I drink bottled water because it’s convenient. Also, my tap water tastes like chlorine.
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(76 votes, average: 4.72 out of 5)Bottled water is bullshit
Posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 under Miscellaneous
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hehe 1st again
Old video that is already posted here is old.
rofl
hot water tester chicks
And then theres these asshole’s!!!
The Coca-Cola Co. already admitted that they had been bottling tap water like 4 0r 5 months ago.
I don’t buy bottled water. I could never figure out why ppl are so moronic to fall for this marketing ploy.
FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!
…it’s the convenience of the BOTTLE!! I will go to costco and buy a huge 24 pack. That last me about a year… I re-use the bottles. Just fill those bastards up with tap… DELISH!!!
fuckin yuppie scum
I didn’t know Pepsi made aquafina. Hate that, I like dasani or smart water. Fiji tastes like shit. So does water that comes out of my fridge.
If u buy bottled water, u should be shot in face for being stupid as shit after watching this. And if u say bottle water is more convenient think about how much money u spend over time on that bullshit.
Another reason i think we should remove safty labels off of stuff. To ge rid of the Retarded people in this world. and i dont mean mentaly retarded i mean stupid as shit retarded.
I just drink my own piss. You don’t get more convenient than that, and I’m doing double my part to save the planet by re-recycling. Sure it takes some getting used to, but if it’s good enough for goats, it’s good enough for me!
lolz, even tho i already knew this from another tv show, im happy to see other tv shows proving that aswell
They are forgetting a major important thing. Bottled bullshit water is also adding to the climate changes, by truck transporting all those million tonnes of water every year that costs almost nothing to transport trough pipes. Also the making of plastic bottles.
i can taste the difference from tap and some bottled water. ARROWHEAD IS TAP!!! GROSS!!!! I jus cant stand the taste of my tap water… its dirty
Leave out facts and you can make anything seem to be a rip-off. The fact is a lot municipal waters are just crap!! Read the !#!~#@!~#!~!#!~ label before you buy bottled water. That is why ppl buy bottled water.
i agree wit eddy
That one chick partway through was freaky. The redhead when they are first doing street tests. ‘No way!’
Their “taste test” in NYC was somewhat bogus. Ny has some of the best tap water in the world so of course it tastes good. On the other hand, Floridian water is like drinking swimming pool water, so they have an excuse.
We also have water that tastes like a swimming pool but the water filter and reusable drinking bottles we use are a lot less expensive and does not result in piles of empty bottles. The convenience of bottled water does have its occasional appropriate use when away from home.
made me want a salty cracker.
Mabye we should complain about all botteled beverages. I’ll bet there are a lot more soda bottles in the landfils than water bottles.
Soda has all kinds of nasty crap in it (High fructoce corn syrup, etc… just read the ingredents).
Bottled water has …water.
My tap water has all kinds of nasty ingredients in it… chlorine and flouride being at the top of the list.
Choose your poison.
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NYC has great tap water so it probably would win a taste test. I drink tap water when I’m at home but the point for me of buying bottled water is that I buy it when I’m out somewhere and I’m thirsty. Would it be better for me to drink Coke or Pepsi? Or how about Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi with God knows what in those substitute sweeteners? For me bottled water is totally about convenience when I’m not at home and I need something to drink.
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[...] stupid than the caffeinated, carbonated, sugar water that we’ve been happily guzzling? posted by klarck at 5:18 AM on July 5 [1 favorite] Us bumbling bipeds are well advanced in the process of turningbottles and rinse them by hand, you should be ok. posted by Dave Faris at 5:25 AM on July 5 klarck: How is bottled water any more stupid than the caffeinated, carbonated, sugar water that we’ve beenhappily guzzling? Because with a caffeinated, carbonated or sugared drink you’re actually getting something you otherwise wouldn’t with your money. You could argue lamely, that there’s no real reason to drink any liquids other than water, but that would be ignoring the pleasure of having a tasty drink. No doubt you’re killing the world just the same, although I’m guessing a can of coke is less carbon miles from you then a bottle of spring water shipped in from France, Fiji, Italy, England or wherever the customer thinks of as a picturesque location and has a greater chance of being recycled. posted by Static Vagabond at 6:02 AM on July 5 Let’s talk about some of them. What is the significance of bottles of water? It’s all about ranking. It’s essentially a contest. It used to be that bottled water was a status symbol. You drink Evian, or you drink Fiji, or what is the most expensive water. But advanced-level white people, the higher-ranking white people, realized that they were creating a lot of waste, and so they switched over to the Nalgene bottle. That also reminded them of going camping. So then they could take a stance of superiority over the people who were drinking bottled water. And then, that whole story came out about Nalgenes leaching I don’t know what the exact toxin is [Bisphenol A]. So then super-advanced white people went even further and got those metal Sigg bottles, and now you have this really solid hierarchy and ranking of white people of commercial bottled water, Nalgene bottle and either the glass or metal, twist-top bottles. — Salon interview with author of "Stuff White People Like", 7/5/08 posted by birdherder at 6:09 AM on July 5 Water doesn’t have any caffeine in it, why whould anyone buy this crap? posted by smackwich at 6:24 AM on July 5 [1 favorite] Bottled water. Ha. You kids hangin’ out on my lawn got somethin’ to learn. Word. Back when I was young (a long time ago!), when you were out and about, often you couldn’t get ANY water. You had to drink Coke or some other sugary crap. Then bottled water came along. Suddenly, when you want water, you can get water. Cold, too! Great improvement! Now you’re gonna go pushing things right back to the dark ages, and you’ll be all dying of thirst and having to still pay Coke for something to drink, only then, it won’t quench your thirst. posted by Goofyy at 6:29 AM on July 5 It’s telling that in Scandanavian countries, flavoured and fuzzy water dominate the stores. You will be hard pressed to find more than one or two brands of simple bottled water because everybody drinks from the tap. Best-tasting water I’ve ever tried as well. posted by monocot at 6:39 AM on July 5 Food, shelter, clothing, and even water haven’t been free in America for a long time, unless you live in a rural area with public land you can forage/hunt/sleep/look for water on. In urban areas, none of these things are free, and all have multiple sources and thus are subject to "free-market capitalism". This was true before bottled water as well, water hasn’t been free for most people for a long time, and if the government utilities charged too much, there are other sources. Really? The urban area you live in in the US has multiple providers of running water, competing just like broadband providers? A couple of things — first, in many cities (most certainly including NYC), a surprising number of large-scale water users are not metered. They just pay flat-rates, and use whatever they happen to use. So many users, in many places, are not paying market rates for the water they use. The current trend is towards metering, but there is a historical legacy here that will take many, many years and a lot of money to reverse. Second, if the local water utility (public, private, or some blend of the two) decides to raise their rates, what are your options? For drinking water, you can have it delivered, but for water for washing, cleaning, cooking, and all the other uses we put it to, what are you going to do? In many municipalities in the US, use of rain water and surface water (eg the local creek) are limited by law; sinking a well requires permits that you are unlikely to get in a dense urban area, particularly in an area where the aquifer is under pressure from too much demand. Third, what I’ve just described is a first-world situation: heavy regulation, cheap rates, monopoly on providing water. Water provision in much of the developing world is characterized by what you might call parallel distribution systems — sort of a separate-and-unequal situation. The well-off receive good quality public piped water, usually charged at a flat rate and heavily subsidized — even if it isn’t safe to drink, it is perfectly adequate for bathing, washing, and so on. The poor have a choice of heavily polluted surface water or paying by the liter from a private water seller; their per-unit cost can be more than a hundred times higher than what the well-off pay for their publicly-provided piped water (citation; pdf discussing water costs in Pakistan). There are some cities that are exceptions to this rule, but it’s generally true across much of the world. Finally, of course you can do the tap water / bottled water test in NYC, because it has some of the best municipal water in the country. You could probably do the same thing in Portland, Ore, for the same reason. But there are a lot of towns and cities where the water is not that great tasting. It’s still safer and probably healthier than the bottled water, and if run through a Brita tastes great, but the raw taste can be poor. It still makes more sense to buy a filter jug, or one of those filters that screws on the end of your faucet, than it does to buy lots of little bottles, but at the same time it’s a bit irritating to keep seeing people pointing to a study that was carefully done in one of the cities with really nice-tasting tap water as being somehow representative more broadly. posted by Forktine at 6:55 AM on July 5 [3 favorites] New York’s tap water is the reason the bagels taste better there than anywhere else. posted by Mister_A at 7:42 AM on July 5 They used LA tap water too (in the P&T thing), which is not noted for its quality. Bottled water is indeed bullshit. posted by Mister_A at 7:44 AM on July 5 I feel oddly compelled to buy a Sigg bottle. posted by diogenes at 8:03 AM on July 5 You ever notice that recycling doesn’t work so good with jokes? Especially Dennis Miller jokes. Oh relax. Lots of people have made that observation before hearing it in a DML rant, myself included. posted by autodidact at 8:14 AM on July 5 Bottled water is delicious water in convenient, portable form. I don’t want to always want to carry water around with me, so sometimes I buy it in a bottle. Same here. I live in NYC, and I appreciate the great tap water. It’s what I drink when I’m at home. I drink bottled water when I’m not at home. I don’t believe that the bottled water is special. I really don’t care if it comes from mountain springs or the faucet in the bottled-water company. I pretty much only drink water. I’m not a big soft-drink or juice person. Though NYC has great tap water, it also has almost zero water fountains. I’m generally not home from 8am until 11pm. What am I supposed to do when I’m thirsty during the day? Not all workplaces have kitchens. And I’m not into getting water from the sink in the bathroom. Maybe that’s irrational, but public bathrooms gross me out. I don’t want to think about them while I’m drinking water. I also don’t want to carry a day’s supply of water around with me. Water is heavy. It already pisses me off that I have to carry my laptop around with me and all the other crap I need to get through a busy day. I don’t mind paying $1 for a bottle of water. I don’t think of it as a dollar for water. I think of it as a dollar for convenience. I love the fact that I can get a bottle of water on pretty much any street corner. I never have to be thirsty. posted by grumblebee at 8:16 AM on July 5 I drink the yummy Potomac water provided by DC WASA . Read all about it. (On an up note, DC WASA operates two skimmer boats that remove floatable debris in the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers — up to 120 tons of trash per month, so they are helping clean up our local rivers, as well as providing potable water.) You can bet I run this stuff through a Brita filter before I drink it, cause it may be safe to drink, but it tastes nasty. Purely subjective, but I think water tastes better stored in glass or metal, rather than plastic, so when I need to take it with me, I use an stainless steel refillable water bottle. posted by gudrun at 8:25 AM on July 5 I was struck when last in the US at how common it was, and how the landscape was littered with plastic water bottles. Multi-use bottles and a bottle deposit (one with teeth—25¢ or more). Next time I go to Germany, I’m bringing back a bunch of Mehrwegflaschen and even more bottle caps. posted by oaf at 9:14 AM on July 5 New York’s tap water is the reason the bagels taste better there than anywhere else. Urban legend debunked. Finagling his way — Finagle A Bagel’s Larry Smith proved you could make a New York bagel in BostonSmith drove some Boston water to New York and compared bagels made from the two cities’ tap water. "There was absolutely no difference between them," Smith reported. "What makes the difference is equipment, process and ingredients." posted by ericb at 9:21 AM on July 5 Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over. Obviously. posted by rtha at 9:45 AM on July 5 Bottled water is delicious water in convenient, portable form. I don’t want to always want to carry water around with me, so sometimes I buy it in a bottle. Yeah, I think this a missing factor in the analyis Penn and Teller don’t bother to explore. Bottled water is portable water. I think the most interesting question is when and how we got to a place as a society where people stopped being interested in carrying their own containers. Didn’t people *have* to do that before widespread plumbing? Did they stop after that just because they could? I think it’s interesting that when I’d go on family vacations as a kid, we’d have one big water container, and my parents would dispense from it in paper cups. It wasn’t until I got into outdoor recreation that I really started to think of other on-the-go options besides the drinking fountain and the giant portable jug. The other thing is… sometimes tap water IS gross. To me, at least. 90% of the time it’s fine, but there are sometimes when I really can’t stand the taste of the local water for whatever reason, and if I’m just passing through, I’ll sometimes buy bottled water while I’m there. “I think the cost of our behavior should be built into the products,†Wilk says. It is. I’m not sure the *costs* associated with the waste management are internalized by those who produce and sell it, but it’s hard to argue that bottled water isn’t sold with a pretty big premium. Why don’t you just buy into water and ride it to the top, chicken little? I think buying in is a great idea, and I’m actually interested in how I can invest in water, just in case I can’t steer society into making more decisions motivated by responsibiliy for the general welfare. However, my interests don’t end with my personal hydration and assets. I may also invest in fossil fuels, even as my politics leans towards more renewable options. posted by weston at 9:48 AM on July 5 Long live bottled water and the bacteria in it! posted by watercressprincess at 9:57 AM on July 5 Ahhh…another thread chastizing ignorant and selfish bottled-water drinkers. It’s been a a while since the last one. Or the one before that. Honestly, I think proselytizing against the evils of bottled water is almost as big a fad as is drinking bottled water. Fortunately, even the threads are recyclable. posted by darkstar at 10:10 AM on July 5 [1 favorite] The best solution to the problem of waste reduction and recycling is to make manufacturers responsible for the cradle-to-grave lifespan of their products. As soon as the burden for dealing with waste falls to those who manufacture it, waste levels will plummet and recycling efforts will skyrocket. posted by five fresh fish at 10:38 AM on July 5 i’m surprised that there were no george carlin quotes in this thread. and by the way, it’s really bad for you to re-use the plastic bottles that are used to package bottled water. there’s a lot of nasty shit in the plastic, and the plastic is not high enough in quality. so, the nasty stuff leaches into the liquid in the bottle. it gets worse the longer/more often you use the bottles. even nalgene bottles have some nastiness in them. i think i’ll have a glass of water. yeah, that’s the ticket. posted by CitizenD at 10:52 AM on July 5 [...]
I buy a bottle of water at work, because the water that comes out of our faucets tastes like either soap or fish, or both. It’s got nothing to do with the water supply in my city– our water is great. It’s just that the faucet itself is dirty as hell.
It’s a good thing that it’s much more regulated here in Israel, and we actualy get spring water here
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My mom is all about bottled water, and after watching this, I have talked to her about how much bull crap it is. She says she has been in one of the factories that manufacture bottled water, and said she saw first hand how much cleaner it is than where we get our tap water. The purification process is better, etc etc.
I still think it’s bull crap. You are paying for WATER, something you can get for free from a tap. The water from your sink might taste funny, but it’s still perfectly safe to drink.
This isnt Mexico people, it’s the USA. Our water will not hurt you.
yeah but my tap doesnt say evian bitches!!! what what.
but in all honesty, anyone who has seen ben stein’s movie on id should know not to trust an expert who was selected by the movie makers to make a point. its not objective, they chose some guy who has been ranting about bottled water for years, because that is their point, if you believe this, i think naive is too mild a word for you.
Alright guys. Heres the thing. New age uses for Water Bottles is all bullshit. The origination of water however… had it’s uses. In Germany After WW2 Their entire water system contained toxic amounts of mustard gas chemicals. So they were forced to ship water from outside the areas. I.e Bottled Water. Most of the time bottled water is bullshit.
Did they only test flavor in NYC? I thought the tap was fairly good there.
However not all tap watcher tastes the same, where i use to live it tasted like the inside of a big old rusty water tower. And here particularly during springtime when things are blooming in water and making it taste all funky its gross. I like nasty obviously bad for me soda more than water any day though.
Well, it’s either bottled water or some kind of flavored drink… I usually drink Dasani, which actually has minerals in it to “enhance” the taste.
At least I’m weaning myself off of mountain dew and crap like that…
I wonder if they chose NYC on purpose for tap water vs bottled water test.
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As a result of the Catskill Mountains watershed’s integrity and undisturbed natural water filtration process, New York is one of only cities in the United States with drinking water pure enough not to require purification by water treatment plants.
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http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/wsstat05.pdf
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