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[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

You never actually drank from a natural spring, have you?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

My kitchen tap doesn't carry that flavour

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Depending on the aquifer the water temperature at the spring can be really cold, even in the warmest days.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This is probably why cold water taste so good. It's natural selection.

There is so many diseases carried in water so there is no doubt that people doing extra effort to get that nice crispy water from the spring will survive longer that people getting warm water from the nearest water body.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

People don't understand that they don't have to agree with a shower thought xD

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

True. Upvote if it is interesting, thought provoking, well thought out, educational, etc.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

You don't have to agree with an opinion. But people don't get their own facts.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Nothing about a thought has to be factual.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

When you make historical assertions it most definitely has to be.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

"historical assertions" OP was probably shitting when posting this.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I see you have little experience with how historians actually carry out their work, the moment of shitting does not actually interfere with the writing of history, it is just a natural state not only for the historian, but for any human being.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Have you never been in a natural body of water in the summer? Lakes and rivers are pretty cold, even in the hotter months.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It depends on where you live. In some places they can get reasonable with temps being around 60-80F.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Size matters too.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Even in Florida, even in tiny lakes and swamps, the water is plenty cool under the top 2'.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I grew up swimming in snow runoff so Florida doesn't sound cold

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Icy water yes. But cold water was available, the whole reason people find cold water refreshing is because running water/spring water etc are cold and more likely to be safe to drink. While stagnant water were more likely to be warm and have more bacteria, making it lot less safe.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Early humans already had mountain streams, which are refreshing as fuck in summer (or year round for the tropics, or winter for south africa). And Africa is actually pretty mountainous, it's kind of an issue for infrastructure development.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Water in streams, lakes, rivers, and springs is pretty much always a lot cooler than the air. Unless it's a very small pond or a puddle, water is pretty cool, especially if you go deeper than just the surface to take your water.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

30°C air is hot as fuck, 30°C water is a perfect cold shower.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Not necessarily? Icy water would have been rare, but even in the summer water from a stream or a lake is colder than the air, which is enough to make it refreshing. And well water can be very cold.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

hot water is a relatively modern luxury. you probably have a living ancestor that remembers not growing up with easy, or any, access to hot water, just hurtfully cold, refreshing water.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I bet they wished they had shade

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I feel like most natural spring water is pretty cool. They didn't have refrigeration though, so this might be true for icy cold water?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You might only have ice-cold water during the spring if you're near a river that just flowed down from the mountains but even most well water is going to be much cooler than surface temperatures.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Have you never been in a river in the spring?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The reason you find cold water refreshing is because of early humans.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

poor ragebait

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Cold water is easy to heat if you know how to make fire. Most early humans probably knew how to make fire. Hot water, however, is difficult to cool without refrigeration.

Spring and well water is often cool. I don’t know about the water that comes down from the mountains. Does it retain it’s coolness when the snow melts and runs down into the valley?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, it does. Fresh mountain spring water is very cool and refreshing. Some of it even runs down from glaciers and is nearly ice cold.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Hot water is pretty easy to cool. Just leave it in a vessel in a cool place and come back later.

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