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(Do You Remember)   Kids these days don't know the simple joys of playing street hockey outside on a summer's day and drinking lead, antimony, bromine, organotin, phthalates, and bisphenol A from the neighbor's garden hose   (doyouremember.com) divider line
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Fano  
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2020-07-05 9:20:25 AM  
The curse of knowledge
 
2020-07-05 9:20:36 AM  
I'm glad there were no molecular diagram exercises in the headline subby because my Handbook of Chemistry And Physics is on the top shelf in the library and I'd need a ladder.
 
2020-07-05 9:20:56 AM  
It did taste good, though.
 
RedVentrue  
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2020-07-05 9:21:34 AM  
That's why it tastes so good.
 
2020-07-05 9:21:48 AM  
When the article itself ends with a statement that it is basically BS, the scary tag does not apply.
 
ifky  
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2020-07-05 9:21:50 AM  
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Fano  
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2020-07-05 9:22:15 AM  
Also, it appears they used modern garden hoses.
 
Fano  
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2020-07-05 9:23:08 AM  
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Garden hose? I WANTED THE FIRE HOSE!
 
MythDragon  
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2020-07-05 9:23:38 AM  
Sat morning
"Its 10:00. Cartoons are over. Go outside. Lunch will be on the porch at 12. There is water in the hose. Don't come back until the streetlights come on. But you better be here  when they come on, or it's your ass. "
 
Dinodork  
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2020-07-05 9:24:29 AM  
It's too early and I read that as "orangutan"
 
phedex  
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2020-07-05 9:26:54 AM  
Always thought the water hose was gross to drink out of.  But I did pretend I was a rock star while my moms dodge aries was warming up in the winter;  I'd stand right by the exhaust pipe and pretend i was on-stage at a rock concert.
 
2020-07-05 9:28:29 AM  
We know to take this seriously because TFA cites a plaintiffs' law firm and an environmental activist group for the scientific details.
 
2020-07-05 9:30:53 AM  

MythDragon: Sat morning
"Its 10:00. Cartoons are over. Go outside. Lunch will be on the porch at 12. There is water in the hose. Don't come back until the streetlights come on. But you better be here  when they come on, or it's your ass. "


Childhood memories--except where I lived, you couldn't leave lunch on the porch for critters, heat, and "palmetto bugs."
 
smed7 [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 9:31:21 AM  
But watering the garden is perfectly fine, savor those cucumbers marinated in all that lead & antimony!
 
2020-07-05 9:46:43 AM  

meerclarschild: MythDragon: Sat morning
"Its 10:00. Cartoons are over. Go outside. Lunch will be on the porch at 12. There is water in the hose. Don't come back until the streetlights come on. But you better be here  when they come on, or it's your ass. "

Childhood memories--except where I lived, you couldn't leave lunch on the porch for critters, heat, and "palmetto bugs."


My favorite childhood memory: Summer in the early, early 60s. Rocky River, Ohio. Fairly Catholic town. So, zillions of kids. Clear evenings after dinner were like that Brueghel painting. It stayed light enough to play at least until 9:30.

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MythDragon  
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2020-07-05 9:51:22 AM  

meerclarschild: MythDragon: Sat morning
"Its 10:00. Cartoons are over. Go outside. Lunch will be on the porch at 12. There is water in the hose. Don't come back until the streetlights come on. But you better be here  when they come on, or it's your ass. "

Childhood memories--except where I lived, you couldn't leave lunch on the porch for critters, heat, and "palmetto bugs."


Lucky enough to have a screened porch.
Palmettos? You grow up in Fl? I hate those damn things.  "Oh, you turned on the light?  Guess I'll fly over and dive bomb your face then. "
 
FarkQued  
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2020-07-05 9:52:16 AM  
I wonder if the author is a sniveling little biatch about every man made thing?
 
SBinRR [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 10:01:22 AM  
Our stupid neighbor always made us close our eyes before we drank from their house.   Man, he was one goofy dude.
 
2020-07-05 10:03:03 AM  

MythDragon: meerclarschild: MythDragon: Sat morning
"Its 10:00. Cartoons are over. Go outside. Lunch will be on the porch at 12. There is water in the hose. Don't come back until the streetlights come on. But you better be here  when they come on, or it's your ass. "

Childhood memories--except where I lived, you couldn't leave lunch on the porch for critters, heat, and "palmetto bugs."

Lucky enough to have a screened porch.
Palmettos? You grow up in Fl? I hate those damn things.  "Oh, you turned on the light?  Guess I'll fly over and dive bomb your face then. "


Yep. Back when "E-tickets" meant you got on the best Disney rides. And Orlando was not much bigger than a dot on a map in a swamp. We didn't have a screened in porch, and all manner of critters used to visit, from bobcats to armadillos to snakes--and unbelievable bugs.

/now the woods I grew up in is literally the parking lot for Universal :(
 
2020-07-05 10:07:16 AM  
Fun fact:
An organotin is the heaviest tree dwelling primate in the world.
 
2020-07-05 10:07:24 AM  
Sprinkler Rainbow Conspiracy
Youtube _c6HsiixFS8


/oblig?
 
waxbeans  
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2020-07-05 10:09:59 AM  

Fano: The curse of knowledge


The curse of zero regulation and small Government
 
OrionXVI  
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2020-07-05 10:13:49 AM  
So, let me get this straight.  I'm supposed to be scared of an article who's only research is a separate article that has no data backing it up.

I'm not saying it's safe, but you actually have to do research to prove that it's unsafe too.

/wouldn't have passed snuff for a 6th grade report
//the world is intellectually lazy
 
2020-07-05 10:18:01 AM  
fta...

links to irrelevant hot dog article:
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This is a site full of BS clickbait stories, and subby should be banned. I'm not joking.
 
DrunkenBob  
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2020-07-05 10:35:31 AM  
As someone who drinks out of the hose after mowing the lawn . . . I now have an excuse to be an irritable asshole.

/Sweet on the tongue, surly on the stomach
 
FarkaDark  
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2020-07-05 10:38:18 AM  
The warning not to drink from a garden hose used to be popular in the right wing fw, fw, fw, fw, emails. The logic was along the lines of, 'someone said it was bad to drink from a garden hose and that caused liberals to stop going to church and ruined America.'
 
2020-07-05 10:44:46 AM  
Street hockey is dangerous.
 
Fireproof [OhFark]  
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2020-07-05 10:50:38 AM  

FarkaDark: The warning not to drink from a garden hose used to be popular in the right wing fw, fw, fw, fw, emails. The logic was along the lines of, 'someone said it was bad to drink from a garden hose and that caused liberals to stop going to church and ruined America.'


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2020-07-05 11:11:09 AM  
Breathing lead fumes all day every day was a much bigger problem. Playing with mercury from a broken thermometer was probably a bad idea but also pretty cool.
 
IbiEvacua  
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2020-07-05 11:12:41 AM  
And there's no possibility that people could be so nostalgic about drinking out of the hose for, well you know, nostalgic reasons.
 
stuffy  
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2020-07-05 11:14:01 AM  
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I drank water from the hose all the time. I'm perfectly normal.
 
2020-07-05 11:17:55 AM  
The warning not to drink from a garden hose used to be popular in the left wing fw, fw, fw, fw, emails. The logic was along the lines of, 'someone said it was bad to drink from a garden hose and that it would cause you to have to get a job and stop smokin' the pots.'
 
2020-07-05 11:18:49 AM  
From the "source": Brass is an unregulated metal which can contain lead.  Most outdoor fixtures are made of brass.

Bullshiat, at least in civilized lands: in California, lead-free materials must be used for "each component that comes into contact with the wetted surface of pipes and pipe fittings, plumbing fittings and fixtures." On January 1, 2010, the maximum amount of lead in "lead-free brass" in California was reduced from 4% to 0.25% lead (wiki)

And, FTFA: The FDA reports that some of the materials in this such may cause issues on the brain ...

All of person in this such reading of may cause issue if brain...
 
FarkaDark  
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2020-07-05 11:27:26 AM  

Benjimin_Dover: The warning not to drink from a garden hose used to be popular in the left wing fw, fw, fw, fw, emails. The logic was along the lines of, 'someone said it was bad to drink from a garden hose and that it would cause you to have to get a job and stop smokin' the pots.'


You are and edgy edge master, ruler of all that is edgy
 
2020-07-05 11:29:10 AM  

FarkaDark: Benjimin_Dover: The warning not to drink from a garden hose used to be popular in the left wing fw, fw, fw, fw, emails. The logic was along the lines of, 'someone said it was bad to drink from a garden hose and that it would cause you to have to get a job and stop smokin' the pots.'

You are and edgy edge master, ruler of all that is edgy


Thanks, Trumper dude!
 
2020-07-05 11:38:06 AM  
Yep..Drank from hoses, didn't wear a helmet riding my bike, I rode my motorcycle  in shorts and no shirt
and no helmet, when I was like 9 and 10!  I wielded BB guns,slingshots,boomerangs and bows and arrows and played near train tracks, and in wetlands, climbed trees and built shoddy forts....And somehow, I never broke a bone and the worst injury I had was about 10 stitches after a bike wreck..Ya, I got bruises and scraps and
cuts and poison ivy (terribly)..But i'm still here...40 something with a few scars to tell the tales..
 
wantingout  
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2020-07-05 11:38:57 AM  
Today on 'What should I be Scared of Now'
 
2020-07-05 11:44:56 AM  

MythDragon: Sat morning
"Its 10:00. Cartoons are over. Go outside. Lunch will be on the porch at 12. There is water in the hose. Don't come back until the streetlights come on. But you better be here  when they come on, or it's your ass. "


Dad?
 
luna1580 [TotalFark]  
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2020-07-05 11:58:26 AM  
"hose water" IS "tap water" it comes from the house's main line. through the house's plumbing.

so either all that shiat is in ALL the "tap water" everywhere, every day, or it ALL leached from the hose itself.

BUT if the later was true the water would need to sit in the hose to absorb it, running the hose long enough to get cool water would eliminate that.

everything about this "article" is BS designed to scare old stupid people. "do you remember" a time when the internet wasn't making us stupider? was it 1995? was it EVER a thing? i don't remember. spreading paranoid disinformation seems to be the internet's primary function in our society. i know that's true. i read it on FARK!
 
Rik01 [TotalFark]  
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2020-07-05 12:07:41 PM  
I remember the garden hose threat, not that me and any of my pals followed it. In the humid, searing Florida summer heat, us kids were always active and when we staggered home to my house, all sweaty and hot, that garden hose produced a stream of clear, cold water right up from our well and tasted like heaven. We just gulped it down.

It was used to water our fruit trees and vegetable gardens, pouring out gallons of unknown toxins that the plants sucked right up and thrived in.

I never gave it a thought until now as to why hose companies elected to make their valuable product out of basically garbage and every house had one, with the majority back then having kids. Poisonous recycling? What were they thinking? Who came up with the idea? Is it still done today and if so, why?

Note: back then we were one of two houses on a wooded block. The water was infused with iron, water softeners had not arrived yet. White houses on other blocks with their own wells used to turn yellow from the mineral content of the water. Now, with 21 homes clogging up the land, there are 21 septic tanks, dumping their effluent into the same ground wells used to go through and I can imagine what is in the water now, especially through the rainy season when the land gets soaked.

We all use piped in water from the city today.

Yeah. We still fight Palmetto bugs, Mud Dauber wasps and Paper Wasps. Though the cool frogs have diminished by over half. We rarely get serenaded by them at night now.
 
Thudfark  
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2020-07-05 12:07:59 PM  
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2020-07-05 12:15:13 PM  
I bet all that bottled water and special food you buy them is much less harmful.

Of course it is--you never have to see the effects of your lifestyle directly now, and have just moved the list of chemicals further down the line, like to where people live next door to the plant that makes all the clever plastic packaging for your kids' snacks.
 
MythDragon  
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2020-07-05 12:17:54 PM  

Prevailing Wind: MythDragon: Sat morning
"Its 10:00. Cartoons are over. Go outside. Lunch will be on the porch at 12. There is water in the hose. Don't come back until the streetlights come on. But you better be here  when they come on, or it's your ass. "

Dad?


Quite possibly, but knowing your mom, it's a pretty big list of probabilities.

/zing!
 
Wendigogo [TotalFark]  
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2020-07-05 12:31:44 PM  

Fireproof: FarkaDark: The warning not to drink from a garden hose used to be popular in the right wing fw, fw, fw, fw, emails. The logic was along the lines of, 'someone said it was bad to drink from a garden hose and that caused liberals to stop going to church and ruined America.'

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I think I had a stroke trying to read that.
 
2020-07-05 12:47:05 PM  
Hose water tasted gross and being in arizona it was practically boiling when it first came out.

Im sure I drank some playing in the sprinkler growing up but my parents didnt forbid me from coming in the house and just getting a glass of kool-aid
 
2020-07-05 12:53:39 PM  

MythDragon: Sat morning
"Its 10:00. Cartoons are over. Go outside. Lunch will be on the porch at 12. There is water in the hose. Don't come back until the streetlights come on. But you better be here  when they come on, or it's your ass. "


I still drink from my hose occasionally but then I have real mountain spring water as a source.

No need for lights, thee kids forget damn near all their apps have location on by default and I can tell whats in the background on their tik toks they post. I know where they're at and they're bad liars, as are their friends.
 
2020-07-05 12:56:27 PM  

MythDragon: meerclarschild: MythDragon: Sat morning
"Its 10:00. Cartoons are over. Go outside. Lunch will be on the porch at 12. There is water in the hose. Don't come back until the streetlights come on. But you better be here  when they come on, or it's your ass. "

Childhood memories--except where I lived, you couldn't leave lunch on the porch for critters, heat, and "palmetto bugs."

Lucky enough to have a screened porch.
Palmettos? You grow up in Fl? I hate those damn things.  "Oh, you turned on the light?  Guess I'll fly over and dive bomb your face then. "


shiat. Anything by a lake in say Oregon or NE California is a Pearl Harbor of bugs nightly. If you don't know what noseums and mayflies are, you will wish extinction on them.
 
2020-07-05 12:58:36 PM  

DrunkenBob: As someone who drinks out of the hose after mowing the lawn . . . I now have an excuse to be an irritable asshole.

/Sweet on the tongue, surly on the stomach


Works ok as a chaser if you're out of beer.
 
2020-07-05 1:01:24 PM  

fanbladesaresharp: MythDragon: meerclarschild: MythDragon: Sat morning
"Its 10:00. Cartoons are over. Go outside. Lunch will be on the porch at 12. There is water in the hose. Don't come back until the streetlights come on. But you better be here  when they come on, or it's your ass. "

Childhood memories--except where I lived, you couldn't leave lunch on the porch for critters, heat, and "palmetto bugs."

Lucky enough to have a screened porch.
Palmettos? You grow up in Fl? I hate those damn things.  "Oh, you turned on the light?  Guess I'll fly over and dive bomb your face then. "

shiat. Anything by a lake in say Oregon or NE California is a Pearl Harbor of bugs nightly. If you don't know what noseums and mayflies are, you will wish extinction on them.


Florida has those too.  And chiggers.

/don't play with the Spanish moss, it has chiggers!
//is it racist to call it Spanish moss?
///third slashies has never seen Spanish moss in Spain
 
Aquapope  
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2020-07-05 1:12:02 PM  
Worst part of drinking from the hose is forgetting that it's been sitting in the sun for 6 hours so that first gulp of water is 150 degrees of ouch!  But oh god you're so thirsty so you keep putting the stream up to your lips to check the temp until it's cool enough to chug.
 
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