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2018-01-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Today's Idiots: California 'raw' water fans pay $9 a gallon for Oregon tap water
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Posted by gorb 2018-01-20 03:49|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Think of it as evolution in action - raw water killed more people than Stalin, Hitler, and Mao combined.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-01-20 04:10||   2018-01-20 04:10|| Front Page Top

#2 But, but. These are people who embrace "science." They understand water chemistry much more thoroughly than any "denier..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-01-20 04:11||   2018-01-20 04:11|| Front Page Top

#3 That's microbiology, not water chemistry, MM.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-01-20 04:18||   2018-01-20 04:18|| Front Page Top

#4 They are as concerned about the chlorine and fluoride as they are about the tasty bugs. And distillation is too complicated for them to understand. But point taken, g.
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-01-20 04:27||   2018-01-20 04:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Yet people who drink well water generally have fewer diseases than those who live on city water; the presence of some microbes grants some immunities... works until you have a major bad bug like diphtheria.. Like that German fella said "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
Posted by Slavins Uneath9257 2018-01-20 06:48||   2018-01-20 06:48|| Front Page Top

#6 "It's a no-brainer," said Lee Sayer, a musician in San Francisco and anti-fluoride activist who has been drinking raw water for months. "You have water that's processed through the earth through natural processes ‐ it's cleaned. And being that water has memory, it has a memory of tumbling through the rocks. It has micronutrients and I believe it's alive."

The first bolded statement was spot-on, for reasons unclear to the "musician"
Posted by Frank G 2018-01-20 06:50||   2018-01-20 06:50|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 cont'd - that being said, paying $8+ a gallon, even for "free-range, artisanal water" is just plain stupid...
Posted by Slavins Uneath9257 2018-01-20 07:59||   2018-01-20 07:59|| Front Page Top

#8 As Dennis Miller said “Evian is naive spelled backwards”
Posted by Skidmark 2018-01-20 08:38||   2018-01-20 08:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Like that German fella said "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

Some of them may not kill you, but they will make you poop your ass off.

And being that water has memory, it has a memory of tumbling through the rocks. It has micronutrients and I believe it's alive."

I only drink only Brawndo. It has electrolytes.

Posted by SteveS 2018-01-20 09:16||   2018-01-20 09:16|| Front Page Top

#10 water has memory
Does it remember carrying waste down the White House toilet?
Posted by Glenmore 2018-01-20 10:21||   2018-01-20 10:21|| Front Page Top

#11 You guys ever drink Colorado River water?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-01-20 10:41||   2018-01-20 10:41|| Front Page Top

#12 #5 Yet people who drink well water generally have fewer diseases than those who live on city water;
Correlation does not imply causation. It takes a critical number of people, about 40,000 living together, for a disease to become a constant presence. Anti-Vaxxer's drinking untreated water are throwbacks to the Dark Ages.
Posted by magpie 2018-01-20 11:48||   2018-01-20 11:48|| Front Page Top

#13 You need something to wash down those Tide pods!
Spin cycle Snark O'the Day
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-01-20 11:59||   2018-01-20 11:59|| Front Page Top

#14 To quote William Ackerman from Windham Hills, "sinners can repent but stupid is forever".
Posted by Woodrow 2018-01-20 13:04||   2018-01-20 13:04|| Front Page Top

#15 Umm, I've got my own well no additives or nothing. Anyone want to offer me $X where X is > $10 per gallon?

filtered through rocks and everything

And I'm sure it's at least as smart as that Oregon water at remembering tumbling over rocks.
Posted by AlanC 2018-01-20 13:22||   2018-01-20 13:22|| Front Page Top

#16 You need something to wash down those Tide pods!

I nominate this one for Snark O' The Day!
Posted by Raj 2018-01-20 13:36||   2018-01-20 13:36|| Front Page Top

#17 good call
Posted by Frank G 2018-01-20 14:42||   2018-01-20 14:42|| Front Page Top

#18 "Ice cream, Mandrake. Children's ice cream!"
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-01-20 15:42||   2018-01-20 15:42|| Front Page Top

#19 For the historically illiterate - Poo

Clean water! Marvel of modern Western Civ. Of course we know those who despise Western Civ.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-01-20 16:36||   2018-01-20 16:36|| Front Page Top

#20 How much extra for the yellow variety?
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-01-20 18:39||   2018-01-20 18:39|| Front Page Top

#21 How much extra for the yellow variety?

And we're back to electrolytes again.
Posted by SteveS 2018-01-20 20:22||   2018-01-20 20:22|| Front Page Top

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