Dude. We can stand 15 feet away from building entrances to smoke AND kick people. Misanthropic multitasking!

TAG TEAM KICKING!

I think it's worthwhile to point out that a standard serving of vitamin water is as caloric as a standard serving of Coke.

How so? Not the standard serving of VitaminWater I have in my desk and the standard serving of Coke I looked up on the web. And the ounce by ounce comparisons are wildly disparate.

I still think the stuff's too sweet, but turning people off it by comparing it to Coke is heavy handed and clumsy.

This may all be true, but you will pry my wine bottles out of my cold dead hands.

Plus, it's a lot harder to knock someone unconscious by bashing them over the head with a single-serving wine box.

A lot less aesthetically pleasing, too.

t edit But it *does* have great comedic potential.

I drink water, no soda ever, except an occasional medicinal sip of ginger ale for tummy upset. No fizzy water, though I have nothing against it. We filter our own tap water and reuse single-serving commercial water bottles, recycling them after a few uses, and we have sports bottles, too.

Coffee in the morning, and frequently green or herbal tea or chai in the afternoon. A beverage with taste is always a choice for me, it's a snack or a meal. It requires preparation. Water is simply hydration. Thirst equals water. I like our filtered water because the charcoal sweetens it just a little. But then I smoked Tareytons, back when the earth was cooling.

I don't want my thirst-quencher to have a taste. When I'm very thirsty, taste gives me nausea. And I haven't managed to be active enough to require electrolyte replacement. That day may come, but it hasn't yet.

This is also applicable to cans coming back in microbrewery ditribution.

My big problem with this is that metal is always unpleasant for me to drink from. Also, longnecks are the safest thing to be drinking from when one is in a situation where one needs to be watching out for dosing. (Which one hates, by the way.)

when one is in a situation where one needs to be watching out for dosing.

People suck.

My big problem with this is that metal is always unpleasant for me to drink from.

I hear that. I generally pour them into a glass.

Also, longnecks are the safest thing to be drinking from when one is in a situation where one needs to be watching out for dosing.

Yikes! I don't think I've ever thought about that in a bar. FWIW, I do most of my drinking a) at home or b) relatively early in the night.

I drink water, coffee and the occasional tea or diluted lemonade. I love fizzy water, but am too cheap to buy it all the time. I've never cared much for soda, but will sometimes have a 7up/Sprite type beverage with pizza -- it's a leftover from childhood because that was the only time we got soda, and that was the only flavor.

The only time I attempt a sports drink is when there is excessive sweating -- I wouldn't think of one for my regular workout (inside, in air conditioning). But Bikram has left me wrung out.

When I'm very thirsty, taste gives me nausea.

Me, too! If I'm parched, I have to drink water (flat, not fizzy) first. Then I can drink Gatorade or beer or whatever.

And I haven't managed to be active enough to require electrolyte replacement.

For me, it's not (necessarily) related to activity; it's just the heat/humidity. After a certain temperature and humidity level, I start feeling like crap. On the 4th of July, 2002, I was in NYC with Trudy (and for part of the day, Scola), and it was so hot that we fled to a movie theatre to see the Powerpuff Girls. Despite that break, by nightfall I was really really sick from the heat, and guzzled about 64 ounces of Gatorade in Port Authority (that's not Gatorade!) hoping to feel better. (And it did help.)

IIRC, Jess, didn't your DH get heat exhaustion that day, too?

The heat just fucks me up sometimes, even if I don't lift a finger to exert myself.

See, that's where beer is so handy. Individual serving sizes!

Yeah, I think that's a large part of why I drink more beer than wine. Well, that and the price differential. $14 for a decent bottle that serves like, three people (or, one, because normally I am home alone), vs. $8 for a sixpack (which I can drink whenever I want)...hmmm....Even though I like the taste of wine more.

I should brew some iced tea to have in the fridge. I like having flavored options around, that are not highly caloric. I made some iced coffee yesterday, to have around...