EU vs US?

That's true.....heck, there's apparently a quadrillion gallons of water sitting just east of the Rockie mountains.... I'm sure we could give some to England so they can enjoy clean water..... ;)
 
Coca-Cola actually won an IgNobel prize in 2004 for that.

CHEMISTRY
The Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain, for using advanced technology to convert ordinary tap water into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to consumers.

But the Royal Navy got the 2000 Peace prize....

PEACE
The British Royal Navy, for ordering its sailors to stop using live cannon shells, and to instead just shout "Bang!"

More IgNobels.
 
Yeah...honestly, even after that article, and anyone who's actually drunk English tap water... It'd rather drink the purified stuff...

LOL, the crap that came out of the tap last time I was in DC was far and away the worst tap water I've come across in a civilised country apart from Greece :)
 
the thing was coca cola was paying a standard water bill, ie several hundred pounds a year for the facility, and it wasnt on a meter.

the chenical they put in it was a cancer agent, the irony is, its also common in american tap water. but unlike britain it isnt outlawed in the US.

i drink uk tap water every day, in the south west of the country its very good and nice. best of all its free and full of good stuff. probably one of the few things this part of the world has got right.

ps london water is rank in my esperiance.
 
Tsk tsk. Your poor foreign taste buds are obviously broken. UK tapwater has higher standards of cleanliness than most of the world. In fact many bottled waters would not pass the stringent UK water purity regulations due to harmful impurities that are allowed in bottled water (aluminium, for instance).

G.
 
Hiromoon said:
Funny, it doesn't say they've stopped using it... and it looks like it's just the nancy-pants British water people having hissy fits because they think it implies that their water is impure...

Which, incidently, tastes like stale bathwater..... seriously, we had to go up stairs to get a decent glass of water when I was living in England.
We drink it and suddenly we're the nancies?!
Can't beat Thames valley water. So shite, you can taste it. :lol:

Seriously though, British spring water rules! Be it North English, Scottish or Welsh!
Ireland replaced their water springs with Guinness breweries pretty much as soon as the Irish came into existance, it makes up for their lack of sunlight. I still wonder why Bono wear sunglasses!

(Not literally!).
 
Okay, just read through this thread and now I got it. The USMC and EFTF are going to war over the rights to Sparkletts! Okay, got it :lol: .
 
Not the people who drink it, Rob, the the people who fence it off to you.

Good to see Evil chiming in with the tin-foil hat comment. We're now at a full quota....

GJD, suuuuuuure.....
 
Everyone knows you don't eat or drink stuff from the northern hemisphere because the soil there is so irradiated and the water so polluted. Your governments just aren't telling you how bad it is because they don't want riots, but there's a reason why you have the highest rates of cancer in the world.

*puts on tin-foil hat*
 
Hiromoon said:
Not the people who drink it, Rob, the the people who fence it off to you.

Good to see Evil chiming in with the tin-foil hat comment. We're now at a full quota....

GJD, suuuuuuure.....

lack of knowledge is showing here hiro, now stop being a typicl american.

it is very true that bottle water would not pass tap water regulations due to particle content in the UK

what i wish to know is why do bottled water that has been filtered for thousands of years through volcanic rock, have a sell by date on them ?
 
Secesh said:
Everyone knows you don't eat or drink stuff from the northern hemisphere because the soil there is so irradiated and the water so polluted. Your governments just aren't telling you how bad it is because they don't want riots, but there's a reason why you have the highest rates of cancer in the world.

*puts on tin-foil hat*

Heck knows that leaking soviet satillite spreading it's radioactive material in it's travel path has nothing to do with it... :D

And Mr Evil, I was talking about the 'canerous agent' stuff.
 
Pretty much. Effectively there's no really good reason for the war in Iraq at this point. Sure, there are benefits to it, but they're NOT the origional stated reason.
 
Well, that begs the question Would Iran Invade. For all the Iranian President's bluster and saber rattling, his position is merely for show....

And his approval ratings have hit an all time low apparently...
 
Sounds like his US opposite number :)

(and that could indeed be a good enough reason - things are crap at home? Simple, invent a foreign war and that'll take everyone's mind off now awfully you are running the shop, at least for a while)
 
That's just it.... it wasn't that bad over here till the Iraq War started up. I have no clue why they were so gun-ho to go for it.

And Bush's approval rating is actually higher than the Iranian President's....
 
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