water & u

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.

people rail against bottled water but I think it's a valuable service, it's better than drinking soda on the go

what's disgusting savagery is the 'premium' bottled water like fiji or w/e

cities in america should install bottle-fillers @ water fountains, they have them, I've seen 'em

xp aw dude that happens to me too--if i don't have the bottle my whole water routine gets thrown off

I'm not a big water fan, but I drink it anyway. I water down Gatorade a lot, and that's pretty good.

i like water, drink it steadily throughout the day

no ice, in general it's not healthy to drink cold stuff

fizzy is great, too

i love water and i want to drink more of it.

My apt has steam heat, and I don't notice any dryness when it's on. My parents, however, have forced-air heat, and that SUCKED THE LIFE right out of me last week--I felt like a dried up leaf about to crumble p much every day. Drank like 3x my normal intake and still had to put lotion on my hands every 30 mins and, seriously, up my nose to keep those tissues from being parched. Waaaater!

<3 steam heat

No shitting, I missed it like crazy every time I woke up with sandy eyes and pain in my sinuses.

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.

I'm sorry we never have ice for you.

I drink a lot of water. We have a faucet mount filter at home and a water cooler at work but I'm not squeamish about drinking out of the tap. We keep a bottle of water in the fridge because we never have ice because we don't really use it, because we keep a bottle of water in the fridge…

I used to drink out of the water fountain at work bc it's closer to me than the water cooler until I caught a guy washing his pants in it. Now I avoid it.

Oh like Lex, I always take a glass of water to bed.

^ can't sleep without some sort of water receptacle within reach, even if I don't use it during the night.

I drink tons of water, cold but not too cold, with lemon if possible. I'm kind of absurdly psyched about this Contigo bottle I just got. For a while I didn't have a bottle I liked and drank out of the ice-cold fountain at the gym and out of "bio" plastic cups at work.

the last week or so i was traveling and visiting family and i couldn't take the bottle w/ me on the plane

whenever i fly, the minute i get through security i head straight to wherever i can buy some extra large bottles of water to replace the one i've had to throw away

the tap water in bavaria is cleaner than pretty much anywhere in europe, but if you ask for it in a restaurant they claim it is dirty or sth and try to sell you 200ml of table water for like 3€. tbh i think they genuinely believe this though. it is very hard water so it doesn't taste amazing, and like 50% of the floor space in german supermarkets is bottled water and beer (cheaper than water, no lie), so clearly there is a market.

i don't dink as much water as i should though sometimes i'lll drink tons of it but on other days while at the office i forget about the watercooler and just do not drink anything at all. i used to drink from the tap, still do sometimes but my flatmates look at me like i'm strange or smth cos apparently you shouldn't drink tap water here as it could make you sick.

also cold water is horrible. room temp is the best. i'm slowly getting used to warm water cos if i don't specify that i want cold water in restaurants, they'll bring it warm. i'm also daily amused by one of my colleagues who always asks for warm water with ice...

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.