And we have to dodge bullets at school. What’s your fucking point, old timer?
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
Did you say brain eating amoeba? I have to get some.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Just an extension of Boomer survivor bias arguments.
They also didnt use seat belts blah blah blah…
Libs: owned
Used to drink out of the hose all the time growing up in the 80s, but it was usually after playing in the sprinkler or otherwise running the hose for quite awhile. But never really thought twice about it either way.
Now as an adult the hose water always has this super appealing nostalgic smell, but I don’t run it very often, and the idea of whatever might be lurking in that stagnant water just squicks me out too much to take a swig :(
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
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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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?
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.
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!
Same people that made the microplastics, duh
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.
5 minutes!? Jesus Christ, it clears out in about 10 seconds.
Some people are just really overcautious. I’m not sure why but Reddit was basiclaly known for that.
It depends on the hose and the flow rate. They can vary a lot.
Also, your not just clearing the stagnant water, but also anything that was growing in it.
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.
Ah, I saw this and was thrown off because I grew up on a farm where the hose was used for everything. In thinking about it, my better judgement wouldn’t consider drinking from the hose I keep at the apartment for a second, even if I’d been using it all day 🤢. That sits for months at a time gathering who-knows-what.
Apparently it’s the hose that’s the problem, something about it breaking down or whatnot.
Well obviously, it’s probably depressed from getting called a hoes all the time.
Me talking to the garden hose:
Hey ho how ya doin, where ya been?
Prolly doin hose stuff cuz there you hose again!
Its a ho wide world, that we livin in.
At my childhood home, I wouldn’t drink the tap inside without a filter either. And my parents don’t trust it even if it has been through a filter. Only reason I’d drink directly from the outside faucet is if I’m really in need of water and there’s no other viable option.
The garden hoses are made out of PVC, and It leaches into the water passing though it
That’s the hose flavor
Like the pvc pipes inside the house? 🤦🏼
I’m not saying the person you’re replying to isn’t being a bit obtuse, but the water in your house that you drink should be running through copper or in newer homes, PEX which is HDPE, not PVC.
Carry on.
That’s not always the case. If a house has a well and later gets water from a utility, they will often keep exterior taps running well water because it’s a lot cheaper than abandoning the well. So, technically, you could have water that’s safe to drink inside the house but still have unsafe water outside.
Also, if the house has filters or other water treatment that generally isn’t used for the exterior (though that’s typically more about taste and mineral content, rather than anything hazardous).
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.
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.
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!
My kids got to drink from a hose. Nothing was more refreshing then drinking cool water from a hose as a kid. As an adult still not to bad.
After running it through a filter?
Yeah, the one at the water treatment plant.
We didn’t have filters in my dad. We didn’t even think about the environment or wounde if the water was safe to drink. We just drank it.
We didn’t have filters in my dad.
Understandable
Back then almost no one did.
Did this and it was glorious after playing bball in the driveway. Nothing better.
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.
Have a sip of water that’s been solar heating in a rubber garden hose for a pavlovian blast from the past!
We just ran the water a bit
Mmmm tasty microplastics
As a gen X I always think it’s kinda weird how Gen Z (or whatever is the last), care about health considered the shitty world they’re supposed to meet.
I think it’s because a lot of Gen Z already have health problems that they can’t afford to go to the doctor for. Or if they can afford it, the doctor doesn’t know how or doesn’t care about treating it. I know a healthcare provider that said they can’t believe how many young people come in with old people diseases.
Because they live in a poisoned world. If you know you’re constantly being poisoned, do you accept it, or do you become worried about the level of poison?
Social media and short videos. That’s why there’s a reason young girls to young women have a eating disorders and it’s going up.
mIcrOPlaSicS!
Yeah, y’all got far worse problems.
Gotta bring that avg. life expectancy up to increase retirement age to 85.
Mmmmmmm metal and water perfect combo.
I can taste this.
GenX have higher amounts of brain damage from lead poisoning, and earlier this year Trump saw a spike in support from GenX:
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-gen-x-polls-2099640
