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1 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:53:06pm

Portland tap water and Portland beer for me, thanks!

2 Sharmuta  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:53:42pm

As bad as this is- remember sodas come in the same plastic bottles...

3 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:55:45pm

re: #2 Sharmuta

As bad as this is- remember sodas come in the same plastic bottles...

I drink my soda from cans. Aluminum can be easily recycled indefinitely.

4 acwgusa  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:57:00pm

re: #2 Sharmuta

As bad as this is- remember sodas come in the same plastic bottles...

As does milk, some juices, etc...

5 Stanghazi  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:57:57pm

At least where I live, tap water is just fine. Life is easier using it, too!

6 McSpiff  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:58:03pm

re: #2 Sharmuta

As bad as this is- remember sodas come in the same plastic bottles...

Soda doesn't come from the tap here tho :(

7 Sharmuta  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:58:19pm

re: #4 acwgusa

I'm talking about 20 oz beverage bottles. Folks drinking bottles of soda should look at this graph just as much as bottled water drinkers.

8 Gus  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:58:29pm

re: #4 acwgusa

As does milk, some juices, etc...

I was looking at a plastic jug of laundry detergent today thinking about why don't they sell it in something like the milk cartons.

9 acwgusa  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:58:39pm

re: #6 McSpiff

Soda doesn't come from the tap here tho :(

Dentists would be happy.

10 Sharmuta  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:58:40pm

OHKAAAY- let us all miss the point.

11 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:58:50pm

We really should filter our own water. Reverse osmosis (usually attached to the faucet or under the sink) is good. I use Brita, and I suspect any good commercial aquarium filter could bring tap water in a very pure state. Adapting an aquarium filter onto a cistern would just be brilliant.

12 Sharmuta  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:59:24pm

re: #8 Gus 802

I was looking at a plastic jug of laundry detergent today thinking about why don't they sell it in something like the milk cartons.

Buy powdered detergent. It comes in a paperboard box, and you're not buying water.

13 Bagua  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 6:59:34pm

Nothing but the Water, Pt. 2

- Grace Potter


14 McSpiff  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:00:17pm

re: #10 Sharmuta

OHKAAAY- let us all miss the point.

Sorry Sharm was just being a dork. The point in my head was that there is a really easy alternative to bottled water, not so much with soda. So in terms of going after low hanging fruit, that would be bottled water. But you're entirely correct that nature doesn't really care what was in that bottle originally.

15 Racer X  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:00:25pm

You are what you eat. Meat is muscle.

*flexes bicep*

16 Sharmuta  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:01:22pm

re: #14 McSpiff

The thing with soda is it isn't good for you. Don't drink it and you reduce the plastic bottle problem too.

17 reine.de.tout  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:01:23pm

re: #2 Sharmuta

As bad as this is- remember sodas come in the same plastic bottles...

My thought exactly, when I saw this in the previous thread.

18 Gus  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:01:30pm

re: #12 Sharmuta

Buy powdered detergent. It comes in a paperboard box, and you're not buying water.

True. But people will keep buying the liquid detergent. Unless they change their buying habits they'll keep getting the high mil thickness plastic containers.

19 Racer X  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:01:58pm

re: #7 Sharmuta

I'm talking about 20 oz beverage bottles. Folks drinking bottles of soda should look at this graph just as much as bottled water drinkers.

When I was a kid we used to make our own soda with Kool-Aid. We would add a teaspoon of baking soda. It was terrible.

20 McSpiff  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:02:09pm

re: #16 Sharmuta

The thing with soda is it isn't good for you. Don't drink it and you reduce the plastic bottle problem too.

No argument here.

21 jaunte  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:02:17pm

Some other issues with bottled water (Upton Sinclair style):

- FDA's rules completely exempt 60-70 percent of the bottled water sold in the United States from the agency's bottled water standards, because FDA says its rules do not apply to water packaged and sold within the same state. Nearly 40 states say they do regulate such waters (generally with few or no resources dedicated to policing this); therefore, about one out of five states do not.

- FDA also exempts "carbonated water," "seltzer," and many other waters sold in bottles from its bottled water standards, applying only vague general sanitation rules that set no specific contamination limits. Fewer than half of the states require these waters to meet bottled water standards.

- Even when bottled waters are covered by FDA's specific bottled water standards, those rules are weaker in many ways than EPA rules that apply to big city tap water.


[Link: www.nrdc.org...]

22 Killgore Trout  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:02:40pm

Good tips. The water here in Portland really sucks, Very high PH, high mineral content and tastes like shit. I installed rain barrels on my gutters primarily for my hydroponic plants but I also use rainwater for making tea. I boil it in a french press coffee maker and haven't encountered any cooties yet.

23 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:02:42pm

re: #14 McSpiff

Sorry Sharm was just being a dork. The point in my head was that there is a really easy alternative to bottled water, not so much with soda. So in terms of going after low hanging fruit, that would be bottled water. But you're entirely correct that nature doesn't really care what was in that bottle originally.

If the problem is the bottles, hey, canned soda! Or glass bottles, like Thomas Kemper and Jones soda.

24 Jaerik  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:03:06pm

If the tap water here were drinkable, I would gladly use it as an alternative. Unfortunately, because it doesn't rain in southern California basically well... ever, our water has to be brought in via a giant dirt ditch from Colorado. This means it tastes like chalky, overly-chlorinated swimming pool water by the time it gets to our tap, and leaves a funky aftertaste.

I've tried using just about every water filter on the market, but none of them work well enough to stomach.

Hey, at least I recycle the bottles fairly religiously.

25 cliffster  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:03:34pm

re: #16 Sharmuta

The thing with soda is it isn't good for you. Don't drink it and you reduce the plastic bottle problem too.

Nothing like a heapin' helping of phosphorous daily to kill your bone density, metabolism, and all sorts of other things.

26 Racer X  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:03:39pm

re: #22 Killgore Trout

Good tips. The water here in Portland really sucks, Very high PH, high mineral content and tastes like shit. I installed rain barrels on my gutters primarily for my hydroponic plants but I also use rainwater for making tea. I boil it in a french press coffee maker and haven't encountered any cooties yet.

If your roof tiles are asphalt you may not want to consume the water runoff.

27 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:03:54pm

re: #21 jaunte

Oh good grief. I had no idea. And I love a good club soda from time to time. Ugh.

28 What, me worry?  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:03:54pm

re: #3 Dark_Falcon

I drink my soda from cans. Aluminum can be easily recycled indefinitely.

You should limit your aluminum intake. It's not good for you either.

29 Stanghazi  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:04:02pm

re: #24 Jaerik

If the tap water here were drinkable, I would gladly use it as an alternative. Unfortunately, because it doesn't rain in southern California basically well... ever, our water has to be brought in via a giant dirt ditch from Colorado. This means it tastes like chalky, overly-chlorinated swimming pool water by the time it gets to our tap, and leaves a funky aftertaste.

I've tried using just about every water filter on the market, but none of them work well enough to stomach.

Hey, at least I recycle the bottles fairly religiously.

Dude, I'm in SoCal, am I going to die?

30 Sharmuta  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:04:06pm

re: #18 Gus 802

True. But people will keep buying the liquid detergent. Unless they change their buying habits they'll keep getting the high mil thickness plastic containers.

You can only control what you do, and hope to influence others. The more people learn about this issue, and work on reducing their plastic use (and other ways they can reduce their footprint) the better for all of us. But it starts with education and changing your own habits first.

31 What, me worry?  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:04:29pm

Can I still use my Brita??

32 [deleted]  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:04:50pm
33 Killgore Trout  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:04:55pm

Global warming! Environmental and ethical eating! Now anti-corporate water propaganda?!?!
/Flouncy McWingnut

34 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:05:14pm

re: #22 Killgore Trout

Good tips. The water here in Portland really sucks, Very high PH, high mineral content and tastes like shit. I installed rain barrels on my gutters primarily for my hydroponic plants but I also use rainwater for making tea. I boil it in a french press coffee maker and haven't encountered any cooties yet.

I don't even notice, I'm on Mt. Scott just north of Clackamas, I just drink it right out of the faucet, tastes okay to me. But I also don't cook, so I'm not the best judge. The only tap water I've had that actually tasted alarmingly bad to me was Los Angeles. Tasted like drinking swimming pool water.

35 Racer X  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:05:33pm

re: #30 Sharmuta

You can only control what you do, and hope to influence others. The more people learn about this issue, and work on reducing their plastic use (and other ways they can reduce their footprint) the better for all of us. But it starts with education and changing your own habits first.

Good idea.

Don't believe everything you find on the internets either.

36 Killgore Trout  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:05:35pm

re: #26 Racer X
I had considered that.

37 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:05:43pm

re: #28 marjoriemoon

You should limit your aluminum intake. It's not good for you either.

Me, Grimlock munch metal.

38 allegro  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:05:47pm

re: #30 Sharmuta

But it starts with education and changing your own habits first.

And when we stop buying those products packaged that way, it will encourage the market to start providing their products packaged in a more sustainable way.

39 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:06:20pm

re: #31 marjoriemoon

Can I still use my Brita??

As Warren Zevon said, life'll kill ya :D

40 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:06:22pm

re: #28 marjoriemoon

Glass is the best. Yeah, it breaks, but its easy to clean, even sterilize and of course recycle. Why drink metals and broken poly chains ? I see cases of water in the sun at the market. Of course the sun beaks down the plastic, and short chain polymers get into the water.

41 Gus  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:06:37pm

re: #33 Killgore Trout

Global warming! Environmental and ethical eating! Now anti-corporate water propaganda?!?!
/Flouncy McWingnut

Hippies!

/

42 Vicious Michigan Union Thug  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:06:42pm

The only bottled water that I drink is Perrier, in glass bottles, imported from Canada.

My daughter in Israel has a seltzer machine and makes her own sparkling water. I keep meaning to get one, and I really have no excuse not to, since I sell it at the Zionist Mall. (Fizzy seltzer ad at top right)

43 Killgore Trout  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:07:00pm

re: #34 WindUpBird

I'm near you but close in south east. I think the ancient plumbing closer in is a problem.

44 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:07:27pm

re: #33 Killgore Trout

Flouncy Wingnut?! ROFL. What a great satirical nic!

45 Racer X  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:07:53pm

I'm gonna hole up in a shack and eat worms.

Hmmppff.

46 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:08:07pm

re: #45 Racer X

Ew.

47 The Curmudgeon  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:08:12pm

Pay no attention. It's a plot. I drink only distilled water and grain alcohol. Nothing else is good enough for my precious bodily fluids. Preserve your purity of essence!

48 Bloodnok  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:08:15pm

re: #16 Sharmuta

The thing with soda is it isn't good for you. Don't drink it and you reduce the plastic bottle problem too.

I see BIG SODA has not gotten to you yet. They are merciless lobbyists, all hopped up on caffeine the way they are.

49 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:08:27pm

re: #43 Killgore Trout

I'm near you but close in south east. I think the ancient plumbing closer in is a problem.

Oooh yes. If you're up near all those old craftsman houses in the Hawthorne/Belmont area, yeah, I can totally see the water being UNGOOD

50 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:08:29pm

Wait, those delivery trucks that deliver the water don't run on skittles from a unicorns ass?

51 allegro  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:08:42pm

re: #45 Racer X

I'm gonna hole up in a shack and eat worms.

So then you would have baited breath?

52 Gus  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:09:28pm

re: #48 Bloodnok

I see BIG SODA has not gotten to you yet. They are merciless lobbyists, all hopped up on caffeine the way they are.

Do anything and you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company. /

53 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:09:31pm

re: #50 Cannadian Club Akbar

Wait, those delivery trucks that deliver the water don't run on skittles from a unicorns ass?

ahahahahahahahahahaha dying

(I am saving this line and unleashing it on someone on another message board at a later date)

54 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:11:50pm

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
W. C. Fields

55 Killgore Trout  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:11:56pm

re: #49 WindUpBird

Yeah, the water infrastructure here is at least 100 years old. Probably lots of lead pipes and joints.

56 Sharmuta  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:12:08pm

re: #48 Bloodnok

I see BIG SODA has not gotten to you yet. They are merciless lobbyists, all hopped up on caffeine the way they are.

BIG SODA are two of the largest producers of bottled water. My guess is more bottles of soda are purchased every day than bottled water, but I don't know for sure- it's only a guess. Therefore I would say bottled soda consumption, in terms of resources used, is worse than bottled water. I'd love for this chart to be redone and include bottled soda. I bet we'd all wee-wee ourselves if we saw the results.

Soda is evil. And also delicious in moderation.

57 Gus  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:12:11pm

Bottled Water vs Tap Water on 20/20

John Stossel before he went over to the dark side. ;)

58 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:12:30pm

Brita pitchers at home are what we use. I'm not averse to ordinary tap water, though.

59 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:12:53pm

here's that article I promised Rightwingconspirator on the last thread. If PETA thinks not giving cats meat is a good thing for cats they should think again.

Killing Field By Steven Malanga

60 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:13:12pm

Florida water taste like crap. I use an inline filter. Better then bottled. Or am I evil?
/

61 What, me worry?  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:13:32pm

My tap water is white and cloudy and tastes really bad. I don't even boil with it.

62 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:13:52pm

re: #56 Sharmuta

Hah. The best soda for me is Coca Cola from Mexico, or wherever they still use sugar cane, not corn syrup. BTW, It's only in the smaller glass bottles. That is what you may make a really good rum and coke from.

63 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:14:40pm

re: #59 Dark_Falcon

Yo thanks! I'll be reading that.

64 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:14:47pm

re: #62 Rightwingconspirator

Hah. The best soda for me is Coca Cola from Mexico, or wherever they still use sugar cane, not corn syrup. BTW, It's only in the smaller glass bottles. That is what you may make a really good rum and coke from.

Coke in 8 OZ. glass bottles rule.

65 Seltzer123  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:15:18pm

The Gruen Transfer is an Australian television show in which advertising people discuss different marketing campaigns.

Here is a youtube clip from an episode where the panelists talk about marketing bottled water:

Some portions are very funny.

66 cliffster  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:16:06pm

re: #56 Sharmuta

BIG SODA are two of the largest producers of bottled water. My guess is more bottles of soda are purchased every day than bottled water, but I don't know for sure- it's only a guess. Therefore I would say bottled soda consumption, in terms of resources used, is worse than bottled water. I'd love for this chart to be redone and include bottled soda. I bet we'd all wee-wee ourselves if we saw the results.

Soda is evil. And also delicious in moderation.

It's crazy the sodas you can buy at gas stations. 64-ounce, 100-ounce soda. People I know drink two or three a day. Holy shit?

67 What, me worry?  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:16:12pm

re: #59 Dark_Falcon

here's that article I promised Rightwingconspirator on the last thread. If PETA thinks not giving cats meat is a good thing for cats they should think again.

Killing Field By Steven Malanga

These people don't know the difference between omnivores, carnivores and vegetarian. I dealt with that stupid crap when a friend of mine wanted to make her cat a veggie. I told her, "Well sure, if you want to kill it."

68 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:16:14pm

Well, I'm going where the water drinks like cherry wine
I'm going where the water drinks like cherry wine
'Cause this Georgia water tastes like turpentine

69 Gus  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:17:11pm

At home all you have to do is pour it out of the tap, add some ice, then add a couple of squeezes of lemon including a slice of lemon.

70 reine.de.tout  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:17:57pm

re: #58 The Sanity Inspector

Brita pitchers at home are what we use. I'm not averse to ordinary tap water, though.

Baton Rouge water is great. Nice soft water, tastes great - no additional filtering needed. Comes from underground aquifers.

New Orleans water, on the other hand - comes from the Mississippi River at New Orleans, where half the nation's waste and run-off ends up. Nobody drinks straight from the tap.

71 Gus  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:19:56pm

Green canteens?

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

Maybe make an LGF link through Amazon. Gift idea.

72 mich-again  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:20:11pm

Great topic for a thread.

Years back we installed a water softener and a activated carbon filter to treat all the incoming city water to the house. Every tap in the house gets high quality drinking water without the chlorine. The softener is key too, it allows us to cut detergent use in half and that adds up when you do 15 loads of laundry a week like I do here. I think the whole thing was a couple grand. It has paid for itself at least a few times already.

73 What, me worry?  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:20:25pm

re: #59 Dark_Falcon

here's that article I promised Rightwingconspirator on the last thread. If PETA thinks not giving cats meat is a good thing for cats they should think again.

Killing Field By Steven Malanga

We had a bad feral cat problem in our neighorhood and we're also a designated bird sanctuary so it was a problem on many levels. Our community worked with the Humane Society on what they call TNR. Trap, neuter and release. Once the cats are neutered, you solve the bulk of the problem.

74 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:21:05pm

re: #62 Rightwingconspirator

Hah. The best soda for me is Coca Cola from Mexico, or wherever they still use sugar cane, not corn syrup. BTW, It's only in the smaller glass bottles. That is what you may make a really good rum and coke from.

Jones Soda in the U.S. produces a sugar cane cola. It's not bad.

75 Sharmuta  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:22:10pm

re: #72 mich-again

Yes- there are a number of companies that make home filtration systems now, and every tap in the house can have quality water. If you're in an area with poor quality water, it's worth considering.

76 wee fury  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:23:05pm

A reverse osmosis system works.

77 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:24:15pm

re: #64 Cannadian Club Akbar

Coke in 8 OZ. glass bottles rule.

Who remembers the wood or wire carriers they used to come in, before they started using cardboard? I don't go quite that far back, but I did see 'em in my grandparents' barn.

78 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:25:35pm

re: #74 The Sanity Inspector

Jones is good soda. A trend here in LA is artisanal products, soda has gotten there big time. Some guys make Root Beer and real beer at home. Some great stuff.

79 Vicious Michigan Union Thug  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:25:54pm

re: #62 Rightwingconspirator

Hah. The best soda for me is Coca Cola from Mexico, or wherever they still use sugar cane, not corn syrup. BTW, It's only in the smaller glass bottles. That is what you may make a really good rum and coke from.

Coca Cola for Passover is made with sugar cane. There are swarms of non-Jews converging on the little kosher grocery store just before Passover, and it's not because they love matzah balls.

80 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:26:38pm

re: #70 reine.de.tout

Baton Rouge water is great. Nice soft water, tastes great - no additional filtering needed. Comes from underground aquifers.

New Orleans water, on the other hand - comes from the Mississippi River at New Orleans, where half the nation's waste and run-off ends up. Nobody drinks straight from the tap.

Good point.

Well it's too thick to navigate,
And it's too thin to plow...

81 Dancing along the light of day  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:28:06pm

So. Cal. specialty soda store, with lots of old fashioned, hard to find varieties! IIRC some of the Mexican bottled sodas are different from the USA bottled ingredients...
[Link: www.sodapopstop.com...]

82 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:30:12pm

re: #79 Alouette

That must be quite a scene. There are rumors coke will ramp up and promote sugar cane soda, as in real classic coke. I hope so. As micro-brew beer made the big beer brewers step up their quality, perhaps the market will force Coke and Pepsi to step it up.

83 John Neverbend  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:30:21pm

"I drink a lot of water, you know. I'm what you might call a water man." - Group Captain Lionel Mandrake.

84 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:30:27pm

re: #79 Alouette

Coca Cola for Passover is made with sugar cane. There are swarms of non-Jews converging on the little kosher grocery store just before Passover, and it's not because they love matzah balls.

I always try to get my hands on sugar-flavored soda when it is available. Pepsi Throwback was a big hit with my gaming group, so much so that I purchased a case and had it shipped from Tennessee last month for the game.

85 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:31:10pm

re: #83 John Neverbend

"I drink a lot of water, you know. I'm what you might call a water man." - Group Captain Lionel Mandrake.

"Mandrake, there will be no recall."

86 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:31:57pm

re: #84 Dark_Falcon

Pepsi Throwback? I have got to get some. Mountain Dew? All the fun and twice the buzz.

87 Political Atheist  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 7:37:19pm

re: #59 Dark_Falcon
That guy needs to live on the ISS or something. Cats are long since a part of the natural wildlife scene. People need to neuter their cats to prevent all kinds of imbalances.

88 JRCMYP  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 8:04:25pm

That's not smog, it's smug!

89 Pepper Fox  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 8:07:12pm

What about canned water? I buy that sometimes for my stockpile, but for everyday I refill my Nalgene.

90 Kewalo  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 8:19:14pm

re: #27 Rightwingconspirator

Oh good grief. I had no idea. And I love a good club soda from time to time. Ugh.

You don't have to go without soda water. It's easy to buy the containers and once you have that you can pick up the CO2 from Target or William-Sonoma.

[Link: prairiemoon.biz...]

This is perfect soda to use with scotch or bourbon.
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

91 wee fury  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 8:22:51pm

There is nothing so good -- as ice and reverse osmosis water (taken from my tap) in a fruit jar. And, if I put the lid on, I can take it anywhere.

92 Irenicum  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 8:33:16pm

I know this is gonna sound strange. But my school counts the link as p__n. Why, I don't know. But is there another link that's kosher for me to jump to that won't get my ass in trouble?

93 merkava IV  Sun, Dec 13, 2009 10:39:42pm

re: #83 John Neverbend

"I drink a lot of water, you know. I'm what you might call a water man." - Group Captain Lionel Mandrake.

"Now why don't you just take it easy, Group Captain, and please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater, and help yourself to whatever you'd like."

94 tjseagrove  Mon, Dec 14, 2009 12:44:28pm

I remember watching a 20/20 episode around 1990 and they tested many different bottled waters. They said the water in the bottle was no different than what they could get out of the tap. Maybe not my tap as we are about to drill a new well... :) (they may mention the 20/20 episode in the link but it is blocked here at work.)

Tom

95 Stanghazi  Mon, Dec 14, 2009 1:05:57pm

I am very late, but thanks MUCH for the hat tip Charles!! (I've made it!!!)


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