Actually it was a pint of porter in a straight glass.


>>You remember that ?
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>As the Cure song goes, "I remember EV-vrything!". Maybe you've mentioned your sojourn in Bath since then so I put the two together. Talking of bone-orchards, I often eat my lunch there and I often think of you when I see tinnies acattered about (Tennents Super T of course) and I appreciate why the verger shooed you away. Mind you, that's not as bad as seeing a used prophelactic next to a tomb last week. I've got nowt against people making out there, but they could at least "tidy up" after them!
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>>Actually that graveyard was in London. It was very central near the Barbican but I can't remeber the exact road.
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>>Hasn't London water got so much oestrogen from women on the pill that we are all changing sex.
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>Well I've noticed you do get a little tetchy in your posts once a month.
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>>>>In the UK we have different water in different areas as well. I was living near Bath till last year where the water was very hard. Kettle regularly needed descaling.
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>>>I thought you only supped beer in graveyards there, I seem to recall? :-)
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>>>>Now I'm in London and the water is completely different.
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>>>Yeah - it sucks!
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>>>>Maybe the comments about not drinking the water where just to wind you up.
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>>>>Maybe I'm wrong but I would have thought most tap water anywhere is surface water.
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>>>>>True, I guess I just don't think of it that way (as being large enough for a diverse geography but then look at some of our states and the difference in soil and weather et al just inside one state) since it is slightly smaller than Montana...
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>>>>>>>When I was living in Germany no one drank the water. We were briefed when we entered the country to not drink the water too. In fact, when I first arrived, taking showers gave me a rash everywhere because the water was so hard. It took a few weeks to get used to it. All of my German friends never drank water either. Water is so hard in Germany that it can create problems with dialysis machines if a good reverse osmosis system is not used:
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>>>>>>>http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/19/7/1925
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>>>>>>>Germany also uses alot of surface water in their taps which is surprising and scary. You've heard of the Messel lake deposits? Who knows what else in the water... :o)
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>>>>>>Germany is big enough to have diverse geography. I've been around Düsseldorf and Stuttgart mostly - the water there wasn't too bad, just didn't taste great. Coffee did :).
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>>>>>>I've seen one faucet with a huge lump of white sediment grown around it... in a water quality testing laboratory in Hungary. Now that was a water which tasted great, but if you didn't wipe the glass immediately after washing it, the water drops would leave white outlines.