...the following, which I received in an e-mail today (from Marxmail, of all places!), might be a comfort:


'WC Fields it turns out generally had it right when he said that he never
drank water, because fish commit unspeakable acts in it. Here's the
straight skinny:

Studies show that the average person drinks 1 liter of water a day.
Drinking water typically contains enough e. coli so that by the end of
the year that adds up to ingestion of more than 1 kilo of e. coli
bacteria, including a principal strain of harmful bacteria living in the
lower intestines of warm-blooded animals.

However, we do not run that risk when drinking beer, wine, gin, rum,
whiskey or other spirits, because alcoholic beverages go through a
purification process -  distillation. filtering, boiling and/or fermenting.

Equation:
Water =  shit
Booze =  health

Sanity and sanitation moral: It is better to drink hooch and talk stupid
than to drink water and be full of  crap.

Posted as a public  service.'

 

I hope you refused the offer? ISTR The Ruttles got hooked on that stuff, autohar?.

And Ian, let's face it, you'd be in a pretty poor state with no E. coli in you lower gut. How else would you get your supply of Vitamin K? There is wide variety of strains of E. coli, some of which are highly problematic, but 'friendly' strains are a natural constituent of the gut flora of Homo sapiens.

One has to drink boiled water.
Between us, we have a problem here with water and have to buy water (or boil it). They found some parasite in it and some 140 people got sick. We can not brush our teeth with tab water or wash our salad vegetables in tab water.
It is inconviniece and everybody is grambling (especially hoterls and B&Bs because they have to provide water free of charge and because people cancell their visits).

I try not to drink tab water anyway. I don't like beer. I can take wine in moderation (one glass) which is not enough for one day. I love tea (herb tea and any tea). This is what I enjoy most often.

I've read before that civilization was built on beer -- not a joke, a serious historical theory! It was the discovery of brewing/fermenting in the fertile crescent of the Middle East that provided a safe way of drinking water, leading to lower mortality rates and therefore an environment that allowed advances in civilization.

Here's to civilization! Hic!    

Maybe you should ask autoharp to buy you some from his man in the pub, t-p.

If you want a wine perhaps you should be in the grumpy old rant room?

I don't like any form of alcohol much. (This sounds like one of those "Am I the only one....?" letters.) For years I pretended I did, because it seemed to be socially necessary, but then I decided that I didn't care what anyone thought, so I just say so. I don't really mind a glass of champagne, but I'd much rather have cranberry juice,



or a smoothie,



and they're a lot cheaper!

It's no more boring to dislike it than it is to rely on it!