@ShotgunX@tinamarie1974@wonidejack Fun! I guess technically if there is no Tritium in it at all, it would be safe. (Deuterium is completely stable.) It also would make a great practical joke. If I remember correctly, heavy water ice cubes will sink in ordinary water.
@daveinwarsh Agreed. We are fortunate/blessed to have an excellent well. The water is clear and good tasting - just a tiny trace of calcium and iron. It is rainwater fed, since we are near the top of the hill and there is no snow melt above us (no farming or feedlots, either!). We brought a water softener system from our previous place, but I have never bothered to install it. After years of enjoying our well water, I can hardly choke down the chlorinated swill that comes from the municipal systems.
@macromeh Our well is 90’ deep, when they hit the aquifer, the pipe filled to within 10’ of the top.
I tested it & it’s great. Been using our well for 35+ yrs now.
Yes, city water or any water with ‘additives’ tastes like crap.
@TheCO2 The clear plastic bottles keep water potable a lot longer than the milky plastic gallon bottles. They stack easily, so they store easily. Opening a bottle doesn’t compromise the seal on a large amount of water. You don’t need to have, and keep clean, a drinking vessel. Which takes water…
We used to stock 5-6 cases of 1/2 liter bottles of spring water for our just in case storm/disaster stash. We’d use about a case every two weeks so it was constantly rotated for fresh. I miss doing that but the new kitchen arrangement doesn’t leave room; I keep one case on hand in the garage along with several 20 liter water carriers.
It is stupid to not store some drinkable water or at least a means to make water potable.
@duodec It does have some advantages, and I can’t see it ever going away, completely, but why do we need 75 different types of the same thing, in every size imaginable?
It is stupid to not store some drinkable water or at least a means to make water potable.
Especially here where the water system (and sewer system - right now it is trashing a local river and people are told not to fish on it) is really old and we have boil alerts on a fairly regular basis due to broken water mains. Takes the city sometimes weeks to list the boiled water alert. The water in my building has been light brown since Friday and still no boiled water alert on the website.
When bad things happen here then there are toilet paper type runs on bottled water in the closest to the problem grocery stores and to get some involves driving to an outlying area. I have one case of bottled water set aside for these types of situations. I otherwise don’t use it (the water tastes like plastic too). That is what reusable water bottles are for. I also have 10 gals of water in gallon milk containers for toilet flushing and washing when they cut the water off to fix the problems. Pain to store though but glad I have since I have had to use my stash 3 times in the last 20 months.
Best water for what? Shower - hot. Swimming - hot or cold and/or salt. Ice skating, skiing, and sledding - frozen… Sailing -hot, cold, salt, or frozen, ice climbing - frozen, to drink - cold.
I went to Ikea this week and bought some lingonberry syrup. It’s amazing in sparkling water. Almost like eating in the Ikea cafeteria which was closed down.
Next time you go, please go to the candy section and pick up a Daim bar if you’ve never had it. They were one of my favorite candies when I lived in Norway. I’ve been periodically importing them and was surprised to find them there. I ended up buying something like 6 three packs because they were so cheap. I still have some in my fridge from over a year ago. The nearest Ikea is around 1.5-2 hours away.
/image Daim candy bar
It’s like a Heath or a Skor bar but way better chocolate.
@RiotDemon mine is that far too and we were out of town or I would have. I’ll look for the candy next time. There wasn’t much in the way of food at all but they did have cinnamon rolls.
@RiotDemon@sammydog01 OMFG! I love Skor and Heath bars. My closest Ikea is only 1.5 hours away and I would totally make a special trip but it’s across the border and I assume the purchase of mass quantities of Daim bars wouldn’t be a qualifying reason for entry.
@sammydog01 oh dang. I’ve been needing to go to IKEA for a cabinet so I can redo my kitchen counters… I didn’t even think about the shipping issues with the imported food.
@RiotDemon@sammydog01 I have an Ikea 15 minutes away. It replaced one that was a few minutes away from there that was actually the first Ikea in the United States. I love Heath/Skor, so curses on both of you! Guess I’ll be stopping by one of these days.
At home I drink bottled water because my well has too much iron for my taste buds to drink plain. I usually drink that room temp. At work I drink filtered water from the fridge, so cold.
Eventually I’ll hook up to city water and start drinking that filtered from the fridge as well.
Warm water is weird to drink.
Hate sparkling water. It feels like when you order a fountain sprite and the syrup ran out. Disappointing.
I’ve had so many suggestions to drink flavored or sparkling water since I gave up the daily soda habit. I’m fine with plain water.
@blaineg I grew up in Norway. Ice wasn’t a huge thing there either. My American mom did have ice cube trays.
I hate drinking overly iced drinks without a straw because the ice wants to fly out and smack you in the face. There’s a restaurant I go to that fills their glass of water half with ice, and when they refill it, they turn the pitcher sideways to add more ice. If I don’t ask for the refills without ice, by the end of my meal, my glass will be completely full of ice.
If everywhere goes to paper straws, I’ll have to skip the ice or ask for two cubes, lol. Paper straws are terrible.
@blaineg@RiotDemon Pretentious restaurants around here have taken to serving water at room temperature (really, it’s still cold at the plebian ones!) And I always ask for a glass of ice. I like my water so cold that it’s practically sno-cone textured.
@AZnatural1 in Florida, you have to be careful. The first minute of water could be scalding hot. When I worked at a barn and had a horse, whenever refilling water buckets, I’d run out the first bit of water because it was way too hot for me to even use to clean the buckets. I’d burn my hands.
I was just thinking about this again… The hose is perfect when there is a hurricane that knocks out the power if you want hot water. You can just unroll the hose and leave it to sit in the sun. After a while, run the hose into a bucket to collect the warm water.
I wish we would of thought of that years ago when we didn’t have power for two weeks. I either took cold showers or went to my parents house and boiled water on the propane grill too have a warm sponge bath.
Reverse osmosis filtered. My ice maker and my kitchen sink have R.O. the rest of the house has softened water, a near necessity in this region of the country. And icy cold for drinking, borderline scalding hot for shaving, and showering.
You know where you don’t want hot water? The toilet. We had an office where they had accidentally run hot water to the toilets in the first floor restrooms. Nothing like walking into a steamy restroom on a Monday morning about 10:30 after people had done their business and flushed it down with hot water.
@j37hr0 good grief hot water in the toilets?!?! That was classic stupid. Too bad whomever was in charge didn’t make the people fix that before they were paid.
@Kidsandliz it wasn’t that way for very long, and we all had to go use the upstairs restroom while it was being fixed. It would take a few flushes to really get it steaming.
The coffee flavored kind.
Heavy.
@wonidejack that is some expensive stuff!
@tinamarie1974 @wonidejack Came here to say that! Gotta have my Deuterium and Tritium.
OK, maybe not for drinking, though.
@mehcuda67 @tinamarie1974 @wonidejack
Back when I worked at a Russian nuclear reactor, that was the only thing we had for our break room still.
@ShotgunX @tinamarie1974 @wonidejack Fun! I guess technically if there is no Tritium in it at all, it would be safe. (Deuterium is completely stable.) It also would make a great practical joke. If I remember correctly, heavy water ice cubes will sink in ordinary water.
Cold water from our well is the best.
@daveinwarsh Agreed. We are fortunate/blessed to have an excellent well. The water is clear and good tasting - just a tiny trace of calcium and iron. It is rainwater fed, since we are near the top of the hill and there is no snow melt above us (no farming or feedlots, either!). We brought a water softener system from our previous place, but I have never bothered to install it. After years of enjoying our well water, I can hardly choke down the chlorinated swill that comes from the municipal systems.
@macromeh Our well is 90’ deep, when they hit the aquifer, the pipe filled to within 10’ of the top.
I tested it & it’s great. Been using our well for 35+ yrs now.
Yes, city water or any water with ‘additives’ tastes like crap.
Dry. The drier the better. And red.
Cold. Always cold.
@JT954
Florida Springs FTW.
Depends on if it’s going on the outside or the inside.
I assume “sparkling with hops” is code for beer. If it’s some sort of pretentious crap that is not
Beer I’ve never heard of i withdraw my vote.
@unksol “Sparkling water with hops” says Coors or Bud Light or the like to me. No Thanks.
@macromeh ? That is not water. That is called piss. Do they even put hops in Coors/budlight?
Non-bottled.
The longer I work at a warehouse for a c-store, the more I hate bottled water. Plus, single-use plastics are horrible, anyway.
@TheCO2 But it’s freshly bottled from the city water system!
@TheCO2 Why do they charge so much for bottled water?
What’s Evian spelled backwards?
@TheCO2 The clear plastic bottles keep water potable a lot longer than the milky plastic gallon bottles. They stack easily, so they store easily. Opening a bottle doesn’t compromise the seal on a large amount of water. You don’t need to have, and keep clean, a drinking vessel. Which takes water…
We used to stock 5-6 cases of 1/2 liter bottles of spring water for our just in case storm/disaster stash. We’d use about a case every two weeks so it was constantly rotated for fresh. I miss doing that but the new kitchen arrangement doesn’t leave room; I keep one case on hand in the garage along with several 20 liter water carriers.
It is stupid to not store some drinkable water or at least a means to make water potable.
@duodec It does have some advantages, and I can’t see it ever going away, completely, but why do we need 75 different types of the same thing, in every size imaginable?
@duodec @TheCO2
Especially here where the water system (and sewer system - right now it is trashing a local river and people are told not to fish on it) is really old and we have boil alerts on a fairly regular basis due to broken water mains. Takes the city sometimes weeks to list the boiled water alert. The water in my building has been light brown since Friday and still no boiled water alert on the website.
When bad things happen here then there are toilet paper type runs on bottled water in the closest to the problem grocery stores and to get some involves driving to an outlying area. I have one case of bottled water set aside for these types of situations. I otherwise don’t use it (the water tastes like plastic too). That is what reusable water bottles are for. I also have 10 gals of water in gallon milk containers for toilet flushing and washing when they cut the water off to fix the problems. Pain to store though but glad I have since I have had to use my stash 3 times in the last 20 months.
Best water for what? Shower - hot. Swimming - hot or cold and/or salt. Ice skating, skiing, and sledding - frozen… Sailing -hot, cold, salt, or frozen, ice climbing - frozen, to drink - cold.
I went to Ikea this week and bought some lingonberry syrup. It’s amazing in sparkling water. Almost like eating in the Ikea cafeteria which was closed down.
I’m ready for another trip!
@sammydog01 did you buy some frozen meatballs???
Next time you go, please go to the candy section and pick up a Daim bar if you’ve never had it. They were one of my favorite candies when I lived in Norway. I’ve been periodically importing them and was surprised to find them there. I ended up buying something like 6 three packs because they were so cheap. I still have some in my fridge from over a year ago. The nearest Ikea is around 1.5-2 hours away.
/image Daim candy bar
It’s like a Heath or a Skor bar but way better chocolate.
@RiotDemon mine is that far too and we were out of town or I would have. I’ll look for the candy next time. There wasn’t much in the way of food at all but they did have cinnamon rolls.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 OMFG! I love Skor and Heath bars. My closest Ikea is only 1.5 hours away and I would totally make a special trip but it’s across the border and I assume the purchase of mass quantities of Daim bars wouldn’t be a qualifying reason for entry.
@j2 it totally would in my eyes.
@sammydog01 oh dang. I’ve been needing to go to IKEA for a cabinet so I can redo my kitchen counters… I didn’t even think about the shipping issues with the imported food.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 I have an Ikea 15 minutes away. It replaced one that was a few minutes away from there that was actually the first Ikea in the United States. I love Heath/Skor, so curses on both of you! Guess I’ll be stopping by one of these days.
@cinoclav please report back your findings!
Flammable, between 80-110 proof.
At home I drink bottled water because my well has too much iron for my taste buds to drink plain. I usually drink that room temp. At work I drink filtered water from the fridge, so cold.
Eventually I’ll hook up to city water and start drinking that filtered from the fridge as well.
Warm water is weird to drink.
Hate sparkling water. It feels like when you order a fountain sprite and the syrup ran out. Disappointing.
I’ve had so many suggestions to drink flavored or sparkling water since I gave up the daily soda habit. I’m fine with plain water.
@RiotDemon My wife, and the English generally, don’t do ice. It’s appalling.
You get really weird looks and reactions in restaurants when you ask for ice water. “You want water? In a glass? With ice? Tap water?”
@blaineg I grew up in Norway. Ice wasn’t a huge thing there either. My American mom did have ice cube trays.
I hate drinking overly iced drinks without a straw because the ice wants to fly out and smack you in the face. There’s a restaurant I go to that fills their glass of water half with ice, and when they refill it, they turn the pitcher sideways to add more ice. If I don’t ask for the refills without ice, by the end of my meal, my glass will be completely full of ice.
If everywhere goes to paper straws, I’ll have to skip the ice or ask for two cubes, lol. Paper straws are terrible.
@blaineg @RiotDemon Pretentious restaurants around here have taken to serving water at room temperature (really, it’s still cold at the plebian ones!) And I always ask for a glass of ice. I like my water so cold that it’s practically sno-cone textured.
/giphy skiing
@cinoclav I was expecting something worse.
@blaineg He’s French, we all know he doesn’t have any balls.
@blaineg @cinoclav
the announcer says.
Because he knows everyone wants to.
Not schadenfreude. I don’t take pleasure in his pain, and didn’t want him to experience that.
I’m guilty as charged, of:
“Look, train-wreck! I need the instant replay!”
@blaineg @cinoclav I want too do that skiing ?. .
Distilled.
195F and poured over crushed and roasted arabica beans from Peru with a cone paper filter to keep out the fines. That or espresso.
The best water follows the German Purity Law.
A bit colder than room temperature. Cool, but not cold. Like it’s been sitting in the pipes when it’s cold outside. So refreshing…
EDIT: My comment concerns water for drinking.
Garden hose water. Not hot. Or cold. Just perfect.
@AZnatural1 in Florida, you have to be careful. The first minute of water could be scalding hot. When I worked at a barn and had a horse, whenever refilling water buckets, I’d run out the first bit of water because it was way too hot for me to even use to clean the buckets. I’d burn my hands.
I was just thinking about this again… The hose is perfect when there is a hurricane that knocks out the power if you want hot water. You can just unroll the hose and leave it to sit in the sun. After a while, run the hose into a bucket to collect the warm water.
I wish we would of thought of that years ago when we didn’t have power for two weeks. I either took cold showers or went to my parents house and boiled water on the propane grill too have a warm sponge bath.
Reverse osmosis filtered. My ice maker and my kitchen sink have R.O. the rest of the house has softened water, a near necessity in this region of the country. And icy cold for drinking, borderline scalding hot for shaving, and showering.
You know where you don’t want hot water? The toilet. We had an office where they had accidentally run hot water to the toilets in the first floor restrooms. Nothing like walking into a steamy restroom on a Monday morning about 10:30 after people had done their business and flushed it down with hot water.
@j37hr0 good grief hot water in the toilets?!?! That was classic stupid. Too bad whomever was in charge didn’t make the people fix that before they were paid.
@Kidsandliz it wasn’t that way for very long, and we all had to go use the upstairs restroom while it was being fixed. It would take a few flushes to really get it steaming.
Fire water.
/image fire water
/giphy fire water
I am, uh, just going to -ahem- leave this here:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/belle-delphine-bathwater-gamer-girl-troll-857192/
@ShotgunX I give her one thing, she’s fucking smart.
Tap, filtered, just slightly warmer than ice-cold. And lots of it.
Potable water. The rest is fluff.
Plain waters. Fancy-assed waters. Sparkling waters. Flavored waters. Tap waters. Well waters. Brewed waters. Carbonated waters.
So many waters!
/giphy Thirsty
I want too do that skiing ?. .