It probably depends on the country/state. Here in Belgium there is pretty much little or no difference between tap water and most of the less expensive bottled waters. But there's a few countries in Europe, where not drinking from the tap is an advice best followed as much as possible.
I'm guessing the same is the case in the US, depending on where you live.
Thanks to liberals, America has safe water everywhere, it just tends to taste bad in some areas due to mineral content. Where I live, both the air and water quality are fantastic, so I'm lucky and able to drink tap water without concern.
The cost of even cheap brands of bottled water exceeds gasoline prices so it's a ridiculous scam.
Yes, I would rather see a cartoon about the lamentable state of American piss-water that's marketed as beer. I mean the big brewers don't even pretend to try to improve their product beyond coming up with weird beer bottle shapes. I don't need a blue indicator of how cool a can is - I think holding the can usually tells me that.
I miss German beer, even if Hefe Weisse did give me awful headaches.
Q: What does American beer and sex on a raft have in common? A: they're both fucking close to water
In all fairness, I will give the craft beers made by the US labels a try, and occasionally will find a gem (Shock Top, Michelob Honey Lager). But by and large I will only drink anything made by Coors, Miller, or Anheuser-Busch if it's given to me...and then only after giving my host a look of deepest pity. Not sure when Americans decided that beer-flavored water was actually, you know, beer, but I both rue and lament that day.
Sadly, it is. During the sociological experiment that is pro football, there are ads for coors light with strips that tell you how cold the beer was and I guess, is.
Someone else has a "vortex bottle", I don't know what it does, perhaps take you to a dimension where beer doesn't suck as much.
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Date: 2013-08-05 04:16 pm (UTC)Also I'm pretty sure the socialists fluorinate the water well past the point that any germs could live in it.
Just kick a piece off the fountain and use it to break open the vending machine. Violence 1, Capitalism 0.
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Date: 2013-08-05 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-08-05 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-05 07:33 pm (UTC)Here in Belgium there is pretty much little or no difference between tap water and most of the less expensive bottled waters. But there's a few countries in Europe, where not drinking from the tap is an advice best followed as much as possible.
I'm guessing the same is the case in the US, depending on where you live.
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Date: 2013-08-05 08:43 pm (UTC)The cost of even cheap brands of bottled water exceeds gasoline prices so it's a ridiculous scam.
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Date: 2013-08-07 04:17 pm (UTC)don't be too sure about that anymore....
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Date: 2013-08-05 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-08-05 08:32 pm (UTC)Common Sense : 1
Capitalism: 1
"Spring Water" Salespeople: 0
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Date: 2013-08-05 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-06 12:02 am (UTC)I miss German beer, even if Hefe Weisse did give me awful headaches.
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Date: 2013-08-06 01:40 am (UTC)A: they're both fucking close to water
In all fairness, I will give the craft beers made by the US labels a try, and occasionally will find a gem (Shock Top, Michelob Honey Lager). But by and large I will only drink anything made by Coors, Miller, or Anheuser-Busch if it's given to me...and then only after giving my host a look of deepest pity. Not sure when Americans decided that beer-flavored water was actually, you know, beer, but I both rue and lament that day.
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Date: 2013-08-06 08:37 am (UTC)...this is a thing?
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Date: 2013-08-06 10:22 am (UTC)Someone else has a "vortex bottle", I don't know what it does, perhaps take you to a dimension where beer doesn't suck as much.
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Date: 2013-08-06 11:19 am (UTC)