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Water; Spit from Barnier and Plastic threads
Topic Started: Nov 16 2017, 06:13 PM (287 Views)
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Nov 16 2017, 06:02 PM
No idea how you'd expect to get anything 'flown in'' from Pitcairn Island , there's no airport, it's a 4/5 day sail away from Tahiti (with no landing if the weather is ''off''), supplies come by sea from NZ every three months, less than 1000 visitors a year make it there, and even if somehow you arranged the logistics the 50 island residents (including men, women and children-there are plans to increase it to 80 residents) would have to breach the working time directive somewhat to produce much beyond their own immediate needs
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Sometimes a bit of satire goes miles over certain heads.

As transport costs rise, and they will, the World will become more local, eventually it is unlikely to be economic to fly water in from Fiji anymore, and yes that does happen. :)
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Funniest report on the state of water came from Norwich a few years back....people were finding small wriggly things coming out of their cold taps...and then small beetles..The head of Anglian water actually came on the news to tell people that the small wriggly things were actually freshwater shrimps..and they won't cause you any harm..but not to worry anyway because the beetles eat them!!!
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Hot-and-cold running Sea Monkeys ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-Monkeys
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Nov 18 2017, 12:40 PM
Hot-and-cold running Sea Monkeys ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-Monkeys
;D
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Nov 18 2017, 12:33 PM
Funniest report on the state of water came from Norwich a few years back....people were finding small wriggly things coming out of their cold taps...and then small beetles..The head of Anglian water actually came on the news to tell people that the small wriggly things were actually freshwater shrimps..and they won't cause you any harm..but not to worry anyway because the beetles eat them!!!
Funny? :nono: more a  :o
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Nov 18 2017, 01:37 PM
marybrown
Nov 18 2017, 12:33 PM
Funniest report on the state of water came from Norwich a few years back....people were finding small wriggly things coming out of their cold taps...and then small beetles..The head of Anglian water actually came on the news to tell people that the small wriggly things were actually freshwater shrimps..and they won't cause you any harm..but not to worry anyway because the beetles eat them!!!
Funny? :nono: more a  :o
No it wasn't funny for us when I had to use a sieve to fill my kettle..however it was funny watching Anglian Water trying to bluff their way through it...
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Nov 18 2017, 01:58 PM
No it wasn't funny for us when I had to use a sieve to fill my kettle..however it was funny watching Anglian Water trying to bluff their way through it...
Did they turn pink when they came out of the hot tap?

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Nov 18 2017, 05:56 PM
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Nov 18 2017, 01:58 PM
No it wasn't funny for us when I had to use a sieve to fill my kettle..however it was funny watching Anglian Water trying to bluff their way through it...
Did they turn pink when they came out of the hot tap?

Only when washed with a red sock?
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Dec 8 2017, 12:47 PM
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Dec 8 2017, 12:24 PM
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Dec 8 2017, 11:46 AM
Oh FFS you and your wish to keep drinking chlorine

A 5p refundable surcharge on plastic bottles would solve it. As would a day in jail for anyone caught litter strewing (with doubled sentence for each successive conviction). To paraphrase Gavin Williamson: a dead litter strewer is no threat to our environment.
I'd rather drink a proven safe limit of chlorine than an cocktail of lead, iron, manganese, cadmium, bacteria and viruses. :)

And many plastic bottles could be easily replaced by paper cartons or reusable glass, but it's a cost and convenience thing, the best way to stop pollution is to change the daft habits of consumers and that includes getting rid of pointless bottles of overpriced water expensively transported for the benefit of hyperchondriacs.......
We already have a water thread where you've already posted your BS about Evian

http://w11.zetaboards.com/UK_Debate_Mk_2/topic/30401621
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Dec 8 2017, 06:07 PM
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WHAT? ..............  !bgrin!
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I'd rather drink a proven safe limit of chlorine than an cocktail of lead, iron, manganese, cadmium, bacteria and viruses. :)

And many plastic bottles could be easily replaced by paper cartons or reusable glass, but it's a cost and convenience thing, the best way to stop pollution is to change the daft habits of consumers and that includes getting rid of pointless bottles of overpriced water expensively transported for the benefit of hyperchondriacs.......
We already have a water thread where you've already posted your BS about Evian

http://w11.zetaboards.com/UK_Debate_Mk_2/topic/30401621
Wasn't BS it was the truth!  ::)

Of course you are probably also unaware that chlorine is widely used in food production, especially in brewing, baking and meat processing, why? Because it's safe, are you giving up booze and meat as well now? My own supply of water is from a borehole I drilled myself, it goes through several filters to remove metallic compounds and any organic matter, I'm also obliged by law to have the water tested annually by an independent lab, unfortunately your saintly bottled water, and especially if it's imported, has far less control over it's quality than humble tap water or indeed my water.

Anyway lets do some sums, half a litre of bottled water weighs 525g, that is 500 for the water and 25 for the bottle and cap, so I make that 40 bottles to a kilo of plastic and therefore 40,000 bottles to a metric ton. All so soppy middle class folk can swig 20,000 litres of metallic water!

At least I wont have the death of a turtle or the extinction of a rare species of fish to haunt me in later life.

USE THE FUCKING TAP THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STUFF COMING OUT OF IT, AND SAVE A WHALE IN THE PROCESS!!!

;-)
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We already have a water thread where you've already posted your BS about Evian

http://w11.zetaboards.com/UK_Debate_Mk_2/topic/30401621
Wasn't BS it was the truth!  ::)

Of course you are probably also unaware that chlorine is widely used in food production, especially in brewing, baking and meat processing, why? Because it's safe, are you giving up booze and meat as well now? My own supply of water is from a borehole I drilled myself, it goes through several filters to remove metallic compounds and any organic matter, I'm also obliged by law to have the water tested annually by an independent lab, unfortunately your saintly bottled water, and especially if it's imported, has far less control over it's quality than humble tap water or indeed my water.

Anyway lets do some sums, half a litre of bottled water weighs 525g, that is 500 for the water and 25 for the bottle and cap, so I make that 40 bottles to a kilo of plastic and therefore 40,000 bottles to a metric ton. All so soppy middle class folk can swig 20,000 litres of metallic water!

At least I wont have the death of a turtle or the extinction of a rare species of fish to haunt me in later life.

USE THE FUCKING TAP THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STUFF COMING OUT OF IT, AND SAVE A WHALE IN THE PROCESS!!!

;-)


Have you checked that there are no lead pipes in your house Tigger? It would explain a lot of things. ;-)
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Dec 8 2017, 07:31 PM
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Dec 8 2017, 12:59 PM
Wasn't BS it was the truth!  ::)

Of course you are probably also unaware that chlorine is widely used in food production, especially in brewing, baking and meat processing, why? Because it's safe, are you giving up booze and meat as well now? My own supply of water is from a borehole I drilled myself, it goes through several filters to remove metallic compounds and any organic matter, I'm also obliged by law to have the water tested annually by an independent lab, unfortunately your saintly bottled water, and especially if it's imported, has far less control over it's quality than humble tap water or indeed my water.

Anyway lets do some sums, half a litre of bottled water weighs 525g, that is 500 for the water and 25 for the bottle and cap, so I make that 40 bottles to a kilo of plastic and therefore 40,000 bottles to a metric ton. All so soppy middle class folk can swig 20,000 litres of metallic water!

At least I wont have the death of a turtle or the extinction of a rare species of fish to haunt me in later life.

USE THE FUCKING TAP THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STUFF COMING OUT OF IT, AND SAVE A WHALE IN THE PROCESS!!!

;-)


Have you checked that there are no lead pipes in your house Tigger? It would explain a lot of things. ;-)
No lead here, in fact in hard water areas (such as here) a film of limescale forms on the inside of supply pipe., unfortunately if you live oop north or in clotted cream land the soft water dissolves small amounts of lead, so if anyone out there is drinking Bradford Spring Bottled Water look out you'll be going senile before long!
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Dec 8 2017, 07:13 PM
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Dec 8 2017, 12:59 PM
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Dec 8 2017, 12:47 PM
We already have a water thread where you've already posted your BS about Evian

http://w11.zetaboards.com/UK_Debate_Mk_2/topic/30401621
Wasn't BS it was the truth!  ::)

Of course you are probably also unaware that chlorine is widely used in food production, especially in brewing, baking and meat processing, why? Because it's safe, are you giving up booze and meat as well now? My own supply of water is from a borehole I drilled myself, it goes through several filters to remove metallic compounds and any organic matter, I'm also obliged by law to have the water tested annually by an independent lab, unfortunately your saintly bottled water, and especially if it's imported, has far less control over it's quality than humble tap water or indeed my water.

Anyway lets do some sums, half a litre of bottled water weighs 525g, that is 500 for the water and 25 for the bottle and cap, so I make that 40 bottles to a kilo of plastic and therefore 40,000 bottles to a metric ton. All so soppy middle class folk can swig 20,000 litres of metallic water!

At least I wont have the death of a turtle or the extinction of a rare species of fish to haunt me in later life.

USE THE FUCKING TAP THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STUFF COMING OUT OF IT, AND SAVE A WHALE IN THE PROCESS!!!

;-)
Other than it tastes like I imagine shit tastes like nothing. And seems the facts show it is rather metal loaded and undesirably soft for water taste

Your wild imagination (=delusion?) about my supposed litter strewing of plastic bottles might best be handled in one of those threads about mental conditions. Lets just leave it that most people aren't like your neighbours must be.


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Wasn't BS it was the truth!  ::)

Of course you are probably also unaware that chlorine is widely used in food production, especially in brewing, baking and meat processing, why? Because it's safe, are you giving up booze and meat as well now? My own supply of water is from a borehole I drilled myself, it goes through several filters to remove metallic compounds and any organic matter, I'm also obliged by law to have the water tested annually by an independent lab, unfortunately your saintly bottled water, and especially if it's imported, has far less control over it's quality than humble tap water or indeed my water.

Anyway lets do some sums, half a litre of bottled water weighs 525g, that is 500 for the water and 25 for the bottle and cap, so I make that 40 bottles to a kilo of plastic and therefore 40,000 bottles to a metric ton. All so soppy middle class folk can swig 20,000 litres of metallic water!

At least I wont have the death of a turtle or the extinction of a rare species of fish to haunt me in later life.

USE THE FUCKING TAP THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STUFF COMING OUT OF IT, AND SAVE A WHALE IN THE PROCESS!!!

;-)
Other than it tastes like I imagine shit tastes like nothing. And seems the facts show it is rather metal loaded and undesirably soft for water taste

Your wild imagination (=delusion?) about my supposed litter strewing of plastic bottles might best be handled in one of those threads about mental conditions. Lets just leave it that most people aren't like your neighbours must be.


Strange!

You go to the trouble of finding out what is in tap water, and you can because the various water companies actually publish these things, but I suspect you'd not trouble yourself with what is in that expensive bottle you happily pay for? Am I right? :rubchin:

Hint, all sorts of things are soluble in water, unless of course you think it's distilled by angels parked on clouds. And as a lot of "spring water" is actually sourced from deep aquifers it will contain all sorts of unpleasant things as it seeped through the ground, oh and the next big thing in bottled water will be the chemicals used in fracking, don't say you weren't warned!
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Strange!

You go to the trouble of finding out what is in tap water, and you can because the various water companies actually publish these things, but I suspect you'd not trouble yourself with what is in that expensive bottle you happily pay for? Am I right? :rubchin:

Hint, all sorts of things are soluble in water, unless of course you think it's distilled by angels parked on clouds. And as a lot of "spring water" is actually sourced from deep aquifers it will contain all sorts of unpleasant things as it seeped through the ground, oh and the next big thing in bottled water will be the chemicals used in fracking, don't say you weren't warned!
Nope, yet again you are wrong

The 73mg of Sodium per litre compared to the 6mg per litre in Evian was an obvious distinction that I would have thought you'd have checked before mouthing off misleading the forum about metal content.

Or maybe the 32mg Chloride in tap water compared to 0.7 in Evian

Or that is has 5 times the nitrate content of Evian


Maybe you regret hijacking a thread for your idiot hobby horse now it's been shown you were posting bollocks

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My experience with bottled water is, a certain famous French brand of bottled water, (glass bottles), has an effect on me very similar to Picolax within two hours of drinking it.
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Maybe you regret hijacking a thread for your idiot hobby horse now it's been shown you were posting bollocks

 nonono:

You are the one posting bollocks by deliberately ignoring the lack of consistent testing of bottled water and cherry picking the statistics that suit your case, read and learn Steve, read and learn.........
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You are the one posting bollocks by deliberately ignoring the lack of consistent testing of bottled water and cherry picking the statistics that suit your case, read and learn Steve, read and learn.........
I am puzzled by comments about testing bottled water. The bottled water producers a few miles away from where I live test the water every day.
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My experience with bottled water is, a certain famous French brand of bottled water, (glass bottles), has an effect on me very similar to Picolax within two hours of drinking it.
Perhaps your system can't handle the benzine that was in it? :rubchin:



Wash your mouth out next time, with tap water of course!

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I am puzzled by comments about testing bottled water. The bottled water producers a few miles away from where I live test the water every day.
Good for them, do they publish the results though?
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Maybe you regret hijacking a thread for your idiot hobby horse now it's been shown you were posting bollocks

 nonono:

You are the one posting bollocks by deliberately ignoring the lack of consistent testing of bottled water and cherry picking the statistics that suit your case, read and learn Steve, read and learn.........
!=== ^ No false facts from me

No one put a gun to your head and forced you to post this trash: "All so soppy middle class folk can swig 20,000 litres of metallic water!"

Turns out the relevant metallic water is coming through that tap. Maybe it's rotting brains

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Perhaps your system can't handle the benzine that was in it? :rubchin:




No benzene in it.
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My experience with bottled water is, a certain famous French brand of bottled water, (glass bottles), has an effect on me very similar to Picolax within two hours of drinking it.
Perhaps your system can't handle the benzine that was in it? :rubchin:



Wash your mouth out next time, with tap water of course!

Except of course there's more benzene in tap water than Perrier. It's the magnesium sulfate (supposedly good for you) in that which is allegedly a course

Are you trying to get in the Guinness book of Records for most trash posted in a day?

PS you might want to look at the Arsenic content of tap water compared to bottled water before you dig even deeper holes
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Perhaps your system can't handle the benzine that was in it? :rubchin:




No benzene in it.
Quite

He's referring to the 1990 (yes that old) when ~ 20 parts per billion of benzene was found in Perrier in a one off incident

The same level that is regularly found in UK tap water
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Maybe you regret hijacking a thread for your idiot hobby horse now it's been shown you were posting bollocks

 nonono:

You are the one posting bollocks by deliberately ignoring the lack of consistent testing of bottled water and cherry picking the statistics that suit your case, read and learn Steve, read and learn.........
!=== ^ No false facts from me

No one put a gun to your head and forced you to post this trash: "All so soppy middle class folk can swig 20,000 litres of metallic water!"

Turns out the relevant metallic water is coming through that tap. Maybe it's rotting brains

So are you telling me there is no magnesium, aluminium, lead, tin, iron or manganese et al in bottled water? :rubchin:

Given that most bottled water comes straight out of the ground like tap water and is otherwise untreated it will contain soluble compounds of metals.............
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!=== ^ No false facts from me

No one put a gun to your head and forced you to post this trash: "All so soppy middle class folk can swig 20,000 litres of metallic water!"

Turns out the relevant metallic water is coming through that tap. Maybe it's rotting brains

So are you telling me there is no magnesium, aluminium, lead, tin, iron or manganese et al in bottled water? :rubchin:

Given that most bottled water comes straight out of the ground like tap water and is otherwise untreated it will contain soluble compounds of metals.............
No

I am telling you that when you look at the facts, tap water is as bad if not worse.
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