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Post by groo on Sept 11, 2018 3:55:47 GMT -5
Why, when natural disaster threatens, do I see TV footage of people exiting supermarkets with multiple crates of plastic bottles of water. Surely it would be more sensible to fill whatever containers one has with potable water from the tap.
Beer and wine I can understand.
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Post by sprite on Sept 11, 2018 10:02:43 GMT -5
lack of containers?
i remember my parents having a massive plastic thing they would fill before camping trips--i still remember the smell and taste of that water. but i don't think most people have one of those.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 12, 2018 4:52:29 GMT -5
People don't trust the tap water, which one could say is crazy but then look at Flint, Michigan.... But yeah, there are better ways of dealing with it than buying crates of plastic water bottles.
In a hurricane warning I'd fill the bathtubs to have water in an emergency. But usually we buy filtered water in big keg things for water bottles & coffee because our tap water tastes a little funky.
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Post by groo on Sept 12, 2018 5:37:23 GMT -5
I lived in Ontario once. Our treated sewage flowed into the Great Lakes, our drinking water came from the Great Lakes. I well remember my first glass of North American tapwater - its olfactory ambience brought happy memories of the public baths at Epping where I had so many happy times so I share your concern. Here, at least pro tem, our reservoirs are rainwater filled. Indeed, for the bulk of my life I have lived in dwellings, well away from urban pollution, that relied on rainwater tanks.
Flint (and I was once almost a local) seems more a political problem than a water management problem.
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Post by rikita on Sept 13, 2018 4:06:04 GMT -5
that with the bath tub is a good idea! wouldn't have occured to me ... of course, we don't get hurricanes here, so i guess i never thought about it ... i drink our tap water but we buy water for a., because i am not sure about our pipes - but in the case of an emergency i'd be fine giving her tap water, too (and already give it to her sometimes) - apart from the issue of too old or too new pipes, which varies from house to house, they say our tap water is better than some of the commercial waters ...
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Post by tzarine on Sept 13, 2018 10:38:49 GMT -5
ny has good tap water
liisa we fill the bathtub when there are warnings as well
god i remember the panic for irene & all the people w alcohol for sandy which was really bad for some here
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 13, 2018 13:26:31 GMT -5
groo, yes: Flint is 100% a political problem.
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Post by sprite on Oct 6, 2018 12:24:32 GMT -5
my sheets are pretty close woven. and go completely under the mattress. so how are my hairs getting under them?
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 6, 2018 14:05:21 GMT -5
1) I just made the mistake of reading an article on Lifehacker about how you can use Alexa to give information to a babysitter like where the diapers are and when the kid goes to bed, and it's just a basic list that you have to feed into the Alexa. Uhhhh this is basically just a list, that people would have originally just written down? on a piece of paper? why is this a new exciting idea?
2) Why was I reading Alexa parenting advice on Lifehacker in the first place? my child is nearly 40 and we don't have an Alexa?
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 8, 2018 13:33:29 GMT -5
I'm in Tahiti. The local supermarket sells Australian strawberries and raspberries, but I couldn't get pineapple, and the pawpaw won't be ripe before I leave. Also, why do they import tuna processed in Spain when Solomon Islands catches and cans the best in the market, sustainably. (I suspect that's an EU thing).
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Post by sprite on Oct 9, 2018 3:07:46 GMT -5
my 'work' twitter got a new follower. i just checked him=--he opened his twitter yesterday. he follows 73 people. 4 famous american politicians. 2 men Bently Cars 66 women.
not creepy, right?
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 9, 2018 5:07:43 GMT -5
Oh nooo sprite, he sounds perfectly normal.
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Post by sprite on Oct 9, 2018 5:29:56 GMT -5
Being generous, I assume he is trying to hear more women's voices. And there is a range--the women appear to be late 20s through late 50s, and he's late 50s as well.
however, his profile is something like, 'i'm a thoughtful and generous person' and both photos are of him and his possessions. i had no idea ppl were using twitter for dating.
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Post by sprite on Oct 11, 2018 5:49:49 GMT -5
my partner is well-educated and well-read. he's done a lot of active, outdoorsy stuff requiring safety training, and quite a lot of safety/first aid training for his work. (for example, he knows the main symptoms of nerve agent poisoning...) his stepmum is a nurse.
yesterday i got a small second-degree burn. he suggested i put butter on it.
i thought he was joking, but he genuinely believed this. does anyone under 80 still advise this?
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 14, 2018 19:22:06 GMT -5
Why my mom just offered to give me money to buy a new jacket to replace the one I was wearing yesterday, when that jacket was a rather pricey, nearly-new Patagonia rain jacket. It was just wrinkled from being accidentally sat on it in the car. I've even washed it recently, which is quite unusual for me. ?
And why does ProBoards output a frown emoji when you put more than two question marks in a row? I'm not mad, just puzzled. ? ? ?
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Post by tzarine on Oct 14, 2018 20:51:15 GMT -5
what should i do with a pack of hacho miso?
why do my friends walk into these bad relationships? (more for the i told you so)
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Post by rikita on Nov 14, 2018 20:42:56 GMT -5
got this email from someone telling me (and a few other people) about his newborn baby and sending photos. i don't know who he is, though both name and face are vaguely familiar. then again, i googled, he is an artist and had some drawings in big newspapers, so i could seen his name somewhere, and he studied at the same university as me at about the same time (one subject in the same building, too), so i could have seen him in the hallways. but if the baby photos were meant for me, surely i'd know him better than that ...
so i wrote that i think he mistyped the email and also apologized in case i am the confused one, and congratulated just in case ... still worried that i forgot someone who thinks i am important enough to send babyphotos ...
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Post by rikita on Nov 15, 2018 11:25:02 GMT -5
he answered - it was indeed a typo in the email address ...
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 15, 2018 18:29:01 GMT -5
Riki, I’m glad he sent it to a nice person like you, and not someone less trustworthy.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 16, 2018 4:39:36 GMT -5
Not just today, this one has been puzzling me for a few weeks.
We had our dishwasher repaired - it needed a new part. Nothing to do with the washing bits, it was the electronic bit at the front that programmed the cycles and turned it on. But since we have this new programmer part the eco cycle now only takes 33 minutes, rather than 43 minutes.
Why??
In the 10 years since we bought the machine they have worked out you don't need that extra 10 minutes? I want to know!
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Post by wombatrois on Nov 16, 2018 5:39:35 GMT -5
To continue the water conversation, we have fluoride in our water supply, so I would always encourage drinking the (very safe) tap water. There is evidence that the rise in drinking bottle water is the cause of the rise again of tooth decay in younger generations. Of course, there are the wackjobs concerned people who think fluoride causes cancer. I have no fillings in my teeth and I took fluoride tablets before they started fluoridising the water supply, so my empirical evidence of one shows it works! I'm puzzled about how difficult it is to lead a plastic free life. It is impossible. I will keep plugging away, but today I have placed in the bag to go to the special recycling place FIVE plastic bags. These are the type that are: - Wrapped around magazines that come in the mail
- Bagged postal articles
- Wrapped around goods in those postal articles
Sigh
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Post by Phar Lap on Nov 16, 2018 14:50:32 GMT -5
How can you forget where you put something less than a day later? Try as I might I just can't remember. So frustrating. I do hope this is not a sign of Old People's disease.
Wombat, your talk of plastic brought back mum's reaction when Glad Wrap first came out - mum was amazed and thought it was wonderful. She oohed and aahed over the wonder of it. It actually stuck to the bowl or plate making it airtight.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 17, 2018 6:22:00 GMT -5
Wombat, I was wondering the same thing after collecting my mail.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 17, 2018 6:46:11 GMT -5
wombatrois I LOL'd at "wackjobs." That and the vaccine thing make me absolutely insane.
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Post by tinaja on Nov 18, 2018 16:39:04 GMT -5
Run into this woman from work (15 yrs) at the grocery store. She does not acknowledge. She is the same way when I see her in the cafeteria. She seems to always have her eyes to the ground. I just let her pass today. Just not into disturbing mega introverts or whatever she has going on.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 18, 2018 18:41:23 GMT -5
There's a whole department full of people in my office like that, you pass them and say hi or nod or whatever and they're just... blank. Yes, fine, I know I'm just one of those freaks from Publishing, but come on.
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Post by tinaja on Nov 19, 2018 9:37:19 GMT -5
There's a whole department full of people in my office like that, you pass them and say hi or nod or whatever and they're just... blank. Yes, fine, I know I'm just one of those freaks from Publishing, but come on. Good to know. These are science people. One guy never looks my way in person, but always says good things about me to my boss. So I do think it's some personality thing. The one yesterday, seemed to be purposefully rubbing her eye when I was in range. She has a really shiny wedding ring I will say.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 20, 2018 14:25:32 GMT -5
people who tell bad catchable lies
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Post by rikita on Nov 21, 2018 4:46:41 GMT -5
oh, i get to hear those every day. then again, i suppose at five years it is normal (though still - claiming i said something different from what i know i said - she must know i can tell that's not true ...)
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Post by Phar Lap on Nov 21, 2018 18:10:08 GMT -5
The one yesterday, seemed to be purposefully rubbing her eye when I was in range. She has a really shiny wedding ring I will say. Grandma used to say rubbing a gold wedding ring over a stye, made it go away.
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