If you watched people queueing up to fill their empty water jugs at one of those machines that dispenses filtered tap water, you realize that people will buy anything.
i am one of those Sheik. i don’t want to drink the salts in my apartment complex’s conditioned water. now, if i were buying cases of the pint bottles at a half buck a pint i might feel foolish. but at 35 cents a gallon a stop at a coffee shop costs me more than a weeks water. have had no problem with waiting to fill either.
I also refill gallons (usually 10 at a time) with filtered water. I know the government says our tap water is “safe” but practically no one in our city likes the taste. The place where I buy mine (also 35 cents now that food and water are taxed) also uses ultraviolet to kill any bacteria. It also tastes very clean and pure - worth it I say!
When I lived in California, the local water would kill potted plants and aquarium fish. Also ate out plastic or pvp from the inside because of all the salts and no-one-wanted-to-know-whatelse in it. There was a spring a few miles down the road and people (me too!) lined up to fill bottles. Then the county sold all its water to a bottler who took our place filing up. So the good water which had been free had to be bought from a vendor so the county pols could be sure their paychecks would clear. Life in Cal, sigh. I live in Washington now and have a well.
1Ti 5:23 Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Since we now have Pepto, I doubt the advice would still hold. Tim had a digestion problem. And the “little” was meant since he also said:
Ro 14:21 It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby thy brother stumbleth.
Eph 5:18 And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
1Ti 3:8 Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
bleeep 2:3 that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
ksoskins over 14 years ago
If you watched people queueing up to fill their empty water jugs at one of those machines that dispenses filtered tap water, you realize that people will buy anything.
olmail over 14 years ago
i am one of those Sheik. i don’t want to drink the salts in my apartment complex’s conditioned water. now, if i were buying cases of the pint bottles at a half buck a pint i might feel foolish. but at 35 cents a gallon a stop at a coffee shop costs me more than a weeks water. have had no problem with waiting to fill either.
vldazzle over 14 years ago
I also refill gallons (usually 10 at a time) with filtered water. I know the government says our tap water is “safe” but practically no one in our city likes the taste. The place where I buy mine (also 35 cents now that food and water are taxed) also uses ultraviolet to kill any bacteria. It also tastes very clean and pure - worth it I say!
Digital Frog over 14 years ago
How about those oxygen lounges you see at the airports now…
pibfan868 over 14 years ago
I filter at home with a pitcher, and that satisfies me–I don’t like the straight tap stuff either.
Possum Pete over 14 years ago
How else are you supposed to get iron in your diet? And calcium. And lime. And bacteria. And raw sewage. And liberalism.
I threw that last one out for discussion purposes only.
Spyderred over 14 years ago
When I lived in California, the local water would kill potted plants and aquarium fish. Also ate out plastic or pvp from the inside because of all the salts and no-one-wanted-to-know-whatelse in it. There was a spring a few miles down the road and people (me too!) lined up to fill bottles. Then the county sold all its water to a bottler who took our place filing up. So the good water which had been free had to be bought from a vendor so the county pols could be sure their paychecks would clear. Life in Cal, sigh. I live in Washington now and have a well.
Varnes over 14 years ago
I too use a filter pitcher. Carbon is a wonderful thing…..
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
Might want to go chapter and verse on that Mike:
1Ti 5:23 Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Since we now have Pepto, I doubt the advice would still hold. Tim had a digestion problem. And the “little” was meant since he also said:
Ro 14:21 It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby thy brother stumbleth. Eph 5:18 And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit; 1Ti 3:8 Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; bleeep 2:3 that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
MisngNOLA over 14 years ago
I am not greedy of filthy lucre. I prefer my money to be laundered before it reaches my wallet.
JP Steve Premium Member over 14 years ago
Ah! Nannybots bleeped T i t u s in freeholder’s post!