Craster wrote:
Not this. Tap water in this country is mostly of very high quality and contains much less contaminants of every kind than bottled. Consistently comes out higher that most bottled waters in blind taste tests, too - particularly London water.
Lave wrote:
Numerous studies always show that bottled water is suprising unsafe and it has far less safety standards than tap water.
Watch Penn and Teller's bullshit episode about it
I'm with you guys. I drink tap water all the time. I rarely drink anything else unless it's got alcohol in it. Aside from today when I had an Irn Bru (I needed a bottle to transport my water in -- I lost my other one!) I don't see the point in anything else. It's freeeeeeeeeee. There's even a little filter-water-fountain-thingy in my uni department. But I ignore it and use the tap right next to it as it comes out at around 20x the speed and is identical stuff. Sometimes both things give you cool looking "magic" white water. Something to do with the air in the pipes -- give it a quick shake and it's back to normal. yumyum.
Secondly; Penn and Teller Bullshit is great. I think the water one was the first one I saw (on youtube, natch).
Klatrymadon wrote:
Stop being wimpy, everyone who isn't Shewolf. Before such decadent inventions as the Tefal Water De-Gunker, people's bodies just had to get used to the local H2O, right? Even if they did move around the country a lot.
"You think anyone in Rwanda's got a fuckin' lactose intolerance?"
Actually, they probably do. Mosty of the world's population is lactose introlerant. The only reason Europeans (and a few other countries) drink lots of milk is because we've drank it culturally for the last 2000 years. Our bodies just get used to it. (that and something to do with a hormone that children have that allows them to drink titty-milk not "turn offing" because they get a constant supply of milk, meaning they grow up being able to digest it). Go look it up! Fun for all.
Y'know, without my water, I'd probably die! (Another myth fact fans: You don't need 8 glasses of water a day. You need about 2. The rest you get from your food normally. GOGO "misinterpreted" science results from the 50s!)