When I was little
I believed it was fine to drink water from the tap!

Mind you, you could only buy bottled water in a restaurant in those days. I'm sure it was the late 1980s / early 1990s when the Perrier ads started appearing: "Eau n'eau!" etc. which started this whole industry.

I despair sometimes.

And when I say 'sometimes' I mean, when I'm awake.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 8:13, 10 replies)

The 'Peckham Springs water' episode of Only fools and horses
When I watched that I thought it would totally work
(The Magic Number is neither magic nor a number, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 8:55, closed)

Coca Cola's "Dansai" was exactly that.
It got jeered out of town the moment it was exposed that it was to come from a tap in Kent, which, I believe, the taxpayer would be paying for.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:00, closed)

I had never heard of (or possibly forgotten about) Dasani...

So I googled it. Bloody hell!

"Early advertisements referred to Dasani as "bottled spunk" or featured the tagline "can't live without spunk". These slogans were used seemingly oblivious to the fact that spunk is slang for semen in the UK"

Ha ha haa!
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:14, closed)

I remember it well...
Never drank it though.

One of the other things about it was that there were so many additives and minerals, that it wasn't allowed to be sold as plain "water" any more.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:16, closed)

The main 'problem' with it was
that in the US, they saw nothing wrong with taking tap water, filtering it, adding chemicals and bottling it as 'purified water' or something, whereas in the UK, we thought that was shit, and water that has been 'filtered through mountains from pure rainwater' must be better for you.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:55, closed)

I've soooooo
got to turn "Safe Search" on.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 25 Jan 2012, 12:01, closed)

Water is privatised,
not tax funded.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:44, closed)

Fair cop.
But the gist is the same.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:47, closed)

Whenever I see someone buying bottled water in bulk in the supermarket
I do stop to wonder if the world wouldn't be better off without them.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 11:29, closed)

What? Supermarkets?
Can't argue with that.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 11:52, closed)