Water appreciation thread

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One great thing about Ricky Gervais' XFM show was how candid Steve was in mentioning Ricky's terrible diet. He hated drinking water, called it "boring" and was always drinking soda, and complaining of headaches. He's like a little kid when it comes to food (at that time, who knows now). It legitimately irritated Steve so much, he refused to eat with him anymore for a time.
 
At work I usually carry a gallon jug around. I fill it from a tap once or twice a day depending on what I'm doing.

The other guys on the crew usually bring a case of the little shitty bottles and after every job I have to pick up all these empty and half-full bottles everywhere. I get tired of picking them up and bitch about it constantly. The answer I get back is "it ain't cold" or "tap water doesn't taste good". Quit being little pussies. It's 104 outside. The water is still wet. Finish it and throw your garbage away before you get another. Fuck.
 
Oh, I see how it is. This isn't a "Water appreciation thread" it's a "Bottle/tap Water appreciation thread." The discrimination is astounding against us fizzy drinkers--we're people too you know.

I imagine you all drink your tap water, with tap water ice cubes while eating plain rice cakes saying things like, "MMMmmm so flavorful!"
 
I mostly drink water. Gotta be ice cold though, even in the middle of winter it's gotta have ice in it. Sometimes at work I'll drink one of those flavored vitamin waters with my lunch. Haven't really gotten into carbonated water like Perrier or La Croix though.
 
Walmart Clear American is the best sparkling, mostly calorie-free (10 calories per 34oz bottle) water out there. All the other stores sparkling water have a weird taste to them, but Walmart's is just the best. For the longest time, Strawberry was the only flavor worth mentioning, but they've been making a bunch of new ones that are decent. Flavors like Cherry-Vanilla and Cotton Candy are pretty good. I go through about 12 bottles a week...maybe more.
 
Immortal Technique said:
Oh, I see how it is. This isn't a "Water appreciation thread" it's a "Bottle/tap Water appreciation thread." The discrimination is astounding against us fizzy drinkers--we're people too you know.

I imagine you all drink your tap water, with tap water ice cubes while eating plain rice cakes saying things like, "MMMmmm so flavorful!"
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I prefer raw water, but all fizzy drinkers are welcome here.
 
I would appreciate water a lot better if we still had it like the old days instead of it being bottled and for sale with shit in it that makes Alex Jones' crazy talk actual fact than fiction.

Here's Lewis Black explaining how we destroyed water.
 
I don't keep very good track of how much water I drink, but I try to make it the only thing I drink aside from milk and tea and I carry glass water bottles with me when I go out. I'll carry plastic when I go for a run but that's only for portability. After 10 miles your water starts to taste like warm plastic.

I didn't used to be very good at drinking water, especially as a kid. That can have some pretty nasty side effects, both my dad and I have a tendancy to get dehydration-related nosebleeds. Haven't had one in years and hope to keep it that way.
I had a fat gusher of a nosebleed hit in the middle of Disneyland and the nurse at the first aid station, bless her heart, told me two important things:
-Do NOT tilt your head back. You'll just make yourself queasy with all that blood getting in your stomach. Also I've found that blood drying in your throat is a really unpleasent feeling.
-If you have nosebleed issues and are going to be out somewhere really dry, you can rub petroleum jelly inside your nose to hydrate the lining inside. Feels very weird but it's better than having your nose explode in the middle of a long car ride. This has been a PSA from MxR.
 
I am from the desert originally and am just used to walking around with a water bottle so I have ready access and don’t dehydrate. I’ve had people tell me it is “weird”. I’m sorry that drinking water is “weird” to you but living off of nothing but Mountain Dew for years is fucking strange.
 
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I've got an ispring ph100.
Totally worth the cost.
If you drink a lot of water, under-sink filters are the way to go.
 
I love the hell out of a nice cold glass of water but it can't cure a spicy mouth. Also yeah, a filter is a brilliant investment. Water bottles get the plastic seeping into them, eventually.
 
My appreciation for water began in earnest when I worked a job that had doing hours of active labour outdoors, which included the oppressively humid and hot summers. When you're sweating buckets and getting dehydrated, nothing on God's blue Earth is better than a bottle of water.

I'm lucky to live in an area where the tap water is close to pristine. I never really appreciated that until I visited New Jersey, and the water there had a noticeably chlorinated taste. I honestly can't imagine living in a place where I couldn't just drink from the tao, and had to stock up on bottled water.

Speaking of which..

Cosmos said:
seriously don't understand people who claim to not like water. If you have nasty tap water, that's one thing, but even nice water they'll complain about because "water is so boring" and "I don't like the taste." Bitch, we're like made up of like 60% water, entire civilizations are built around access to water, and your body is literally hardwired to crave water when you're thirsty. How can you be messing up this badly?
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If someone says that then they're not actually thirsty and just want some sugarwater and stimulants for the taste. It's like the difference between 'feeling peckish' and genuinely hungry.
 
Immortal Technique said:
Oh, I see how it is. This isn't a "Water appreciation thread" it's a "Bottle/tap Water appreciation thread." The discrimination is astounding against us fizzy drinkers--we're people too you know.
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Are you though, really?

The only purpose to fizzy water is mixing batter for tempura vegetables. Concievably for mixing some sort of drink with it. Drinking it straight? Disgusting.

I pretty much only drink water with the exception of when I'm in a bar and we're not eating. Because someone coming in and drinking only water basically fucks over the bar. Restaurant, I'll usually order water with the meal and maybe something nice to drink as well if there's something I like. E.g. a Tibetan restaurant where they serve lassies.

Does anyone here have a water filter? I have one of those jug ones but I usually end up going months and months forgetting to pick up a new cartridge for it and just not using it. A lot of the different taste is apparently just from the water sitting in the fridge and letting the chlorine boil away.
 
Cosmos said:
I seriously don't understand people who claim to not like water.
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Neither do I, it aggravates me when someone complains about the taste, it's supposed to be swallowed not savored like some flavorful drink. Although fridge water sometines has a funny taste to it. I still prefer to be drinking water over the alternative.
 
I'm going to level with all the water drinkers here.

There is water in soda too.
 
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