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I drank from a water hose many times when I was young. I assume this is a bad thing?
Depends where you live, where I am you might get typhoid by doing that
Was in Toronto in 60’s and 70’s.
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.
The tap outside is the same water you drink from the tap inside why would you need a filter
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.
How am I being obtuse? Eat citations:
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/7/10/641
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13201-022-01751-y - this one’s for household pipes
Plastics are bad for us, no matter how you slice it. Even seemingly stable ones carry risk
I was speaking from a western viewpoint. I had no idea that the Middle East used uPVC in their treated water systems. I will point out that uPVC isn’t PVC. It’s a coated pvc that has different properties which seems to be what the researchers are studying.
In any case, very sorry you have to deal with that over there. We use copper in all western countries I’ve heard of (though lead is still in existing systems in places like Chicago).
I’m not middle eastern, but plastic pipes are really common in new builds in north america now too. Garden hoses are largely made out of PVC so the same risks apply
You were talking about PVC. PVC is not the same as HDPE. It’s not the same as PE, PP, etc.
When you say plastic you include a bunch of stuff that you probably don’t mean to. Plastic refers to any material primarily composed of polymers. The coating inside your cast iron pan when you season it using food oil like avocado oil is a plastic.
North American households don’t use pvc. They use HDPE. They’re not even remotely the same. The risks are completely different, just like the difference between styrofoam and rubber.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Just looked him up. He reminds me too much about the tv-shop salespeople. Kinda yelling at me, speaking really fast and stopping just a bit too long after the end of a sentance.
Idk, might be super cool though.
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.
Run it until it’s cold. You don’t need 5 minutes.
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.
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
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.
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).
Generation Proxmox?
I read that as Generation Prolapse
lol, I hadn’t even realized that.
Ok am I just getting old? Seems like memes are just missing words now. OP’s was too.
Mines not a meme, just a screenshot of some Gen x cringe content. you didn’t miss anything
Dude is really pushing that left wrist accessorizing to unnatural boundaries.
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
Mmmmmmm metal and water perfect combo.
I can taste this.
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.
mIcrOPlaSicS!
Yeah, y’all got far worse problems.
Gotta bring that avg. life expectancy up to increase retirement age to 85.
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.
I think it’s because a lot of Gen Z already has 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?
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
kys boomer
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.
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.
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!
Libs: owned
Just an extension of Boomer survivor bias arguments.
They also didnt use seat belts blah blah blah…
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.
This generational bullshit is all made up by marketing assholes. None of it is legit, it’s all a distraction from the class war we should all be waging.
