And no “water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber” goofs. Water isn’t allowed.

      • Square Singer
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        You’ll drink this until the end of your life. Works the same with molten iron though.

        • Nougat
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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.

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            Olive oil?

            You wouldn’t live long, but compared to the other options you’re listing…

          • @davidgro@lemmy.world
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            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%.

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          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.

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          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.”

          • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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            I think you replied to the wrong comment. Mercury is absolutely toxic. There’s no safe quantity at all that you can ingest…

    • @hglman@lemmy.ml
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      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.

    • @li10@feddit.uk
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      True, but at the same time you know exactly what OP means with this question.

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        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.

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          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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            That’s not “exactly” what they mean, as the difference between what you think they’re saying and other commenters think is clearly different. Is la croix or bubbly allowed? If not then what about a hard seltzer? If those are allowed then why isn’t lemon water allowed? If those aren’t allowed then where is the line? Gatorade is seltzer water without the bubbles and with electrolytes. It’s clear that OP’s question was not well thought out, hence why so many people here have a problem with it.

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              And yet the main answer in this thread is “tea” which is clearly just water with leaves in it. Why is that different than water with lemons in it? Just because you didn’t have a problem with the question doesn’t mean the question doesn’t have major problems. You just didn’t notice the problems.

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          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.

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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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                  so then do you agree that they wouldn’t bring you lemon water or cucumber water? clearly you didn’t ask for those. but OP explicitly calls those out as ‘no goofs’. so where’s the line?

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                    They obviously wouldn’t, they’d just bring tap water or bottled water or something. What are you even talking about.

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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.

          • parrot-party
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            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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              Alright I’ll admit it, I went ahead and did a little research, and it turns out that there have been a number of studies over the last 5 to 10 years that specifically debunked this claim. TIL

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            Sure, added that note in an edit. There’s no answer here that doesn’t result in your early death.

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      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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        They said no goofs like lemon water though. So what’s the line?

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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.

          • @Donebrach@lemmy.world
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            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.

          • snowe
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            I purposefully called it lemon water. You could also call it lemonade.

            you don’t call apple juice apple water or sprite sprite water.

            but you do in other languages. Just because it’s hard to find examples in English doesn’t mean that the concept is unique.

            Examples:

            • Agua de horchata
            • Agua fresca
            • Agua de Jamaica a type of tea
            • people are literally saying coconut water in this thread so idk what you think that is.
            • Agua de Valencia a mimosa style cocktail
            • Uisce beatha literally ‘Water of Life’ in Irish, it refers to Whiskey
            • Aquavit another spirit that translate… you guessed it… to Water of Life!
            • Nước Chanh … i’ll let you google this one yourself 😉

            In fact if you start looking into the root words of things you’ll find ‘water’ everywhere! Vodka, you guessed it, is based on the root Slavic word ‘voda’ meaning… Water!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka

            We’re just talking about water here. This extends to literally any ingredient in any drink ever. If you start looking at other drinks you start finding strange things like Punch which may be from the Sanskrit for ‘five’ denoting the five ingredients used in it.

            The word punch may be a loanword from Hindi पाँच (pāñć), meaning “five”, as the drink was frequently made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, juice from either a lime or a lemon, water, and spices.