Time for another touchy- feely get-to-know-you thread.

golf_prez · #1 July 23rd, 2001, 09:57 PM

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Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
[b]Bottled water is a ripoff! I can't understand why anyone would buy that crap. B]

I think this is an old comedians joke but...
Evian Bottled Water is "naive" spelled backwards...

Krsqk · #2 July 23rd, 2001, 10:47 PM

SWEET TEA!

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1) Is sweet tea the same thing as Ice Tea ??

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I call that "real iced tea" as opposed to all other kinds. I never thought of it as Southern, though. That's just how my mom made it

Yes, it's iced tea. No, it's not. I'm from Michigan, and that's the only way I ever knew tea--until some demented person introduced me to "real man's tea"--tasted more like real man's sock.

That's about all I drink--up to a pitcher (2 1/2 qt.) every 24-36 hours, sometimes.

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Like I said, GRAVY!

You're a sick man, Zero.

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Alpha Kodiak · #3 July 23rd, 2001, 10:49 PM

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Originally posted by Puke:
now thats just ingenious. i bet it worked too. I have never heard of that being used as a remedy, but that is about 99% of what goes into most modern throat elixers such as Vicks, Nyquil, or Robotusen (did i spell those right? oh well.. do i ever spell anything right?)

My mother was from a very small town in West Virginia (even small for WV) so I got treated to a LOT of interesting home remedies. Funny thing is, most of them worked better than what you can get at the drug store. (That is, if they didn't kill you first

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Puke · #4 July 23rd, 2001, 11:12 PM

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Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
Bottled water is a ripoff! I can't understand why anyone would buy that crap!

well, im with you and im against you. I have seen some parts of town or some buildings with some truely nasty tasting tap water. in some cities is comes out murkey, and god, in Waco TX the stuff came out brown. Man I hated staying in that town. In Waco, I probably would not have bought that evian crap, but if I end up being stuck with those water conditions again, im either buying a few gallons of the distilled stuff, or bringing a filter.

now, filtered water usually tastes a bit cleaner than the stuff straight from the tap, and alot of people love their bottled or filtered stuff, but i say TOUGH IT OUT. If its not BROWN, drink the tap stuff. no wonder people have weak immune systems, the babies.

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Atrocities · #5 July 23rd, 2001, 11:56 PM

Speaking of water. In my part of the world, we use ground water with a super high iron content. You know, the stuff that turns your white things yellow.

Doesn't taste all that bad, except for the small stuff floating at the bottom of the cup. I recommend that no one drink that.

When you fill up a pool, it looks like a big cup of coffee. Man the water beatles sure love that though. They too taste like ****.

Water softeners a great, but cost a ton to operate.

Our water might be hard, but at least its not surface water like what Portland has to drink. Ha ha.

Quikngruvn · #6 July 24th, 2001, 08:20 AM

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Originally posted by Krsqk:
I'm from Michigan, and that's the only way I ever knew tea--until some demented person introduced me to "real man's tea"--tasted more like real man's sock.

The Last time I was in Michigan, I attended a semiformal dinner where tea was served (no alcohol, since we were not yet of age). Being the only southerner at my table, I tried to explain to the other folks about sweet tea. All I got was blank stares.... Oh well, they're missing out!

Side note: if I lived about 15 miles to the southeast of my current home, I'd be drinking heavy sweet tea. The water there's got a bit... make that a lot of uranium, radium, and radon in it. (Naturally occurring, but radioactive is radioactive!) Suddenly bottled water makes a whole lot more sense!

Quikngruvn

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Phoenix-D · #7 July 24th, 2001, 08:36 AM

re: crap in the water:

Give anyone pure H20, and I'd bet they would say it tastes odd. I can't stand the various "mineral water" stuff myself, leaves a nasty aftertaste. But the taste of water is mostly what gets into it, I think, plus what you're used to. Ex: I lived in a dorm in LA for a while. Water tasted like processed vomit for a while, then it was fine. Move back, and the water at home tasted funky for a whille.

Phoenix-D