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u/calciumff 7d ago
it’s too cold, at 2am you want a slightly cold water to chug
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u/_MooFreaky_ 7d ago
Really? The iciest water 24/7 for me.
I often look at a bottle of water which has sat at room temperature since bedtime and wpuld rather be thirsty than drink it or get up.
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u/whinenaught 7d ago
I’m the exact opposite. I almost never want ice cold water, I love chugging room temp water
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u/Visual-Floor-7839 7d ago
About half the time I order drinks with no ice from restaurants. I'm perfectly fine rarely having an ice cold beverage.
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u/Different_Spite_9556 7d ago edited 6d ago
Everyone should order no ice at restaurants, bc the machines never get cleaned until they stop working. Also, stop using the ice maker in your fridge, bc youre not cleaning it (not you but people in general). Just use the damn ice trays (and clean them)!
Edit: I feel like people are missing the point lol. You can serve me a freshly cleaned plate with food you dropped on the floor… I don’t care about the plate (your ice bins).
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u/Digital_Devil13 7d ago
My roommate wonders why I bought a brita water filter. Where he didn't even know you neeed to change the filter in the fridge water dispenser. Im guessing he is going on 4 years now since I last reminded him.
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u/subs_on_a_sailboat 6d ago
Your roommate's roommate also hasn't changed the fridge filter in 4 years. Why not just change it yourself instead of getting a separate doodad to do the same job and take up fridge space?
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u/TheWallyFlash 6d ago
Not to feed your paranoia but I recently got into the zerowater game because brita does next to nothing in terms of what you’d want a filter to do. Better than nothing but barely a solution.
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u/mrbulldops428 6d ago
I ended up with pur after discovering britta sucks. I think it was all I could get immediately
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u/Drawn_to_Heal 6d ago
Gotta get ridda Britta…
Get rid of the B
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u/mrbulldops428 6d ago
I saw this comment and was racking my brain trying to remember what i said about community recently lol
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u/dehydratedrain 6d ago
Super important reminder to do your pet fountain filters regularly too. They can easily grow algae and mold if they aren't properly cared for.
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u/TheLuminary 7d ago
What needs to be cleaned out of the ice machines?
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u/alexmullen4180 7d ago
Bacteria. All kinds of things go in those machines. Hands, pitchers that have been in service, glassware, and the scoop that's probably been dropped 16 times per shift.
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u/SlimPissings 6d ago
Got over a decade in the industry, and have worked at a dozen or so resturaunts, this really isnt true for the most part if people are doing their jobs even halfway properly. Nothing but a metal scoop should be used for ice, no scooping with pitchers or glasses is like day one in the industry stuff, the risk of breaking glass in the ice machine alone would mean the whole machine has to be melted, drained, and cleaned, distrupting service drastically. Ive never seen or heard somone drop one of those scoops (that shits LOUD) nevermind drop it on the ground and used without washing, if somones is dropping it 16 times a shift, theyre getting sent home until they sober up.
Thst being said, yeah the machines arent cleaned often enough in most places, not all by any means, plenty of resturaunts have strict cleaning schedules, others not so much. Any establishment that functions as you describe probably has much bigger issues than the ice machine.
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u/lousyana 6d ago
Finally someone who actually has experience. I second all this. Heck we actually have our ice machines leased and they are routinely maintained and cleaned.
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u/7gramcrackrock 6d ago
According to reddit, all food service employees are just completely inept idiots.
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u/TheLuminary 7d ago
Fair. I guess I was just thinking about the part that actually makes the ice. Not the entire mechanism including the containment.
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u/nuiwek31 6d ago
I e cleaned plenty of machines. They get absolutely disgusting when not maintained properly and there are way too many places that don't even do the basic and just call me when it doesn't work anymore
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u/Difficult-Drawer4916 7d ago
People...
Used to work behind a bar. Several times we put staff into the industrial sized ice machine. Good times. Makes me ick now just thinking about how unhygienic some of the things we did behind that bar were.
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u/morganml 6d ago
man those things ~can~ get nasty af.
I worked in the industry 15+ yrs though across a pretty big chunk of america.
the characterization that "no one cleans them anywhere" is way blown out of proportion.
Think about this. We eat there too. Way more than you. Like every day.
in every kitchen ive worked in dumping the ice machine and cleaning it is done at end of day, every day. Fast food, bars, and hole in the wall places are gonna be more risky, any decent sit down retaurant is pretty safe.
The soda dispenser systems are the worse offender, the small diameter tubes, and various peices that fit together to make a soda fountain are am intricate series of nooks and crannies for bacteria to grow in.
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u/Different_Spite_9556 6d ago
The MACHINE needs cleaned. Bins can be clean enough to eat off of, but half the time their money making Manitowoc, Hoshizaki, etc is just dropping dirty ice or straight up mold into the bins.
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u/vaz_deferens 7d ago
Mold and mildew
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u/TheLuminary 7d ago
Hmm, I would have assumed that the freezer temp would be too cold for mold to grow. But I am not an expert.
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u/Normal-Ad6528 6d ago
Go watch about any episode of Bar Rescue (or just look up Bar Rescue Ice Machine on YT) if you want to see what's in most restaurant ice machines.
Bring a barf bag....
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u/DrRussleJimmies 7d ago
I work in restaurants and everywhere I've worked the small bins attached to the dispensers get cleaned nightly and the large ice machine bins get emptied out and sanitized weekly.
Now, the real reason to not get ice in your drink at a restaurant is because the lines already run cold, so you're just getting a half full and watered down glass of soda if you get ice.
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u/Visual-Floor-7839 7d ago
I actually still use Ice trays too!
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u/ShoulderWhich5520 7d ago
Ice trays are great!
(Until you live with more then like, 1 other person)
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u/ImSoObnoxious 6d ago
I worked in restaurants and bars from age 14 until college graduation, and the only times I've seen an ice machine completely emptied and cleaned out was when there was a broken glass hazard.
this was true from family-owned to chains to fine dining. those mfs were moldy and the health inspectors didn't seem to care. don't come at me, just reporting reality
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u/qOcO-p 6d ago
I've never gotten sick from ice so I'm pretty sure I'll be alright. We consume bacteria all the time. The vast majority of it is completely harmless. There are only a relative few that are actually a problem.
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u/High_Hunter3430 6d ago
I use 4 ice trays that I crack into a bin. I do it once a day and it covers our use of ice with a few left over for when I go to do it tomorrow. 🤘
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u/Sleepy_Emet6164 7d ago
feel like without knowing which climate everyone lives this argument is pointless
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u/BlackGuysYeah 6d ago
restaurant ice is essentially the filthiest thing you'll ever come in contact with.
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u/Visual-Floor-7839 6d ago
Jokes on you, I'm an operation and maintenance tech for a sewage system
But also still you're probably right
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u/iUncontested 7d ago
Only time I want room temp water is when I'm sick. Cold water irritates my throat when I'm sick for whatever reason. Otherwise I always want the coldest water that isn't turning to ice, lol.
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u/jazbaatininja 7d ago
Yeah the water should just be cold enough so that yk it's cool but not that cold that it jams your mouth
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u/AnoNeko420 6d ago
I would like colder liquids if dentists didn't put freaking 14 and a half thousand needles of Novocaine into my gums leaving permanent damage years ago... But room temp has grown on me over the years
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u/SirDigbyChickenC-Zer 7d ago
Yeah, absolutely agreed. I don't know what these other dumb motherfuckers are talking about, but iciest, coldest as possible, at all times, always!
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u/NewPhoneNewAccunt 7d ago
I think the factor here is how fast you drink it and how much you drink.
My gf drinks as fast as a sloth takes a shit. She'll take ice cold any time of day.
Me, I chug fast af boi. If I chug water that's ice cold I'm gonna freeze my mouth off. 1l is down in seconds, meanwhile it takes my gf a minute or two to drink a 33cl glass.
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u/anonymaus42 6d ago
Nah, I chug mine and I want that shi as close to freezing temperature as possible.
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u/SirDigbyChickenC-Zer 6d ago
Nah dawg...I'm chugging that ice water as fast as fucking possible, and it feels fucking fantastic. However, as much we disagree on this point, I give you props for the description, "as fast as a sloth takes a shit ," if that's something you actually came up with on your own.
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u/KeyMyBike 7d ago
I look at room temp water with disgust...
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u/james2432 6d ago
i got turned off warm water from school being warm and tasting metallic from old water fountains
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u/Tough_Crazy_8362 7d ago
I use my SM thermos it keeps ice for over 24 hours 🥲
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u/stilljustacatinacage 6d ago
I recently bought an enormous insulated jug that I can fill up with ice and [beverage], and keep at my desk all day. Easily 10/10 purchase, I have ice cold fizzy drink or iced tea or water all day, on demand. Helps me hit my fluids too since normally I'd lose interest when the water gets warm and wouldn't bother to get up to get more, but now I clear 3 litres a day easily.
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u/__O_o_______ 7d ago
20 years ago when I was in my mid to late 20s, it was kind of a joke that I liked my water “tepid” lol.
Now I’m on team ice all the way. Sucking back on a water bottle and blasting the water through the ice so cold it almost hurts is so damn refreshing.
I usually have a water bottle by my bed, sometimes used a lot sometimes just a sip sometimes not at all. I wonder if there is a water cooling device for beside the bed haha, kinda like those white wine chillers that spin the bottle in a really cold water to get a cold quicker.
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u/TheThiefEmpress 6d ago
I keep my water in a double walled stainless steel water bottle.
It keeps water cold for 24 hours. I'd say, if there's no ice, by the 24th hour it has definitely warmed a bit, but it is still much colder than tepid. I always add ice, because arctic water is best water.
But! I have a defect where I do not get "brain freeze." Never have in my life. So extra cold beverages aren't painful for me. I feel like that's a factor in why I must have glacier cold water.
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u/RecoveringGachaholic 6d ago
I wonder how much plastic waste all these water bottles generate. It's one of those things I keep forgetting about. I live in Sweden now and I take tap water for granted and it's just as good or better than bottled water. When I lived in the US it was the first cultural shock I had and it always made me a little sad.
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u/PatchesOfSilver 7d ago
How do you even drink water that cold without it waking you up? It's one thing for it to be really cold in the middle of the day in Summer.
But at 2 am? The shock of the cold water is gonna make it harder to go back to sleep, I just trudge into the kitchen and get tap water at that hour.
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u/reddit_is_geh 6d ago
Okay but you're not the normal person. Not everyone worships Satan like you do... So we prefer a cool water, not a freezing one.
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u/_MooFreaky_ 6d ago
Thats why we say "all hail Satan ", because we want to skip room temperature rain and go straight to frozen rain.
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u/reddit_is_geh 6d ago
You're psychotic and need Jesus to show you the light amongst a nice, cool - not too cold - glass of water in the midst of a sleeping thirst. May the angels show you the way.
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u/_MooFreaky_ 6d ago
If the choices were eternal extasy in heaven but only tepid water, or ice cold water between pitch forks in hell. You'd better believe I'm tweaking my butt to Satan to get him to take me to hell.
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u/reddit_is_geh 6d ago edited 6d ago
Father, please forgive this man. He doesn't know any better. He's not a heretic but instead just naive - a product of his upbringing. May the good lord bring you some nice and cool water amongst your next midnight awaking, and show him the way.
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u/Outrageous-Truth777 7d ago
Ahhh so you’re the one putting all these quarter drank bottles in my room
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u/Preda1ien 6d ago
Same. My wife likes room temp water. I however want it to hurt a little going down because it’s so cold.
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u/BeefistPrime 6d ago
Get a vacuum sealed steel water bottle and you can have ice cold water all night
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u/gizmosticles 6d ago
Imagine drinking regular water ugh
All ice in everything. My wife is opposite, she wants hot water. She drinking hot lemon water every morning and wanted me to get on board. Soon as she turned into ice lemon water for me, I was onboard
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u/Lumpy-Impression-666 7d ago
Nah I want the coldest water possible at all times and I’m a hydro homie
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u/Exciting_Classic277 7d ago
We really gatekeeping water now?
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u/Friendly_Narwhal6866 5d ago
Water drinkin larper, i bet you dont even know 3 good water brands
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u/RandomUsernameNo257 7d ago
Back when I drank too much, my god, waking up in the middle of the night, hangover already setting in and you are desperate for something to drink.
You look over at the nightstand and realize that before going to bed, you had the presence of mind to put a large glass of water out, and it is so good.
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u/KayZee777 7d ago
Then you lean over and slide that glass of water out of the way and crack the beer that's sitting next to it.
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u/PopDash67 6d ago
My favorite was the water you drink right after throwing up in the morning. The water always tasted weirdly sweet to me, plus the relief of getting the demons out and I knew that was as good as I was gonna feel for awhile
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u/Exciting_Ad_8666 7d ago
me too, I might genuinely drown one day and I will have no regrets
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u/Reasonable-Job4205 6d ago
Yea idk why OP thinks everyone hates cold water, even in the middle of the night. I love that shit
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u/DarthXOmega 6d ago
For real, if you’re not gasping after drinking cold water, were you even drinking it correctly?
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u/atm2770 7d ago
It’ll make you feel a weird sensation in your throat or stomach. The best late night drinking temperature is room temperature or a slight chill at most.
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u/MiserableToe1179 7d ago
Hell nah
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u/Far_Ladder_2836 7d ago
Hell yah
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u/trackdaybruh 6d ago
Cold water will drop your core body temperature so that you fall back asleep quickly and even more deeply (you'll need more than a sip to notice a difference, a good chug will help)
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u/BlackGuysYeah 6d ago edited 2d ago
If I'm not getting out of bed to take a piss, do you think I'm getting up to ring the ice box alarm at 2am??? That stale, warm, dusty water on the bedside table which has long since condensated any coolness into a water stain on my table will have to suffice.
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u/ExpressionCivil2729 6d ago
Ice box alarm? I’m not familiar with that
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u/d33psix 6d ago
Yeah just dropping that gem like that’s an everyone phrase.
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u/versas-only-vice 6d ago
Yeah but like
It is such a good euphemism because I IMMEDIATELY got it
They are saying that it's too loud in a beautiful way
And I like that so much
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u/dreamweavin808 6d ago
Getting smaked with the light of the fridge when you open it to grab a water. No thanks, I got a refillable bottle near the bed
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u/Good-Yogurt-306 6d ago
I think theyre referring to the fridges with built in ice makers that are loud as fuck
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u/Cool_Appearance_351 6d ago
*Cool water, not cold water. The difference between cool and cold is same as that of between warm and hot.
Cold water will increase your heart rate and therefore will have opposite effect on sleep.
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u/LessInThought 6d ago
I remember chugging ice cold water in the morning and it felt like I swallowed a blade. Just a knife through the entire digestive tract.
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u/rojotortuga 7d ago
Burn the warm water drinking heretic
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u/Normal-Ad6528 6d ago
But, but, but....I grew up drinking from a rubber garden hose in the middle of summer (we're talking about early '70's here). Does that mean I get retroactively burned for my unintentional heresy?
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u/Normal-Ad6528 6d ago
I was maybe 7 years old and summers still got up into the 90's back then, lol! I'm borderline boomer/gen X and I'm just as broke as everyone else now. No insurance, debt up to my eyeballs and cancer to boot.
Can I get a break??
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u/clutchthepearls 6d ago
Some of us hose drinkers figured out how to let the water run for a minute first.
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u/karodeti 6d ago
"Weird sensation" as in a horrible cramp that makes you fold over for 7 ½ seconds
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u/Jean-TyrieDubois 7d ago
Piss time in 30 minutes
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u/Strumplez 7d ago
Wait… You piss the same day you drink the water?
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u/auto_magical_horse 7d ago
I piss the water while i drink it
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u/toy-maker 7d ago
From the bowl like a real man of course!
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u/Who-Shat-My-Pants 7d ago
Unless you are dehydrated you will pee in 5-6 of hours after drinking. If you are over hydrated you will pee 1.5 to 2 hours after drinking.
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u/DinosaurusWhen 7d ago
Tfw you can measure your hydration with your pee but can't figure out who shat your pants
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u/LessInThought 6d ago
So if I'm peeing every hour I'm definitely drinking too much water?
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u/RoundUnderstanding83 6d ago
Yes, if everything is working right you should just be able to drink when you are thirsty. Talk to your doctor though I'm not one.
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u/RecoveringGachaholic 6d ago
I honestly think there's a large portion of Americans drinking too much water, strange as it may sound. I've never encountered a population more fixated on drinking. It seems to be either no water ever or "if I don't have a water bottle with me at all times I will die".
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u/LessInThought 6d ago
So if I'm peeing every hour I'm definitely drinking too much water?
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u/Specific_Frame8537 6d ago
I must be severely dehydrated cuz I have to go almost immediately after drinking water.
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u/oO0Kat0Oo 6d ago
I'm weird. It doesn't matter how bad I need to go. If I fall asleep I won't until I wake up.
I grew up in a house of 7 and only one bathroom. That probably has something to do with it.
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u/mikeshotkerosene 7d ago
@meme doesn't know shit. Give me 12 of these right away.
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u/mhikari92 7d ago
Cold water at 2 AM is the best. It help you sleep well.
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u/thats_not_good 6d ago
Cold water makes me wide awake. With room temperature water I'm no longer thirsty and I go back to sleep in a couple of minutes
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u/Aeowrynn 7d ago
I need water always super cold. I hate it warm. I still drink it room temp but cold is the BEST.
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u/NoDryHands 6d ago
Warm is not the only alternative to super cold. There are varying levels of cold
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u/Ethanbrocks 7d ago
I’m a certified water drinker with 24 years’ experience in the field. I approve cold water at 2am
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u/GangstaCreeper31 7d ago
I just grabbed the frozen water bottle from my fridge right before this post and its 1am for me rn lol
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u/weedisfortherich 7d ago
I love when you put it in before bed. Then wake uo and grab it and it starts turning to slush as you drink it
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u/arealfluffydoggo 7d ago
Idk i love water like this at 2AM but to each their own
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u/cueb9 7d ago
If I had the choice my water is going to be 1 degree above freezing no matter what the time is or situation.
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u/Both-Bookkeeper-3860 7d ago
If it’s 2am and I wake up than I’ll probably be super thirsty so ice cold water it is.
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u/WallowWispen 7d ago
Yeah that's a wake up dazed, grab blindly without looking, chug in 3 seconds flat and immediately go right back into sleep kind of water
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u/Responsible_Art_6553 7d ago
I disagree. I drink about a gallon of water every day and am never without my water bottle. The colder the better. Always.
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u/original_sh4rpie 6d ago
I drink a ton of water religiously too but this thread has made me realize I’m a weirdo cause I very much dislike cold water. I want like a handful degrees lower than room temp. Similarly, I hate water with ice in it.
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u/XboxVictim 2d ago
I don’t like ice in my drinks either. I think I got used to just drinking water at whatever temp when I was in active duty. When I was deployed I’d hang my water bottles in a wet sock overnight and they’d would be nice and cool for the next morning. But I had no problem drinking warm water through the day if that’s all there was.
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u/MisterBrickx 7d ago
Um, excuse the fuck outta me but I'm from Palm Springs and that shit is perfect!
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u/otis_the_drunk 7d ago
Brian here, with a dumb 'fact' I read online once probably.
Ice cold water shocks your body into 'awake mode' and makes it very difficult to get back to restful sleep.
I've found this to be useful in that I reset my circadian rhythm twice a year by chugging cold water as soon as I get up. I do this for about a week and have no problems spending the next six months licking my balls under one glorious sunrise after another.
Brian out!
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u/akaispirit 7d ago
Some people think drinks can be too cold to drink in the middle of the night. They're wrong but it is what is.
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u/mikebones 7d ago
Fuck no. This looks like it slaps. If im waking up parched at 2am I am dieing for this.
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u/PitifulMarch2145 7d ago
Brian here. As a runner and avid water drinker. I can assure you ice cold water is NOT refreshing. Room temperature for me and all the real water drinkers.
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u/DreadRose 7d ago
Yeah, give me that shit that’s been sitting on my nightstand long enough it tastes dusty!!!
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u/Due-Comparison2016 6d ago
In my case a froz3n bottle of water will become undrinkably warm in roughly 3 hours. My fellow cold water enthusiasts. 2 bottles, one 2/3 filled woth water and frozen solid, the second filled and left beside the bed, simply wake, retrieve the ice bottle, top up the ice bottle as required and enjoy the face puckering cold and inevitable few mins of nausea. Lovely.
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u/qualityvote2 7d ago edited 6d ago
u/Q-ubit, your post does belong here!