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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why do people buy bottled water anyway. You can get it from fractions of a penny at home.

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Some of us don't have trustworthy water supplies and infrastructure

[–] 01011@monero.town 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The UK has a growing problem with contaminated, unreliable tap water.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My tap water comes straight from the alps, better than bottled water 🙃

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

I usually think this, but then remember what water down south tastes like.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

The slightly bolded "not" really sells it.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago

I would bet my wallet that this water is objectively worse than tap

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Is it from Dasani Peckham Springs?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Water from the ditch round the back, now with no bits!

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But the floaty bits were my favorite :(

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those are vitamins and minerals.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

By far, the best part of finding a loose needle in the wild is the tetanus.

[–] MisterMoo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

The label is raising a lot of questions already answered by the label

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do they also sell no longer table water?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

If you put it in a bowl it becomes dog water.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got, I’m still table water from the block.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do they have water for tables that can't keep still?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Those are water tables.

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why can I taste bleach then?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

because pure spring water without chlorine is how you get cholera, typhoid fever, giardiasis, and hepatitis A.

I'm pretty sure it is from some tap

[–] Monument 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For legal purposes, they’ve trademarked the tap water filling spout and have all signed contracts forbidding them from revealing its name.
Ol’ Squirty George enjoys a life of privacy, although not one free of controversy, as people constantly ask “but that’s just tap water, isn’t it?” and then they have to sign an NDA before being told that’s not a tap, that’s Ol’ Squirty George.

When the lawyers come for me, tell my wife I wish I’d planned better.