It's like the Tyne Tees weather map that keeps pretending Sunderland doesn't exist.
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Rte Irish weather rarely puts a sun/cloud/rain graphic directly over Dublin when they do their bit after the evening news. Cos of course no fucker needs to see what the weather will be like in the bit of the country that has almost half the fuckin population eh. Let's see how fucking south Wicklow is affected but.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostFuck knows why Wick is on that map but. Poor forgotten Proper City Dundee.
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Anyway, since we've partially moved on from tap water to mineral water, I would like to pass on the excellent fact that the county I live in - Harghita, which is one of 42 counties in Romania - is home to 25% of all the mineral water springs in the whole of Europe. In most villages round here there is at lest one spring at which people fill up bottles. After a while you start to work out which spring you like the most - and which the least. There are one or two which I really don't like, and one about 15km from here which is my favourite. It's nearly all naturally fizzy too.
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Having lived in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya and Tanzania, where water quality is extremely variable, drinking any water out of the tap without worrying about going down with something is fucking brilliant. My friend Sam used to say all the time that the warnings about drinking tap water in Nairobi were just scaremongering, until he went down with something nasty and was off work for a month.
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Weirdly (or maybe not so weirdly) despite having had no thoughts of searches of water softeners, I got a an ad for water softeners in Facebook yesterday. I'd say it was an amazing coincidence, except don't believe in such things when it comes to ad targeting.
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I grew up in Leeds (soft) but that was a very long time ago. Entire adult life in London and Cambridge, both hard, so I have thoroughly got used to hard water, and soft water now seems annoyingly odd.
I can't recall feeling strongly about the taste, but the one thing I absolutely cannot stand about soft water is that it feels impossible to completely rinse soap off your skin with it, so I always feel that there's a thin film of detergent clinging to me at the end of a soft water wash. That's why, when we moved into our house we immediately ceased to use the expensive water-softening kit which the previous owners had built into our system. I realise that that will probably mean our central heating system is being slowly destroyed by furring up with chalk inside the pipes etc., but that's a price that Mrs Gauss and I are willing to accept in order to avoid having to wash in soft water.
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Originally posted by jdsx View Post
Hmmm, never thought about a link between hard water and voting for Brexit before....
minerals in tap water clearly rot the brain no it's not just correlation implying causation.
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