Tell Me Something............Anything!

[guy]

Cheers for the suggestion Marco - can't see what the delivery charge will be though and I would be using over twenty litres per brew.
I will be ok for the next couple of brews

Something which has pleased me about having sparkling bottled water around the house is that I have been really enjoying it with lime cordial on "no alcohol days" - I find lemonade far too sweet and am very suspicious about aspartame/artificial sweeteners in commercial fizzy drinks.
I will have a go with bottled water for my coffee maker - makes sense that it will have an effect given my experiences with home-brew.

[Pigmy Pony]

I’ve always felt bottled water is one of the biggest cons going - as someone once said, mineral water companies don’t make water; they make disposable plastic bottles. It’s also worth pointing out that ‘Evian’ is ‘naive’ spelled backwards!

Bottled water does have it's place - if you live in Africa with nothing but a muddy puddle that next door's cow uses for a toilet...

[Marco]

I never had you down as a bottled mineral water kind of guy, Marco. Don’t you have running water in your house?!

Now, before you talk taste, I should point out that our tap water tastes almost as chlorinated as the stuff in the hot tub, but we have a Brita filter for tea and coffee and drinking water comes from the dispenser in the fridge which has its own inbuilt charcoal filter. Both do a great job and the fridge filter in particular is a brilliant thing.

I’ve always felt bottled water is one of the biggest cons going - as someone once said, mineral water companies don’t make water; they make disposable plastic bottles. It’s also worth pointing out that ‘Evian’ is ‘naive’ spelled backwards!

Lol... Love it!

Firstly, I agree that bottled water is a bit of a rip off, although Piggurs makes a good point.

However, I use sparkling mineral water in the same way as Guy does, to make cordials (orange, lemon, lime, etc), but with some fizz, as I also find fizzy pop, even some diet versions, too sweet. Plus, if Del's not having Fever Tree with ice and lemon/lime, she likes sparkling mineral water

The tap water here is very good indeed (comes straight off the Berwyn mountains), but a BRITA filter, same as you use, still takes a slight 'edge' off of things and smooths out any rough edges, in terms of aftertaste, which markedly improves my espresso coffee!

So there you go

Marco.

[Marco]

Cheers for the suggestion Marco - can't see what the delivery charge will be though and I would be using over twenty litres per brew.
I will be ok for the next couple of brews

Something which has pleased me about having sparkling bottled water around the house is that I have been really enjoying it with lime cordial on "no alcohol days" - I find lemonade far too sweet and am very suspicious about aspartame/artificial sweeteners in commercial fizzy drinks.
I will have a go with bottled water for my coffee maker - makes sense that it will have an effect given my experiences with home-brew.

No problem - we're on the same page

Marco.

[Marco]

Last night's 'catastrophic' outage of various social media platforms was hilarious, hearing all the zombies, controlled by them, moaning about how they couldn't cope!

The only thing that was 'catastrophic' was the lack of a REAL life in evidence, when their artificially created one blew a fuse!

I just hope that the six hours of peace (yes PEACE) they got from their unhealthy addiction a) made them focus their attention on something more constructive, and b) perhaps even more importantly, highlighted the fact they have a SERIOUS problem!!

It's much healthier living in the real world, than a virtual one.



Marco.

[walpurgis]

Last night's 'catastrophic' outage of various social media platforms was hilarious, hearing about how all the zombies, controlled by it, moaning about how they couldn't cope!

Marco.

Did I miss something?

[struth]

needed cheering up so...

[Barry]

A lot of business in Africa is conducted via WhatsApp, so I'm sure that would have suffered. Otherwise I was delighted to learn of the outage, and the subsequent denting of Facebook's revenue.

[walpurgis]

Mentioned in the news, the burden on courts and prisons has prompted proposals to double the number of tagged offenders as an alternative to incarceration. No doubt they'll carry on just cutting them off and go bed hopping as usual. Mind you, our surplus of police officers will soon catch up with them..............not!

Bring back chain gangs!!

[Marco]

A lot of business in Africa is conducted via WhatsApp, so I'm sure that would have suffered. Otherwise I was delighted to learn of the outage, and the subsequent denting of Facebook's revenue.

Yeah, ditto. Aside from anyone's livelihood being adversely affected, the outage will have done some folk good getting a break from their bleeping 'notifications'!

Stuff like this though just highlights how controlling technology can be, and why being 'off grid' sometimes has its benefits. Boo-hoo that Zuckerberg lost £6b during the outage. He should be giving it to charity!

Marco.