ZacharyIsBadAtLife
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Nov 12, 2018 3:47 PM
ZacharyIsBadAtLife
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#funny #memes #awesome #wow
Chopsworth
I remember that article. Write got flak from everyone.
Trelkeen
This is about the level of accuracy and honesty you can expect from 100% of Slate articles.
OngoGoblogianTheArtCollector
I've drunk so much fucking stream water in my life and never had any bad effects
lilbrother
Emergency Financial Managers from Michigan are writing for Slate now?
HatredandVitriol
Always boil the water. Fire fucks everything up
abrown1776
Unless there is a dead animal upstream. Gambling with poo is funny.
HalstenTorqThorkelson
I've seen people with giardia in the backcountry. Shitting yourself without a toilet is no joke
modman23
I'm fairly certain Slate is satire site, not sure the people who work there know that yet though.
JayceHall
Slate is about as accurate on outdoor skills as they are on socio/political topics I see..
ghostfox69
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/4/16846048/raw-water-trend-silicon-valley
MrRavellon
This is a true statement*
MrRavellon
*If the stream comes straight from the spring with no possible contamination vector on the way.
DirtyRotter
But it doesnt have any electrolites
DeadeicPrints
Oh boy what idiot said that lol
IGenerallyPostThumbsUpGifs
I want to slap that guy across the face
TheOnly24
Been drinking unfiltered water from streams in Ireland since I was 6 that being said I'd never do it anywhere with ice a shitty country
TheOnly24
Literally shitty
noctism
Nobody correct him, let nature take its course
SirGermaan
In switzerland you can literaly drink water everywhere. Around here the cows pee crystal clear water
sedimentatthebottom
Yea man, drink untreated water, avoid vaccines, eat Tide Pods, it's all good.
jmcneal56
Im pretty sure the people drinking untreated water and eating tide pods are up to date on Their shots.
lwbell851337
Do a swan dive into the asphalt. Why not, eh?
rebel1996
Raw pork is healthy
DadsForDabbing
Yeah not gonna do that
ShowALK
But Slate said it was okay
schleimkeim
Why not? I'm sure the animal carcass 100m upstream is good for your digestion!
Kaplar
Probably even adds a bit of protein and iron to your water!
mattsall
Gotta love a bit of leptospirosis in the morning
Salvion
Let me just not filter this random fresh water from that pond. Not like it could have flesh eating bacteria or something.
drwatsoni
Actually backpackers, you don't need to bring food, just eat a pizza before you leave.
WoahMyDudeThatsCrazy
Is this the new hipster movement? First no GMOs now no filters?
stackcollision
A doubt anyone who writes for Slate has ever even been outside.
Leithoa
"We spent a whole weekend at Coachella & didn't shower. Our tent only had a swamp cooler. We were basically on the Oregon Trail."
Genini
Course not. There's bears out there.
RoboticTurtle
As an actual backpacker, don't go backpacking with Slate. Well, unless you want good cleanout without using laxatives.
FireWolves
Always filter. The rule for not filtering is above 10000 feet, and if you find the spring itself go down stream about 100 feet then drink
Doumdidoum
I know somebody who followed that rule on the Inca trail. Bad case of amoeba and a costly helicopter ride.
mrplowthatnameagain
Why the 100 ft?
FireWolves
As the water goes over the rocks the UV light at that altitude killer almost all possible harmful bacteria
FireWolves
Kills*
YourLocalGarbageMan
Neat
wargames
still filter and or boil your water you don't want to end up like an anti-science idiot.
ninjaguineapig
nowadays you probably won't die, you'll just need all sorts of antibiotics and parasite medications
deafmute
I'd rather not end up with brain eating ameba, thanks.
Leithoa
Depends on if you can get back to civilization in between shitting your pants & puking your guts out.
TheDudeOrHisDudeness
I don't know where yall live, but people (including me) often drink water from small mountain springs. Never heard of someone 1/
TheDudeOrHisDudeness
who had caught some disease this way.
Gorapora
1: People don't broadcast having diarrhea. 2: Even if the chance is only 1:20; stomach illnesses suck extra while backpacking, should filter
natabus
Clear, moving water is 'usually' fine. People just have different attitudes about how usual 'usually' is.
buttbuttpartywagon
The only place where this is acceptable is in a glacier fed river. And even then
imgur1stTheory
Some dummy always poops on the glacier. I swear humans are one of the few animals that will poop in their own drinking water.
Mithi
I see you never met pigeons. Those stupid fucks shit EVERYWHERE. Food, water, other pigeons.
CoffeeZombie
Friend of mine once put water in his dog's bowl on a hot day. Dog walked up to the freshly-filled bowl, cocked his leg, and peed right in it
InconspicuousCanuck
I raise you wild hogs.
AsheLake
Not to be an asshole. Seriously curious. How wild is a hog raised by a human?
InconspicuousCanuck
The specific genealogy is better served by a google search, but wild hogs are meaner than rutting farm pigs, and carry more diseases.
DontJewishYourOvenWasHotLikeMe
100% of people who drink water die.
BukkakeRider3000
Eventually.
FlyWithTheChris
That username though.
CHEESEBAG
Water is for peasants
ImGettingMines
I drink water and I’m still alive so you’re wrong
psrobyn1
#spreadthetruth
CoeusDarksoul
When? It's taking forever and I'm chugging H2O like a sorority sister the day after initiation.
amishjosh
that's why i disinfect my water with alcohol
PastequePlasma
Even worse than that, I heard that some evil corporations add dihydrogen monoxide to the water we're drinking!
CorwinMacGregor
I hear that some evilier corporations replace our water with 100% dihydrogen monoxide!
MrRobSteel
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
iUsedToBeFunThenIGotAGoodTherapist
Jokes on them, I've been surviving on iced coffee and my own misery for the past 15 yrs
monsieursquirrel
Ice is just frozen water, you're doomed man!!
vorodar
I also survive on your misery.
UpRisen
I choose that guys dead wife
ThatcherInTheRye
100% of people who dont drink water die
AuntSharron
100% of people die
CassiusPolybius
Life is terminal.
thegrimreaver
Life is a terminal, sexually transmitted disease.
ccman87
Tell that to the Tardigrades
CassiusPolybius
https://youtu.be/aMUvNWuSq6I
chillFlamingo
Keanu Reeves.
AuntSharron
I said people not celestials.
david1111
is slate satire? their articles are terrible.
lowbudgetjeremyrenner
I gave up on em a little while back. Some of the articles used to be great, then it just went to hell. I miss Emily Yoffe :(
rando84
They’re deliberately contrarian. It’s less about journalism than generating clicks.
KingZaphodI
Don't think they're satire, but they're certainly a joke.
MillenniumFalcon
that's a bingo
RdizzyC
They do cite studies in the article though, it isn't that the water doesn't contain anything bad, it's that they are in such low amounts
RdizzyC
That actual infection with symptoms are extremely unlikely. As well as other citations.
dennykins
How did people survive thousands of years drinking fresh water from streams?!?
Rheios
Ah, the patented 'Russian Roulette' method of living. There's only one bullet in the chamber, chances are you probably won't get fucked.
RdizzyC
Way, way, way less than Russian Roulette, and even most people infected had no symptoms, and even then they showed it was more likely from
RdizzyC
failing to wash hands properly after going to the bathroom outdoors rather than drinking the water.