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Posted: 2/8/2006 3:57:51 AM EDT
[#1]
I buy bottled water when I'm gonna be out where I'll need water and have no access because I'm too lazy to think ahead and fill a bottle at home....
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:00:45 AM EDT
[#2]
I'm sorry.....
You want to drink Iraqi water from the tap? Be my guest. 
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:02:26 AM EDT
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No, I'm not a sheeple at all, thank you very much.
I drink bottled water, because it's not loaded with all that flouridated crap. A little over a year ago, I stopped using anything that had flouride in it. After several months of being flouride free, my gums were no longer inflamed, I didn't bleed when I brushed my teeth, and the pockets around my teeth tightened up considerably. I hadn't seen my hygieniest in 9 months, due to having seen a periodontist during that time, and she was amazed. I used to have to rinse multiple times so she could clean my teeth, from all the blood. When I went back to her after those 9 months, I only had to spit once, at the end. That, and it now takes her less time to clean my teeth, because I no longer have as much plaque build up. As with any product, it's always good to read the label. If it's purified water, why bother? I always make sure that mine is spring water, and fairly local. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:03:18 AM EDT
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I usually I just refill the same water bottle a few dozen times, until it gets beat up and crappy.
Until I read that. They cite the Earth Policy Institute and the United Nations! If they say that tap water is just as good for you, the shit has to be poison! Those lying sons of bitches can't tell the truth about what they ate for lunch, let alone anything that is imortant. I'm drinking only bottled water from now on. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:04:37 AM EDT
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For most Americans bottled water is a want, not a need. Its a convenience item and with our large, disposable income becomes readily available in stores. To many its a difference between drinking pop or something else.
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:05:07 AM EDT
[#6]
I only drink vodka
TXL |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:07:07 AM EDT
[#7]
Sure, go ahead, drink tapwater from any 3rd world country.
Travellers have become very sick from simply brushing their teeth with tapwater in India. (Happend to my friend).
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:09:10 AM EDT
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I am in China right now. Only bottled water this week for me.
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:13:02 AM EDT
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Just be SURE it's spring water - as you say you get local, so you MAY have a way of finding out.. Most of the stuff is just filtered, no better than if you took tap water and put it through a decent two or three stage filter. I remember, many years ago, when Great Bear was "spring water" and said so on the bottle. It was bottled in Ridgefield, NJ at the time, and I lived in the next town. They got caught just filling the bottle from local tap water (which, to be fair, was pretty good at the time) with just the most rudimentary filtering. You will notice that Great Bear no longer says "Spring Water" on the bottles. However, it never was a big item in the national media, I only knew about it because the bust was in the local paper. I agree with the other posters who say take the bottled with you when traveling. My wife is on medication which makes her very thirsty, and she (nor I) don't want to drink out of fountains with all the crap on the nozzle. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:14:54 AM EDT
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Indesputable facts:
1. Not every locality everywhere has a good clean and safe source of water flowing from the tap. 2. There are places where you are hard pressed to find a tap. 3. Even water that is clean and safe to drink can taste like sh*t I keep bottled water at work because it tastes better than the stuff from the water fountan. And it is a hell of a lot more sanitary. I use filtration systems at home because without them the water tastes bad. With them, the water tastes wonderful. In fact, my home filtration systems are so good that the water at home tastes better than EVERY brand of bottled water I have ever tried, except for a brand called Fiji. Most bottled water ISN'T really any cleaner or better than what you can get at home with a good filtration system. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:17:25 AM EDT
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I took a tactical course in june in Cali laster year where we were running all over the place
the the mountains right east of Azusa. I fwas full tanked up before I left the hotel and, had a 2 gallon Camelback with me, along with two soda bottles filled with water from the hotel, then, proceeded to frolic in the 110 degree heat for 10 hours, running and shooting. By the end of the day, was was so dehydrated I was dizzy and, ready to hurl. I stopped at the first store I came to and got a bottle of coled water. Probably the best baottle of water I ever tasted. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:18:53 AM EDT
[#12]
baa baa (sheeple here)
Last time I was in the woods I couldn't find the water fountain...glad I had some water with me. We generally buy what we consider the better water (Aquafina) but leave the Evian crap alone (who wants to support France and spelled backwards we would be Naive) |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:21:19 AM EDT
[#13]
 Sorry, couldn't help myself.  My wife and I buy bottled water for the convenience factor. We are always going for long walks with the dog or for a long ride in the Jeep, so it is just a lot easier to grab a few bottles to go. We often refill the bottles a few times before we trash them. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:21:26 AM EDT
[#14]
Evian spelled backwards is naive.
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:22:47 AM EDT
[#15]
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're an idiot than to open it and remove any doubt" unknown |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:29:48 AM EDT
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I saw someone drinking what looked like water, in a bottle called "Mt. Fiji" or something like that. I asked them what it was. They said "IT'S VOLCANIC WATER FROM FIJI". I looked on the bottle and sure enough it's from Fiji.
HOLY F****** SHITE THEY SHIP BOTTLES OF WATER ACROSS A VAST OCEAN WASTING UNTOLD AMOUNTS OF RESOURCES SO YOU CAN DRINK WATER FROM FIJI INSTEAD OF WATER FROM THE TAP?!??!?!? |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:30:02 AM EDT
[#17]
Never been to Mexico (or practically anywhere else), huh? |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:30:09 AM EDT
[#18]
I work overseas in Africa. You are a bigger fool if you don't drink bottled water.
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:31:20 AM EDT
[#19]
not just that, but home filtered water also filters out floride , leading to bad teeth....
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:31:52 AM EDT
[#20]
Actually, it is more of a political article.
Rough translation..... "If you stupid Americans wouldn't waste so much with your evil capatilism, we saints at the United Nations could make the world a better place and we could all hold hands and sing coom-by-ahh while watching bareback mountain...." From the article...
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:36:36 AM EDT
[#21]
Tehehe.... I dunno about all Aquafina but I know some Aquafina is made in Wichita, KS....taken directly from the river.
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:36:44 AM EDT
[#22]
Precisely my take on it. I don't drink soda anymore so if I'm out, it's bottled water and if I'm home it's filtered water. Bomber |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:45:43 AM EDT
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I buy bulk bottled water because if a water main ever broke, or the city supply was contaminated, I wouldn't have to rush out with the other sheeple to buy.......... bottled water, when it was in high demand. I can at least have about 1 week - 2 week supply of water when properly rationed. Worst case is only a few days supply, but I can have enough to bug out.
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:46:11 AM EDT
[#24]
Amen, 'ey, pointtarget! Why don't you move to Apache Junction, Arizona and take a nice big drink of their tap water? Then we'll see who be da foo'. 
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Posted: 2/8/2006 4:53:16 AM EDT
[#25]
Bottled water tastes flat to me. I prefer the floride/chlorine goodness of straight tap water.
 I only drink bottled water if I'm camping or travelling.
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:05:04 AM EDT
[#26]
Better NOT be from the river. My father in law won't even eat the fish he catches in the Arkansas river. During the River Festival, frolickers are advised to stay OUT of the water, and the participants in the bathtub boat race have to sign a waiver in case they ingest some and get sick. It probably comes from Cheney Reservoir |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:10:12 AM EDT
[#27]
I try and keep 4-5 cases of Costco Kirkland brand 1/2 liter bottles around for emergencies. Costs about $0.11 per bottle and it's a pretty handy size.
My empties go in the recycle bin. what's the problem? Why would a water bottle be any different than Pepsi or Gatoraide? There sure seems to be a lot more of that sold than water. Isn't bottled water a great way to distribute it during emergency outages like Katrina? It's not totally useless and indulgent. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:14:07 AM EDT
[#28]
Penn & Teller did a hillarious bottled water bit on "Bullshit". They filled a bunch of water bottles with LA County water out of a garden hose, and had presented each bottle as if it were a unique brand. The sheeple thought they tasted better. Even funnier, the "expensive" ones tasted better than the "cheap" ones.
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:16:35 AM EDT
[#29]
I'm sure not drinking that sulpherous crap out of the tap in Yuba City, CA.
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:20:14 AM EDT
[#30]
A partially frozen gallon bottle of distilled water goes down easy in the summer.
With cases of it at work, the price is right. The local (Cleveland) water supply is bad news...sand, mud and slime are always blocking the filters in our plants and causing plumbing problems. Supposedly distilled water absorbs impurities and flushes them from the body, but continued use, over 2 weeks, is discouraged. It's oderless and tasteless but it's as pure as it gets. I always considered bottled water for general use a waste of plastic, not to mention the bottles and caps stewn all over. (I think the "ladies of the night" may not be just drinking it.) 
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:21:16 AM EDT
[#31]
Propaganda ETA: Let's see: I'm 10 miles off shore in my boat. Open the cooler and ??? No water??? Trouble. Better to drink water than soda. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:22:23 AM EDT
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Try East Chicago, IN I turned on the shower, and, smelled somthing awful in the hotel room. Turned out it was the shower.  Four of the longest months of my life, includeing Kuwait. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:22:37 AM EDT
[#33]
Nope, from the river.  Of course, it's "filtered" and "cleaned up" but it's still taken directly from the river. The only time we EVER used the tap water whe I was at Wichita State, was for ramen noodles and it was boiled. When we first moved in, the water stunk of holy high hell and was brown for a week. We were like: 
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:25:02 AM EDT
[#34]
That's exactly what I looked like turning on the shower in East Chicago, IN. (Gary) |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:27:58 AM EDT
[#35]
That's how I read the article. My own translation: You evil greedy Americans need to spend more of your hard-EARNED money supporting other people instead of buying things you want. Fuck the third world. Somebody has to die somewhere, let it be them. If they didn't breed like cockroaches and outstrip there own resources famine and pandemic wouldn't be problems. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:34:39 AM EDT
[#36]
Do you deny women your essence too?
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:36:46 AM EDT
[#37]
The city water here tastes awful. I buy the bottled water at Wal Mart that is about 50 cents a gallon. It's a taste preference.
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:36:59 AM EDT
[#38]
Actually, FIJI is very good. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:44:07 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:44:28 AM EDT
[#40]
That being said, the only reason I don't drink bottles water is because the water here is still so pure they don't have to filter it or add anything to it. When I visit relatives in other areas I do drink bottles water because I can't stand all the chlorine in it. NMSight ETA: [thread hijack] Hey! Someone made me a Team Member! If I ever find out who did it I'll have to get even sometime . Whoever you are, you certainly didn't need to do this but thank you! [/thread hijack]Unless of course it was a mistake, in which case later I will revert to my usually anonymous self  .
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:46:19 AM EDT
[#41]
Grain alcohol and rainwater for me, thanks. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:47:36 AM EDT
[#42]
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!
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Posted: 2/8/2006 5:51:57 AM EDT
[#43]
I've lived in So Cal, New Orleans, Dallas area, I won't drink from the tap cause it taste like shit. I have a filter on my faucet at home. Here at work we have bottled water delivered. In between I do buy bottled water. Not the brand name expensive kind. But I want my water filtered!!!
TAP WATER TASTE LIKE SHIT!! It may be clean and safe to drink, but its al about taste. If they start processing water past being just safe to drink, then I'll start drinking tap water. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 6:25:08 AM EDT
[#44]
I second that. It may be pricey, but it's damned good. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 6:27:16 AM EDT
[#45]
I only buy bottled water for two reasons:
1) I can't find where my family hid my canteens this week and I'm gonna need water 2) It's going in the hidey-hole for SHTF. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 6:30:15 AM EDT
[#46]
The United Nations kills thousands of children every day. Do I really want their advice on drinking water?
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Posted: 2/8/2006 6:36:02 AM EDT
[#47]
I can't remember the name, but there was a movie about a fictional movie being made in new england and the locals would fill up the used, empty bottled water with tap water, then use a lighter to fuse the top back onto the ring and resell them as bottled water to the crew from California. |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 6:38:40 AM EDT
[#48]
What is this anyway and why do they add it to the water? |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 6:41:01 AM EDT
[#49]
 " . . . Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face. " |
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Posted: 2/8/2006 6:42:55 AM EDT
[#50]
Buy yourself a water filter for your home and save some cash. Those companies do the exact same thing, often straight from the same tap that your sink gets.
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