@melwin my whole problem with this whole thing was and still is, WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU STORE ALREADY TREATED POTABLE WATER IN OPEN AIR RESERVOIRS?!?!?!?!
my town has 6 reservoirs, all of which are for storage of UNTREATED water. it’s pumped in from the river, sits there, settles out the dissolved particulates, and at some point later gets fed INTO the city’s water treatment plant. any storage beyond that point is in water towers, which also help maintain a head of pressure on the system.
FELIPE IV!! I actually remember that, plus the other two things I remember (22 Jump Street and Dark Horse) fill me with anti-nostalgia. Let’s call it naustalgia, as in a portmanteau of nausea and nostalgia. Actually, let’s not, and just stick with anti-nostalgia.
Most nostalgic 2014 event was Scotland voting to stay in the UK.
Most epochal events were Russia annexing Crimea, the founding of ISIS, and the Ebola crisis.
The reservoir thing is the only one I even vaguely remembered, and that sounds like an Onion article. I didn’t know that keeping treated water in open reservoirs was even a thing until Oregon stepped up.
I’m assuming the urination thing is really the I Don’t Give a Shit choice.
@Mehrocco_Mole Perhaps, but it happened, just the same. Yepper.
@Mehrocco_Mole so real… it’s mind boggling…
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/04/draining-reservoir-after-urination-incident-shows-tenuous-grasp-of-science/
@Mehrocco_Mole Looks like it didn’t actually happen that time.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/portland-decides-not-toss-an-entire-reservoir-because-someone-peed-in-it/
@melwin my whole problem with this whole thing was and still is, WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU STORE ALREADY TREATED POTABLE WATER IN OPEN AIR RESERVOIRS?!?!?!?!
my town has 6 reservoirs, all of which are for storage of UNTREATED water. it’s pumped in from the river, sits there, settles out the dissolved particulates, and at some point later gets fed INTO the city’s water treatment plant. any storage beyond that point is in water towers, which also help maintain a head of pressure on the system.
You had me at ‘urination.’
@brhfl Yep. You know the people around here are going for the pee joke.
@brhfl no, you’re a nation!
/image pee_country
@chr well.
FELIPE IV!! I actually remember that, plus the other two things I remember (22 Jump Street and Dark Horse) fill me with anti-nostalgia. Let’s call it naustalgia, as in a portmanteau of nausea and nostalgia. Actually, let’s not, and just stick with anti-nostalgia.
@simplersimon Brilliant. “Naustalgia” will be the word of the year by the end of this decade.
I knew none of this.
/image blissful_ignorance
You know, it’s dangerous to hold it in…
@PocketBrain this is true. You could get uromysitisis poisoning and die!
OK, I voted for pee, well because, pee…
but I kinda miss the Sony hack of 2014 :sniff:
'cause it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving corporation.
/image rootkit
I would have chosen my divorce in 2014 as the most nostalgic event if it had been a choice.
@melwin 2010. Represent.
Most nostalgic 2014 event was Scotland voting to stay in the UK.
Most epochal events were Russia annexing Crimea, the founding of ISIS, and the Ebola crisis.
Britain leaving the EU two years later.
The reservoir thing is the only one I even vaguely remembered, and that sounds like an Onion article. I didn’t know that keeping treated water in open reservoirs was even a thing until Oregon stepped up.
Waited for someone to say it . . .
The inception of meh!
The birth, commencement, inauguration, kickoff, dawn of meh!!!
/giphy dawn of meh
More reason for people to stop moving to Portland
/giphy portland
