Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken
Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35505751
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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.
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“Unlike today’s snowflakes I do (incredibly common thing that never went away).”
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I do have respect for the generations that grew up without running water or electricity
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The older generation can't stand that Gen Z might actually be functional. In the end generations don't vary that much.
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More specifically, kids don't think much further than thirsty? Water
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We all drank from a hose, we get it. Thats why we are all mentally deficient from lead posioning.
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Yo, the rubbery plastic hose water taste was THE taste of summer 1985.
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I was drinking hose water well into the 2000s. Shit hit different.
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An 1995.
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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?
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why would you have to filter it? it's just tapwater isn't it?
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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.
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god knows what they put in the hose rubber as it didn't have to pass any safety regulations
Vitamins and minerals to make 1980s healthy boys and girls.
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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.
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Too boomer to be Gen-X, but hey, that’s the plight of Gen-X.
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Garden hose... like, outside?!
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The Forbidden Lands??
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I voted for gay rights without even saying "no homo"
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Funny that some would consider this a flex, not considering that there's still LEAD PIPES around being used.
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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
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...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?
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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.
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Yes, full house filters are a thing lol
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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.
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I'd let it run because that water was damn near boiling from sitting in a rubber tube in the sun all day
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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.)
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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.
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Boomer
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But I'm sure the hose was just as fucked up, if not more.
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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.
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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...
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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?
They distract you with generation wars so that you don't notice that you're losing the class war.