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.
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 :(
Have a sip of water that's been solar heating in a rubber garden hose for a pavlovian blast from the past!
Did this and it was glorious after playing bball in the driveway. Nothing better.
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.
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.
I did this as a gen z kid after the new millennium. I did it with probably 40x contaminants than gen x ever had growing up. I apparently have a spoon weight in plastic in my brain by 25, let's see if I can drink enough water that I can fit a Frisbee up there by 30. Lets speed run this shit
And we have to dodge bullets at school. What's your fucking point, old timer?
Just an extension of Boomer survivor bias arguments.
They also didnt use seat belts blah blah blah....
There was a gen x?
Mmmmmmm metal and water perfect combo.
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.
We also used to eat the first white snow of winter and rain water as it fell from the sky. Things were less (or more) polluted back then!
Libs: owned
The water tasted like damp basement! Oddly enough, it was a kinda pleasant flavour.
I drank from a water hose many times when I was young. I assume this is a bad thing?
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
Filters?we don't need no steenkin filters
Every generation is tougher than the next, but ever generation is responsible for the next.
Garden hose filters prevent lime scale from destroying whatever is attached to the hose.
We totally did do this.
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