lol
You are right. Though nobody here knows how come that the German cuckoo-watch (Schwarzwald/Black Forest) is considered to have Swiss origins our souvenir-industry is making a LOT of money with tourists who are willing to spend a LOT of money for useless crap like yodelling cuckoo-wrist-watches with built-in USB sticks. Oh, and did I mention it: it costs a LOT of money ?
As long as tourists from all over the world want it - why shouldn't we sell it .

btw: as long as Ms Taw is using a decent wine for the fondue (white, with gas (no joke)) the cuckoo will enjoy it.

@Fd,

Is that water filter available with a pink tube top and a mini skirt?

Depends on how well maintained the municipal water system is and the plumbing in your building. Some buildings are made with "galvanized" iron pipes which, contrary to the galvanization, rust away from the inside out. This will, unfortunately, contaminate your drinking water with excess iron oxide precipitates and potentially other metals, some heavy ones, depending on whether any of the plumbing was welded together. If you have copper plumbing, you're probably in good shape except that most municipal water mains are made of iron and wherever your copper plumbing and the municipal water supply pipe come into contact, you eventually will develop corrossive reaction which, again, will contaminate your tap water.

Some municipal water systems are now surrounded by excessive land development which, in turn, may contribute to contamination of the water runoff into the reservoir that holds your drinking water, anything from naturally occurring animal waste to industrial runoff, including the stuff you use to kill pests and weeds and to fertilize your lawn and, at worst, raw sewage.

So drinking bottled water may or may not be stupid. It all depends on where you live and how good your municipal water supply happens to be.

can you yodel?

That depends.

Is that yodel as in yodel lay hee hooo .....?

Or yodel as in yodel eh heee hoo?

THE best water is, take tap water, ours is half well water, and put in plastic containor, pref `1 gal and put in fridge for 3 days . The taste is totally differnt. its almost sweet, and unlike wines, goes with any thing.

Where I live there is alot of bottled water drinkers because the majority of people come from mexico, and they dont trust tap water. As for me I enjoy normal tap water

damn...i just drink whatever i can get my hands on when i'm thirsty.

When I lived in texas some of the water mains were so old they flavored the water with rust... (DONT say iron is good for you)

So we started filtering our water, and it's actually a lot better.

bIleSmeh DaH DuDorjaj yo' qij Dujmey!

I tend to agree. I do not like spending money on bottled water, especially when tap water is more than sufficient. I may invest in some sort of filtration system however, as although the local water supply is of excellent quality, the Burrow is old, and hence has old pipes.

Chupa - Klingon, eh? Interesting...

<gasp> you mean the Burrow actually has pipes? I thought you just drank the raindrops as they fell through the hole and gathered in a muddy puddle on the floor. Mind you, you did choose to dig your Burrow in an urban area so no doubt you had to chew your way through various pipes and cables.



Edited by - Tawakalna on 4/4/2006 11:31:00 AM

no taw don't you have ANY spy equipment. it's really rather nice, almost hobbit-holeish although i must say the pink frilly shower curtain, disgusting. As for the wires he used his god powers to lift some cutters from the local radio shack. Just because he's a riabbti doesn't mean he's a savage.

Edit: Does anybody have a hammer, i need to smack some spelling into myself.

Edited by - The Shroud on 4/4/2006 12:59:25 PM

Taw - All Esquilaxitavians are supposed to have rainwater tanks, but the cost is a little high. Oh, and those pipes were broken before I dug out the Burrow!

Shroud - The pink curtains that you refer to weren't my idea. I wanted grey, but the fabric was cheap, so I was overruled *sigh*.

in an amazingly apt news item, London and the South-East of the UK have just been put under a hosepipe ban, which will shortly be extended to the Home Counties. In April, ffs!

some years ago our water utilities were privatised, and since then the levels of service have plummetted. the reason we have chronic water shortages in Britain is nothing to do with climate change, after all it rains almost every day. Rather it's the appalling state of our water supply infrastructure, still using Victorian pipework, insufficiently maintained reservoirs which are now in the wrong locations to serve the population, and the failure of the water companies to invest their windfall profits in modernising the infrastructure and failing to recruit sufficient engineers to keep up with demand (because their interest is purely in profit not service)

so quite often we're forced to drink bottled water because we have no mains supply. Severn Trent, robbing swine though they are, aren't too bad because we live in a very high precipitation region, and the bans normally are limited to summertime, but dahn sarf arahnd Lahndahn Tahn the water supply is a disgrace.

Bah! Damn hoodlums fightin' over wether or not to put water in a bottle. To all you lil' spoilt yungins, back in my day we ain't have that fancy "water," we had to suck the moisture outta mud!