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Sparkling water tastes like when your foot falls asleep.
It also tastes like TV static
My buddy once bought a few cans of Space Coke for us to try. I told him it tasted like TV static. He said “well technically, TV static is interference from space, so it literally tastes like space”.
Instructions unclear; foot stuck in mouth
Just like me on a date!
Heyyoooo!
Ooh! Self burn, those are rare!
May my self immolation warm your heart.
You mean when your foot wakes up?
I love the raspberry & lime foot falling asleep
Terry Pratchett writes about this, how there is a difference between the sound of someone not being there and the sound of someone hiding and not making any noise.
He often writes about how things like bird song can be a type of silence and how a train that always passes at the same time every night, not passing at that time, can wake you up from its absence.
As someone who has done plenty of sound recordist work, it’s known as ‘room tone.’
Also, I feel seen because I’ve had to explain that so many times. Even to people who really should know.
Ditto. We call it ‘atmos’ here.
I don’t work in a sound recording space, but I know this because I had to do a voice recording for a project in middle school.
The recording picked up some extraneous noise in between a couple sentences, so I opened Audacity, took the noisy chunk, and deleted it outright so that there was empty space. It sounded very weird for some reason… so I simply recorded over the gap with me doing nothing, as if I were in between sentences. It worked! And I had no idea why…
Granted, this was less ‘room tone’ than ‘white noise from the amount of gain on my shitty mic’, but same concept.
I don’t drink bottled water simply because all I can taste is the plastic of the bottle, filtered water is so much better
Plastic from reused plastic bottles can oeech into water and give you headaches
Tap water tastes different from bottled water, and the bottled water from Brazil tastes different from the bottled water I had in Chile, which came from glaciers.
And yeah it’s the minerals that give taste to the water, but I don’t think you’re supposed to drink completely distilled water in the first place.
but I don’t think you’re supposed to drink completely distilled water in the first place.
It’ll harm you a bit over time if you’re not getting those minerals elsewhere in your diet, but otherwise it’s not that big of a deal.
I have some on hand for other stuff and I’ve drank it in a pinch when I didn’t have other water (my tap tastes horrid and purifiers that don’t cost shit tons of money don’t filter out the reason why) and I’m still hydrated as fuck
Distilled water tastes empty, like the flavor is being removed from my mouth. Quite odd
The reason I’ve heard repeatedly is that distilled water isn’t just harmful because it doesn’t provide minerals, it’s that it strips needed minerals from your body.
I don’t know the exact mechanism and can’t be bothered to look it up, but there was a WHO study years ago that reported this finding.
Googled it before commenting to make sure I wasn’t forgetting something and that’s not really what happens.
Common consensus is that you’re fine drinking it so long as you get the minerals you lose through sweat elsewhere in your diet
That’s a myth. A very commonly repeated myth, but a myth nonetheless.
Reverse osmosis filters produce pretty much distilled water that usually goes through remineraliser to add back some minerals. Fun fact is many of those remineralisers are sold as “improving water taste and smell”, probably because they do improve taste and smell, but also not to make users too suspicious about adding back minerals after they just filtered the minerals out 😅
supposedly the only downside to drinking distilled water is lack of electrolytes and taste
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317698#risks
I drink predominantly distilled water at home since I have a tabletop distiller. Makes custom mineral water easier to mix up since you’re starting from ~0 total dissolved solids. I’m often too lazy to add the minerals though, and the straight distilled water doesn’t cause any digestive discomfort or anything
I have prescription fluoride toothpaste so I’m not too worried
Completely distilled tap water also leeches minerals from your body
When I visited Massachusetts and tried tap water, I couldn’t even drink it because it tasted evil.
That’s funny. The only thing I ever remember feeling that way about was this insect protein bar I tried maybe 10 years ago. Ok up front, but the aftertaste was just… Well, evil was how I described it. Have yet to try another such product, but that’s mostly because I never see them at my local grocery stores these days.
Hahaha, I wonder why they’re no longer around!
Distilled water tastes like someone cooked pasta in it.
That person totally farted their loudest fart during those 20 seconds.
An omega level fart
An avengers-level fart
A biblical-level… oh no.
The background static noise of a 150dB.
Silence is almost never silent.
I used to live in a pretty decently sized city. The quietest I ever experienced was in an old high-rise apartment after the power went out. I climbed up the seven or so flights of stairs because I needed to get into my unit to grab something, nearly all the residents of the building had vacated or were out of the building for one reason or another, so I was probably only one of about a dozen people inside during the power outage. I don’t really know how many were still inside, but I’m sure it wasn’t many.
Anyways, after I got into my unit I had to stop and listen for a minute. The windows were all closed and there was nothing. It was so quiet that I couldn’t hear anything. At least to my ears that were numbed from the droning of the city. It was a marvelous experience. Normally you hear the buzzing of transformers, rumbles from steps and wheels and other things being moved around, the feint trumming of someone listening to music, and the constant mechanical whirr of the elevators working away. All of that was quiet. It was so still and calm.
I didn’t experience that again until I moved into my current residence away from the city. Here I’m so used to the much quieter silence that I can hear the rush of air when the fans from the furnace turn on, I am acutely aware of the bubbling from the pet water fountain we have for our cat in the next room. Even the familiar pattering of my cats paws as he trots down the hallway.
Silence is almost never silent.
Wrong warm water tastes smoother and smells weirder
Cold water tastes spikier and doesnt smell weird
Aliens come to earth and are immediately escorted to meeting with all leaders. Glasses of water are offered to all guests.
Alien trys a sip
Alien: ew, yuck, oh my zorb it taste like spaceship fuel.
There are lots of things dissolved in our water that give it “flavour”, but the goal of all utilities is to minimize this as much as possible. Some water objectively tastes better than others, and a common segment of local drinking water conferences is a taste test. That said, for normal people usually the water they prefer is what their palette is used to. Someone who grew up drinking groundwater with very high alkalinity and pH will prefer that over surface water that is actually more “pure”. Similarly, if you normally drink water from a private well that you don’t add chlorine to, you likely dislike the taste of “city water”.
The common offenders for bad tasting water are excessive chlorine and some specific organic compounds. Both of these flavours can be removed using a granular activated carbon filter (e.g., a Britta), but you can actually remove the chlorine by just letting your water sit in the fridge for a while.
Aaaaand I can hear my Tinnitus again
A bit related a few months before me and my wife beame parents a friend of ours stayed by us for a few days with her very active toddler. I will never forget the moment they all left and I was chilling on my couch and it felt like negative sound. Like I would have to hear something just to break even.
I can’t describe the taste but if I can tell the difference between spring, purified, and distilled, there’s a taste.
Definitely called room tone
This is a special kind of stupid. They’re not recording silence, they’re recording the ambient sound of the room. The entire point is that it’s not silent, even if it is very quiet.
This is a special kind of pedantic. You literally said the same thing as them but with mostly unnecessary specificity and explanation and acted like THEY were the idiot for assuming people would appreciate and understand their metaphor. Nah dude, they explained it the way it was explained to them and they understood it and so did most people.
I believe when he said this is a special kind of stupid he was referring to himself and prefacing his own comment with a little warning.
It is sometimes misleadingly called silence in the biz, though room tone is more appropriate.
Totally, but the context is important. Everyone in that environment should (hopefully) understand that when they say silence, they don’t mean literal silence.
I was wondering how far I had to scroll to see somebody say “room tone” THANK YOU!
I think in context it is clear what the person was saying. When we talk about silence we mean the resting noises of the room. We don’t mean if you cut the audio feed what you are left with.
And yes it is true. You get a sense of space from those tiny noises and how they echo and get absorbed.
Can I have the other half of the hair?
This is a special kind of stupid.
Yes, I believe it’s called Tumblr
