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  • eighthobstruction
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    • Nov 2010
    • 6449

    #31
    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
    Ah - such pride comes before a fell.
    I see what you are doing there....very sub tel....
    bong ching

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    • LHC
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      • Jan 2011
      • 1567

      #32
      Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
      Absolutely - it's only been drunk once, unlike London's, which has been drunk several times.
      An urban myth I'm afraid.

      In fact only a very small quantity of London's drinking water may have been drunk before. Any that has been will have come from Oxford or Reading where it will have been treated before being discharged into the Thames.

      Although London's sewage water is not currently treated and recycled for human consumption, there are proposals to do so in the future, so the myth may well come true:

      Thames Water has proposed this as one way of ensuring it can provide an adequate water supply for Londoners in the future. But could you stomach it, asks Emine Saner
      "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
      Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest

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      • amateur51

        #33
        There are no plans to impose a hosepipe ban despite the heatwave affecting much of the UK, the BBC has been told.

        Water UK, which represents all major water companies, said there was no need to panic as reservoir levels were where they should be.

        There are no plans to impose a hosepipe ban despite the heatwave affecting much of the UK, water companies say.



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        • Flosshilde
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          • Nov 2010
          • 7988

          #34
          "there is some wastewater recycling that goes on naturally," says Evans, though he adds it is a tiny amount by the time it is diluted."

          Accoding to homoeopathic principles that tiny amount is enough to render all the water you drink sewage.

          Doesn't the Royal Family drink only bottled water from the Malverns?

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          • MrGongGong
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            • Nov 2010
            • 18357

            #35
            Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
            Accoding to homoeopathic principles that tiny amount is enough to render all the water you drink sewage.
            That's not strictly true
            as according to "homeopathic principles" all water that has no molecules whatsoever of anything but water is dangerously full of the things which it doesn't contain


            Hilarious sketch from the fourth episode of series three of 'That Mitchell and Webb Look.'TM&WL at amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/That-Mitchell-Webb-L...

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            • BBMmk2
              Late Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 20908

              #36
              I'm not surprised that the water authorities hav'nt said anything yet. usually after two days, they start to moan!
              Don’t cry for me
              I go where music was born

              J S Bach 1685-1750

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              • Nick Armstrong
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                • Nov 2010
                • 26575

                #37
                Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                I'm not surprised that the water authorities hav'nt said anything yet. usually after two days, they start to moan!
                Possibly, on this occasion, it's not the case, Bbm: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23325078
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • amateur51

                  #38
                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Possibly, on this occasion, it's not the case, Bbm: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23325078
                  That's what I posted earlier in #33, innit
                  Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 17-07-13, 19:18.

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                  • Nick Armstrong
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26575

                    #39
                    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                    That's what I posted earlier in #33, innit
                    Ah... well done Wilson! I ...ahem... wondered which one of you would spot that one first!


                    PS Sorry, made a right Horlicks and posted all over your previous, rather than quoting. I think I need a cold drink!
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • Flosshilde
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 7988

                      #40
                      Or a lay down in a dark room

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                      • Barbirollians
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 11763

                        #41
                        It certainly seems to be having an effect on this forum . I have seldom read so many intemperate posts as recently .

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                        • Pabmusic
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                          • May 2011
                          • 5537

                          #42
                          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                          That's not strictly true
                          as according to "homeopathic principles" all water that has no molecules whatsoever of anything but water is dangerously full of the things which it doesn't contain


                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
                          I've only just noticed this. You've cheered me up no end!

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                          • BBMmk2
                            Late Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20908

                            #43
                            This weather only seldom comes to this coun try. No in-betweens at all!
                            Don’t cry for me
                            I go where music was born

                            J S Bach 1685-1750

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