Bottled water, a natural resource taxing the world's ecosystem

[DeclinetoState]

Good grief!



Bottled water consumption, which has more than doubled globally in the last six years, is a natural resource that is heavily taxing the world's ecosystem, according to a new US study.

"Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing, producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy," according to Emily Arnold, author of the study published by the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based environmental group.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/10/060210151009.9nrba2js.html

Drinking bottled water is now not-PC.

[Popperite]

And more expensive that tap water.

[TechnoPrincess]

:rolleyes: Will they NEVER run out of things to complain about.....

And, just for the record...just because it is SAFE to drink does not mean it tastes good. I know at my in-law's house, the water is "safe", but has a slight brownish color and tastes like fish or chlorine (depending on the day).

[Rink]

With Bottled water people actually have a chance to have emergency water if crap hits the fan like it did with katrina.

But I guess these whiney morons would rather people go without in order to be 'kind' and gentle with mother nature and be more 'green' and environmentally correct.

Is it me or are these elitistsic arseholes trying to kill off people in order to keep more 'natural' resouces to themselves?

As from the last time I looked at it there was a so-called 'crisis' on the availability of clean drinkable water in the world today.

[Riverboat]

At as much as 2.50 dollars per liter (10 dollars per gallon), bottled water costs more than gasoline," the study says. Well, at least we have something we can hold over the Middle East's collective rag-wrapped head.

[TechnoPrincess]

Okay...I buy gallons of bottled water all the timeand get it for around $1-$2 a gallon at Wal-Mart...I guess they are talking about the little bottles only?

[Rink]

Mebbe they're talking bout that french-made spritz-water?

[Rhino]

And more expensive that tap water.And in many cases less sanitary. As recently as five years ago, the NSF standards for tap water were more stringent than those for bottled water (NSF Standard 52 I believe). That's why it was perfectly legal to fill 'bottled' water bottles with tap water, and to hook up one of those water bottle filling machines to a standard water faucet. It's amazing how few people looked behind the machines to discover that. I don't know if the standards have changed since then, but I doubt it.

[Patriot Heart]

They're probably perturbed at all those nasty US troops drinking up all that bottled water.......typical Lib behavior......with a nod to Marie Antoinette..."Let 'em drink outta the stream....."

[Native American]

Okay...I buy gallons of bottled water all the timeand get it for around $1-$2 a gallon at Wal-Mart...I guess they are talking about the little bottles only?

Golly, I can buy milk for around $2 a gallon at Wal-Mart, and it's a heckuva lot more nutritious than water!

(although, to be fair, milk tends to run more like $2.79 a gallon at the corner quickstop market, whereas I can buy gasoline for only around $2.29 at that same quickstop place)

If gasoline came out of my faucets at the same price the water does, I'd use the gasoline out of my tap. That's what I use for my water supply however, since that's what currently comes out of my tap.

I've never understood the "bottled water" sacrament....

[cerberus]

They're probably perturbed at all those nasty US troops drinking up all that bottled water.......typical Lib behavior......with a nod to Marie Antoinette..."Let 'em drink outta the stream....."
?? They never mention US troops at all. Did you even read the article?

I must say, I partially agree with them, all that bottled water drinking in a country with clean safe potable water from the tap seems pretty darn wasteful with the millions of plastic bottles used up every year. I could understand it in places like Mexico or India where the water system is suspect at best, but here its just crazy. I did find it odd that Italy was the top per capita bottled water user, but I wonder if that isn't due to the preference for sparkeling water like Pelligrino, which obviously, you can't get from a tap.

[TechnoPrincess]

Golly, I can buy milk for around $2 a gallon at Wal-Mart, and it's a heckuva lot more nutritious than water!

(although, to be fair, milk tends to run more like $2.79 a gallon at the corner quickstop market, whereas I can buy gasoline for only around $2.29 at that same quickstop place)

If gasoline came out of my faucets at the same price the water does, I'd use the gasoline out of my tap. That's what I use for my water supply however, since that's what currently comes out of my tap.

I've never understood the "bottled water" sacrament....

You obviously haven't had to drink the city water where I live. My water and gasoline taste a hell of a lot alike sometimes.

[DoctorDoom]

I must say, I partially agree with them ...How very surprising! :rolleyes: So don't drink it, dog boy.


Q: does this abhorrence of bottled water extend to the Perrier that the snobbish, elitist assholes quaff?

[cerberus]

How very surprising! :rolleyes: So don't drink it, dog boy.


Q: does this abhorrence of bottled water extend to the Perrier that the snobbish, elitist assholes quaff?
I'm not saying I abhor it, tin-face. I'm just saying it is wasteful when you have a plentiful supply of drikable water from the tap. Conspicuous consumption becomes mainstream.

Hey, if you want fizzy water, have at it; that you have to get from a bottle.

[DeclinetoState]

I'm not saying I abhor it, tin-face. I'm just saying it is wasteful when you have a plentiful supply of drikable water from the tap.

Looks like cerberus is itching to get banned.

BTW, what does drikable mean?

[DoctorDoom]

I'm not saying I abhor it, tin-face.I didn't say you did, dog breath. I was referring to the morons that are the thread topic. But you have the insufferable, "I know what's best for you!" attitude that typifies liberal world-savers.

I'm just saying it is wasteful when you have a plentiful supply of drikable water from the tap.You libs have this thing about telling us what we should/shouldn't do based solely on your fatuous opinions. Buy a clue, kid: we buy and drink bottled water because we WANT to do it. It's the same principle that motivates us to smoke, drive gas-guzzling SUVs and stock our homes with enough firepower for an army division.

We don't need to justify our propensities to annoying, officious liberals. We do what we do for no other rationale than that we want to do it.

"... I like to think; I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I WANT high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green jello all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal?"
-- Edgar Friendly, Demolition Man

If what we do is, in the highly-overrated opinions of liberals, "wasteful", we don't care. 'Kay?

[JohnSteel]

Looks like cerberus is itching to get banned.
Why? What for?

[DoctorDoom]

Why? What for?Not for "tin-face".

[Rink]

Cerberus is just being a typical liberal 'jerk' thats all.

LOL all mouth, no brains... as usual :D

O and Doc um that quote got me hungry, the other day I had a T-bone steak, now the jumbo rack of ribs bein mention has me droolin.... (hope its Baby Back ribs, I just A-Dore Baby back ribs!!!) YUMMMMMMMY

Also love loads of mashed potatoes smothered completely in REAL butter not margarine.

There just is no substitute for Butter, fresh milk, eggs, bacon, steak, ribs... "God sends meat and the devil sends cooks." - (quote from the PC game Starsiege)

[Patriot Heart]

Where I live, just outiside a small rural community, the town has perpetual problems with their water supply. We would often find out 24 hrs after the fact that we had been under a "boil order". GREAT. I bought Uncle Wally's water for some time. Finally we got sick of the whole business and spent $2,000 to plumb ourselves into the nearby Rural Water District (good tasting clean wter from a well).

[aaron11]

Conspicuous consumption becomes mainstream. :hahaha:


Hey, if you want fizzy water, have at it; that you have to get from a bottle.

You're such a dork.

[True Grace]

This thread is making me thirsty.

[DeclinetoState]

Is cerberus channeling Ted Kennedy?

(Sorry for all the inadvertent puns and double entendres that seem to come up whenever somebody mentions Chappaquiddick Ted.)

[cerberus]

I didn't say you did, dog breath. I was referring to the morons that are the thread topic. But you have the insufferable, "I know what's best for you!" attitude that typifies liberal world-savers. ...but you are the epitome of humility and never ever tell people what's best for them...:rolleyes:


You libs have this thing about telling us what we should/shouldn't do based solely on your fatuous opinions. Buy a clue, kid: we buy and drink bottled water because we WANT to do it. It's the same principle that motivates us to smoke, drive gas-guzzling SUVs and stock our homes with enough firepower for an army division.
Yes, and those are all clearly good ideas too. :rolleyes: If you want to do these things fine, I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying its wasteful and not the best idea in the world. You are ever so eager to share your opinion on "how things should be" and what people should do, I'd think if you could dish it out so much you might take it too.



We don't need to justify our propensities to annoying, officious liberals. We do what we do for no other rationale than that we want to do it.
So do five-year olds. Adults however are supposed to have some impulse control and the ability see that consequences of their actions and perhaps, I dunno, act altruistically every now and then. But hey, you got yours and devil take the hind-most eh?


"... I like to think; I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I WANT high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green jello all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal?"
-- Edgar Friendly, Demolition Man
Quoting "Demolition Man" ain't going to score you any points on the insightful-meter, O Ben Grimm playtoy.

If what we do is, in the highly-overrated opinions of liberals, "wasteful", we don't care. 'Kay? I thought people from "your generation" (or the generation you claim to be from) were all about saving and not being wasteful. What went wrong here? :licky:

[DoctorDoom]

...but you are the epitome of humility and never ever tell people what's best for them...I have no need to be humble.

Yes, and those are all clearly good ideas too. If you want to do these things fine, I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying its wasteful and not the best idea in the world.And I'm saying that you are free to post your opinions with the awareness that we don't care.

You are ever so eager to share your opinion on "how things should be" and what people should do, I'd think if you could dish it out so much you might take it too.The difference, kid, is that because I am mature, wise, experienced and brilliant, what I say carries vastly more weight than the vacuous verbiage of looneytoon liberals.

Adults however are supposed to have some impulse control and the ability see that consequences of their actions and perhaps, I dunno, act altruistically every now and then.If you can demonstrate to us that what you propose will do anything other than motivate liberalosers to preen in the mirror and feel good about how caring and sensitive they are, then perhaps you might have credibility.

But hey, you got yours and devil take the hind-most eh?You got it, kid.

Quoting "Demolition Man" ain't going to score you any points on the insightful-meter, O Ben Grimm playtoy.The quote says just I wanted to say. I'm not posting to impress you, libertroll.

I thought people from "your generation" (or the generation you claim to be from) were all about saving and not being wasteful. What went wrong here?The opinions of liberal elistists do not serve as our parameters for what is "wasteful", especially when rich liberals are fond of private jets, limousines, fifty-room mansions, etcetera.

Lead by example, world-savers.

[Tumblehome]

The difference, kid, is that because I am mature, wise, experienced and brilliant

:hahaha: Oh my, I just sprayed bottled water all over my monitor.

[aaron11]

Tumble, your comment is on par with the former Iraqi defense minster yelling that the Americans were being defeated at every turn and were no where in sight into the cameras from the roof top in Baghdad, while the US tanks rolled past in the background.

[Tumblehome]

Tumble, your comment is on par with the former Iraqi defense minster yelling that the Americans were being defeated at every turn and were no where in sight into the cameras from the roof top in Baghdad, while the US tanks rolled past in the background.

You've completely lost me. What comment? Did that defense minister spray water all over his monitor laughing at Doomy's arrogance too? Thats the only comment I've made in this thread. You confusing me with somebody else maybe?

[Rhino]

:hahaha: Oh my, I just sprayed bottled water all over my monitor.Yeah. How could he possibly have left out "good looking"???? What a major oversight!!!

[DoctorDoom]

Yeah. How could he possibly have left out "good looking"???? What a major oversight!!!Well, I didn't want to overdo it.

Oh my, I just sprayed bottled water all over my monitor.Did it rinse off the sticky stuff from your visits to the nekkid gurlz sites?

Being considerate of lesser beings such as dogface, these should provide them with visual reminders of the one who is the pinnacle, the quintessence, the very model, of overarching greatness.

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[cerberus]

And I'm saying that you are free to post your opinions with the awareness that we don't care.

The difference, kid, is that because I am mature, wise, experienced and brilliant, what I say carries vastly more weight than the vacuous verbiage of looneytoon liberals.You're getting senile old-man if you think your vitriolic rantings carry "weight" with anybody, but hey, you're free to post your opinion with the awareness that I don't care. :licky:

If you can demonstrate to us that what you propose will do anything other than motivate liberalosers to preen in the mirror and feel good about how caring and sensitive they are, then perhaps you might have credibility. Well I wasn't "proposing" anything, just noting the wastefulness of the bottled water craze when we have clean water from the tap. Still, I'm pretty sure the article mentioned the 1.5 million barrels of oil per year to make the stuff.


You got it, kid.
How very Christian of you. Glad to see you care about the well-being of others.

The quote says just I wanted to say. I'm not posting to impress you, libertroll. Or for rational discussion, clearly, conservatroll.

The opinions of liberal elistists do not serve as our parameters for what is "wasteful", especially when rich liberals are fond of private jets, limousines, fifty-room mansions, etcetera.

Lead by example, world-savers. Well I don't know about any 50 room mansions but I do try to lead by example. And the designation of "wasteful" isn't really an opinion, it's a pretty accurate designation in this instance.

[Faithful_Servant]

And in many cases less sanitary. As recently as five years ago, the NSF standards for tap water were more stringent than those for bottled water (NSF Standard 52 I believe). That's why it was perfectly legal to fill 'bottled' water bottles with tap water, and to hook up one of those water bottle filling machines to a standard water faucet. It's amazing how few people looked behind the machines to discover that. I don't know if the standards have changed since then, but I doubt it.
That's right. If you have ever bought Opal Springs water, you are drinking the exact same tap water that the town of Culver, Oregon gets from their kitchen faucets.

[Native American]

You obviously haven't had to drink the city water where I live. My water and gasoline taste a hell of a lot alike sometimes.

(grin) Your comment reminds me of my reaction (I thought it tasted roughly like gasoline, perhaps one of lower-octane discount varieties) the first time I tried a martini.

Later on, I came to love the darn things....

It may depend on the city you live in, because cities such as New York and Boston have absolutely fabulous water coming out of their taps, because in both cases the water comes from large reservoirs situated quite a ways away from those cities. Yet even in Boston the sales of bottled water was fairly brisk. I never understood why, given the excellence of the Boston city water. I suspect sales of bottled water are also strong in New York City.

Then again, a lot of the people you see jogging around, clutching some "trendy" brand of water in a plastic bottle so they can impress their friends as to how "with it" they are, are holding the only bottle of bottled water they have ever purchased in their life, and have been refilling and refilling that same container, from their kitchen tap, for several years. It fools their friends, especially if their friends are liberals, since liberals generally aren't very bright at all.

[Rhino]

clutching some "trendy" brand of water in a plastic bottle......Ding, ding ding! We have a winner! I bet San Francisco is even worse, and they probably have good water too.

[Native American]

Ding, ding ding! We have a winner! I bet San Francisco is even worse, and they probably have good water too.

BTW, you can get some great martinis in San Francisco! Two really fine places to imbibe those delightful concoctions in grace, style, and relative quiet are:

"The Redwood Room" in the Four Seasons Clift Hotel

and

"The Compass Rose" in the Westin St. Francis Hotel

I know, because I have done just that in both of those fine establishments...

[Rink]

Personally the osmosis and saline filtered water is best which isnt cheap by any means, When I went to trucking school they had water brought in by this company and that was what I called 'sweet-water' if was the same type my granma had up in Zillah WA which was water filtered by salt, it stayed good and was sweet.

All I ever care for is water I can take with me when I travel so i can sip on it when needed, as it helps cut down on my irritating coughing.

as long as its freshness lasts a day or two I'm kewl.

Dont haft be 'fancy' just as long as it is drinkable and dont taste bad after a day sitting out in my car

[Rhino]

BTW, you can get some great martinis in San Francisco! Two really fine places to imbibe those delightful concoctions in grace, style, and relative quiet are:

"The Redwood Room" in the Four Seasons Clift Hotel

and

"The Compass Rose" in the Westin St. Francis Hotel

I know, because I have done just that in both of those fine establishments...I don't drink, but that doesn't really matter because I have no desire to go to SF anyway. I shy away from communist countries.

[Rhino]

Rink, water isn't 'filtered' by salt. It's 'softened' by salt. Unless grandma had some really strange filtration system, I think the salt reference was to a water softener. Reverse osmosis was likely her filtration system. We used to have one of those. We just use the canister filter pack systems now.

[Rink]

Yea I think that was it, I like that 'sweet-water' stays fresh longer than reg water does in my opinion.

[Native American]

I don't drink, but that doesn't really matter because I have no desire to go to SF anyway. I shy away from communist countries.

I feel pretty much the same, but SF is still a nice place to visit as a tourist for a week or two. But the hotels are expensive, and the panhandlers are a Socialist joke.

Last time I visited there (for a wedding) I stayed for a week and did the Tourist Thing for the week prior to the wedding. They have bums who actually seem to make a living begging off of the unsuspecting tourists.

For example, on a main sidewalk near my hotel, leading over to the cable cars (all us tourists want to ride the cable cars!) I would see this young, fairly cute, female bum sprawled on the sidewalk inside a sleeping bag, with a small sign, begging for money. She looked pitiful, I must admit. Made me think, "Golly, what tragedy has struck that poor girl's life, that she is reduced to begging like that?"

Then a couple of days later I happened to leave my hotel earlier than usual, headed out for some of the tourist sites. Spotted that same waif girl, carrying a duffel bag. She was headed the same direction I was, which was towards the spot where I had previously seen her on the sidewalk in her sleeping bag, looking rather pitiful. Only this time she was dressed rather nice, and was carrying a duffel bag, as I said.

I followed her at some distance, and watched, amused, as she arrived at her usual begging spot. She took her ratty sleeping bag out of her nice duffel bag, took off some of her nice clothing and put on some ratty looking stuff which she then stuffed into the duffel bag. Then she stuffed the duffel bag with her nice clothes into the foot of her ratty sleeping bag, climbed into the sleeping bag, and "Assumed The Position" - she once again managed to look pitiful and in need of help.

I figure she probably owned a nice condo somewhere.

What a great way to make a living off of stupid tourists, people who actually buy into the Democrat Party's "they're homeless and they need our help!" agenda!

It was a great learning experience for me.

[DoctorDoom]

Troll Lite spewed ...

You're getting senile old-man if you think your vitriolic rantings carry "weight" with anybody, but hey, you're free to post your opinion with the awareness that I don't care.And you continue your self-delusion that Freecers consider your posts to be something other than the ramblings of a Celsius-room-temperature-IQ liberaloser.

Well I wasn't "proposing" anything, just noting the wastefulness of the bottled water craze when we have clean water from the tap.I'm sure that the civilized world is grovelling obsequiously at your Birkenstock-shod feet, breathlessly anticipating your every syllable on this and other equally frivolous topics.

Still, I'm pretty sure the article mentioned the 1.5 million barrels of oil per year to make the stuff.http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/oil_market_basics/images/usconsprodsector.gif

Where does your 1.5 million barrels per year fit in the chart when transportation uses almost 13 million barrels per day? It pales in comparison to the millions of barrels of oil used to make fuel to power the limos and private jets, and to heat/cool the palatial domiciles, of liberal elitists.

You got it, kid.How very Christian of you.And what would a heathen fool (Ps 14:1) like you know about such things?

Glad to see you care about the well-being of others.I am not even slightly interested in the "well-being of others" as defined by touchy-feely liberals.

The quote says just I wanted to say. I'm not posting to impress you, libertroll. Or for rational discussion ...Attempting to engage in rational discussion with a liberal is on a par with trying to discuss M-theory with a chimpanzee.

... clearly, conservatroll.Dog face - Posts: 468 (only because we are tolerant of liberal trolls due to their minimal amusement value).
DD - Posts: 21,014-plus.

When you approach that number, you might be able to say, "I'm no longer a troll," if you last that long.

Well I don't know about any 50 room mansions ...Like liberals, I used a nice, round figure. Take a tour of Malibu and Beverly Hills to see how rich liberals live. And for ecowacko hypocrisy at its most shameless, try BS's Malibu hovel.

People who live in 10,000-square-foot oceanfront mansions shouldn't throw stones.

That hasn't stopped Barbra Streisand from lecturing her fellow Californians about their energy use ("We must make concrete changes in our lifestyles to help solve this energy crisis ... try to line dry [clothes] ... only run your dishwasher when it is fully loaded ...") and lambasting President Bush's environmental policies ("Bush has discouraged energy conservation every step of the way – suing California for passing a law requiring more fuel-efficient vehicles and even proposing a tax cut for SUV owners!").

[snip]

Adelman's website is dedicated to depicting "truth in pictures," and it's why Streisand is so intent on squashing him. What really must bother Streisand is that anyone can now click on the Internet photos to see her six environmentally incorrect chimneys and chlorine-guzzling swimming pool. It's what the photos of Streisand's mansion don't show – no windmill-powered generators, no electric cars, no "Small is Beautiful" lawn ornaments, no hemp curtains in the windows of her eight bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, no Scaasi evening gowns hanging outside to dry on clotheslines that should be strung between her precious parasols – that expose the truth of her eco-hypocrisy best.Malibu Babs: Snapshots of an eco-hypocrite (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32899)

... but I do try to lead by example.Color me awed. :rolleyes:

And the designation of "wasteful" isn't really an opinion, it's a pretty accurate designation in this instance.It's elitist liberal social engineering. If folks want to drink bottled water, and it uses up as much oil in a year as jet fuel uses in a day, so what? The fact that liberals call it wasteful (while wasting resources on a much grander scale) is irrelevant.

[Tumblehome]

That last post by doomy contained so many strung together adhoms that it was almost poetic. That post should be put in the hall of fame.

[DoctorDoom]

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[Rhino]

I lived in Kalifornia for three years. Fantastic geography, but the communist government ruined it all. I was very happy to leave.

[Tumblehome]

lol! Keep going doomy. Don't stop there.

[Rink]

Even trucking companies cant make it in Kalifornia due to overregulation from the state...

[DoctorDoom]

lol! Keep going doomy. Don't stop there.Sorry, Stumblebum, but I've given you far more attention than you deserve. BTW, how much do you overcharge your clients for the time you waste making an ass of yourself here?

[Tumblehome]

Why are you so fixated on me being a lawyer? You seem to bring it up in every post in which you mention me. Come now doomy, aren't you just being jealous that I have the education and connections to make a difference in this world and you just have your "Dr. Doom, King of the Universe" fantasy?

[DoctorDoom]

Why are you so fixated on me being a lawyer? You seem to bring it up in every post in which you mention me.Why? Because lawyers are generally regarded here as a lower life form, somewhere on the ladder between amoebae and cockroaches. As to why, it's to keep newbies and others unfamiliar with the persona behind the ID informed about what sort of creature they're dealing with, and about the utter futility of attempting to reason with that creature.

Come now doomy, aren't you just being jealous that I have the education and connections to make a difference in this world ...The only difference lawyers make in the world is to burden society with usually frivolous litigation, with the intention of filling their coffers with exhorbitant fees.

Yes, there are good and decent lawyers. They can be found without much more effort than looking for living pterodactyls.

"The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup."
--F. Ross Johnson, former CEO, RJR Nabisco

"THE FIRST THING WE DO, LET'S KILL ALL THE LAWYERS."
-- Dick the Butcher, Shakespeare, HENRY VI Part 2, act iv, scene ii

Re education, nothing is more hazardous to wealth and society than educated parasites.

Re connections, the same can be said of the Mafia.

... and you just have your "Dr. Doom, King of the Universe" fantasy?I've given 38+ years of my life to GE in various capacities, and have provided three mighty fine kids to the world to carry on when the old man goes home. In my 63 years, I regret only having wasted about a third of them as a liberal atheist.

Now that I'm retired and have abundant free time, I can spend a lot of it being a royal pain in the ass to clue-challenged liberalosers who come to FC to pollute the board with their hyperleftist sewage.

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Some tidbits from the files ...


At a New England society dinner some years ago, Mark Twain had just finished a piquant address when Mr. Evarts arose, shoved both of his hands down into his trousers’ pockets, as was his habit and laughingly remarked: “Doesn’t it strike this company as a little unusual that a professional humorist should be funny?” Mark Twain waited until the laughter excited by this sally had subsided, and then drawled out: “Doesn’t it strike this company as a little unusual that a lawyer should have his hands in his own pockets?”

Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, an honest lawyer and an old drunk are walking down a street together when they simultaneously spot a hundred-dollar bill. Who gets it? The old drunk, of course, the other three are mythological creatures.

If builders built buildings the way lawyers write laws, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

I used to wonder why so many lawyers wore turtleneck shirts. Turns out I had it all wrong. Lawyers don't wear turtlenecks -- they're just uncircumcized!

A man died and was taken to his place of eternal torment by the devil. As he passed sulfurous pits and shrieking sinners, he saw a man he recognized as a lawyer snuggling up to a beautiful woman.
“That’s unfair!” he cried. “I have to roast for all eternity, and that lawyer gets to spend it with a beautiful woman.”
“Shut up,” barked the devil, jabbing him with his pitchfork. “Who are you to question that woman’s punishment?”

Did you hear about the lawyer from Texas who was so big when he died that they couldn't find a coffin big enough to hold the body? They gave him an enema and buried him in a shoebox.

A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did for a living. "Billy, you be first," she said, "What does you mother do all day?" Billy stood up and proudly said, "She's a doctor."
"That's wonderful. How about you, Amie?"
Amie shyly stood up, scuffed her feet and said, "My father is a mailman."
"Thank you, Amie," said the teacher, "What about your father, Tim?"
Tim proudly stood up and announced, "My daddy plays piano in a whorehouse."
The teacher was aghast and promptly changed the subject to geography. Later that day she went to Tim's house and rang the bell. Tim's father answered the door. The teacher explained what his son had said and demanded an explanation.
Tim's father said, "I'm actually an attorney. How can I explain a thing like that to a seven-year-old?"

Three surgeons were discussing their favorite type of patients. The first said: "I like artists. When you cut them open, they are awash with color inside." The second doctor said: "I much prefer engineers. When you cut them open, everything is orderly and numbered." "Nonsense," said the third doctor. "The easiest are attorneys. They have only two parts, their ass and their mouth -- and those are interchangeable."


Q: What is the difference between a tick and a lawyer?
A: A tick falls off of you when you die.

Q: Why does the law society prohibit sex between lawyers and their clients?
A: To prevent clients from being billed twice for essentially the same service.

Q: What can a goose do, a duck can't, and a lawyer should?
A: Stick his bill up his butt.

Q: What do you have when 100 lawyers are buried up to their neck in sand?
A: Not enough sand.

Q: What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road?
A: There are skid marks in front of the dog.

Q: What is black and brown and looks good on a lawyer?
A: A Doberman.

Q: Why are lawyers like nuclear weapons?
A: If one side has one, the other side has to get one. Once launched, they cannot be recalled. When they land, they screw up everything forever.

Q: What do lawyers and sperm have in common?
A: One in 3,000,000 has a chance of becoming a human being.

Q: What's the difference between a female lawyer and a pit bull?
A: Lipstick.

Q: What do you call 20 lawyers skydiving?
A: Skeet.

Q: How can you tell a lawyer is lying?
A: Other lawyers look interested.

Q: What do honest lawyers and UFO's have in common?
A: You always hear about them, but you never see them.

[Warlady]

What's so Special About Bottled Water?


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According to a Beverage Marketing Corporation survey, about 40%of us regularly buy bottled drinking water--$4.9 billion worthlast year. We asked the top sellers to reveal mineral content,source and average price (all but the Canadian company Aberfoylecomplied), then had a professional water taster sip and tell.None have significant amounts of fluoride (bad news for yourteeth). Dr. Joshua Barzilay, author of The Water We Drink, saysa calcium content greater than 50mg could be beneficial, but"other than that, unless your immune system is weak, I don'tthink bottled water offers you much health advantage over tapwater." For those on a sodium-restricted diet, stick to waterswith less than 20mg per liter. If European trends are anyindicator, an order for oxygen-enhanced, calcium-enriched waterwith your lunch is not far off.--NATASHA RAFIBrand Name Sources Avg. Price Calcium[1]NATURAL SPRING WATERS Per LiterArrowhead Mountain Calif., Ariz. $0.89 20.4Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine Tenn., Calif. 0.64 40.0Dannon Natural[3] Pa., Fla.,Quebec 0.79 65.0UtahDeer Park Pa., Fla., Md. 0.89 26.5Evian French Alps 1.39 78.0Ozarka Natural Texas 0.89 2.0Poland Spring Maine 0.89 8.3Zephyrhills Fla. 0.89 58.0PURIFIED WATERSAquafina Municipal water 1.04 NonesuppliesDasani Municipal water 1.32 NonesuppliesSparkletts Crystal-Fresh Wells 0.59 0.7Magnesium[1] Sodium[1] Tasting notes[2][Arrowhead Mountain] 3.6 11.1 Soft, gentle in themouth, clean aftertaste[Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine] 8.0 Under 17.0 Soft, with a cleanaftertaste[Dannon Natural[3]] 15.0 22.0 Bright, round, slightlyacidic aftertaste[Deer Park] 2.6 1.1 Soft, elegant andrefreshing[Evian] 24.0 Under 5.0 Rich and complex, witha lactic aftertaste[Ozarka Natural] 1.2 2.3 Light and delicatemouth feel, sweetfinish[Poland Spring] 0.8 2.9 Light body, slightlyastringent aftertaste[Zephyrhills] 3.9 5.1 A pleasant, slightlysaline quality[PURIFIED WATERS][Aquafina] None None Soft, round body,slightly sweetaftertaste[Dasani] N.A. N.A. Slightly sweet,hint of citrus inthe aftertaste[Sparkletts Crystal-Fresh] 0.8 3.8 Sweet in the mouth,clean aftertasteNotes: N.A.: Not available. [1]Milligrams per liter. [2]Tastingby industry consultant Arthur von Wiesenberger. [3]Sample fromUtah. Sources: Information Resources, FDA, International BottledWater Association.</PRE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></P>
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We don't drink anything but bottled water. At the beach the water was filled with rust. Up here in Weatherford we are on well water and it stinks of sulphur. I had the water tested at our beach house and it was full of toxins. Since we moved up here they have switched to surface water treatment and according to our contractor who is remodeling it has told us the water is now good. But up here the well water stinks and has black grit in it. No way am I going to drink that crap. Bottled water costs more than gasoline but it's worth it to us.

[Warlady]

cerbius you are an idiot. Why do you liberals care what others do with their money? Typical of liberals to want to control what others do and what others think and what others buy. This is a free country. Your opinion is taken with the weight it deserves which is nothing.

[DeclinetoState]

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Some tidbits from the files ...


At a New England society dinner some years ago, Mark Twain had just finished a piquant address when Mr. Evarts arose, shoved both of his hands down into his trousers’ pockets, as was his habit and laughingly remarked: “Doesn’t it strike this company as a little unusual that a professional humorist should be funny?” Mark Twain waited until the laughter excited by this sally had subsided, and then drawled out: “Doesn’t it strike this company as a little unusual that a lawyer should have his hands in his own pockets?”

Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, an honest lawyer and an old drunk are walking down a street together when they simultaneously spot a hundred-dollar bill. Who gets it? The old drunk, of course, the other three are mythological creatures.

If builders built buildings the way lawyers write laws, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

I used to wonder why so many lawyers wore turtleneck shirts. Turns out I had it all wrong. Lawyers don't wear turtlenecks -- they're just uncircumcized!

A man died and was taken to his place of eternal torment by the devil. As he passed sulfurous pits and shrieking sinners, he saw a man he recognized as a lawyer snuggling up to a beautiful woman.
“That’s unfair!” he cried. “I have to roast for all eternity, and that lawyer gets to spend it with a beautiful woman.”
“Shut up,” barked the devil, jabbing him with his pitchfork. “Who are you to question that woman’s punishment?”

Did you hear about the lawyer from Texas who was so big when he died that they couldn't find a coffin big enough to hold the body? They gave him an enema and buried him in a shoebox.

A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did for a living. "Billy, you be first," she said, "What does you mother do all day?" Billy stood up and proudly said, "She's a doctor."
"That's wonderful. How about you, Amie?"
Amie shyly stood up, scuffed her feet and said, "My father is a mailman."
"Thank you, Amie," said the teacher, "What about your father, Tim?"
Tim proudly stood up and announced, "My daddy plays piano in a whorehouse."
The teacher was aghast and promptly changed the subject to geography. Later that day she went to Tim's house and rang the bell. Tim's father answered the door. The teacher explained what his son had said and demanded an explanation.
Tim's father said, "I'm actually an attorney. How can I explain a thing like that to a seven-year-old?"

Three surgeons were discussing their favorite type of patients. The first said: "I like artists. When you cut them open, they are awash with color inside." The second doctor said: "I much prefer engineers. When you cut them open, everything is orderly and numbered." "Nonsense," said the third doctor. "The easiest are attorneys. They have only two parts, their ass and their mouth -- and those are interchangeable."


Q: What is the difference between a tick and a lawyer?
A: A tick falls off of you when you die.

Q: Why does the law society prohibit sex between lawyers and their clients?
A: To prevent clients from being billed twice for essentially the same service.

Q: What can a goose do, a duck can't, and a lawyer should?
A: Stick his bill up his butt.

Q: What do you have when 100 lawyers are buried up to their neck in sand?
A: Not enough sand.

Q: What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road?
A: There are skid marks in front of the dog.

Q: What is black and brown and looks good on a lawyer?
A: A Doberman.

Q: Why are lawyers like nuclear weapons?
A: If one side has one, the other side has to get one. Once launched, they cannot be recalled. When they land, they screw up everything forever.

Q: What do lawyers and sperm have in common?
A: One in 3,000,000 has a chance of becoming a human being.

Q: What's the difference between a female lawyer and a pit bull?
A: Lipstick.

Q: What do you call 20 lawyers skydiving?
A: Skeet.

Q: How can you tell a lawyer is lying?
A: Other lawyers look interested.

Q: What do honest lawyers and UFO's have in common?
A: You always hear about them, but you never see them.

Definition of waste: a Greyhound busload of lawyers going off a cliff with three empty seats.

[cerberus]

cerbius[sic] you are an idiot. I love you too.
Why do you liberals care what others do with their money? Typical of liberals to want to control what others do and what others think and what others buy. ...said the desert to the grain of sand.... An ironic statement since tons of conservatives want just as much, if not more control over what others think and can/can't do.

This is a free country. What happened to responsibility coming with freedom?

Your opinion is taken with the weight it deserves which is nothing. Right back at ya.

[CzechPrince]

we buy and drink bottled water because we WANT to do it. It's the same principle that motivates us to smoke, drive gas-guzzling SUVs and stock our homes with enough firepower for an army division.

We don't need to justify our propensities to annoying, officious liberals. We do what we do for no other rationale than that we want to do it.

:claps:Very libertarian of you Doc.

[Native American]

Actually, I suspect DoctorDoom is a good conservative, not one of those impotent Libertarians I spoke of earlier, CheckBoy.

[DoctorDoom]

...said the desert to the grain of sand.... An ironic statement since tons of conservatives want just as much, if not more control over what others think and can/can't do.I assume that you will now provide evidence that your statement wasn't pulled out of your ass with your teeth. IAC, were conservatives guilty of that, it would make us no better than liberals. We'd sooner have white-hot needles driven into our eyeballs that sink to that depth.

What happened to responsibility coming with freedom?That's rich from a liberal.

• Unrestricted access to abortion must continue to deal with the inevitable results of sexual freedom without responsibility.
• Billions of dollars must be spent on a cure for AIDS because buggerers want the freedom to pump fudge without responsibility.
• Public libraries must not filter porn because perverts must have the freedom to spank their monkeys wherever they want without responsibility.
• TV and movies are becoming moral cesspools because people want the freedom to satiate their degeneracy without responsibility.
• Libs/leftists march in the streets spewing their obsessive hatred of President Bush and given moral support to terrorists because their freedom of speech cannot be tempered by responsibility.

Liberals are notorious for equating liberty with license to do what they please without a trace of self-control, while attempting to ram their arrogant, "We know what's best for you!" elitism down our throats.

Liberal, when you grow up, come back and argue. In the meantime, shut off your computer and save some electricity. Show a little responsibility.

I do believe that I shall head to town this evening and exercise my freedom to buy a dozen gallon jugs of bottled water, just because I feel like doing it.

[Native American]

Liberal, when you grow up, come back and argue. In the meantime, shut off your computer and save some electricity. Show a little responsibility.

I do believe that I shall head to town this evening and exercise my freedom to buy a dozen gallon jugs of bottled water, just because I feel like doing it.

Amen to both paragraphs!! http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/images/icons/applaud.gif