Time for another touchy- feely get-to-know-you thread. - Page 4

Atrocities · #31 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.

Puke · #32 July 24th, 2001, 01:09 AM

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Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
I've never developed a taste for alcohol (I think I learned to hate alcohol from when my mother would give me whiskey and honey when I had breathing problems as a child) so I always drink non-alcoholic beverages.

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?)

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Quikngruvn · #33 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 · #34 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

Saxon · #35 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 · #36 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 · #37 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 · #38 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 · #39 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)

Phoenix-D · #40 August 2nd, 2001, 10:58 PM

quote:

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?

Well, in my case I can't (see drinking age) but I don't think I would anyway. At least beer. I have this strange aVersion to drinking anything that looks like piss

Besides, I'm screwed up enough as it is, I don't need alchol in there too.

Phoenix-D