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)
stevejobsrules 2
There are a ton of chemicals in the tap water. Also hormones. Because most tap water is recycled sewage, that contains urine, and 80% of the hormone contraception pills that women take is leaked out through their urine. So it does lower pregnancy chance. But most bottled water is just "purified" tap water. Unless shes drinking spring water she's not close to safe. Either way she should stop having kids. 4 is plenty
jizzwold 21
You are an idiot.
Shrike 24
There are no words to describe how much of an idiot this guy is.
Killer_fel 15
This isin't a girl?
thats_my_job 11
You don't know anything about economics. Take a course it'll help open your eyes a bit.
desireev 18
Statistics aside, who are you to judge and say she needs to stop having kids??? Also, there are traces of sewage in the water WAY BEFORE it becomes drinking, tap water. But there is always a sewage waste plant in most places. The end of the sewer system. It looks like a huge, stagnant, dirty pond. And it's always well away from residential areas. No matter how far or where they have to go to get it, tap water comes from a water source... That is NOT the sewer system! Like someone said previously, you really should take a class or something. And get off your high horse. You don't have any power to judge this woman at all... Or the amount of children she has/would like to have!
docscientist 10
A world population of 7 billion says OP's mom should slow the **** down.
cobaltss06 1
82-actually I know where there is a sewage plant No more than 200 feet from a development with over 50 houses in it
froglegs96 0
I don't think it's anyone's business how many kids anyone has. You aren't supporting them.
jizzwold 21
That isn't really a lack of common sense. I'm sure the people involved with such a scientific development have a way to protect themselves. It's just the rest of us that are ****** if they screw something up really bad in their containment of the virus. Smart? Yes. Common sense? Likely. Unscrupulous? Debatable.
pastnastificatio 4
How do we know that this OP isn't actually the government planting fake conspiracy FML's using a shadow ID just to try and throw us off the scent by making what they are really doing seem crazy and far-fetched?
br0ccoli 15
How do you know that they aren't trying to trick FMLers into drinking the bottled water that is actually the one contaminated?
Elisabetha Aarron 18
How are we to know you are part of the government trying to mess with us with reverse psychology!
proud2fly 7
18- You gave too much ******* reasons. Hopefully someone sees what I did there.
br0ccoli 15
39-I just don't see ANY upside of making an experiment like that.
Bigboned38 0
Good people shouldn't be allowed to have more then three kids anyway
Shrike 24
What about bad people? Or are you trying to breed an army of people who don't know the difference between "your" and "you're"?
cablooey 0
Think I'm the only one to point out that some of these comments should replace ""too much" with "too many"?
chimocho 8
18 needs to. 48 was pointing out 18's mistake...
fatalcharm 1
Your mum could be right. Fluoride is added to water which is a toxic waste product from the aluminum industry. It is harmful to our health and that is why you're not supposed to swallow toothpaste. Google it. You will find a lot of information on how fluoride is harmful to our health.
TwoZeroOZ 2
Actually, All evidence on the planet (that has been accumulating for decades) suggests that at current water levels, fluoride is beneficial at current doses. You're not supposed to swallow toothpaste because it has extremely high levels of fluoride which might become unsafe if someone were to swallow it habitually for years and years. Google it. You'll find LEGITIMATE information (ie, not conspiracy nuts posting on blogs) disproving everything you believe on the matter.
asleepingbear 8
Is she blonde?