I think kids should be able to have reusable water bottles to drink during day. If nothing else drink between each subject. Kids should learn early on the importance of water for the body.
I’m just as spoiled as everyone else on this tread, but growing up in a camping family and having spent my time as a scout leader (never did Philmont, loved Sea-Base), I can deal with it. Our manta at camp was Hydration or die. I still have an icemaker in my fridge. (and just to be more gross, another top ten question at camp was if you had a bowel movement.)
A while back, my good friend and struggling cartoonist Stephan Pastis called me to consult on a Jef the Cyclist episode of his comic strip, Pearls Before Swine. (It’s OK if you’ve never heard of it; the rest of the story stands alone just fine.)
He wanted to have JtC bragging about drinking whatever disgusting, performance-enhancing concoction cyclists drink. Which was, he asked, what?
It was a tough question. We do drink some gross stuff. I myself own a juicer that makes a great ABC (apple, beet, carrot) mixture. The nitrates in the beets open capillaries and provide an aerobic boost, which I find to be almost as performance-enhancing as the extra sleep I could be getting if I weren’t spending so much time cutting up food and cleaning up the kitchen. I’ll have smoothies for breakfast, but they’re mostly fruit and one kind of milk or another. I save the green leafy stuff for when I can chew it, so my breakfast smoothies are practically dessert. On the bike, it’s typically a sports drink of some sort, which, if you buy it at a running store or bike shop instead of the grocery store, they generally keep the sugar content down. So that’s not too gross. And then there’s the secret weapon of knackered endurance athletes everywhere: de-fizzed Coca-Cola. That stuff is so potent that Coke doesn’t sponsor a single team that I know of, but it’s in virtually every team’s race-day arsenal. But you have to save it for the end of the race. Once you start drinking it, you have to keep drinking it to stay one step ahead of the sugar crash, because that crash is going to be a whopper. So it’s interesting, but not really that gross.
I was worried I wasn’t helping Stephan out. Then I remembered body-temperature water from a hydration pack. Now, that’s disgusting. But eminently drinkable. And the more you need it, the more drinkable it is.
Pastis ended up using, I think, a kale smoothie in his strip. I’m happy to use the water I have.
Ninette over 5 years ago
+ then, – just, – really.
asrialfeeple over 5 years ago
And nobody is going to notice her wearing that?
cervelo over 5 years ago
I’ts not how tepid the water is as much as how heavy the water is… A full Camelbak can weigh over 2 kilos!
sandpiper over 5 years ago
So-o-o-o, you have to be really thirsty to drink body temp water??
animemom50 over 5 years ago
I think kids should be able to have reusable water bottles to drink during day. If nothing else drink between each subject. Kids should learn early on the importance of water for the body.
MichaelHelwig over 5 years ago
Undermining the teacher’s authority. You need to be mentored a little, Frazz.
mauser7 over 5 years ago
I’m just as spoiled as everyone else on this tread, but growing up in a camping family and having spent my time as a scout leader (never did Philmont, loved Sea-Base), I can deal with it. Our manta at camp was Hydration or die. I still have an icemaker in my fridge. (and just to be more gross, another top ten question at camp was if you had a bowel movement.)
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
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A while back, my good friend and struggling cartoonist Stephan Pastis called me to consult on a Jef the Cyclist episode of his comic strip, Pearls Before Swine. (It’s OK if you’ve never heard of it; the rest of the story stands alone just fine.)
He wanted to have JtC bragging about drinking whatever disgusting, performance-enhancing concoction cyclists drink. Which was, he asked, what?
It was a tough question. We do drink some gross stuff. I myself own a juicer that makes a great ABC (apple, beet, carrot) mixture. The nitrates in the beets open capillaries and provide an aerobic boost, which I find to be almost as performance-enhancing as the extra sleep I could be getting if I weren’t spending so much time cutting up food and cleaning up the kitchen. I’ll have smoothies for breakfast, but they’re mostly fruit and one kind of milk or another. I save the green leafy stuff for when I can chew it, so my breakfast smoothies are practically dessert. On the bike, it’s typically a sports drink of some sort, which, if you buy it at a running store or bike shop instead of the grocery store, they generally keep the sugar content down. So that’s not too gross. And then there’s the secret weapon of knackered endurance athletes everywhere: de-fizzed Coca-Cola. That stuff is so potent that Coke doesn’t sponsor a single team that I know of, but it’s in virtually every team’s race-day arsenal. But you have to save it for the end of the race. Once you start drinking it, you have to keep drinking it to stay one step ahead of the sugar crash, because that crash is going to be a whopper. So it’s interesting, but not really that gross.
I was worried I wasn’t helping Stephan out. Then I remembered body-temperature water from a hydration pack. Now, that’s disgusting. But eminently drinkable. And the more you need it, the more drinkable it is.
Pastis ended up using, I think, a kale smoothie in his strip. I’m happy to use the water I have.