63 yr old here and I agree with this. Until maybe 30 years ago I don’t recall seeing anybody carrying water bottles around all the time unless they were in the infantry or on bicycles.
I have a couple thoughts on water bottles. I used to frequent a message board where many members complained about disposable water bottles. I understand the environmental impact. However, a great deal of the argument surrounded how “good” and “safe” water out of the faucet is. I’m from Michigan. I have lost a great deal of trust in the quality of water in the state and in the US. Considering the problems in Flint, Benton Harbor, and now Camp LeJune I do not buy the “safe” water argument. Speaking as someone who fills a very large walk in cooler when doing my job, I long for the days of just beer and pop. I didn’t work cooler then, but I bet it was a lot easier.
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drinking water for flushing and hydration. I do not trust the water. I use the refillable filtered water at my store, at other local markets, or My husband has an enteral feeding tube. I use bottled I buy jugs. I have to buy distilled water for c-pap anyway.
On a different note: I’m 63 and I would rather climb around, down stack, lift, organize, stock, and clean up that cooler any day all day rather than wait on customers.
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I don’t trust tap water much anymore: Benton Harbor, Flint
I feed and hydrate hubby through a stomach tube and use bottled water.
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I have a couple thoughts on water bottles. I used to frequent a message board where many members complained about disposable water bottles. I understand the environmental impact. However, a great deal of the argument surrounded how “good” and “safe” water out of the faucet is. I’m from Michigan. I have lost a great deal of trust in the quality of water in the state and in the US. Considering the problems in Flint, Benton Harbor, and now Camp LeJune I do not buy the “safe” water argument. Speaking as someone who fills a very large walk in cooler when doing my job, I long for the days of just beer and pop. I didn’t work cooler then, but I bet it was a lot easier.
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drinking water for flushing and hydration. I do not trust the water. I use the refillable filtered water at my store, at other local markets, or My husband has an enteral feeding tube. I use bottled I buy jugs. I have to buy distilled water for c-pap anyway.
On a different note: I’m 63 and I would rathness
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Don’t trust tap water: Benton Harbor, Flint, etc.
Hubby uses a feeding tube and we use c-pap thus I buy jugs of water.
I’m what we call at our store a cooler monkey. I don’t like waiting on customers. I’m a 63 year old woman, it’s a big cooler, and it hurts when I’m done, and I would love it to be just pop or pop and beer. Won’t happen, but I can dream. Sorry about the mess above.
Slides. Because comfort. Two years ago I messed up my heel and it wouldn’t heal because of shoes rubbing. I stopped wearing shoes, only wearing slides. That, along with soaking the foot daily allowed the wound to heal. Ever since then I wear slides pretty often.
I have gout, and yet i drink beer almost daily and eat all the “NO” foods from the gout list. I’ve learned through trial and error that over hydrating/diuresis is key for me.
I recall being in school when we were very restricted as to when and how often we could drink water or use the restroom. Looking back, I think that was an unhealthy situation. People should be able to drink water whenever they are thirsty and use the toilet whenever the urge comes upon them. I don’t carry a drink all the time, but I’m glad that it’s now acceptable for people to do that.
My sister was just bitching about this other day! We went to a Catholic elementary school and were forced to exercise during breaks and after eating lunch (mostly volleyball – I still have a wicked low serve). Early fall is freaking HOT in SoCal, and we were restricted in our use of the water fountains. The kicker? The kitchen lady from the convent would go get ice water for the nuns on playground duty while we were close to passing out.
Her friends in high school called her “the camel,” because she could go so long without drinking. Not a good thing! She trained herself out of it.
We watched a 45 year old Emergency! episode, where the paramedics and the mountain rescue unit had to hump stretchers and equipment two miles through the Angeles forest to rescue people in a crashed plane. And then hump all the equipment back, plus three victims.
The thing we noticed was: not a water bottle to be seen! Maybe men were more macho back then, but I’d think they’d have carried water.
I mean, it was a TV show. They are usually not made with the purpose of exactly duplicating reality.
In general…but not so for Emergency!
They strove for as much accuracy as they could get. They bought the same real medical equipment the actual LACFD used. They actually stuck an airplane in a tree 60 feet up.
But… the actors probably walked a total of twenty yards. I think they forgot. 
Even a show with accuracy as a goal, there are limits. I don’t think even the most accurate show ever would stand up to 100 percent reality.
Oh yes. Emergency! is as guilty of using a defibrillator on a flatline patient as every other show. But they also used it correctly most of the time.
I’m short and squat (relatively squat) and I wear jeans all the time. Because I am always doing stuff like shoveling manure, digging in the garden, dragging bales of hay, moving rocks, and there’s little that takes as much abuse as denim will. I don’t imagine I look cool in them though. That’s long over.
There used to be a widespread belief in athletics, filtering down to school teams, that it was harmful to drink water during physical activity because you’d supposedly get waterlogged and perform badly. You might be able to get away with taking a slurp of water and spitting most of it out, or splashing water on your face. But drinking it was for wimps and weenies.
It’s an excellent thing that that misconception has gone the way of the dodo.
*when I was growing up there was a family rule that you didn’t drink beverages at dinner, but had to wait until you were finished. I rebelled against that by my junior high years, and suffered no serious repercussions.
Bottled water has been around for a while, just in different forms. Wikipedia lists people bottling spring waters since the 1700s. More commercial and familiar might be Poland Springs which started in the 1850s, or Culligan which began in the 1930s.
Also it was usually in the jugs for dispensers- plastic or glass- not individual bottles. It was chlorination and more public access to water fountains and such that made those the dominant source of water.
It’s since roughly the 1980s or so that smaller bottles have caught on with advertising, increased worry about tap water and such. Think Perrier and Evian, or Talking Rain before Coke and Nestle started their push for selling water.
Also more heat waves could be a factor. I gotta drink a lot of water at work to begin with and heat during the summer means I drink even more. I use a reusable bottle typically.
You’re not Bengali or Indian, are you? My family has given me grief my entire life for drinking while eating. It’s such a solidly ingrained superstition, and they can’t shut up about it. My mom was on my case about it just last week.
Re: Twitch or other streaming of playing video games
In addition to previous replies, other reasons I sometimes watch people play video games:
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I’ve replayed a game I love enough times that it no longer grabs me to play it, but seeing someone play it for the first time lets me relive the joy of discovery vicariously. Obviously this only applies to games where there is a joy of discovery. A couple prime examples - Subnautica and Horizon: Zero Dawn.
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I don’t have the skills or inclination to do certain things in certain games. This may be speedrunning, or it may be things like Scott Manley’s old Kerbal Space Program streams.
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I want to see the results of narrative choices I’d never make. This, admittedly, is usually satisfied not by streamers but by short videos on Youtube. Like, I’ll replay Mass Effect to see paragon vs renegade choices, but no matter what I’m never selling out the Quarians in Mass Effect 3. And yet there’s a really heartbreakingly poignant cutscene if you do, and I want to see stuff like that. Games like Mass Effect and Fallout and The Witcher have so much obscure easy-to-miss content that it can be quite enjoyable to browse through either short videos or complete playthroughs that might engage a sprawling RPG very differently from how I would.
No offense, but you know that was a pretty weird rule, right?
It would have been an absurd rule in my house. Until I was 13 I thought the turkey was a magical bird made of sawdust. I love my mother- her cooking is a crime against humanity.
That reminds me of an Israeli army experiment from ages ago where they were testing to see if they could get soldiers to “acclimatize” themselves to drinking less water. Short answer: they couldn’t.