The thing I find amusing about these specific memes - regarding drinking from a garden hose - is that I’m an elder millennial, my sibling is gen X, we grew up on a farm, and neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting. I’ve drank from countless sketchy-ass sources, and still will never drink from a garden hose. like, why would you even do that? just unscrew the hose from the spigot at least and use that FFS
Even if you buy a brand new garden hose, it’s not clean; they’re made from materials that leach chemicals into the water. Once you get them out into the yard, they might be left partially empty with one or both ends open, allowing bacteria and mould to grow, letting insects in, etc.
If you go to a hardware store, you will find there are potable water hoses, they’re usually white with a blue stripe. They are made from food-safe materials and meant to transport potable water. Care still needs to be taken to not allow bacteria growth, but not really any more than a re-usable straw.
It wasn’t that we never went in to get a drink. The problem was all your friends were outside. If you went in the house you run the risk of getting a chore or task to do. By the time you get back your friends may have moved on somewhere else. With no way to contact them you’d have to search the streets. And if you couldn’t find them again, you would be alone for a few hours. Drinking from the hose happened, but not as common as these memes suggest. At least for me.
I get you. I mostly didn’t either, I’m also an “elder” millennial. I grew up in a relatively small city. The city water from the garden hose was fine, for the most part. I don’t remember any specific instance where I drank it though.
That’s an issue specific to this statement from OP. I was trying to speak more generally, but setting that aside, I think the garden hose thing was a boomer/post boomer thing more than Gen X/millennial. … Back then, from what I understand, it wasn’t uncommon to send the kids outside to play and lock them out there… Probably so the parents can go fuck or at least get a moment of peace and quiet from their fuck trophies.
I don’t really know, since I wasn’t alive then, and I don’t know that I care enough to look into it any more than I already have.
The thing I find amusing about these specific memes - regarding drinking from a garden hose - is that I’m an elder millennial, my sibling is gen X, we grew up on a farm, and neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting. I’ve drank from countless sketchy-ass sources, and still will never drink from a garden hose. like, why would you even do that? just unscrew the hose from the spigot at least and use that FFS
the fuck are you people doing with your garden hoses that they get dirty inside??
Even if you buy a brand new garden hose, it’s not clean; they’re made from materials that leach chemicals into the water. Once you get them out into the yard, they might be left partially empty with one or both ends open, allowing bacteria and mould to grow, letting insects in, etc.
If you go to a hardware store, you will find there are potable water hoses, they’re usually white with a blue stripe. They are made from food-safe materials and meant to transport potable water. Care still needs to be taken to not allow bacteria growth, but not really any more than a re-usable straw.
100 percent!
Dumb kids of all generations drink from the garden hose.
The smart ones go inside and get it from the kitchen (or disconnect the hose and drink directly from the tap which tastes perfectly fine)
It wasn’t that we never went in to get a drink. The problem was all your friends were outside. If you went in the house you run the risk of getting a chore or task to do. By the time you get back your friends may have moved on somewhere else. With no way to contact them you’d have to search the streets. And if you couldn’t find them again, you would be alone for a few hours. Drinking from the hose happened, but not as common as these memes suggest. At least for me.
I get you. I mostly didn’t either, I’m also an “elder” millennial. I grew up in a relatively small city. The city water from the garden hose was fine, for the most part. I don’t remember any specific instance where I drank it though.
That’s an issue specific to this statement from OP. I was trying to speak more generally, but setting that aside, I think the garden hose thing was a boomer/post boomer thing more than Gen X/millennial. … Back then, from what I understand, it wasn’t uncommon to send the kids outside to play and lock them out there… Probably so the parents can go fuck or at least get a moment of peace and quiet from their fuck trophies.
I don’t really know, since I wasn’t alive then, and I don’t know that I care enough to look into it any more than I already have.