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

Saxon · #1 July 24th, 2001, 04:47 PM

Gotta go with Puke's thoughts. If it looks ok in Canda or the States, drink it and toughen your system up. Now, I live in Kenya and when ever I go back to Canada, I start drinking the water and get constipated. The is nothing in the water to keep my insides moving things through. Tap water in North America is (some rural areas excepted) pretty damn good and the bottled kind a waste of time.

Come to visit me and the Nairobi city water supply is going to keep you in the toilet for the first couple of weeks. :-) After that, you will be ok.

capnq · #2 July 24th, 2001, 05:25 PM

Of the various places I've lived here in Pennsylvania, there was only one apartment that I couldn't drink the tap water. It had such a chalky aftertaste that drinking it actually made you more thirsty. I think it was endemic to the neighborhood; I couldn't drink the lemon-lime flavored soda pop at the local McDonalds, either, because the flavoring was too light to cover the taste of the water it was mixed with.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

DirectorTsaarx · #3 July 30th, 2001, 10:04 PM

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Originally posted by askan:
Well being Australian I drink lots of Australian beers like Tooheys Extra Dry and Crown Lager. (Fosters is 'Export' quality, we don't touch the stuff here).

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At work I'll drink the boss's prefered choice of VB (cause he fills up the fridge with em). VB is probabaly the Australian baseline beer.

Ah yes, the REAL Australian beers. I visited Australia (on a business trip) a couple years ago, and I agree that Crown Lager and Toohey's are MUCH better than Victoria Bitters (which still knocks Foster's out cold, of course).

But I don't drink much alcohol these days, as my fiancee doesn't like the stuff, not even the smell of it. So I stick to Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb, root beer (any brand), and Arizona "Memory Mind Elixir" (tastes like sweetened grapefruit juice with green tea mixed in - supposedly has ginkgo biloba and other memory/mind-enhancing herbs in it). Oh yeah, and 3 cups of coffee every weekday morning. No other way to get through a workday.

Instar · #4 August 1st, 2001, 11:35 PM

Cream soda
And just so you know pure distilled water has no taste. Ah, the days of chemistry class and those distilled water bottles. Heh, what a water battle, I got soaked and the teacher blamed me!

Askan Nightbringer · #5 August 2nd, 2001, 11:12 AM

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But I don't drink much alcohol these days, as my fiancee doesn't like the stuff, not even the smell of it. So I stick to Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb, root beer (any brand), and Arizona "Memory Mind Elixir" (tastes like sweetened grapefruit juice with green tea mixed in - supposedly has ginkgo biloba and other memory/mind-enhancing herbs in it). Oh yeah, and 3 cups of coffee every weekday morning. No other way to get through a workday. [/b]

If my girlfriend didn't like alcohol I think I'de give up the girl and not the drink.

As for that Dr. Pepper stuff....I think it must be some sort of acquired taste.
And is root beer = ginger beer? Or does it have alcohol in it?

I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers.
Is that because your all young americans and you have that really oppresive drinking age?
Or is everyone just really old and completely out of that pub/club/bar/tavern/inn/bottle shop/21st birthday party/hotel/having a drink with mates on the porch/disco scene?
What do you people do after work?

Cheers,
Askan Nightbringer
Voice of the People's Empire of Night
(who would never appoint a Fleet Commander who couldn't discuss strategies over a scotch)

dogscoff · #6 August 3rd, 2001, 01:34 AM

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Originally posted by askan:
I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers.

*whew*, thanks Askan - I was beginning to worry that I maybe there was something wrong with me=-)

I would find it really really hard to go alcohol free - not because of any kind of addiction, I just love beer too much. I also like that fuzzy feeling which lies on the drunk/ sober border.

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capnq · #7 August 3rd, 2001, 01:48 AM

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I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers. Is that because your all young americans and you have that really oppresive drinking age? Or is everyone just really old and completely out of that pub/club/bar/tavern/inn/bottle shop/21st birthday party/hotel/having a drink with mates on the porch/disco scene? What do you people do after work?

Well, in my case, I only drink socially with friends, and I'm pretty much a hermit. The Last I remember opening the white rum I have on hand was for a candlelight dinner in '93. I was never into the bar scene, and honestly can't remember the Last time I bought alcohol at a restaurant.

I've been on disability since '83, but if I had a job, I'd play computer games and Web surf after work. As it is, I'm Online at least six hours a day, and probably at the computer but offline almost as long.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"