Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken
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People used to eat lead paint chips, too. Now they run our government.
Can you describe where the lead chips from tap water going through rubber comes from?
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Five minutes? It should take about 30 seconds to run numerous gallons through. I think project farm was testing hose nozzles and he was getting 5 gallons in less than a minute.
God I want to like him so bad! Like he tests all the stuff that's right up my alley. But I can not stand his voice and jumpy editing.
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Dude is really pushing that left wrist accessorizing to unnatural boundaries.
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Can you describe where the lead chips from tap water going through rubber comes from?
Same people that made the microplastics, duh
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Well, as a garden hose drinker from back in the day, I'm here to tell you that it was run through a filter. It's just that that filter was back at the water treatment plant. Same thing with public water fountains, which were everywhere. We're not that goddamned tough. We weren't slurping pond water through a straw or something like that.
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Aren't Gen X the parents of Gen Z? That feels more like a failure on gen X for not teaching the ancient art of outside hose drinking.
As gen x- you open the tap, and you fucking drink. It's not rocket science.
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After running it through a filter?
Yeah, the one at the water treatment plant.
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Like the commenter above said .... having that water sit stale in about 50 feet of hose for about a week or two or longer and depending on where it was placed, being heated by the sun and cooled every night.
As a rule of thumb, if you ever want to try this, run the hose for about five minutes first.
Run it until it's cold. You don't need 5 minutes.
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The garden hoses are made out of PVC, and It leaches into the water passing though it
That's the hose flavor
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I was born mid eighties and grew up in South Florida. You better believe we learned to let the hose run for a solid minute before even thinking about drinking from it.
Also most filters don't filter out pthalates.
I'm pretty sure the cancer is half the reason it tasted so good!
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The tap outside is the same water you drink from the tap inside why would you need a filter
Another reason is that garden hoses are plastic and sit in the hot sun and cold winter for a long time. Lots of microplastics due to degradation.
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I'm pretty sure the cancer is half the reason it tasted so good!
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I am late GenZ, we used to drink all day, every day from pumps on playgrounds and parks that were just unfiltered well water. Until they shut them down one by one. This was not a GenZ idea, this were Boomers and GenX trying to line their pockets with the "savings" these measures had.
Legends say that Boomers and GenX then complain about children not playing outside anymore.
If you blame GenZ or Alpha for how they have grown up in the society and environment you left them with it just reeks of the signature Boomer mentality to fuck everything up for everything but themselves and then blaming everyone else.
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Can you describe where the lead chips from tap water going through rubber comes from?
wrote last edited by [email protected]In brass fittings and brass spigots, for one.
And lots of weird/toxic shit in hoses that isn't lead (like plasticizers etc), because of the manufacturing process. And because hoses aren't by default regulated for Safe Water standards.
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I am so fucking tired of this generational tribalism shit.
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Gen Z and Gen Alpha because anyone younger can't afford to have kids. Been seeing plenty of people in their late 40s and early-to-mid 50s with young children, but almost nobody under 40 with kids.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Guess it depends where you live, because my youngest is in one of seven preschool classes at the elementary school, and the vast majority of parents are under 40.
I will say it is definitely more normal to see older parents though (as in 40+), and I think that's fine too. Do whatever you want!
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We didn't have filters in my dad.
Understandable
Back then almost no one did.
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Well, as a garden hose drinker from back in the day, I'm here to tell you that it was run through a filter. It's just that that filter was back at the water treatment plant. Same thing with public water fountains, which were everywhere. We're not that goddamned tough. We weren't slurping pond water through a straw or something like that.
I did used to drink stream water without a life straw or other filter...
My filter was the rain clouds.
I was also in the back country on the side of a mountain, so likely just a little animal dung and brain eating amoeba.
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The tap outside is the same water you drink from the tap inside why would you need a filter
Ehh I have well water and the outside spigots bypass all the filtering/softening systems in my basement cause why burn filter cycles cleaning groundwater to spray back on the ground
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I am so fucking tired of this generational tribalism shit.
Back in my day we had generational tribalism for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and we liked it.
