Night Owls Chatterboxes - Part LXXXII

• cassie

  12 Jul 11, 21:21

  no one around? it's been awfully quiet around here lately. guess everyone is tied up with work

• The man who was death

  12 Jul 11, 21:45

  why are there so many floating bodies around lately??

• cassie

  12 Jul 11, 21:56

  yeah makes you think twice about drinking water outta the tap

• sbst275

  12 Jul 11, 22:03

  evening

• Kuali Baba

  12 Jul 11, 22:10

  Originally posted by cassie:

  yeah makes you think twice about drinking water outta the tap

  Around the time NeWater was released, I used to reason with my paranoid grandmother that the reservoirs already contain bird poo, dead fish, turtles and other people's litter. Even in places where tap water is hard and tastes odd, I just man up and drink it anyway.

• sbst275

  12 Jul 11, 22:11

  There's proper filtration anyway...

  Even my upnorth relative used to be paranoid of us drinking tap water, until I proved to them how clean our water is

• Kuali Baba

  12 Jul 11, 22:11

  Anyway, I won't be tormenting you guys with food pics for a while as I'll be back at my old workplace for the rest of this week, and going to free movie screenings thereafter.

• Kuali Baba

  12 Jul 11, 22:13

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  There's proper filtration anyway...

  Even my upnorth relative used to be paranoid of us drinking tap water, until I proved to them how clean our water is

  The best tap water is still New Zealand's. It comes from glaciers and it's so good that it fails WHO's checks*.

   

  *Because they don't add chlorine to it

• Kuali Baba

  12 Jul 11, 22:16

  Scotland's water is also very good. Not the black, peaty stuff in the lochs but the stuff that comes gushing down near the source. It's miles better than London's.

• sbst275

  12 Jul 11, 22:17

  Talking abt water...

  Finds Evian very 'hard' to drink

• The man who was death

  12 Jul 11, 22:44

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  There's proper filtration anyway...

  Even my upnorth relative used to be paranoid of us drinking tap water, until I proved to them how clean our water is

  you still drink straight from the tap with all the floating bodies around??

• sbst275

  12 Jul 11, 22:45

  Originally posted by The man who was death:

  you still drink straight from the tap with all the floating bodies around??

  
  wa laoz eh, there's proper filtration la

• The man who was death

  12 Jul 11, 22:51

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  
  wa laoz eh, there's proper filtration la

  still it wouldn't hurt to boil the water

• Kuali Baba

  12 Jul 11, 22:58

  Originally posted by The man who was death:

  still it wouldn't hurt to boil the water

  That, IMO is a massive waste of energy and fuel.

  Ponder this: What happens when the water cools down? Microbes in the air and on your kettle enter and breed. If you drink straight from the tap, most of them have already been eliminated by the chlorine. Boiling doesn't get rid of sediment in the water but I'll be surprised if you find any here.

• the Bear

  12 Jul 11, 23:21

  does boiling actually make solid particles dissolve into the water?

  particles like aluminium the kettle is probably made of?

• Kuali Baba

  12 Jul 11, 23:25

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  does boiling actually make solid particles dissolve into the water?

  particles like aluminium the kettle is probably made of?

  Water dissolves a bit of everything.

• the Bear

  12 Jul 11, 23:29

  isn't aluminium linked to alzheimer's?

• Kuali Baba

  12 Jul 11, 23:39

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  isn't aluminium linked to alzheimer's?

  Yup, but it's not fully established yet. Diet, daily activities and genetics seem to play more important roles. I think Teflon's more sinister though.

• sbst275

  12 Jul 11, 23:46

  Teflon is really sinister.

• Fatum

  12 Jul 11, 23:54

  i've been drinking straight out of the tap for years .......

  boiling water seems pretty pointless, unless you want to make a hot drink .....

   

• sbst275

  12 Jul 11, 23:55

  I saw e new MRT trains being hauled to one MRT depot..

  Spotted it at Upp Thomson Rd.

• Fatum

  13 Jul 11, 20:31

  I got a sudden, frantic craving for satay ..... mutton and beef satay ....... fat, juicy satay ......

  maybe it's time to visit changi village again ... -__-"

   

• sbst275

  13 Jul 11, 20:58

  gosh

  Evening papers... Some policewoman in HK are posting photos of funny poses online...

  turns out, a lot of funny but can get into trouble kind of pics...

• Fatum

  13 Jul 11, 20:59

  haha, lol .... just got a call from my aunt ....

  one of my cousins, only son ... just got called up for vocational assessment at hendon camp ....

  she's complaining to me why so many of our clan got arrowed by the ang beh's ...

• cassie

  13 Jul 11, 21:39

  Originally posted by Fatum:

  haha, lol .... just got a call from my aunt ....

  one of my cousins, only son ... just got called up for vocational assessment at hendon camp ....

  she's complaining to me why so many of our clan got arrowed by the ang beh's ...

  
  that's the commando unit or something right? my friend was there