Cuteness.

[Typo Lad]

My brother, the baseball fan, decides to watch the playoffs with his four boys (8, 7, 5, and 4 - they like breeding). It's the Phillies vs the Angels. The youngest, E, is really excited. Suddenly, he looks at the TV and says "Daddy, those aren't ANGELS. Those are PEOPLE!" and walks off in a dissapointed huff.

[Cam63]

My neice was the same about fairy floss.

[Charles RB]

It's a good thing the team wasn't called the Devils instead...

[suedenim]

I remember my niece being similarly disappointed by the Super Bowl. The Indianapolis Colts were one of the teams, and we explained that colts are baby horses. I don't think she expected horses to be playing football, but she was disappointed that there weren't any baby horses WITH the team, at least. And she had a point!

[Eliseu Gouveia]

I´m STILL upset that people can´t fly.after watching Donner´s Superman.:mad:

And that was almost 30 years ago.

[Eliseu Gouveia]

And that was almost 30 years ago.:mad:

[Sean Walsh]

I was at my friend's house a few weekends ago and her 3-year old daughter got mad at me (in a pouty cute way) for pouring tap water instead of their spring water.

I found it very cute that she knows at that age already that tap water is just ok but spring water is technically healthier.

[suedenim]

I was at my friend's house a few weekends ago and her 3-year old daughter got mad at me (in a pouty cute way) for pouring tap water instead of their spring water.

I found it very cute that she knows at that age already that tap water is just ok but spring water is technically healthier.

Actually, that's probably *not* true. Spring water might taste better, depending on a variety of factors, but if you're in the United States, bottled water isn't going to be any healthier than your tap water, and conceivably might be worse.

I heard a water treatment expert on a podcast once, and the main takeaway fact for me was that bottled water is regulated by the FDA, while tap water falls under the *much* stricter regulatory regime of the EPA. Bottled water, like other foodstuffs, is spot-checked. Might be one in every 10,000 bottles or something. Tap water is constantly checked as it runs through the pipes.

His advice was, unless there's a taste factor involved (which there may well be - the tap water at my mom's place tastes awful, for instance), there's no reason to use bottled water. And if you *do* drink bottled water, he recommended sticking to the large, well-known brands, since they're most likely to use filtration/purification methods similar to your municipal water treatment. With more obscure companies, you might even be getting much LESS healthy water.

[Sarah Beach]

Also, take note, not all bottled water is spring water. Dasani (Coca-Cola's water product) - or however it's spelled - is just filtered tap water. Think about THAT the next time you shell out for it: you're better off financially carrying a bottle and refilling at a water fountain.

[suedenim]

Also, take note, not all bottled water is spring water. Dasani (Coca-Cola's water product) - or however it's spelled - is just filtered tap water. Think about THAT the next time you shell out for it: you're better off financially carrying a bottle and refilling at a water fountain.

Right. And while that's not necessarily a "bad" thing, once you know the facts about tap water, it does mean you're paying more for the convenience of a bottle plus refrigeration than for any tangible benefit over the water fountain.

[Charles RB]

The UK media loved that, because it's identical to one of Del Boy's black-market scams in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Fools_and_Horses). Dasani ended up being pulled from the UK due to the bad reception.

[Sally Sensational]

We live in Hot Springs, Arkansas and laugh more than a little at people who pay for the area's bottled "spa" waters, since it's exactly the same stuff that comes out of the tap AND you can go downtown and fill as many bottles as you want at the public fount for free.

I do occasionally go downtown and pick up a bottle from Mountain Valley Spring Water's corporate headquarters, though, because they have good-sized glass bottles with screw-on caps for less than a buck that I can reuse in the fridge for a good long time and glass doesn't change the water's flavor like metal does. For everyday carrying use, though, I have one of those metal water bottles that I picked up for a couple bucks.

Oh, and Wal-Mart's bottled water? Comes out of the Little Rock municipal water supply. I think they MIGHT filter it one more time just for kicks, but it's tap water, plain and simple.

The truth is, unless you're under a boil order or in some special circumstances - our doctor told me to only use bottled water for my kid when we lived in Louisiana and she had an elevated lead count due to the bad water supply in our town, bottled water is just a waste of money. And energy and resources on top of that, since the plastic bottles shouldn't be reused and take up massive amounts of landfill space.