Close your eyes and imagine what would happen if you went hiking and your friend kneeled down next to a body of water and scooped the water to their lips. Would you recoil in disgust? Would you offer them a sip from your bottle and explain that they're moments away from certain death or, at best, making GBS threads their guts out? Then you're gullable and have been tricked by companies that have effectively monetized your fear to sell you their lovely water filters. It's literally the same marketing tactic used by brands that capitalize on human fear - fear of getting old, fear of being left out, fear of death, fear of the 'other.' But the fact is that humans have been drinking water out of puddles and streams for hundreds of thousands of years. How many times have you walked a dog and seen dog drinking water, and how many times has that dog gotten sick afterwards? It's not because dogs have a stronger immune system! Do you really think cowboys in the 1800s boiled water? Nope! Pirates? Pilgrams? King's, queens, Egyptians, farmers, explorers, conquerors, everyone just drank water that was lying around and they were FINE. So please next time you go hiking, leave your BPA bottle home. Don't weigh yourself down with your triple microfilter lifestraw. Don't bring bleach. Just drink whatever you see laying around and you'll be fine
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:18 |
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Why are you buying into the hype and drinking water, OP? Just drink bleach!
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:20 |
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In the same vein stop wasting dishwater. It's full of left over nutrients from the food on your plates and you literally just cleaned it along with all your plates and cutlery.
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:23 |
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I literally never clean my shower. Its the place I go to get clean...shouldn't it be the cleanest part of the house??
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:29 |
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Yes! Having a shower also cleans the shower. It's a self cleaning system. It's beautiful.
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:32 |
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my filter makes the lake water taste better op
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:33 |
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Where did you copy pasted this from?
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:37 |
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Sorry man but you're like a year or two late on the whole "raw water" thing.
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:37 |
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Drink your own piss to own the sheeple OP. Then after you gave quenched your thirst, you can suck my freaking BALLS.
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:45 |
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We should all just do as the dogs do
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:47 |
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If you follow the five second rule you're probably wasting food on the regular. Introducing: the five day rule.
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:51 |
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I got a stream you can drink from OP
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:56 |
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:We should all just do as the dogs do My dog eats his poop.
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:56 |
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935 posted:Close your eyes and imagine what would happen if you went hiking and your friend kneeled down next to a body of water and scooped the water to their lips. Would you recoil in disgust? Would you offer them a sip from your bottle and explain that they're moments away from certain death or, at best, making GBS threads their guts out? Dont want liquid shits thanks but no thanks op
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# ? May 25, 2020 17:59 |
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Burt Sexual posted:My dog eats his poop. Messed up, you pay for his meals and he reaps the rewards doubly? You need to pee on his poop to establish ownership
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:00 |
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If you harvest your sweat you can get both clean water + salt, saving you hundreds of dollars a week.
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:04 |
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Having liquid shits is healthy imo, that’s how you know you got everything out
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:07 |
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Communist Toast posted:Messed up, you pay for his meals and he reaps the rewards doubly? Not just doubly. That poop he eats becomes poop again, so he is reaping infinite returns. Frankly you'd be wise to put your dog in charge of your investment strategy, as I have.
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:10 |
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Burt Sexual posted:My dog eats his poop. He's recycling and is very eco conscious
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:12 |
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pour 16 oz urine into a gallon container and fill the rest with water and its good fertilizer. its got what plants crave without being so potent that it burns them
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:20 |
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I had giardia once. I drank from a 'clear mountain stream' and was then punished for my insolence with a solid week of some of the most wicked bouts of rear end in a top hat punishing diarrhea I've ever had. That and just an absolutely goddamn awful sulfur smell and farts. Think gassing yourself so hard in the middle of the night you wake up to puke, followed by another bout of diarrhea. Eventually, I made some oral rehydration fluid (think incredibly lovely powerade), and guzzled that crap for a while before it finally subsided. It was horrid. I don't care if I found a spring at 11k feet on the very top of a mountain, I'd still drop some bleach in that water before I drank it.
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:22 |
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hosed up if true, OP.
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:24 |
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i always keep a cauldron of boiled swamp water and sawdust at the ready
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All you have to do is wash it with a little soap and it’s fine.
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:35 |
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Burt Sexual posted:My dog eats his poop. do the needful, Burt.
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:42 |
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The reason you see water filters in the PNW is because our deer spread giardia in their poop. If you drink from a glacial fed source above the tree line it’s probably okay. Always filter water you take from sources below the tree line because people and animals poop there. I wouldn’t drink straight from any trailside sources because people walk in them and poop too close to them. Some glacial fed sources are unsafe because people have pooped in the glacier and left it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardiasis The outdoors here are really just a good way to experience all the different poops of the world because of all the hikers.
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:43 |
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Sex Skeleton posted:The reason you see water filters in the PNW is because our deer spread giardia in their poop. If you drink from a glacial fed source above the tree line it’s probably okay. Always filter water you take from sources below the tree line because people and animals poop there. I wouldn’t drink straight from any trailside sources because people walk in them and poop too close to them. Some glacial fed sources are unsafe because people have pooped in the glacier and left it. Weight loss for a couple weeks with typically no treatment required?
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:51 |
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A White Guy posted:I had giardia once. I drank from a 'clear mountain stream' and was then punished for my insolence with a solid week of some of the most wicked bouts of rear end in a top hat punishing diarrhea I've ever had. That and just an absolutely goddamn awful sulfur smell and farts. Think gassing yourself so hard in the middle of the night you wake up to puke, followed by another bout of diarrhea. that was just your system being cleansed by the healthy spring water
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# ? May 25, 2020 18:57 |
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I've never had beaver fever since my steady diet of witch hazel and tide pods
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:06 |
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:I've never had beaver fever since my steady diet of witch hazel and tide pods
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:07 |
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This is only news to Americans
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:14 |
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this time of year pond water often contains tadpoles, which is added protein
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:16 |
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giardia is a liberal hoax watch me *bends over and bottled water falls out of my pack* drink from this clear *fumbles the water purification tablet i had cleverly palmed* mountain stream *shits myself anyway*
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:19 |
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935 posted:Do you really think cowboys in the 1800s boiled water? Nope! Pirates? Pilgrams? King's, queens, Egyptians, farmers, explorers, conquerors, everyone just drank water that was lying around and they were FINE. These people had the shits all day every day
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:20 |
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Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads. Not a drop of water is wasted
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:29 |
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:32 |
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I source my water directly from the aerator tank. All that disinfection they do later is just taking all the good and natural stuff out of the water.
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:38 |
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I doubt this will be an issue for most goons either way, as ponds and streams generally exist outside, or so I've been told.
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:40 |
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I just bought one of those squeeze bag filter systems for backpacking OP, but I guess I didn't need it since you say dirty water is ok to drink. Boy do I feel like a real loving idiot!
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:41 |
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Bleach is mostly water, and we are mostly water, therefore we are bleach, drink the bleach, op
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