OT - Bottled Water

I want water that tastes good and doesn't stink and I don't want to have to carry a bunch of crap around with me to get it.

What makes you think that health has anything to do with it? I have a goal in life of dying of a heart attack, stroke, or accident before I get cancer. I don't really give much of a damn about "health".

So now I have to carry a still on the back of my bike along with everything else?

None of those springs were in my back yard so I don't see what relevance they have to the discussion.

Right. You don't think they haul up bottles of Evian to the ISS every two months.

Thu, Oct 25, 2007, 11:25pm snipped-for-privacy@cox.net (J.=A0Clarke) put out: I have a goal in life of dying of a heart attack, stroke, or accident before I get cancer. None of those springs were in my back yard so I don't see what relevance they have to the discussion.

Didn't know I had a choice when I got cancer.

Well, one of the companies bottling the water you drink could be getting it from one of those springs. That enough relevance?

JOAT It's not hard, if you get your mind right.

- Granny Weatherwax

You don't have a choice, but if both your parents died of it in their '80s then that gives little incentive to try to live that long.

I thought that the point being made was that bottled water was somebody's city water, not that it was contaminated spring water.

Well that did it. No more water for me. From now on it's wine or even better - whiskey!

A Katyadyn is too heavy?

You have another option. Buy generic purified water in 5 gallon carboys and decant it into your bike bottles. That's not as cheap as municipal tap water, but not as ludicrously overpriced as bottled.

It takes up volume.

But what's the point of decanting it? It weighs the same either way.

Fri, Oct 26, 2007, 7:54am snipped-for-privacy@cox.net (J.=A0Clarke) You don't have a choice, but if both your parents died of it in their '80s then that gives little incentive to try to live that long.

I happen to believe in reincarnation. But I also have no incentive to start early.

JOAT It's not hard, if you get your mind right.

- Granny Weatherwax

You won't have to drag a trailer or gear way down to climb hills.

So how does a "5 gallon carboy" help me if I don't carry the whole 5 gallons?

Weighs half as much as a 10.

Here's a typical trip for me:

me:

With straps? Like this guy, whose bike runs on pedal power:

Labrador City looking for another carboy?

I know this is way too easy a solution, but how about something like "Not a bad idea, but it doesn't work for me"?

Then again, if you guys really enjoy pissing on each others feet in the shower, have at it..

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