You can only drink one drink for the rest of your life, but it cannot be water. What do you pick? - asklemmy - kbin.social
kbin.socialAnd no "water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber" goofs. Water isn't allowed.
And no “water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber” goofs. Water isn’t allowed.
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Water is the main component of any and every beverage
Elemental mercury.
You’ll drink this until the end of your life. Works the same with molten iron though.
I don’t actually thing you’d manage to swallow any of the molten iron…
You’d just need one of these:
You just need to get some into your mouth. It will do the swallowing on it’s own.
Holy fuck, what is this from?
though can only be ingested once
Based on the posed question and its limiting conditions, elemental mercury is a correct answer. Pure hydrogen peroxide or isopropyl alcohol would qualify, too.
If you include materials which are liquid outside of “room temperature,” things like magma and liquid nitrogen would also be correct answers.
Olive oil?
You wouldn’t live long, but compared to the other options you’re listing…
Of the liquids you listed, I think the hydrogen peroxide would be the fastest and most flame-filled death, more than the magma.
100% H2O2 is Very much unlike the 3% kind that can be purchased at a store.
It might even explode, I know shipping tanks of it can and I think that’s usually under 100%.
Not quite, actually! I mean, it’s not good for you, but once it’s in your digestive tract it mostly passes straight through rather than being absorbed. The vapor over the liquid is more dangerous, but once you’ve swallowed it that’s not a concern.
that’s exactly why this is the right answer
Nougat is a Lemmy user, presenting to the emergency room unconscious
No I’m not.
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Thank you.
Why not gallium
I appreciate the creativity, but that is not a drink, good sir/madam…
I posit that any substance which can be ingested as a liquid by pouring it from a container into one’s mouth (the act of “drinking”) is, by definition, a “drink.”
Supposedly, gallium is non-toxic, and liquid at body temperature (though not room temperature).
I think you replied to the wrong comment. Mercury is absolutely toxic. There’s no safe quantity at all that you can ingest…
True, but at the same time you know exactly what OP means with this question.
I don’t think OP knows what they mean with this question. The top two ‘serious’ answers are coffee and tea, which is just “hot water with shit mixed in”. Anything you drink is water with shit mixed in. Any answer that isn’t “water with shit mixed in” means you die, either within months or minutes. Most answers that are “water with shit mixed in” would still kill you fairly quickly if that’s all you ever drank.
I think OP knows exactly what they mean, I think if you asked a five year old they’d know what they mean.
Yet for some reason, some people are completely missing the point of a very simple question which boils down to “if you couldn’t drink regular water, what would you have instead”…
That’s not “exactly” what they mean, as the difference between what you think they’re saying and other commenters think is clearly different. Is la croix or bubbly allowed? If not then what about a hard seltzer? If those are allowed then why isn’t lemon water allowed? If those aren’t allowed then where is the line? Gatorade is seltzer water without the bubbles and with electrolytes. It’s clear that OP’s question was not well thought out, hence why so many people here have a problem with it.
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And yet the main answer in this thread is “tea” which is clearly just water with leaves in it. Why is that different than water with lemons in it? Just because you didn’t have a problem with the question doesn’t mean the question doesn’t have major problems. You just didn’t notice the problems.
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Garbage in, garbage out. It’s a dumb question. There’s no high road to be taken here.
The point of OP’s question is clear. He’s referring to a drink that has sensory qualities that are clearly distinct from plain water. Water with a spritz of lemon still reads as water. As a loose guideline this is like anything you’d order as “water with x” or “x water”, like cucumber water. Coffee clearly doesn’t fit into that category, it has sensory qualities that are very different than water with x in it.
Speak for yourself. “Cucumber water” does not have the same “sensory qualities” as water unless taste doesn’t count as a sense.
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LMAO What a take! Thanks for the laugh.
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If I ask anyone for a glass of water, they’re going to get me the same thing because they know what I mean. No one is going to get me a glass of orange juice or tea or 7up, even though that’s technically also water.
You know what OP means. You’re being ridiculous.
so then do you agree that they wouldn’t bring you lemon water or cucumber water? clearly you didn’t ask for those. but OP explicitly calls those out as ‘no goofs’. so where’s the line?
They obviously wouldn’t, they’d just bring tap water or bottled water or something. What are you even talking about.
The whole point of this conversation is that OP is excluding drinks on some arbitrary line that no one else understands. If lemon water isn’t allowed then what is?
OP is excluding drinks that aren’t regular water, this isn’t complicated.
If you went to a restaurant and asked for water, what would they give you? Probably something from the tap, or a bottle, or a purified pitcher. Maybe mineral water, but that’s as much additive as you’re going to get. It wouldn’t even be sparkling, and they’re certainly not going to give you milk and smugly tell you “well TECHKNIQUELLY its water!” you damn dork. You know what OP means, you’re being ridiculous.
It sounds like you agree, though.
Cucumber water is not what you’d expect when asking for water, yet OP excludes it as being invalid for being equivalent to water. So where is the line?
Tea is absolutely my non-troll answer, but how different is that really from cucumber water in this context?
Wait, fuck, I misread the OP
Now I’m the dork! 😱
This is a highly dorky thread, really 😁
This is not true. Coffee is a mild diuretic, but the amount of water you consume along with it is way way more than the amount of water that the caffeine induces you to pee out.
I’m curious how far you can take this. Can you drink only espressos and still get hydrated?
Quick someone call Bear Grylls or someone.
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Then i don’t understand your argument. There’s nothing stopping you from drinking as much coffee as you need to get your water
Dude. Yes they have some small diuretic effects but tea and coffee are overwhelmingly hydrating. It’s just not a good idea to mainline that much caffeine for heart reasons.
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Sure, added that note in an edit. There’s no answer here that doesn’t result in your early death.
A friend had to read a paper about what people called water vs. how much water made up the substance. So like pond water has less water than tea, we call one water one tea. Truly thrilling research.
do you have a link to the paper? I want to read it
This was a very long time ago; I do not.
I had this argument with my roommate once. It was probably the biggest argument we ever had. IMO, just because it has water in it doesn’t mean that the drink is water. Like, some people don’t like the taste of water, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t like milk, which has water in it.
For me a beverage is defined by its flavor, not its components.
They said no goofs like lemon water though. So what’s the line?
i mean lemon water is still called water.
you don’t call apple juice apple water or sprite sprite water. i think the limiter is pretty naturally deferred in the naming of the drinks themselves.
Yeah but this is the same reason Pluto is no longer a planet. Definitions matter, and every single beverage that humans consume is mostly water so, where is the line drawn on saturation of additional components? We need a DEFINITE line. Also I am in the camp that every beverage is “[Additive]-water” and anything that crosses the “not-water” barrier becomes “soup” until it is a baked good or building material.
I purposefully called it lemon water. You could also call it lemonade.
but you do in other languages. Just because it’s hard to find examples in English doesn’t mean that the concept is unique.
Examples:
In fact if you start looking into the root words of things you’ll find ‘water’ everywhere! Vodka, you guessed it, is based on the root Slavic word ‘voda’ meaning… Water!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka
We’re just talking about water here. This extends to literally any ingredient in any drink ever. If you start looking at other drinks you start finding strange things like Punch which may be from the Sanskrit for ‘five’ denoting the five ingredients used in it.
Boots? Nah, I’m just new-boot goofin…
r/technicallythetruth
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EVERY drink is water!
So DON’T TELL ME WATER ISN’T ALLOWED! Damn, this is making me irrationally angry. Maybe I need some water…
I wish you’d said beer was less water and more squished fruit
If that’s the case, I guess I’ll pick kool-aid powder.
You can either have whole milk or fresh squeezed juice. 😂
Whole milk is just water with some emulgated fat in it. Fresh squeezed juice is just water with some biomass in it.
I suppose we need to switch to sunflower oil or something. It is digestible, has no water in it, but isnt exactly healthy.
Tea. Iced or hot, black or mint, dash of milk or honey. So many combinations.
Agreed, but in theory you wouldn’t be able to add milk (it’s a drink after all)
I prefer green tea personally, but recently found some Hawaiian Mamaki Tea, and I’m loving it.
And without water, dude’s just sucking leaves.
In Russian, you eat milk, so…
Dr. Pepper because I’m here for a fun time not a long time.
Fuck yaaaaa!
A 0.00000001 % NaCl brine solution
I feel this breaks the ‘no goofs’ rule
That might be more water than most water.
coffee for sure
Right? How is this even up for debate lol
But what if you’re thirsty at night?
Well, I drink decaf coffee anyway so not a problem =)
Boring
Y-you DO realize you’re cutting out every drink in existence? This isn’t fun at all lol
Well, you can drink most liquids that don’t contain water exactly once in your life, so you may as well pick the one that’ll kill you in the least painful manner possible.
Did you just type a stutter?
N-no…
All normal drinks are just flavored water, so I guess steering fluid?
Nothing like malk and a Laramie jr.
Sadly all “drinks” are made primarily from water. Otherwise they were called “chews”. You living in the US of A by any chance? Unrelated question.
Coconut water fresh from a refrigerated coconut. I would only drink that, even if I didn’t have to, if it was cheap enough.
Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far
I don’t think it’s really fair to blame the coconuts here…
The coconut water drinks at the Asian market are usually pretty good too 🙂
cyanide. you take my water you take my life
Tea
This is basically my life anyways. Other less serious and more waterless answer is gasoline.
Milk
I’ll be the strongest mf in the skeleton war
Make sure you learn archery so that you can at least be an archery skeleton instead of a skeleton infantry plebe.
Milk, the best way to hydrate.
Milk is 70% water
Newsflash, all drinks are mostly water
Except for Bacardi 151.
Actually all drinks are 70+% water I suppose, if not, you call them not “drinks” but “stew” or “paste”, or even drier: “sand”
Edit: Nevermind, thought about 30+% alchools, having by definition less than 70% water 😅
Heavy water.
You ded.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#:~:text=Heavy%20water%20can%20be%20toxic,needed%20for%20poisoning%20to%20occur.
Isn’t that poisonous in large quantities?
Literally everything drinkable I can think of within the rules of this question(No water) are either outright poisonous or at least(in the case of food oils and certain glycols) would cause diarrhea rapidly accelerating dehydration. At least the poisonous options are quicker.