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Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:23, 21st January 2004:
 
...does the water in england taste fuckin horrible?
Posted by angeldelight, 17:25, 21st January 2004:
 
cos 7 ppl have already peeed it
only drink bottled. even in squash and the like
Posted by angeldelight, 17:26, 21st January 2004:
 
waitrose strawberry bon-bon flavour water is fantabulous btw
Posted by Liandle, 17:26, 21st January 2004:
 
It's worse here, believe me. We have to go down to river to get it, and we bring it back in those big pots on our heads. Don't you all drink bottled water?
Posted by Sul, 17:27, 21st January 2004:
 
I dont know. Ask me another.

"The water in majorca dont taste like what it oughtta" - another rhyme from my childhood. I think it was to promote the pronounciation of T's.
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:27, 21st January 2004:
 
Well thats nice...plus I have to fuckin pay for it!

I do use bottled water, plus I have a filter thingie in the house, but when I get tea made for me at work it tastes rotten.
Posted by angeldelight, 17:28, 21st January 2004:
 
ungrateful sod! nobody makes me owt!
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:29, 21st January 2004:
 
Yes they do..Brock makes you laugh. There you go.
Posted by Liandle, 17:30, 21st January 2004:
 
That's because the tea lady is poisoning you slowly. Check her background.
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:31, 21st January 2004:
 
Dont have a tea lady so that not correct.
Posted by Sul, 17:32, 21st January 2004:
 
Maybe your colleagues just dont like you.
Posted by angeldelight, 17:32, 21st January 2004:
 
i was just reading that top french food chef type ppl are really peeed orf with jamie oliver cos he's on his 3rd best selling book and tv prog and they dont like english telling them how to cook (cos they invented it or something). Ha! i likes jamie oliver. top bloke
Posted by Liandle, 17:32, 21st January 2004:
 
Who makes the tea then?
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:32, 21st January 2004:
 
Bastards! I shall give them all a P45! Bastards!
Posted by angeldelight, 17:35, 21st January 2004:
 
i dont drink tea so i make it out of the hot tap so that i may never be asked again
Posted by Liandle, 17:38, 21st January 2004:
 
Good thinking...
Posted by RUSS, 17:44, 21st January 2004:
 
the water is fine in england you loon! the water that comes out of a drinking tap is catorgary 1 water and is the same as any bottled water just with less minerals. i would suggest that the water that is being used in the keetle to make your tea is not being drawn from a catorgary 1 source. i.e a drinking water tap
Posted by angeldelight, 17:45, 21st January 2004:
 
it may well be cat 1 but still doesnt taste anything like volvic!
Posted by Liandle, 17:46, 21st January 2004:
 
Yuck! (loo water) ?
Posted by angeldelight, 17:48, 21st January 2004:
 
is yr company into recycling?!!
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:48, 21st January 2004:
 
RUSS, nonsense mate..sorry to say it but thats crap. The water down here is nothing like the water i get back home..so therefor the water here is not Cat1.
Posted by Liandle, 17:50, 21st January 2004:
 
Where's back home?
Posted by angeldelight, 17:50, 21st January 2004:
 
wheres home fog?
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:51, 21st January 2004:
 
Glasgow.
Posted by angeldelight, 17:51, 21st January 2004:
 
the water in london is much harder than up north. i have to use much less shampoo at my nans house
Posted by RUSS, 17:51, 21st January 2004:
 
it may taste different due to differing amounts of impurities, but in essence it is exactly the same. if you can notice the difference in tea i would say your supply is wonky
Posted by Brock, 17:52, 21st January 2004:
 
The taste of the water is dictated by the type of minerals in it. So the area which the water came from will change the taste (ie what rocks it was filtered through to get into the water table). I would doubt very much that you could taste if water is lower quality until you get right down toward the 'bits of shit and dead cows floating in it' level.
Posted by Brock, 17:52, 21st January 2004:
 
ad: isn't that because you aren't there as much, though?
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:53, 21st January 2004:
 
nope...Honestly, the water here is crap compared to the water back home...is it not something to do with limescale? Oh, I dont know, nor care now.
Posted by Brock, 17:54, 21st January 2004:
 
Yes, dopey. That's because there would be more Limestone dissolved in it. That is why the water is 'harder' it is a reference to the different minerals (not bits of rock, btw) that are present in it!

And you asked the question, anyway.
Posted by angeldelight, 17:55, 21st January 2004:
 
erm no brock but nice try
Posted by angeldelight, 17:56, 21st January 2004:
 
insist on cups of tea made only from bottled water and i'm sure you'll be very popular

n.b i lie sometimes
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 17:57, 21st January 2004:
 
I shall just make my own tea from now on.

n.b I know
Posted by Liandle, 18:02, 21st January 2004:
 
Safest bet

I lie ALL the time
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 18:03, 21st January 2004:
 
I thought so.

We know this
Posted by Brock, 18:11, 21st January 2004:
 
Or, to be less subtle....

no shit, Sherlock
Posted by WarHead, 23:24, 21st January 2004:
 
t may taste different due to differing amounts of impurities, but in essence it is exactly the same. if you can notice the difference in tea i would say your supply is wonky


Either that or someone is pissing in your kettle.

the water in london is much harder than up north. i have to use much less shampoo at my nans house


Is that cos you nick hers?
Posted by angeldelight, 23:38, 21st January 2004:
 
noooo! mine is v expensive and pretentious whereas as she'll happily use fairy or morning fresh. she's not unkown to use jif if she has to. she will not a reason for her having hair like wire wool
Posted by friday, 07:36, 22nd January 2004:
 
foggie - maybe the kettle needs descaling

a helpful tip from friday on a thursday
Posted by cal, 07:48, 22nd January 2004:
 
it's lime in the water. london was quite hard water. where i live, we have very hard water. i like it. i hate that poncey 'soft' northern crap.

also, it could well be the kettle needs descaling or they're using very shit teabags.
Posted by Victor Menendez, 08:31, 22nd January 2004:
 
Pah, Our roughty toughty Northern water could take your Southern water any time!
Posted by WarHead, 13:13, 22nd January 2004:
 
Yah, yah, yah. Come and get some water if you think it's hard enough.
Posted by ilovebeerme, 13:19, 22nd January 2004:
 
I can taste the differance in the water whe I have tea in London too. I don't mind it that much but the hardness is certainly noticable.
Posted by WarHead, 16:31, 22nd January 2004:
 
That's what my wife always used to say.
Posted by Brock, 16:33, 22nd January 2004:
 
And you killed her for it?

Was it that bad a thing to say?
Posted by WarHead, 22:33, 22nd January 2004:
 
Possibly. Actually, it was just incorrect.