Irish Water - Spar & Londis

[choux]

I trust that gness and sunny dave don't drink much of this (as if) ;)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49145037

[choux]

Who would have thought it - too much arsenic ?

W.C. Fields was probably right, after all.

[DTCwordfan]

The Irish don't drink water, after all, what do fish get up to in it?

[choux]

Procreation, DTC.

Oh dear, I have circumvented the swear filter :D

[DTCwordfan]

Exactly, I rest my case......they probably used Highland Spring in the fonts and that's about it....we were questioning today why a caff down here was selling Strathmore when there are local brands like Rattler water....

[choux]

Merchandising is a law unto itself, DTC.

It is a shame that local brands are not promoted.

[CrapAtCryptics]

Waters ok if you take it in the right spirit

[gness]

I have honestly never bought a bottle of water in my life, DT........ I know folk do but I think it’s an odd thing to be buying..... :-)

[10ClarionSt]

I'm with gness. But as I've said before on here, I never drink water, especially botled water. Tap water is purified and filtered, but what else do they do to it? Bottled water isn't purified; it's just filtered, then it's put in bottles and stored in warehouses for months and if it's in plastic bottles, who knows what chemicals are leaking into the water from the plastic?
Seen on labels of bottled water in a supermarket:
"Filtered over millions of years in the mountains of Bavaria. Best before October 2019" :o)

[douglas9401]

The sell by date is for the bottle, not the contents.

[10ClarionSt]

Really? Nobody told me that when I worked for
AG Barrs' Minerals, Doug.

[douglas9401]

Did you ask?

[douglas9401]

https://www.livescience.com/32636-why-do-bottles-of-water-have-expiration-dates-.html

[10ClarionSt]

Ha ha! We were told once that some products had been tainted. It wasn't the bottles that we threw away.

[gness]

Sorry, Choux..... my answer should have been to you not DT......mixed up by his other thread.....really must take more water with it... ;-)

[10ClarionSt]

Anyway Doug, it was only a "pun". Yer know? Millions of years? Best before? Hello??? :o)

[Buenchico]

Hmmm.

Quote:
"A wide range of signs and symptoms may be seen in acute arsenic poisoning including headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, hypotension, fever, haemolysis, seizures, and mental status changes"

(Source: https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/pathology/tests/arsenic-total-organic-and-inorganic/ )

A lot of those would seem to be the normal after-effects of a long night in the pub for Gness and Dave, so how could they tell if they'd been consuming too much arsenic anyway?

;-)

[10ClarionSt]

You ask some difficult questions at times, Chris! :o)

[gness]

You thought I’d gone to bed and you were safe, Chris..... ;-)