Hermit Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 24 minutes ago, Michael Hopcroft said: Apparently the hot new trend is "raw water": water that has been bottled without any of the treatment that bottled and even tap water normally goes through and thus is chock full of everything in the old-fashioned stuff that can make you sick or dead. It you want to pay half a hundred bucks for a drink that can kill you, there are people who will fill that need. Oh great flaming spheres of stupid DShomshak, L. Marcus and Cygnia 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/us/legal-pot-california.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 4 hours ago, Ragitsu said: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/us/legal-pot-california.html On New Year's Eve, at least one TV station kept playing a commercial reminding folks that DUI also includes marijuana as well as alcohol. Also, prices for recreational marijuana can be quite steep, about $100-$200 per ounce. But I'm sure smaller amounts can be sold for less. Ragitsu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 29 minutes ago, tkdguy said: On New Year's Eve, at least one TV station kept playing a commercial reminding folks that DUI also includes marijuana as well as alcohol. Of course it does. In other news, water is wet. I am baffeled: How was that ever not clear for anyone? Literally the first 2 out of 14 Chapters of the german driving book is about all the things that make one incapable of driving: Wearing a cast, Alcohol, Medicine, Drugs, being too tired, stress, strong emotions, self images of the driver. Both with realworld images and caricatures to illustrate it. Enforcer84 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 Driving book? Like there's a class that people have to take before they can drive or something? We don't even require that for guns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 Raw water seems like a self correcting problem. At least it doesn't expose the rest of us to nasty bugs like the anti-vaxxers do. When I ascend to the throne, I will make it legal to punch anti-vaxxers in the face. Compulsory, in fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 Nah, they'd just get their tainted blood on the puncher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 ... and it wouldn't matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 The Vandal and the Mosque: A New Chapter of Forgiveness in Arkansas BoloOfEarth and Lucius 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 A very large amount of the world's population drinks 'raw water'. Many die. "Our water is too clean - it weakens our immune system!" is about as first world a problem as I've ever heard. Christopher and Lawnmower Boy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 I've always thought the anti-vaxxers were just looking for something to blame besides bad genetic luck for autism. The raw water people are just stupid. Michael Hopcroft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 * Cancer goes looking for an image of the "Fiendish Fluoridators" card from Illuminati-NWO * Ternaugh and Lawnmower Boy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 11 hours ago, Christopher said: Of course it does. In other news, water is wet. I am baffeled: How was that ever not clear for anyone? Literally the first 2 out of 14 Chapters of the german driving book is about all the things that make one incapable of driving: Wearing a cast, Alcohol, Medicine, Drugs, being too tired, stress, strong emotions, self images of the driver. Both with realworld images and caricatures to illustrate it. There still are "don't drink and drive" commercials, even though everyone knows it's illegal. It's still a major concern every major holiday, especially New Year's Eve. So "don't smoke pot and drive" commercials logically follow. Someone is still going to do it. They did it even when marijuana was illegal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 How is this for neutrality ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42400765 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 Likes Aristedes de Sousa Mendes of Portugal, but more extended in time. He is among the Righteous Among the Nations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 I've always thought it would be an interesting to have a biopic of Chiune Sugihara (saving Jews in Lithuania) and John Rabe (saving Chinese civilians in Nanking). Just hop back and forth between the stories of a Japanese official saving people from Nazis and a Nazi saving people from the Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 Old albatross lays egg at age 67 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 Robots are the least of our problems ? https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/04/future-work-independent-contractors-alternative-work-arrangements-216212 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 According to one New Yorker reporter, Trump is Making China Great Again. I haven't finished the article, but heard an interview with the author on NPR in the car yesterday. He made some interesting observations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 55 minutes ago, Pattern Ghost said: According to one New Yorker reporter, Trump is Making China Great Again. I haven't finished the article, but heard an interview with the author on NPR in the car yesterday. He made some interesting observations. The leaders of North Korea only stay in power because they keep telling their people "America wants to destroy us". Having sound and twitter bytes from Trump talking about using nuclear weapons should keep them in power for 40 more years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 Mormon Church President THomas S. Monson (revered as a prophet by believers) has died at the age of 90 after nearly ten years in office. A successor will be names after his funeral in two weeks. Traditionally the office goes to the longest-serving Apostle (difficult to explain), who is currently 93-year-old surgeon Russell M. Nelson.. Nelson is a pioneering cardiologist who was involved in the research that led to open-heart surgery. Sociotard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 It's so cold in Florida, iguanas are falling from trees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 The drop iguanas are attacking! Look out below! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 Back when my father set up a rabbit slaughterhouse (long story), he had a well drilled to supply water. It was costly: The driller had to go down more than 300 feet to find the water table. But the water never tested as anything but sterile within the limits of the state testers' accuracy. So "raw water" isn't an intrinsically stupid idea. You just have to be really, really careful where you get it and how it's handled. The article does not mention where these "raw water" companies obtain and bottle their product. Without that information, I wouldn't trust it for a second. Dean Shomshak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 "Sterile" doesn't help you against direct toxins like heavy metals, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts