And no “water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber” goofs. Water isn’t allowed.
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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?
It’s an old execution method, but they used molten lead or gold for it.
I’d like to know more. Do you know what it’s called?
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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.
Nougat is a Kbin user, presenting to the emergency room unconscious
Thank you.
Why not gallium
always gave me a heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach.
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.”
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”…
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Boots? Nah, I’m just new-boot goofin…
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r/technicallythetruth
EVERY drink is water!
- Soda is less water and some sugar mixture
- Juice is less water and some squished fruit
- Beer is less water and some cooked hops
- Tea is less water and some leaf infusion
- Coffee is less water and some roasted bean-juice
- A martini is even less water with some alcohol and old squished fruit
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!
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 =)
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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.
A 0.00000001 % NaCl brine solution
I feel this breaks the ‘no goofs’ rule
I will admit now that I only read the title… Sorry!!!
That might be more water than most water.
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.
All normal drinks are just flavored water, so I guess steering fluid?
Tea. Have about 5 cups of tea a day already.
Tea is water lol
Every drink in the world contains water, by that logic we can’t drink anything.
Mercury?
Fuck it, imma just drink molten rock.
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Coconut water fresh from a refrigerated coconut. I would only drink that, even if I didn’t have to, if it was cheap enough.
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
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Milk
I’ll be the strongest mf in the skeleton war
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 😅
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.
Tea
This is basically my life anyways. Other less serious and more waterless answer is gasoline.
