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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Texacon on December 23, 2010, 01:30:51 PM
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts)
Thu Dec-23-10 02:15 PM
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Ok this DOES NOT MAKE SENSE
we have the Weather channel people telling MSNBC that we have water quality issues up and down the coast... as in bacterial contamination and all that... but my city has not issued a boil water order.....
We were pounded by the storm by the way.
Folks common sense says (ok disaster training) either BOIL your water for 20 minutes, or buy bottled water for a week or so.
The Weather Channel told them?? Really??
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Here's someone I think carries things a little too far.....either that or is having fun at nadin;lkjupo9hnnn expense;
Cleita (1000+ posts)
Thu Dec-23-10 02:23 PM
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2. I boil and buy bottled as a matter of course because we have well water.
I also did so when I lived in LA and supposedly our water was treated, except those times, during rain storms when the sewers would overflow and drain into the reservoirs. So any water out of the tap gets treated by me first before it goes into my body. That goes for my food that I eat raw too. I wash it with anti-bacteria soap first. I believe it pays off too because I seldom get sick, like colds, flu or stomach ailments.
Wow.
KC
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For being so smart they sure are stupid. The warnings are for going into the ocean. not potable water out of the tap.
Somehow the really stupid people have gotten control of our society. Jimmy Carter's revenge with the creation of the federal education department and the false self-esteem indoctrination pogrom.
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That goes for my food that I eat raw too. I wash it with anti-bacteria soap first. I believe it pays off too because I seldom get sick, like colds, flu or stomach ailments.
I really wish she was being sarcastic, but I know she isn't.
Reminds me of the episode where Kramer started doing all his food prep in the shower.
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These loons go from Mr Clean Jeans to Ms Manure on my shoe-a. Check the cheesy story linked below:
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20101223-BIZ-12230375
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Sally Jackson Cheese of Oroville, Wash., voluntarily recalled all of its cheeses Friday after the Food and Drug Administration warned that the products should be avoided because they could be contaminated by E. coli. Eight people in Washington, Oregon, Minnesota and Vermont have been sickened, one of whom was briefly hospitalized.
Owner Sally Jackson disputes findings in the report, but said she plans to shut down her business. She said Washington state had ordered her to upgrade her aging, wooden facility a month ago.
"My argument then was that I have never made anybody sick in 30 years. That's what breaks my heart now, that this is how it ended," she said. "This has never happened."
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Organic illness, just taste that cheese goodness. Whole Foods, shouldn't that be Hole Foods??
This should really cheese off the dummies, a fellow artisan so shamefully treated.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread. :lol:
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts)
Thu Dec-23-10 02:15 PM
Original message
Ok this DOES NOT MAKE SENSE
we have the Weather channel people telling MSNBC that we have water quality issues up and down the coast... as in bacterial contamination and all that... but my city has not issued a boil water order.....We were pounded by the storm by the way.
Folks common sense says (ok disaster training) either BOIL your water for 20 minutes, or buy bottled water for a week or so.
There's your problem. Common sense. DUmmies/liberals and common sense? No such beast. :tongue:
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That goes for my food that I eat raw too. I wash it with anti-bacteria soap first.
Jesus H! :mental:
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Mmmm.... Dial flavored field greens...
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That goes for my food that I eat raw too. I wash it with anti-bacteria soap first.
Washing beans? You want Lava Fava!
Seriously...this might be why some DUmmies are so whacked out in the head. This sort of thing CANNOT be good for you.
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Well water is bad for you? Hmmm...seems to me that my well water is cleaner, tastes better, and has less crap in it than most muni supplies.
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I'm not sure why the DUmpmonkeys are worried about manure in their cheese or vegetables. They pay a huge premium for stunted, misshapen, bug-eaten organic groceries, free of those evil corporate chemical fertilizers and antibiotics. There's nothing on earth more natural and organic than manure. Bon appetit, DUmmies.
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Well water is bad for you? Hmmm...seems to me that my well water is cleaner, tastes better, and has less crap in it than most muni supplies.
Well, then--if you don't have a bad case of the liquid shits, it must work.
Anyway, I tested water for 13 years. The amounts of chlorine a water authority needs to add, to kill everything in it, all depends on where the supply is located/has to run through (if it comes aboveground). If it comes through/originates in old cow pastures (such as the City of Amsterdam in NY is rumored to have), lots of chlorine is needed. This produces chloroform in the water when it reacts with dissolved methane. Chloroform tends to sediment out of water fairly close to the point of chlorination, so either 1) There's a lot of chorination points, or 2) A whole buttload of chlorine is added at once.
'Course, if a muni brominates its' drinking water, all of the above still applies, except the chloroform part--it becomes bromoform. And, if a muni goes high-tech and ozonates its' drinking water, you get things like acetone in the water.
What's the solution (no pun intended)? 1. Drink well water . . . but have it tested! We had an incident a few years ago in Putnam County where dry cleaning solvents were showing up in private wells. It was pretty random. So, one Saturday afternoon, I huddled with the field investigator over a topo map of the area and the results, matching them up to individual houses. The only thing we could think of was that some dry cleaning outfit was illegally dumping their used dry-cleaning solvents. So, I suggested to the field investigator that she drop in to a few of the local dry cleaning outlets, and mention that we had found solvents in private wells. Also, she should suggest that we were pretty sure which dry cleaner it was, but couldn't nail it down . . . yet. For some unknown reason, the contamination in that area suddenly stopped. :whistling:
Oh--almost forgot Option 2--Buy a filter and use it. :thatsright:
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Oh, I have an activated charcoal filter AND a softener. I've also tested the water every couple of years.
Aside from a SLIGHTLY higher than normal iron content (which I use iron-buster salt to remedy) and some silt prior to the filter, no problemo. Plus, I live ABOVE the town, about 300 feet vertical, so whatever they dump in town isn't making it to my groundwater.
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Penn and Teller had a great show where they filled fancy-labelled bottles with water from a garden hose behind a restaurant, then listened to the water snob customers describe how they could taste the purity, the pristine goodness, of the bottled water, and how awful the chemical soup from the tap tasted. Bottled water is a multi-billion dollar scam, much of which is simply repackaged tap water.
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Penn and Teller had a great show where they filled fancy-labelled bottles with water from a garden hose behind a restaurant, then listened to the water snob customers describe how they could taste the purity, the pristine goodness, of the bottled water, and how awful the chemical soup from the tap tasted. Bottled water is a multi-billion dollar scam, much of which is simply repackaged tap water.
Absolutely. I drink my water straight from the tap. There are some places I've been where the water was too nasty to do that though.
KC
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Penn and Teller had a great show where they filled fancy-labelled bottles with water from a garden hose behind a restaurant, then listened to the water snob customers describe how they could taste the purity, the pristine goodness, of the bottled water, and how awful the chemical soup from the tap tasted. Bottled water is a multi-billion dollar scam, much of which is simply repackaged tap water.
There was a Winn Dixie down the street from me that had one of the bring-your-own-jug bottled water machines out front. After a few months they had to move it farther away from the front doors down the sidewalk. When they did they exposed where the water came from. It came from a tap in the water line at the outside spigot with an inline fram fuel filter.
Every time I walked in and saw the fools getting water I'd bust a gut laughing at them. They started painting the filters gray after the first one came to light. I still smile when I think about it today, even though the store's been gone for years.
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That goes for my food that I eat raw too. I wash it with anti-bacteria soap first.
Must be real fond of the "Hershey Squirts"!
Well I guess they never need a stool softener, huh?
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That goes for my food that I eat raw too. I wash it with anti-bacteria soap first.
Hey DUmmies, it wouldn't hurt you to try some soap on your bodies as well. :-) :rotf:
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When I saw the title to this thread the first thing I thought of was the Chewbacca Defense.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xywqv1cDH8[/youtube]
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Penn and Teller had a great show where they filled fancy-labelled bottles with water from a garden hose behind a restaurant, then listened to the water snob customers describe how they could taste the purity, the pristine goodness, of the bottled water, and how awful the chemical soup from the tap tasted. Bottled water is a multi-billion dollar scam, much of which is simply repackaged tap water.
Several years back a little rural store was running a deal on cases of small bottles of water. Woman was raising hell about the price of gas being near $3 a gallon and at the same time bragging about what a good deal she was getting on the almost $4 a gallon bottled water... and to make it all the more better... the bottled water was just bottled tap water...said so on the label.
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Several years back a little rural store was running a deal on cases of small bottles of water. Woman was raising hell about the price of gas being near $3 a gallon and at the same time bragging about what a good deal she was getting on the almost $4 a gallon bottled water... and to make it all the more better... the bottled water was just bottled tap water...said so on the label.
Brings to mind the two places I lived when cooking and drinking water was gotten at a local cemetery.
Upper Peninsular of Michigan and Tennessee.
Well water has so much minerals in it, one could almost chew it. It had this sulfur smell that we didn't notice after a month or so.
Why cemetery's for sweet water, darn if I know. The older cemetery's had water taps over it, to water plants on the graves etc.
Sounds macabre but the only sweet water was among the dead.
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Brings to mind the two places I lived when cooking and drinking water was gotten at a local cemetery.
Upper Peninsular of Michigan and Tennessee.
Well water has so much minerals in it, one could almost chew it. It had this sulfur smell that we didn't notice after a month or so.
Why cemetery's for sweet water, darn if I know. The older cemetery's had water taps over it, to water plants on the graves etc.
Sounds macabre but the only sweet water was among the dead.
Don't you just hate leaky vaults. I told the wife, "Get me a cheap casket, a wooden box will do, but buy me a good vault. I don't want water getting in it for at least a 100 years."
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Don't you just hate leaky vaults. I told the wife, "Get me a cheap casket, a wooden box will do, but buy me a good vault. I don't want water getting in it for at least a 100 years."
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