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From: jmfbahciv on 13 Nov 2006 07:42 In article <4557A7DD.D3289D33(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote >> > "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: >> >> Ben Ben Newsam wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 12 Nov 06 12:47:09 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> > >> >> > >Didn't you ever wonder where your sewer people put all of that >> >> > >water that get flushed and put down the drains of your sinks, >> >> > >baths, and showers? >> >> > >> >> > No, because I know exactly what happens to it. It goes to the sewage >> >> > treatment works at Tinsley. >> >> >> >> And ends up as bottled water in France? ;-) >> > >> > You have some very odd ideas. >> > >> > The only company I know of that made a bottled water of 'dubious origin' >> > was the Coca-Cola company who used tap water. >> >> It's actually pretty widely known in this country that most bottled waters, >> even those that call themselves "spring water" are simply tap water in a >> fancy package. A few actually do bother to get spring water, but it's not >> very common. > >No laws regarding labelling ? > > >> I think he might be conflating the fact in my previous sentence, with the >> widely reported scandal of benzene in Perrier about 10 - 15 years ago. To >> my knowledge, Perrier does indeed sell spring water...not that I think >> that's any great shakes--I think a lot of the bottled waters taste like >> Elmer's Glue. I just buy a bottle once in a very long while, then keep >> refilling it from the tap because it's a convenient container to carry water >> around with me as I go about my job. > >Most of them are vastly over-rated and overpriced. It's snob appeal mostly. There are exceptions. The chlorine added to water is poison to me. /BAH
From: Eeyore on 13 Nov 2006 07:48 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > >> I "lived" in poverty when a child but I didn't know it. You > >> have middle class values and have no idea what is required for > >> living. Compared to today, almost anyone of my age had a 'simple' life. Just as an example there were no microwave ready meals back then. No microwave ovens either. Even having a phone was a mark of the middle class. The little town I lived in had 4 digit numbers and the city I moved to had 5 digit numbers but for many years the first digit was always 6. It was quite something when they moved to 6 digit numbers. > >I never met anyone who grew up during the great depression > >who didn't think they had a good life and a good childhood > >on account of not having much. > > My folks were on farms and knew they were a lot better off > than cityfolk who did not grow their own food. They also > knew how to make their own things and did. Mind you, living on a farm back then was very different to now ! > >Take the model of hunter-gatherer tribes. They wouldn't > >begin to understand a value system that thought they are > >just "existing." Still the totality of their posessions > >was limited to what they could carry. > > That kind of thinking goes hand-in-hand with this "career" > nonsense. I keep running into people who have the attitude > that the only jobs they will ever do are those that have to > do with their "career" whatever the hell means. IOW, even > if they have no money and no posh jobs are available, they > will not go out and get a job that pays for their labor. That's clearly very silly. Graham
From: Eeyore on 13 Nov 2006 07:50 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > >> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > >>>> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >>>>>> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> $10k/year? Yes. > >>>>> > >>>>>That's not living. > >>>> > >>>> You don't that. It is only your opinion that's not living. > >>>> People do live on that kind of cash flow. > >>> > >>>Yeah but normally do-gooder ex-popstars have charity events to support > >>>them. > >> > >> I had myself down to $12K. > > > >Well, if you let Bono know, I am sure he can arrange for coloured bracelet > >to be made in a third world sweat shop to raise awareness of your plight. > > I would not accept a cent. You don't get it, do you? He was pulling your leg. Graham
From: jmfbahciv on 13 Nov 2006 07:45 In article <luM5h.3942$Sw1.2732(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:45575321.EDAD176C(a)hotmail.com... >> >> >> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >> > >>> >> >> My folks, >>> >> >> who will not see 80 again, dug a dry well by hand in the >>> >> >> summer of 2005. >>> >> > >>> >> >Dare I ask why ? >>> >> >>> >> They needed one >>> > >>> >Was there a problem with their water supply ? >>> >>> Sorry. I should have explained. If you flush a toilet >>> there's the solids and paper and lots and lots of water. >>> A septic tank will fill up twice a year if the water >>> isn't allowed to leak out. A dry well, which is an empty >>> hole in the ground, lined by cement blocks, takes water overflows >>> and allows the excess water to seep into the ground. So the >>> water is recycled and the septic tank only has to be cleaned >>> once every n years depending on the number of people filling it. >> >> Understood. >> >> >>> >> and nobody in the business made them anymore. >>> >> For some strange reason, leach fields are the craze. >>> > >>> >I'm not familiar with this 'leach fields' thing. >>> >>> That's another way to get rid of excess water and put >>> it back into your water table. >>> >>> Didn't you ever wonder where your sewer people put all of that >>> water that get flushed and put down the drains of your sinks, >>> baths, and showers? >> >> Ultimately the River Thames - and then the sea. > >Exactly how it happens in the US. Only for those who don't have their own septic system. > Ever wonder why most (all?) water >treatment plants are adjacent to either a river, lake, or some other large >body of water? No. /BAH
From: Eeyore on 13 Nov 2006 07:51
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > > >Are you asserting here that the Saudi royal family are not widely considered > >a government which is obedient to the US? > > I'm not asserting. It is politcally dangerous for a Muslim > to be associated with Western culture unless that piece of > culture has been approved by the Imams (I think that's the > name of the people who do approvals). You're quite right. Hence the Saudis are indeed 'friendly' to the west. They're the ones who turn the oil taps up when supplies get a bit low. Graham |