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Water with stuff added
I recently made the mistake of thinking too much while watching an advertisement for "Propel Fitness Water." If you add stuff to it, is it really water any more? We don't call Sprite or CocaCola water any more. And yet, it's 99% water.
And, I don't market myself as Conscious Ambulatory Water, but as a mammal, I could.
And, I don't market myself as Conscious Ambulatory Water, but as a mammal, I could.
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Anyway, I should probably answer your post. Here's the thing: Isn't Propel more water than Coke is? If it's just a slight flavor (if that) change, than I don't see if it should be considered it's own entity. Besides, sodas use carbonated water, don't they?
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Anyway, I should probably answer your post. Here's the thing: Isn't Propel more water than Coke is? If it's just a slight flavor (if that) change, than I don't see if it should be considered it's own entity. Besides, sodas use carbonated water, don't they?
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Gatoraaaade!Kaebora wrote:Water sucks. Gatorade is BETTER!
It not only quenches your thirst, it TASTES better too!
Water sucks! it really really sucks!
Gotta love Waterboy.
Serously though I think its more along the line of flavor water than anything else, soda has carbonated water and syrup stuff and so on.
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I know, it's arbitrary, but I do think it's a worthwhile premise, at least maybe for someone doing, say, stand-up comedy. There's something odd about calling it water and adding stuff, knowing that I'm myself technically water with stuff added to it.
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Heh, I could see someone like Ron White doing an act about that. You do make an interesting point though.Scott Gardener wrote:I know, it's arbitrary, but I do think it's a worthwhile premise, at least maybe for someone doing, say, stand-up comedy. There's something odd about calling it water and adding stuff, knowing that I'm myself technically water with stuff added to it.
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I could believe it of diet coke. I think ordinary coke might be a bit less... it would have quite a lot of sugar (or whatever is that muck that goes into soft drinks instead of sugar) as well as flavouring.Z wrote:and i hafto to say i find it hard to believe coca cola is 99% water. i think that might be a bit exaggerated...
Beer would have to be way less than 99% though... between four and seven per cent of a bottle of beer would be ethyl alcohol, for starters...
(I do think this so-called "sports water" or whatever it's called overseas has to be a big have, though. What's the bet it's just fairly much diluted fruit drink?)
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There's H2OKzinistzerg wrote:Well hell we still call it water when it's in a LAKE. With FISH. And PLANTS.
Sure...water is what's in the lake. When it comes to bodies of water...you have...Puddle, pond, lake, ocean, ETC.
Moving water...stream, river, creek, ETC
Water falling out of the sky......Raining. To much rain....flooding.
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Good point about lakes. The ocean is called water as well, even though it's a complex saline mixture with large numbers of microscopic organisms floating around in it. The salt content is roughly the same as plasma or IV lactated ringer's solution, given to surgery patients.
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That's ....a very good question. One I think you can't really answer universally. Though, for me, I tend to consider things that still mostly taste and look like water to be water. So flavored water is more like water to me than coke, since coke is black, fizzy, and tastes completely different.
Or something like that.
Or something like that.