And no “water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber” goofs. Water isn’t allowed.
Water is the main component of any and every beverage
Elemental mercury.
though can only be ingested once
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
Why not gallium
You’ll drink this until the end of your life. Works the same with molten iron though.
always gave me a heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach.
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.
do you have a link to the paper? I want to read it
This was a very long time ago; I do not.
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”…
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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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.
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?
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.
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.
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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
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.
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r/technicallythetruth
Dr. Pepper because I’m here for a fun time not a long time.
Fuck yaaaaa!
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…
coffee for sure
Right? How is this even up for debate lol
Boring
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.
Did you just type a stutter?
N-no…
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.
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.
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…
All normal drinks are just flavored water, so I guess steering fluid?
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BRAWNDO!
It’s got electrolytes!
It’s got what plants crave!
It’s got electrolytes!
Does it have electrolytes?
Milk
I’ll be the strongest mf in the skeleton war
Milk, the best way to hydrate.
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 😅
Tea
All liquid involves water.
I don’t love tea but yeah it would be tea. Iced green tea lemonade, black tea with milk. If literally only one then iced black tea with lemonade, let it get diluted.
False. I will now list 10 non water liquids
- Oil
- Mercury
- Alcohol
- Bromine
- Ethanol
- Methanol
- Acetone
- Benzene
- Chloroform
- Glycerin
Source: The top of my head, and organicchemistrydata.org/solvents/
Which of these do you think you could drink the longest before dying? lol
oil
Mercury
This is actually true. Metallic mercury would pass through your gut with no ill effect. Mercury compounds are what will turn you into a Proud Boy.
Brawndo. It’s got what I crave.
Does it suck being a vegetable?
