Reply to: Don't Drink The Water!

[vetran]

There seems to be some conflicting thoughts on that. In some areas beer was considered more nutritious than water and in others it was due to water quality. A quick google brings up both theories.

I always understood beer as being the water substitute and Gin being the luxury due to relative cost.

though some suggest that water was the norm.

Did Medieval People Drink Beer Instead of Water? | HowStuffWorks

[ladymuck]

It was beer they drank instead of water, wasn't it?

There seems to be some conflicting thoughts on that. In some areas beer was considered more nutritious than water and in others it was due to water quality. A quick google brings up both theories.

[NotAllThere]

Gin was originally popular as it was healthier than drinking the water in 18th century got you drunk and was cheap and easy to produce

It was beer they drank instead of water, wasn't it?

[Zigenare]

Texas residents warned over brain-eating microbe in tap water | London Evening Standard

Residents of a city in Texas have been warned to be careful with tap water, after a deadly brain-eating microbe was found in the water supply.

Lake Jackson was one of eight communities in Texas that were told not to use tap water on Friday after tests confirmed the presence of Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba that can cause a brain infection.

Authorities launched the probe after the death of a six-year-old boy earlier this month.

Warnings were lifted for seven of the communities on Saturday but remain in place for Lake Jackson, a city of nearly 27,000 people near the coast, south-west of Houston.

City authorities said in a statement that people must boil tap water before drinking it. Residents were also told including to not to go up their noses while taking a shower or bath.

Children, people with weakened immune systems and the elderly are "particularly vulnerable," they added.

Not just Texas -

[SimonMac]

Drink gin, not water!

Gin was originally popular as it was healthier than drinking the water in 18th century

[Mordac]

Drink gin, not water!

Save gin, bath with a friend. No, that's not right, is it...

[Rearden Metal]

Never have done since I worked in the Middle East and all the water comes from desalination plants and tastes absolutely rank.

[minestrone]

How on earth could you not notice one of these buggers going up your nose?

I read some survival book that said never piss directly into water in the tropics, either hit something solid and make the flow break or get in the water and piss while you are clothed. Things can swim faster than your flow.

I always though it was BS, I googled it there...

BBC - Earth - Would the candiru fish really eat your genitals?

and got as far as "amputate the penis"

[minestrone]

[minestrone]

Nope, you post about shagging other people's mothers...

Perfectly normal.

[vetran]

Nope, you post about shagging other people's mothers...

That's alright son!

[ravenshaw]

Residents were also told including to not to go up their noses while taking a shower or bath.

How on earth could you not notice one of these buggers going up your nose?

[darmstadt]

I'm not the one who posts about brexit in General or compares us to Russia during the German Blockade and looks forward to eating brexiteers.

Your definition of normal is far short of mine.

Nope, you post about shagging other people's mothers...

[ladymuck]

Real Ale & Scotch but agree the principle!

I was going to asterisk it with 'other beverages are available' but knew that sensible people wouldn't need such a qualifier.

[vetran]

Drink gin, not water!

Real Ale & Scotch but agree the principle!