Damn, someone died after drinking 4 litres in 2 hours... I think I've done it a couple times.

I drink like 4-5 litres daily, should I be concerned?

Same thing in the US: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun...death-20100630

After this happened they moved the Electric Daisy Carnival to Vegas. Because it's a lot cooler there or something.

There's also this story that combines water poisoning with some of my least favorite people on earth - wacky radio "zoo crews": http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16614865/n.../#.VeZP57xViko

PURE RAGE at these ****ing idiots. People should be in jail.

Yeah that seems like a ridiculous amount of water unless you're hiking in the desert.

Also the whole thing about needing to drinking 8 glasses of water a day probably isn't right. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...f-water-a-day/

Not sure I trust a wiki article that contains numerous references to "UFOlogists".

The best part of that story is the police showing up to discover the house completely shot to ****.

Drink when you're thirsty. 4-5 liters seems excessive. Why are you drinking that much?

I run 5 miles in the morning. I drink fluids before the run and after but only about 1 liter total. Based on sweat rates I probably lose .5 liters at most on that run. That's it. I drink when I'm thirsty and don't need more.

IMO people have been feed at lot of bs about hydrating, etc. to the point that many probably drink 2-3x what they need. Normally it's ok, but if you are used to drinking 4-5 liters a day and then you do something like running or a triathlon or something people will think that they need twice that amount and it can cause problems.

From that article

That's pretty amazing that over one in ten people that ran in that race were risking death just because they thought they had to drink a lot more water then they needed.

Apparently this has been on the rise lately too as people also drink a lot of energy/pure type drinks which contain 0 sodium. Drinks like Smart Water, Vitamin Water etc, have 0 sodium which makes hypnoatremia more likely if that is all you are drinking.

The more you know..

I dunno, my mouth gets dry a little bit and I take a sip, which happens often. I also keep water glass with me all day behind computer and when going to sleep and i'm kinda used to it.

I drink about 2x 250ml glasses when I wake up, 2 when i'm falling asleep, like 2 for lunch and 2 for dinner (or replace with milk), and I fill it at least 5 times daily on random times, so that adds up to 13 glasses * 250 = 3.3 litres, and that's minimum and on days I do nothing, just staying home...

Maybe I have water addiction, and I should track it precisely

Having a water glass next to bed really kind of sucks because my bladder is full every morning and sometimes losing sleep because of this, but I picked this habit up from my girlfriend a couple of years ago and now I seem unable to fall asleep if i'm > 30 minutes w/o water, mouth feels dry etc.

Edit:
I googled some and there is even a medical termin to the sensation of having a dry mouth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_polydipsia

Maybe I have some form of that then lol, need to research. I thought it was standard to drink that much

sounds like you smoke too much weed

Sounds like you are just in a habit of drinking that often. Or diabetes. Probably just habit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group

"The Equation Group is a highly advanced secretive computer espionage group, identified by discoverers Kaspersky Labs as one of the most advanced (if not the most advanced) in the world as of 2015".

^^^

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Your body is amazingly capable of regulating your various electrolyte levels (sodium, calcium, potassium) through a wide range of dietary and environmental factors. The key is that these changes take time. Your body can probably handle 8L of pure water intake a day, as long as you dont go from 0 to 8L in one day. There is a syndrome called "beer potomania" basically where chronic alcoholics have fairly severe hyponatremia but are usually entirely asymptomatic (at levels that would cause severe symptoms or even death for normal people) and its because it happens over a long period of time. On the flipside, its fairly common for doctors to cause much worse, symptomatic hypo/hypernatremia simply from giving IV fluids and correcting electrolyte problems too quickly.

Short answer is: anything you've been doing for weeks or months is very unlikely to be a problem, whether thats drinking way too much water or way too little water, etc. If you give it enough time your kidneys and your pituitary will figure that **** out.

It seemed to be just a stupid habit for me... I probably thought it's healthy for me etc.

I cut down to like 2.5 litres per day now when i'm not doing any sports. I just stopped having a glass full of water next to me when i'm behind computer and next to bed and my mouth doesn't really get dry, it was a weird habit of taking a sip of water very often.

Following some of those links is pretty interesting. There's a catalog of available NSA technology, probably all now outmoded, that is pretty damn sophisticated. Its capabilities are scary. Basically, if the NSA wants to listen to everything you say or do, they can do it.

On that note, this was pretty eye opening.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015...found-at-last/

I was told by my doctor that if you're drinking a ton of water and still feeling thirsty, you might want to drink something with electrolytes (gatorade, etc), especially in hot climates and when you're doing a ton of exercise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt

I guess not everyone is as old as I am. That story was huge. Inescapable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_root_bridges

People in northeast India spend sometimes more than a lifetime coaxing the roots of trees to grow into living bridges that are used for up to 600 years.

(wiki says up to 15 years, but I was watching something on this on Human Planet, a BBC documentary series and they said it could take more than a lifetime)

Nah man I was only 4 at the time it happened and have never heard about it before. I think it's amazing the guy can go from having his penis cut off to becoming a porn star!

And the WWE thing is just amazing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27s_Gold_Loaf

On the night of February 1, 1976, Elvis Presley was at his home Graceland in Memphis, entertaining Capt. Jerry Kennedy of the Denver, Colorado police force, and Ron Pietrafeso of Colorado's Strike Force Against Crime. The three men began discussing the sandwich, and Presley decided he wanted one right then. Presley had been to the restaurant before, while in Denver.[10] Kennedy and Pietrafeso were friends of the owners and hung out there often, so they were driven to the Memphis airport and boarded Presley's private jet, the Lisa Marie, and flew the two hours to Denver. When they arrived in Denver at 1:40 AM, the plane taxied to a special hangar where the passengers were greeted by Buck Scott, the owner of the Colorado Mine Company, and his wife Cindy who had brought 22 fresh Fool's Gold Loaves for the men.[10] They spent three hours in the hangar eating the sandwiches, washing them down with Perrier and champagne.[10] Presley invited the pilots of the plane, Milo High and Elwood Davis, to join them. When they were done, they flew back to Memphis without ever having left the Denver airport.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Lake

Gonna visit this lake soon, pretty stoked!

I had never heard of this guy before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Bishop

It seems extremely rare in this day and age to be able to successfully pull of a disappearance like this for such a long time, but he seems to have pulled it off.

that bishop article is great. pretty amazing, would make a good anti-hero tv show

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilha_da_Queimada_Grande

lha da Queimada Grande, nicknamed Snake Island, is a 430,000-square-metre (43-hectare) island off the coast of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is home to an endemic species of Bothrops, the Golden Lancehead Viper (Bothrops insularis), which is one of the most venomous snakes in the world