Ex-Army infantry guy here.

In basic training, location Ft. Benning GA, late August. Hydration was important, and that was impressed upon us by the drill sergeants, who would pause the activity at hand for the moment and do the ‘Drink Water!’ call, to which we’d reply mostly in uninspired enthusiasm ‘Beat the heat drill sergeant beat the heat.’

We’d then down a canteen (a quart) of water. On especially hot days, we’d do two canteens. No dumping on your head or on the ground - you had to finish one or both. We’d refill canteens and get back to the day’s task of doing push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, and in-between those, learning Army stuff (sir).

One guy, Peterson (name changed), couldn’t do a canteen of water. This guy was the opposite of Joey Chestnut. He ate and drank like a bird but never lost weight. Slow metabolism and high energy conversion I guess. He never seemed dehydrated I would say. But water and food were just minimal for the guy. He’d drink a pint, maybe a sip more, and done.

Our drill sergeants weren’t having that. You had to finish the canteen and flip it over your head. Failure to comply was met with drinking more water, until you finished the canteen, while your platoon did push-ups. No pressure.

The rest of the story transpired really quickly.

The drill sergeants hit him with the order to drink more water, and he did, and he stopped, and then they said keep going private, and he was in obvious pain, and he said no drill sergeant, and you could see the crinkle in the eyes of the questioned, but before that drill sergeant’s body language became verbal, Peterson puked up water, gallons of water it seemed, then breakfast, and the upper contents of his colon I’m pretty sure (j/k being illustrative). A medic, who just happened to be Starship Trooping on by, got on the horn and got the kid to a clinic. He was water intoxicated, we later found out.

One of the great things they forget to show you on the recruitment brochure lol. He was eventually fine, and we were relegated to drinking until we could spit out saliva a few inches.

Before you throw me at a wall, may I talk you into throwing cheap condiments instead?

How is this international news?

You’re in Weird News, bud. Weird News knows no borders. If a Hungarian Hippo Hikes to Haiti, we’re covering it.

Plus, it’s fun. It’s a brain break from life. Enjoy or not.

I kid, I kid - very sweet and adorable.

Video: https://www.wlwt.com/article/cincinnati-reds-fan-taser-security-great-american-ball-park/61078347

It’s confirmed here on Firefox on instance daring.lemmy.fan. You should file a bug on the lemmy-ui GitHub.

Edit: If you don’t want to or whatever let me know and I will be happy to do so.

Gonna do some research/reading about this and I’m being objective.

Thanks for sharing and replying so quickly.

Would you mind posting a link where I can read more about this?

Glad someone put the pieces together and arrested this scourge.

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Oblig. XKCD:

This is a great idea.

I’ve seen plenty of places that try this concept. In the end the walls look like decade vomit, the songs are the same one-hit wonders, and the wait staff are not enjoying it one bit. If done wrong, this is less Jack Rabbit Slims and more Hard Rock.

I’d like to see this executed tastefully somehow. That said, I am no means a designer so I hope someone more talented than me could flesh this idea.

Parachute trash wars I can handle.

Correctamundo

Granted. All sites reduced to lowest common denominator in interest of fairness. That’s right: IE 6 is back folks.

No, not unless the mod/admin takes extra steps.

Girl smiles at boy in kind way. Boy smiles back. Reeks of forbidden attraction.

Isn’t that special??

Try using 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 as the external DNS in your router for testing. Does it work then?

Also, you may have DNS cached somewhere. You can flush your Windows DNS cache by typing ipconfig /flushdns in a command prompt.

Torvolds adding neuralink kernel support /s