@Kyeh@tinamarie1974 I kind-of liked the taste of the hose. But they were made from good-quality toxic ‘Merican rubber, not bad quality toxic Chinese plastic.
I still remember coming back from a trip (1970s) as a teenager and doing my car wash duty with refreshment from the hose (not bad if it had been running for a while), but also enjoying a delicious TaB can.
@Kyeh@pmarin@tinamarie1974
That’s what I was going to say: you need to let the water run for a few minutes before drinking.
This, BTW is a good idea regardless of where your water is coming from.
But it is especially important if you’re in any kind of public facility [hospital, prison, business] so that whenever has [or could possibly have] leached out of the pipes and/or any contaminants at the joints is washed down the drain [or in the case of the garden hose into the grass] and not into you [or your glass].
Maybe more important, is to never use the hot water from the faucet for drinking purposes, because while there are public health laws [at least here in NY and in NJ] that require a minimum standard of mandatory maintenance of cold water of cleaning them [often by steam disinfection], there are often none for the hot water side of the faucet.
@PhysAssist@pmarin@tinamarie1974
Ulp. I have used warm water to brush my teeth at times, because I had a sore tooth and the cold affected it. Guess I won’t do that anymore.
@mediocrebot Ha! The girl in the middle looks like my little sister did. AI has an interesting “understanding” of water and hoses and drinking Either the little boy is spitting out his water, or he has next level gravity powers. Also, is the girl on the left eating the coupling?
We were doing stupid TikTok challenges drinking water from hoses decades before social media existed. I had to laugh when I saw an ad for drinking water safe garden hoses.
Absolutely and regularly. In my Dallas backyard, we needed constant hose drinking while chasing horny toads, icky girls, enemy soldiers, Billy The Kid… circa 1954-1970.
@capnjb@user94988313 for some reason I also jumped to the girls thought.
From very long ago. Spiders and snakes; not toads.
/youtube Jim Stafford spiders and snakes
@lonocat cats had a natural sense to drink flowing water. Makes sense. He would like the bathroom faucet but as he got older couldn’t jump up. They make cat fountains that circulate water and it had a charcoal filter but in any case you have to clean and change water frequently. They will drink from a still bowl if there is no choice but keep clean and water fresh. Funniest thing was traveling in the camper in Winter. It was not heated while I drove but cat had a heated compartment. The cat water bowl was frozen when we stopped for the night.
@Pony Remember the smell of the water from the hose? I sometimes smell that smell and remember how good the cold water tasted and felt in my mouth .We were the house on the block that always let the neighborhood kids get a drink from the hoes on a hot day. There would be a line of kids taking turns like in school. Oh! The boomer years!
@jkawaguchi@Pony then you get 9 kids with their friends in the back of the station wagon. No seat belts or safety seats. At least 3 or 4 in the luggage area. The fake plastic wood grain on the side would protect them from any harm.
Mom would tell us not to but we’d do it anyway after letting it run first. Nobody got sick. And I am sure it helped us build our immune system as did eating a bit of dirt as a kid when playing outside… Germs? What germs?
I’d suspect drinking out of a hose is likely, generally, cleaner than drinking out of some streams and lakes.
@Kidsandliz
I often used to rub dirt in my minor cuts and scrapes, which always stopped them from bleeding [so I didn’t have to go in and get a bandaid] and never caused any infections.
@werehatrack yeah the only drinks I got from a hose was when I opened my mouth as I was being cleaned from playing in the dirt (and/or getting cut up by the rocks)
You people all speak of this nostalgically? I still drink from the hose on a hot summer day. Yes, you have to let it run for a bit: get the critters out, the germs out, and the hot water out! I have ice water waiting on the porch, but hose water takes me back to the '70s!
@ETFrisco@PhysAssist We live on rural property - our water comes from a private well. No filters, no chemical or other treatment of the water - it comes out of the ground crystal-clear and sweet tasting. A tiny bit of iron (from the pipes) and calcium shows on the fixtures, but nothing major. The family has been drinking it for 27 years (and counting) with no ill effects. (I can barely stomach the treated tap water in town. )
@ETFrisco@macromeh
I hate to be redundant, but again: same [at least pretty much].
We literally live in the woods, where we have a deep-water well, the water from which has been really reliable, clear, and sweet for all of the 31 years we’ve lived here.
As you noted we have had some hard water issues- staining, and the valves on our automatic washer froze up within a couple of years of living here, which we work around by manually filling it using the faucet from our laundry tub/sink.
I never liked city water much before living here, but over the years I have come to the point where I can’t really cope with drinking it at all, so now I bring ours with me when I need water to drink at work, etc.
Didn’t everybody?
@tinamarie1974 I didn’t like the taste of the hose.
@Kyeh nor did I, but going in for a drink meant time away from playing.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 I kind-of liked the taste of the hose. But they were made from good-quality toxic ‘Merican rubber, not bad quality toxic Chinese plastic.
I still remember coming back from a trip (1970s) as a teenager and doing my car wash duty with refreshment from the hose (not bad if it had been running for a while), but also enjoying a delicious TaB can.
@Kyeh @pmarin @tinamarie1974
That’s what I was going to say: you need to let the water run for a few minutes before drinking.
This, BTW is a good idea regardless of where your water is coming from.
But it is especially important if you’re in any kind of public facility [hospital, prison, business] so that whenever has [or could possibly have] leached out of the pipes and/or any contaminants at the joints is washed down the drain [or in the case of the garden hose into the grass] and not into you [or your glass].
Maybe more important, is to never use the hot water from the faucet for drinking purposes, because while there are public health laws [at least here in NY and in NJ] that require a minimum standard of mandatory maintenance of cold water of cleaning them [often by steam disinfection], there are often none for the hot water side of the faucet.
@PhysAssist @pmarin @tinamarie1974
Ulp. I have used warm water to brush my teeth at times, because I had a sore tooth and the cold affected it. Guess I won’t do that anymore.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 if you put a penny in your cheek it balanced out the taste of the lead
@jouest @Kyeh is that true?
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 yeah but then you need to smoke a marlboro red to balance out the penny.
(in other words no, but I’m too young to know hose science)
@jouest @tinamarie1974
Bleah.
@jouest @Kyeh welp, Ive got a penny but no Marlboro…
@Kyeh
It’s a good rule of thumb, not something you can’t ever make an exception to.
Residential hot water is considered safe and potable, BTW.
@Kyeh @PhysAssist you haven’t seen how bad my water heater looks
@jouest @Kyeh @tinamarie1974
/image mouth tastes like pennies
@Kyeh @pakopako @tinamarie1974 I hate when I can’t figure out if I’m pregnant or just have a mouthful of pennies
@pakopako
Hehehe…
@pakopako @tinamarie1974
@jouest
Okay, THAT really gave me the giggles!
Duh
/showme kids drinking from a hose wearing 1960s clothes
@mediocrebot Ha! The girl in the middle looks like my little sister did. AI has an interesting “understanding” of water and hoses and drinking
Either the little boy is spitting out his water, or he has next level gravity powers. Also, is the girl on the left eating the coupling?
@mediocrebot @mehcuda67 yes. Much like the generated thumbnail of this thread. Disturbing bot is disturbing @mediocrebot
@mediocrebot @mehcuda67 @pakopako he at least kind of got the clothes right and the haircuts
@pakopako Thumbnail/header image: the position of the hoses and the facial expressions say someone is forcing them to self-waterboard.
@Cerridwyn @mediocrebot @mehcuda67 @pakopako It’s creepy how real the kids look, doing an impossible thing.
@Cerridwyn
“He”?
?AI/Bot?
?It?
Waddaya mean "when you were a kid " ?
@macromeh I’m sayin
@jouest @macromeh we are all here on this forum… just sayin’ too.
We were doing stupid TikTok challenges drinking water from hoses decades before social media existed. I had to laugh when I saw an ad for drinking water safe garden hoses.
@mehcuda67 you want them to hook up an RV to campground water, or at least to fill a water tank. They are usually white-colored.
I even have one (orange-colored) that is electrically heated to use in frozen weather, but it turned out too heavy and troublesome to use regularly.
Absolutely and regularly. In my Dallas backyard, we needed constant hose drinking while chasing horny toads, icky girls, enemy soldiers, Billy The Kid… circa 1954-1970.
@user94988313 You really should have been chasing icky toads and horny girls.
Sincerely
~Child of the 70’s
@capnjb @user94988313 for some reason I also jumped to the girls thought.
From very long ago. Spiders and snakes; not toads.
/youtube Jim Stafford spiders and snakes
Oh, wait, there IS a frog 1 min in.
@user94988313 my daughter captured a toad and smuggled it home from the beach as a pet today. the kids are alright.
@jouest @user94988313
I’ve never seen a toad at the beach.
We have and see many in our yard, and there’s a new hatch of tiny new toads every spring here.
We have a pond they like to breed in, but never seen even one at the beach.
I did drink from the hose when I was a kid and lived to talk about it.
@heartny they should make a Gatorade old rubber hose flavor!
@heartny @pmarin this could be a straight-to-meh product, like a bad DVD
@pmarin Gatorade kind of tastes like that now
@heartny @pmarin And then we have the video that gave us Gatorwine, which resulted in this weirdness:
Skip to 18:52 if you want to save time…
Yes I did. Before you drink wait for it to burp out the air and run long enough to get rid of the hot water.
Yep. I sure did. After letting the hot water out first. (You only make that mistake once!)
@milstarr pro move
Just the thought of water hose rubber flavored water, brings back warm memories of my childhood
@lonocat cats had a natural sense to drink flowing water. Makes sense. He would like the bathroom faucet but as he got older couldn’t jump up. They make cat fountains that circulate water and it had a charcoal filter but in any case you have to clean and change water frequently. They will drink from a still bowl if there is no choice but keep clean and water fresh. Funniest thing was traveling in the camper in Winter. It was not heated while I drove but cat had a heated compartment. The cat water bowl was frozen when we stopped for the night.
Of course. Everybody I knew back then did.
@Pony Remember the smell of the water from the hose? I sometimes smell that smell and remember how good the cold water tasted and felt in my mouth .We were the house on the block that always let the neighborhood kids get a drink from the hoes on a hot day. There would be a line of kids taking turns like in school. Oh! The boomer years!
@jkawaguchi @Pony then you get 9 kids with their friends in the back of the station wagon. No seat belts or safety seats. At least 3 or 4 in the luggage area. The fake plastic wood grain on the side would protect them from any harm.
@jkawaguchi @Pony
Sounds like a wild neighborhood!
@jkawaguchi @macromeh @Pony
"“We were the house on the block that always let the neighborhood kids get a drink from the hoes on a hot day.”
Sounds like a wild neighborhood!"
Even more so with this follow up comment:
“There would be a line of kids taking turns like in school.”
Mom would tell us not to but we’d do it anyway after letting it run first. Nobody got sick. And I am sure it helped us build our immune system as did eating a bit of dirt as a kid when playing outside… Germs? What germs?
I’d suspect drinking out of a hose is likely, generally, cleaner than drinking out of some streams and lakes.
@Kidsandliz see? letting it run first is basically a sanitization cycle. we’re all good.
@Kidsandliz
I often used to rub dirt in my minor cuts and scrapes, which always stopped them from bleeding [so I didn’t have to go in and get a bandaid] and never caused any infections.
For those who were really adventurous…
@werehatrack yeah the only drinks I got from a hose was when I opened my mouth as I was being cleaned from playing in the dirt (and/or getting cut up by the rocks)
Universal.
You people all speak of this nostalgically? I still drink from the hose on a hot summer day. Yes, you have to let it run for a bit: get the critters out, the germs out, and the hot water out!
I have ice water waiting on the porch, but hose water takes me back to the '70s!
@ETFrisco
Same.
@ETFrisco @PhysAssist We live on rural property - our water comes from a private well. No filters, no chemical or other treatment of the water - it comes out of the ground crystal-clear and sweet tasting. A tiny bit of iron (from the pipes) and calcium shows on the fixtures, but nothing major. The family has been drinking it for 27 years (and counting) with no ill effects. (I can barely stomach the treated tap water in town.
)
@ETFrisco @macromeh
I hate to be redundant, but again: same [at least pretty much].
We literally live in the woods, where we have a deep-water well, the water from which has been really reliable, clear, and sweet for all of the 31 years we’ve lived here.
As you noted we have had some hard water issues- staining, and the valves on our automatic washer froze up within a couple of years of living here, which we work around by manually filling it using the faucet from our laundry tub/sink.
I never liked city water much before living here, but over the years I have come to the point where I can’t really cope with drinking it at all, so now I bring ours with me when I need water to drink at work, etc.