Today, I learned that my mother now refuses to drink anything but bottled water because she actually believes that the government is putting a chemical in tap water that lowers pregnancy rates. She is trying for her 5th child. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after my 7 year-old learned at school that water that goes down the sink and toilets is cleaned and then turns up in the taps as drinking water, he is now refusing to drink it at all in case it is recycled toilet water, and if he carries on he may need to be hospitalised for dehydration. FML
Today, my parents decided that the best way to save money was to dilute everything we drank with water. Only one more year of watered down soda and juice to go. FML
Today, I asked my mother why she didn't drink. She laughed and said, "The last time I drank was the night you were conceived. I didn't need any other disasters." FML
Today, I found out my mother cleans the dishes with bathroom cleaning chemicals. She doesn't see anything wrong with this. FML
Today, my 13-year-old daughter excitedly told me about a new diet she read about online. Apparently, the diet entirely consists of bottled water and a mixture of food coloring. The food coloring "takes care of all that vitamin and mineral stuff." My daughter is an idiot. FML
Today, after weeks of drinking my mom's vodka and replacing it with water, it now only tastes like water. She has a habit of drinking on Fridays. Today is Friday. My life is a ticking time bomb. FML
Today, I got screamed at by my mom for about 10 minutes because she claims I’m ruining my diet by drinking sparkling water, claiming it’s “soda”. I had to explain that it has zero sugar, calories, etc. She told me that it’s “the same fucking shit.” And to not trust “the government food labels.” Huh? FML
Today, someone drank a sip of my single serve pasteurized orange juice and put it back in the fridge, ignoring the whole jug of non-pasteurized juice, that I cant drink because im pregnant. I cried. FML
Today, my father informed me that I was born only because my mom lied about being on birth control. FML
Today, my girlfriend bought several packs of bottled water, even though we have pure mountain water on tap. She did this because the pile-up of unwashed dishes in the sink makes it virtually impossible to slide a glass under the tap. FML
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Eric77lv 2
Bottled water is even worse...
Kill_Kayt 5
Well they do put Fluoride in the water which is a neural toxin (IE kills brain cells). Why do you think toothpaste says if swallowed contact poison control?
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Comments (84)
geod69 8
Boy or girl
valwojazz 11
Fluoride
Randomgurl27Q 4
Depending on where you live it may be a good idea. Although it's better to test it all yourself (I know you can do pH and cleanliness yourself) and decide then. Although boiling it and then bottling it is probably the best.
kkillaj 5
Boiling the water doesent get flouride out
UsagiArwen 23
I've lived out in the country all my life, and thus was raised on well water. Tap water tastes disgusting in town, and sometimes bottled water isn't much better than that. If I had to live in town, I'd get one of those large water coolers with water jugs, and drive out to the country to fill them with well water. Because I certainly wouldn't be using the taps.
neuroticallyyour_fml 17
Really? Trying for her fifth child? Maybe she needs a little tap water. I really don't have any respect for people who make a leisure activity out of popping out babies. It doesn't matter if they have the ability to support said children or not. Please tell me your mom isn't like that crazy Duggar woman and her 20 kids that she doesn't actually raise because TLC and the older kids do it for her.
cajekraze 7
She's no entirely incorrect. They heavily chlorinate the water, then add a chemical to counter the chlorine. Then they add fluoride, etc.
br0ccoli 15
75 - thanks for the clarification! The article wasn't super clear about transmission, or at least from memory that's what I felt. I did read about them researching it to create a plan to eradicate it in case it is used as a biological weapon, but wouldn't the strains be different anyway? How could you protect yourself from an entirely different strain? It's unlikely their methods to produce a highly contagious strain would be exactly the same. I mean, as it stands, the normal flu shots won't even cover ALL flu strains because of mutations/other factors. It just seems a little scary that someone gave them the funding.
hahaleym 0
I am trying to have a baby and I drink tab water. This lady is dumb
docscientist 10
This fml makes me wish the government was actually trying to control birth rate. We don't need families with five children with 7 billion people on the planet. This planet is going to end up just like Idiocracy.
br0ccoli 15
You should volunteer to be sterilized since you feel so passionately about it.
docscientist 10
Oh, I get it, this one of those 3rd grade arguments telling me if I love it so much, I should marry it.
WordSmyth 2
Actually, I believe we've breached 8 billion; correct me if I'm wrong. The problem is people don't worry about these things until they're already thigh high in shit, then ask for help.
WordSmyth 2
Couldn't edit in time it is 7 billion. You were correct.
kmluvsjw12995 5
Tap water and bottled water REALLY isn't that bad for you people. It's not like it's going to cause dysentery or something like that if you drink it. Just be glad that it's not river water from the Mississippi River, Ganges River, Yellow River, or the New River in Mexico. Those rivers are so polluted that one probably will die if not get really sick.