water & u

lol I drink water at room temperature mostly.

Jesse has berated me for saying that i prefer room temp water, and he also accused me of lying. Fortunately, we are still friends.

It was drilled into me by an old soccer coach that cold water is bad during physical activity. You can drink more water if it isn't ice cold.

i like the way cold tastes tho

Fine with me! I like it sometimes.

Trying to drink water for the last couple of weeks--moderately successful? Otherwise I would never have anything but tea, coffee, and beer.

A person once complained to me about their chronic headaches. I asked "how much water do you drink daily?" "Almost none; I hate to pee, it's such a waste of time!" :-/

I feel the same! Plus I am strict about hand-washing, so ev time I pee I have to wash again and then moisturize again or else my hands itch and crack and it's just a total pain.

I drink water, room temperature

chinese people don't like to drink cold water fyi, my dad gets freaked out if the water's too cold, why, because they didn't have ice machines until like 20 years ago

cold water lowers your internal body temp, then your body has to work overtime to bring the temp back up, in a way, it's like negative calories, you can lose weight just by drinking cold water (and holding the cheese), think about it

how can brita filters freak someone out

Jesse has berated me for saying that i prefer room temp water, and he also accused me of lying. Fortunately, we are still friends.

I accused you of lying?? I'm sorry. I believe you!

It was drilled into me by an old soccer coach that cold water is bad during physical activity. You can drink more water if it isn't ice cold.

I understand that hyponatremia is the most common cause of death in marathons, not dehydration.

Also, WTF?? NO! Cold water is refreshing (for most Americans), so why wouldn't you guzzle it?

i believe that drinking cold water during physical activity allows you to run faster, jump higher, and lift 10% more weight than normal.

Like ZS, I love ice. I often think that it is a very American trait. I like my beverages to be served in a glass filled to the top with ice. At home I keep 4 ice trays in the freezer, more in the summer. I go through 1 each weekday, and 2-3 on Saturday and Sundays.

dang. I have sensitive teeth so I can't go for that, jack

^yah me too

I had a friend in high school who was taught to ask for little ice or no ice at fast food restaurants, why, because ice is cheaper than soda and if they filled it up w/ ice that meant you were getting less soda

Yes there's that but in the land of free refills that's no problem.

My mom is from Mexico, which contributes to her conviction that cold drinks will give you a stomach ache or a cold.

your mom otm

I share dayo's friend's convictions

tho it's very possible that ice isn't cheaper than fast food soda

yeah I was gonna say that the joke's on you, fast food soda syrup is like pennies per 64 oz big gulp

the bigger problem is that if you get a ton of ice it's gonna melt and ruin the drink, it turns drinking soda into a race against time

^^ true for ice in any drink but ice water

Unless it's coffee ice! Instead of all ice being water, ice should be made of the thing you're putting it in.

absolutely

I drink a lot of water every day, sans ice. I don't really care whether it is from a tap or not. I used to have a sweet water bottle but I lost it and nothing has ever been the same.

losing a favorite water bottle is the worst

i am a Water Drinker as well

I am very conscious of my water intake but often I'll 'binge', as in drink 20-30 oz at a time, rather than sip. I don't really have the discipline or whatever to always have a full bottle on/around me. Anyway this kind of bothers me that I'm probably just pissing most of my water away rather than actually hydrating myself. Any hard science on the topic is welcome.

i drink sparkling water more than flat water because i like it less, but don't especially like water in general, so if i am going to be drinking water i want it to be this almost sharp thing i sip at & nurse. i am trying to drink more water because i only drink tea & special-treat-coffees once in a while, so i oughtta, really. also yes, it's too cold.

Water's ok - but better if you add tea leaves to it, and have it hot.

the bigger problem is that if you get a ton of ice it's gonna melt and ruin the drink, it turns drinking soda into a race against time

I wish I had said this before so it wouldn't sound like I'm being contrary, but for me there's a sweet spot of dilution by melting ice. At a certain point, the drink reaches maximum coldness and is watered down to a point I enjoy. Mostly the case w/ soda and iced tea. Esp. w/ iced tea. I might have learned this from an ex-bf.

i quit drinking soda and most juice. I don't regularly drink juice anymore. My beverage intake looks a bit like: water water water water water water water water water water (wine).

It's a great solvent for polar molecules.

http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/SDgraphics/PSgraphics/WaterMolecule.GIF

I encourage people to drink more water. A lot of people don't drink enough water. That leads to discomfort, in my experience.

― Mr. Farmer, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:39 (6 hours ago) Permalink

Perhaps it's something about the way you're encouraging them

p.s. I only drink boiled water — don't want to get cholera

― tanuki, Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:27 PM (13 minutes ago)

srsly?

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:43 AM (4 hours ago)

yes and also I am a 19th century russian aristocrat

i knew it!

What is it about the way I'm encouraging them?
This statement was really just a reference to the situation with my friend who hates to go to the bathroom and also suffers chronic headaches.
I don't go around scoffing at all the people drinking soda, for instance.

hah my parents also only drink boiled water

also

http://www.highlighthealth.com/health-news/neti-pot-deaths-spark-tap-water-warnings/

yes and also I am a 19th century russian aristocrat

― tanuki, Wednesday, December 28, 2011 10:38 PM (20 minutes ago)

heh well some people in modern cities still do (see above)

i can remember a few bacterial scares here when the water companies recommended it

I actually do mostly drink from the tea kettle, but more due to the fact that it's the perfect temperature

i invested in a complicated defluoridation device because they say they don't fluoridate in here but yeah right who would believe those creeps, you can never be too safe with fluorine around

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i only drink bottled water

I love me some water, I drink 1-2 litres a day at work, less when at home (I guess not being in aircon makes me less thirsty?). Nothing but water seems to actually thirst-quench, for me.

I drink lots of water. I drink from the tap at home, but it's well water and we have a pretty extensive filtration system. The preferred method is over ice in a big old mason jar. I also keep a 12 pack of flavored seltzer around.

There is a bottle delivery service at work and I probably drink 40 oz or so a day from the cooler.

Does anyone else still drink from water fountains or is that just me?

about 6-7 years ago i got in the habit of taking a bottle of water with me everywhere i went, like a refillable one (the current model is a big metal orange thermos-type thing), and i feel like my general health and sense of well being has been much improved ever sense. i think i get dehydrated easily, or at least i tend to feel parched very easily.

the last week or so i was traveling and visiting family and i couldn't take the bottle w/ me on the plane and only thought to take it with me throughout the week, so now i feel all sick and dehydrated and blame it on that.

I'm sure that statement will make some people IA.

I was arguing with a friend on FB about the cult of hydration. She was saying she was trying to drink more water b/c she was always dehydrated. I really, really doubt that many people are actually regularly dehydrated. The eight-glasses-a-day thing is kinda malarky. The bottled water industry has been successful in convincing us that we're dehydrated, I think.

I mean, the body is pretty good at telling you when it needs water. Unless your nervous system has some kind of glitch, you probably can drink fluids when you're thirsty and all will be well.

Or if you have gotten into some kind of disordered hydration habit. Which I guess is pretty likely if people are saying "I hate water."

I almost never drink water alone but I drink tons of herbal tea

I love those tubular nuggets of ice!

Maybe another reason I don't care for home ice is because when I have ice, I eat it and home ice isn't very fun to eat.

When a friend of mine was pregnant, she used to crave ice from a very specific Burger King and would often go out at inconvenient hours to just get giant cups of their ice.

If you piss about 5 to 7 times a day, you're adequately hydrated, unless you are introducing obvious diuretics into your system, such as several cups of coffee. That throws everything out of whack.

My sister-in-law craved pellet ice when she was pregnant.

Which reminds me: that side of the family, which is made up entirely of horrible people, hate water. My s-i-l's mother drinks literally ONLY Diet Rite.

My s-i-l's close friend puts Mountain Dew in her babies' bottle as a "treat" while they were nursing, and later because "they like it" and "water is gross" ("it rusts your insides lol!"). The s-i-l would probably have done something stupid like that, but my brother put strict limits on the kids' soda intake. Even so, she would sneak sugar in their water b/c "water is gross," nevermind that my niece loved plain water as a toddler.

you guys should read the chapters of this book i have about pica that address a fixation with eating ice

http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/101640000/101643417.jpg

Oh! I want to read that!

Huh, so apparently I'm part of a trend in ice munching.

-Sales of machines that make easier-to-chew ice jumped about 23% [from] 2006 from 2003, according to data from the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute.
- Ice chewers swap tips on Icechewing.com.
- Amy Grant bought Vince Gill an ice pellet machine for Christmas. Gill says [i]"Europe is a drag," he says. "I ask for ice, and they give me one or two cubes. They're stingy with their ice. I'd never survive there."[i]

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120165510390727145.html?mod=blog

I became anemic a couple of years ago because of a medication I was taking and experienced some pica-like cravings as a result. It was disconcerting.

ice chewers are disgusting savages imo

even the sound of someone biting down on a popsicle makes my whole nervous system wig out

oh man i wanna read that pica book. i used to eat a lot of paper. (eighth grade was a hard year.)

it's pretty good, would recommend!

> I have considered buying a standalone ice machine. I would love to find one that dispenses these things

Which Manitowoc Ice Machines calls "tubular nuggets" and says of them Softer, chewable texture with good cooling. Cylindrical shaped nugget with 5/8'' diameter and average length of approximately 1''. With the longer pieces and 90% ice quality, tubular nugget is ideal for dispensing applications.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, December 31, 2011 2:27 PM (7 hours ago)

Not quite that shape, but Manitowoc's SM50. residential ice machine does make these terrific, perfectly clear, gem-like octagonal ice cubes. It's what I hope to have in my kitchen someday. Once you try these you'll never want to go back to the smelly, cloudy-white ice crescents that your refrigerator makes again.
http://www.towsleys.com/mfsg/itemimages/IF14_rg.jpg

Scotsman makes a good undercounter ice machine too, and less expensive, which makes cylindrical ice. Every other residential undercounter ice machine i'm aware of makes boring rectangular cubes, although they'll still taste good and be perfectly clear.

water with lemon juice squeezed in, about 2 liters a day. refrigerated, no ice.

must have lemon because i just don't really like drinking plain water. this is probably cause i grew up in a town with very chemical-ly tasting water, i always hated drinking water as a kid. now that i've discovered the magic of putting lemon in my water, i drink it constantly, and have stopped drinking soda almost completely.

that said, soda water is awesome. i went through a diabetes scare + doctor complaining about my "liver numbers" and suggesting i cut back on teh booze, so i stopped consuming sugar but needed something non-alcoholic to drink at the bar that wasn't sweet sugary coke. soda water totally works for that, and bonus, bartenders usually give it to me free

Water w lemon was my jam until I discovered water w lime

Not quite that shape, but Manitowoc's SM50. residential ice machine does make these terrific, perfectly clear, gem-like octagonal ice cubes. It's what I hope to have in my kitchen someday. Once you try these you'll never want to go back to the smelly, cloudy-white ice crescents that your refrigerator makes again.

I don't think those are chewable like the pellets (the website for a commercial ice maker company actually said "often called 'rabbit turds'") I like. Apparently the pellet extrusion machines are impractical for residential use at this time. Or they were in 2011. Maybe now that it's the future things are different.

since i got a 32oz nalgene last christmas i have drank at least 1 gal of water a day and have been more energetic, had better bowel movements, been hungover less, and had little to no acne. i prefer it just below room temperature, sometimes drinking very cold water is shocking.

also i feel compelled to drink tap water because though i know it contains things that are probably bad for me i have been told by my girlfriend that it's good for your immune system. and i haven't gotten sick in a very long time. and basically i do whatever she says because she's always right.