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You may, in fact, discover that this is not an isolated incident.
You may, in fact, discover that this is not an isolated incident.
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BC, nah man.. I'd prolly get kicked out of this house.. you see, I live in student housing
.. Can't do much. If this was MY house, I woudl have already PUNISHED them.
In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
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"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.Comment
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lol water intoncisxication
i have annther type of intocication right now LOLTHEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTFComment
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"All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous."Originally posted by notyoueither
Water intoxication?
Paracelsus
This applies even to water
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Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"Comment
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Hmm, how did I guess Asher would be the one posting this
<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.Comment
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Tell that to someone who's drowning.Originally posted by RogueIce
I thought there was no such thing as too much water?
Have I been lied to by the Sergeants?
I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"Comment
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I guess she really really wanted that Wii. Must be a very good piece of hardware
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How rare is water intoxication? The only case I'd ever heard of was a woman running a marathon and drinking too much water.
For that matter does it happen more often in women?meet the new boss, same as the old bossComment
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.meet the new boss, same as the old bossComment
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Some of the deaths of Extasy users are due to water intoxication.Comment
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I don't know the answer to that, mrmitch. But basically, by drinking an extreme excess of water, you cause a catastrophic electrolyte imbalance, causing seizures and potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmias."My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
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Some time ago there was a story about a (male) student who died of it, AFAIK he drank lots of water because of a bet or because he as trying to prove something.Originally posted by mrmitchell
How rare is water intoxication? The only case I'd ever heard of was a woman running a marathon and drinking too much water.
For that matter does it happen more often in women?
I don´t think that it depends on the gender,
but rather on the dose compared to your body weight
(and probably on how much water you loose during a given time period)Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"Comment
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drink Gatorade instead if you're going to consume mass quantities of fluids.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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The LD50 will be higher for Gatorade than for waterTamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"Comment
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A cop died of this about a year and change ago, during a marathon. He gulped down a couple of gallons of water to make sure he didn't dehydrate. He then manifested symptoms similar to heatstroke, so marathon safety officials told him to drink some water for treatment. Oops.
According to the article, the condition was called hyponatremia, or shortage of salts, rather than excess of water. This is all going from memory, mind you. Wait for Doc Strangelove for the official word.
But basically, drinking that much water supposedly throws off the water-salt balance of the blood. As the blood circulates, the balance is automatically corrected by osmosis--the body's tissues will absorb water until the ratio of salt to water is the same in both blood and body cells. This, obviously, causes problems in many ways, but it causes the worst problems the fastest in the brain, where your grey/white matter will rapidly swell up, causing headaches and other nasty stuff. In at least some cases (iirc), the victim dies when the swelling forces his or her medulla down into the spinal column, wiping out all automated body processes in one fell swoop. Nasty, huh?Comment
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