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On January 14 2007 02:43 MaZza[KIS] wrote:
If you drink too much water you flush all the minerals from your system... your pee should never be white, it should always be a little bit yellowish... 2 L of water MAX per day... 1.2 L minimum.. spread over the entire day of course..
personally, i found that I drank too much water and couldn't understand why I always looked so pale and "flushed"... then I realised the water was literally draining all the nutrients I was taking in... like DJ said... EVERYTHING IN MODERATION!!!! VARIETY VARIETY VARIETY!!!
if your pee looks white it is similiar to pure water,if it is yellow then it is obvius something else is in it(dunno how to count 'em all in eng. cuz it's chemistry stuff and i ain't interested 2much into chem). I've always found it good if it was white-whenever u'r sick it gets really yellow...(unless u drink gallons of tea so u go to wc every 5sec)
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I find it really irresponsible of the radiostation to have a competion of the type "do as much as possible of X" where this X is something that will kill you if you do it too much. Drinking water, alcohol, leaning out of a window on 10:th floor, w/e. And I hope that they get sued for every penny they got. And convicted for murder or something...
At least her kids got the the Wii I hope?
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a life for a couple hundred dollars
that's just sick and sad
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On January 14 2007 03:55 NeoIllusions wrote:Show nested quote +On January 14 2007 03:36 Aphelion02 wrote:
The ironic thing is that this might not have happened had it been alcohol instead of water. On the contrary, if she drank as much alcohol as she did water to the point where she suffered from water toxicity, she would die instead from alcohol poisoning. Either way, too much of anything can kill.
A gallon of beer won't kill you. I've drank 2 gallons (about 16 beers) in one night several times. You'll piss it all out.
And you can easily drink one gallon of water if you spread it out through the day. I do it on hot summer days.
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I knew about drinking too much water could kill you since they told me when I was little that drinking too much water could flood out your electric lights(and since I've been reading post before I posted), it seems to be true?
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On January 14 2007 02:18 Manifesto7 wrote:
Too much water also gets you high.
lol OMG I'm out of weed, time to drink gallons of water!!
LOL LOL LOL
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On January 14 2007 05:13 doedrikthe2nd wrote:
And you can easily drink one gallon of water if you spread it out through the day. I do it on hot summer days.
hot summer day: 40°C
airconditioned radio station: 28°C
hot summer day: 10 hours of sunlight
water drinking contest: 1-2 hours
...you get the point.
sad sad story...and whoever said "i hope the kids got their Wii"...i don't think thats gonna make them happy.
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On January 14 2007 05:13 doedrikthe2nd wrote:Show nested quote +On January 14 2007 03:55 NeoIllusions wrote:On January 14 2007 03:36 Aphelion02 wrote:
The ironic thing is that this might not have happened had it been alcohol instead of water. On the contrary, if she drank as much alcohol as she did water to the point where she suffered from water toxicity, she would die instead from alcohol poisoning. Either way, too much of anything can kill. A gallon of beer won't kill you. I've drank 2 gallons (about 16 beers) in one night several times. You'll piss it all out. And you can easily drink one gallon of water if you spread it out through the day. I do it on hot summer days.
What are you talking about... where did I even mention the woman drinking a gallon of water through out the day?
From wikipedia: Consuming as little as 1.8 litres of water in a single sitting may prove fatal for a person adhering to a low-sodium diet, or 3 litres for a person on a normal diet.
I'll assume the woman drank a gallon of water or more in roughly one hour which eventually lead to water toxicity and her death. What I'm saying is that it can be a gallon of water, Smirnoff, vodka, beer, whatever drink you can think of. That amount of fluid in such little time, you'll either die of water toxicity or alochol poisoning. I'm stating that Aphelion02 is incorrect to assume that she would've lived if she drank alcohol instead of water.
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On January 14 2007 05:14 JudgeMathis wrote:
I knew about drinking too much water could kill you since they told me when I was little that drinking too much water could flood out your electric lights(and since I've been reading post before I posted), it seems to be true?
Yes, and you can get electrocuted should the electric lights touch the water in your blood stream. Becareful, keep them eletric lights awayyyyyyy
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Neo, what I'm saying is that had it been beer or something, she'd might have been stopped / out before she could drink enough to die. She'd have a god awful hangover though.
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On January 14 2007 05:53 Aphelion02 wrote:
Neo, what I'm saying is that had it been beer or something, she'd might have been stopped / out before she could drink enough to die. She'd have a god awful hangover though.
It might not have been this mom, but had the radio station done the contest with beer/alcohol instead of water, I am willing to bet there is someone out there dumb enough to drink himself into oblivion for that Wii. This woman was obviously tenacious enough to continue drinking water after her body was giving her signs to ease up. God knows that there are college students out there who do the exact same thing with beer on a weekly basis.
All in all, I'm just being a stickler here. Imo, human stupidity knows no bounds and drinking more than a gallon of any fluid in an hour will cause death. Put two and two together, I am not surprised at all that someone died from a contest as stupid as this one.
And lastly, hangovers don't occur for at least 5-6 hours into heavy drinking. Alcohol is a diuretic but it doesn't cause you to dehydrate that quickly for a duration of a radio contest (roughly 1-2 hours.)
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the company should be sued
imo
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Theory: humanity is bored and can only get kicks by finding new, previously-unheard-of ways to die.
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The mineral level can be restored in a short time, so only when you drink water really fast your system can't process it and you could die. In a desert, people drink 2 gallons of water a day.
And I had over 15 beers yesterday (table tennis with drinking tourney), but since i never had more than 2-3 per hour it's okay. I don't even feel any hangover effects.
The radio station could be sued, but i don't really see the point. What is gained?
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On January 14 2007 04:28 Dendra wrote:Show nested quote +On January 14 2007 02:43 MaZza[KIS] wrote:
If you drink too much water you flush all the minerals from your system... your pee should never be white, it should always be a little bit yellowish... 2 L of water MAX per day... 1.2 L minimum.. spread over the entire day of course..
personally, i found that I drank too much water and couldn't understand why I always looked so pale and "flushed"... then I realised the water was literally draining all the nutrients I was taking in... like DJ said... EVERYTHING IN MODERATION!!!! VARIETY VARIETY VARIETY!!! if your pee looks white it is similiar to pure water,if it is yellow then it is obvius something else is in it(dunno how to count 'em all in eng. cuz it's chemistry stuff and i ain't interested 2much into chem). I've always found it good if it was white-whenever u'r sick it gets really yellow...(unless u drink gallons of tea so u go to wc every 5sec)
You pee to flush the stuff out that your body can't handle. If it's yellow, that's good because it means it's flushing out a lot of bad stuff - it's doing its job. If it's really clear like water, however, it's just mostly water which means you drank too much and your body is just getting rid of the excess of water.
It's kind of incredible this happened - it should be common knowledge that too much of anything will kill you.
Her relatives might have a case if they sued the radio station, but it could be argued that if the radio station was supposed to know it was harmful, so should she.
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Hehehehe, yeah, sue the water.
Come on, it's not like they forced her to drink. there are eating contests all the time, what if one of the competitors choke? Or get food poisoning and die. Come on, nobody's making you do it.
Let's sue FIFA each time a player breaks his leg, or NBA, or NASCAR each time there's a crash. What if someone hosts a contest where you should eat as much candy as possible, and one of the contestants has diabetes? It's the same thing.
But... as I said... everybdoy wants to blame someone else for their own bad choises. I feel sad for the kids, but what the hell... it's more her fault than the radio station's. Let's get real.
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On January 14 2007 03:30 Sn0wy wrote:Show nested quote +“I was talking to her and she was a nice lady,” Ybarra said. “She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for kids.” That's sad. T_T
i read the whole story too, and its pretty sad 
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we should have God draft a Labor Protection.life (doc) so will be covered for our brain shortage
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EPT
