Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken
from FenrirIII@lemmy.world to starwarsmemes@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2025 12:28
https://lemmy.world/post/35525061
from FenrirIII@lemmy.world to starwarsmemes@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2025 12:28
https://lemmy.world/post/35525061
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/35505751
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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.
Too boomer to be Gen-X, but hey, that’s the plight of Gen-X.
We’d let it run for a few minutes before we drank from it cause Tommy thought it was funny to pee in the hose for some reason. Looking back, he wasn’t all that smart and I’m not sure we were the either cause we knew but figured ”let it run for 5 min first” was enough.
I’d let it run because that water was damn near boiling from sitting in a rubber tube in the sun all day
Tbh. It probably was ( not that i would feel comfortable drinking from it after 5 minutes but on a rational level i think there is no difference.)
If it was city water and they maintained adequate residual chlorine levels, 5 minutes should be enough to santize any germs or pathogens from the pee.
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.
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.
@Lightor @teft heavily depends on the country and even the city. In my region it's rare for people to drink from bottles at all. We're fine btw
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.
@Lightor first time I hear about that, and as I said, it does depend on the city sometimes. Tap water is definitely drinkable in most of the region
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.
Thanks for making it worse.
😁
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?
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But I’m sure the hose was just as fucked up, if not more.
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
Yup. They changed water sources without buffering the pH and that caused the protective coating to dissolve.
It really isn’t that bad. It isn’t like lead actually causes harm
Yeah but what if they used something that it doesn't poison you if the water changes a little? Wild take, I know.
…why is that relevant?
Do you filter literally all the water you intake, or do you think they only used lead pipes for the water hoses outside or something?
Yes, full house filters are a thing lol
It's relevant cause I live in a place where water is potabilized and checked, which is not the case in all the 'civilized' world, like where they have still lead pipes.
And in the case of remote places, it would be unwise to drink it straight from the ground, as you don't know what's under there.
Garden hose… like, outside?!
The Forbidden Lands??
I voted for gay rights without even saying “no homo”
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.
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
“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”
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.
Vitamins and minerals to make 1980s healthy boys and girls.
For rural houses, many garden hoses bypass their treatment systems to save on filter capcity, so its possible hose water in that situation is unsafe due to bacteria or water borne illnesses.
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?
We all drank from a hose, we get it. Thats why we are all mentally deficient from lead posioning.
Boomer
They distract you with generation wars so that you don’t notice that you’re losing the class war.