Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken
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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 on 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 on 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.
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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.
I still laugh about boomers bitching about participation trophies while being the ones handing them out
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I have never seen a brass spigot that wasn't threaded on the supply side. And as for the chemicals, as there are no less than twenty other comments talking about it, allow me to repeat this. We didn't drink out of hot hoses! I'm going to say this is one of very few statistical absolutes that you will ever witness in the wild, cause there is literally 0 kids who drank the water immediately after it started running. Once the house is flushed with cool water, the phthalate level drops asymptotically. Does it reach 0? Absolutely not. Is it equivalent to water from any soft plastic container like a camel back? Might be less because, again, the water is running!
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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.
Did you say brain eating amoeba? I have to get some.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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And we have to dodge bullets at school. What's your fucking point, old timer?
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha
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We also used to eat the first white snow of winter and rain water as it fell from the sky. Things were less (or more) polluted back then!
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Cold water inside was pretty good.
We played at my buddies house. He was Asian descent, so taking shoes off everytime to get a drink was too much work for us. Just grab the hose and get that drink. Pour some on your head too, cool off a bit.
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I am so fucking tired of this generational tribalism shit.
Back in the day you could book computer time at the local library in my town. I would walk to the library by myself so I could play Oregon trail on an apple iie.
Honestly I'm glad that kids have access to the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in their pocket, but I do miss the days of pre social media and the 24 hour news cycle.
