been ok. I can play Russian roulette and win 100 times, it doesn’t make playing it any less dumb. I wouldn’t brag about how I played Russian roulette 100 times and won, it just makes me look like a lucky idiot.
Where are you located out of curiosity?
@Lightor Andalucía, south of Spain.
I was curious so I looked and this is the first thing I found, didn’t seem promising.
The lack of drinking water is not a new problem. Residents have been living like this since 17 April 2023, when Andalucía’s government declared the tap water unfit for human consumption.
I wouldn’t do it, but because I’m sure horses have a lot of backwash. This is also why I don’t drink after kids.
Worse than backwash. They drool in the trough. So much drool.
