View Poll Results: Do you do bottled water?
Yes, Evian and Arrowhead for me!
13
43.33%
I own (rent) a big machine - constant H20
4
13.33%
Tap Water, it's the only way to go - what's bottled water?
13
43.33%
Voters: 30. You may not vote on this poll
Bottled Water - do you?
Jun 25th 2004, 2:27 pm
#16
Through the square window
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 2,723
Originally posted by manc1976
I wouldn't put anything in my body that came from anywhere close to Gary In.
I wouldn't put anything in my body that came from anywhere close to Gary In.
Bravo.
"OW !"
Jun 25th 2004, 2:37 pm
#17
You Are All Diseased
Joined: Feb 2004
Location: Farnham, UK
Posts: 4,511
People pay for water that comes in a bottle 
I prefer the arsenic and fluoride ridden stuff that comes out of the tap.
I prefer the arsenic and fluoride ridden stuff that comes out of the tap.
Jun 25th 2004, 3:14 pm
#18
Ping-ponger
Joined: Jul 2002
Location: Dreich Alba
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I use a filter jug to drink tap water. Seems to take away the mineral taste. Just run tap water into the jug, put it in the fridge. Cheaper than that bottled stuff and less waste (no bottles to throw away).
Jun 25th 2004, 3:19 pm
#19
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We drink nothing out of the tap here!,got terrible upset stomachs when we first moved to the mid west (never had a problem in California!),so we started buying gallons of water from walmart,and haven't had a problem since......just out of interest we had our tap water tested and were told we might as well just go and dip a glass in the swimming pool down the road and drink it!,YUK!!!,also the water out of the tap quite often smells of sulphur,and other times you can smell the chlorine in it.......I'm sure that there was a news report several years ago about the 'runoff' from the farm fields......who knows whats put on them?!......won't take any chances anymore......Sophia
Jun 25th 2004, 3:38 pm
#20
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Joined: Sep 2003
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Originally posted by Sophia_S
We drink nothing out of the tap here!,got terrible upset stomachs when we first moved to the mid west (never had a problem in California!),so we started buying gallons of water from walmart,and haven't had a problem since......just out of interest we had our tap water tested and were told we might as well just go and dip a glass in the swimming pool down the road and drink it!,YUK!!!,also the water out of the tap quite often smells of sulphur,and other times you can smell the chlorine in it.......I'm sure that there was a news report several years ago about the 'runoff' from the farm fields......who knows whats put on them?!......won't take any chances anymore......Sophia
We drink nothing out of the tap here!,got terrible upset stomachs when we first moved to the mid west (never had a problem in California!),so we started buying gallons of water from walmart,and haven't had a problem since......just out of interest we had our tap water tested and were told we might as well just go and dip a glass in the swimming pool down the road and drink it!,YUK!!!,also the water out of the tap quite often smells of sulphur,and other times you can smell the chlorine in it.......I'm sure that there was a news report several years ago about the 'runoff' from the farm fields......who knows whats put on them?!......won't take any chances anymore......Sophia
Jun 25th 2004, 3:39 pm
#21
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Location: Connecticut
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Originally posted by dunroving
I use a filter jug to drink tap water. Seems to take away the mineral taste. Just run tap water into the jug, put it in the fridge. Cheaper than that bottled stuff and less waste (no bottles to throw away).
I use a filter jug to drink tap water. Seems to take away the mineral taste. Just run tap water into the jug, put it in the fridge. Cheaper than that bottled stuff and less waste (no bottles to throw away).
I hate waste and that is why I will reuse the bottles, but I have to keep new bottles in because if an American (child or adult) see a bottle of water with the lid already having been opened they won't touch it. You can tell them until you are blue in the face that you cleaned the bottle before refilling it, but they still won't drink out of it!
And I know that is generalizing Americans, but so far I haven't had an American come to my house and do the unexpected. One day, I live in hope
Reusing the bottles works great for us.
Jun 25th 2004, 4:45 pm
#22
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Joined: Jul 2002
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Originally posted by Ben
Yes, it is, but the kids can't take a jug to school with them and Americans when visiting prefer not to have to drink out of a cup
I hate waste and that is why I will reuse the bottles, but I have to keep new bottles in because if an American (child or adult) see a bottle of water with the lid already having been opened they won't touch it. You can tell them until you are blue in the face that you cleaned the bottle before refilling it, but they still won't drink out of it! And I know that is generalizing Americans, but so far I haven't had an American come to my house and do the unexpected. One day, I live in hope
Reusing the bottles works great for us.
Yes, it is, but the kids can't take a jug to school with them and Americans when visiting prefer not to have to drink out of a cup
I hate waste and that is why I will reuse the bottles, but I have to keep new bottles in because if an American (child or adult) see a bottle of water with the lid already having been opened they won't touch it. You can tell them until you are blue in the face that you cleaned the bottle before refilling it, but they still won't drink out of it!
And I know that is generalizing Americans, but so far I haven't had an American come to my house and do the unexpected. One day, I live in hope Reusing the bottles works great for us.
Maybe you're hanging out with the wrong crowd of Americans.
Jun 25th 2004, 4:46 pm
#23
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Originally posted by Ben
Yes, it is, but the kids can't take a jug to school with them and Americans when visiting prefer not to have to drink out of a cup
I hate waste and that is why I will reuse the bottles, but I have to keep new bottles in because if an American (child or adult) see a bottle of water with the lid already having been opened they won't touch it. You can tell them until you are blue in the face that you cleaned the bottle before refilling it, but they still won't drink out of it! And I know that is generalizing Americans, but so far I haven't had an American come to my house and do the unexpected. One day, I live in hope
Reusing the bottles works great for us.
Yes, it is, but the kids can't take a jug to school with them and Americans when visiting prefer not to have to drink out of a cup
I hate waste and that is why I will reuse the bottles, but I have to keep new bottles in because if an American (child or adult) see a bottle of water with the lid already having been opened they won't touch it. You can tell them until you are blue in the face that you cleaned the bottle before refilling it, but they still won't drink out of it!
And I know that is generalizing Americans, but so far I haven't had an American come to my house and do the unexpected. One day, I live in hope Reusing the bottles works great for us.
Maybe you're hanging out with the wrong crowd of Americans.
Jun 25th 2004, 4:51 pm
#24
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Joined: Feb 2004
Location: Mid West >> UK
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Surely the only funny thing here is that we all think it quite normal to buy water! What will it be next...air on discount from Walgreens
Jun 25th 2004, 4:56 pm
#25
dealing with it
Joined: Feb 2003
Location: DC
Posts: 2,916
Originally posted by ladylisa
Surely the only funny thing here is that we all think it quite normal to buy water! What will it be next...air on discount from Walgreens
Surely the only funny thing here is that we all think it quite normal to buy water! What will it be next...air on discount from Walgreens
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2002/602_air.html
http://www.sfstation.com/bars/2202/
Jun 25th 2004, 4:57 pm
#26
dealing with it
Joined: Feb 2003
Location: DC
Posts: 2,916
Originally posted by ladylisa
Surely the only funny thing here is that we all think it quite normal to buy water! What will it be next...air on discount from Walgreens
Surely the only funny thing here is that we all think it quite normal to buy water! What will it be next...air on discount from Walgreens
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2002/602_air.html
http://www.sfstation.com/bars/2202/
Jun 25th 2004, 5:22 pm
#27
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Location: Mid West >> UK
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Originally posted by Chopper-Chris
well, maybe not at Walgreens, but there are Oxygen Bars
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2002/602_air.html
http://www.sfstation.com/bars/2202/
well, maybe not at Walgreens, but there are Oxygen Bars
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2002/602_air.html
http://www.sfstation.com/bars/2202/
Thats it I've heard it all now!
Jun 25th 2004, 5:33 pm
#28
Never right in the head!
Joined: Aug 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,465
I was always a tap water or soda stream drinker growing up.
I drink only from the filtered fridge water at home but I am a bit partial to Sparklets at work, we did have Ozarka but I found it to be a tad harder on the pallet!
I drink only from the filtered fridge water at home but I am a bit partial to Sparklets at work, we did have Ozarka but I found it to be a tad harder on the pallet!
Jun 26th 2004, 1:42 am
#29
Winter hyphenator
Joined: Jul 2002
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Posts: 660
Originally posted by ladylisa
Surely the only funny thing here is that we all think it quite normal to buy water! What will it be next...air on discount from Walgreens
Surely the only funny thing here is that we all think it quite normal to buy water! What will it be next...air on discount from Walgreens
Jun 26th 2004, 5:00 am
#30
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Location: Where bad things rarely happen in movies
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Originally posted by Sophia_S
just out of interest we had our tap water tested and were told we might as well just go and dip a glass in the swimming pool down the road and drink it!,
just out of interest we had our tap water tested and were told we might as well just go and dip a glass in the swimming pool down the road and drink it!,
You mean the kids pee in your tap water?
We use bottled - those 2.5 gallon dispenser things - ever since we found out that the reason our kids goldfish kept dying was because the local tapwater can't support fish life.....