What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Key-Glyph]

Okay, the face on that balloon is hilarious. Well done, Luke. (Also, my sympathies, Mrs. Luke.)

Back in college my girlfriend was hanging out at the house we were renting and she excused herself to go to the bathroom. I then hear a shriek because she didn't actually check to see whether or not the seat was down and just sat.

Hah! This is so true. In my house growing up we always left the top lid up, and I vividly remember the time I rushed in and plunked down on the inexplicably covered toilet. I gasped and sprang back up.

The story continues under spoilers for possible TMI:

Not only is this experience awful because the top is cold, but you're also not expecting a continuous surface. It boggles your mind for a second. That, and by the time you make contact you've probably started relaxing in anticipation of sweet relief, so you experience a sudden panicked moment of "can I hold this for three extra seconds while I get this situation sorted out, having already been startled -- and now having begun laughing at myself?!"

Luckily there was no accident to speak of.

There was that one time I threw up on a closed toilet lid, though. I arrived just a split second too late. What makes this story particularly facepalm-worthy is that along the route to the bathroom I passed a garbage pail. I actually looked at it and thought -- as time slowed down cinematically as if to emphasize the moment it all went wrong -- "No, I can make it; I'm only eight steps away...!"

Alas.

[CRTGAMER]

I would recommend against drinking distilled water. It has the potential to leech a couple key water-soluble minerals (magnesium, for example) out of your body. It causes stomach upset in some folks (including a guy I knew a few years back). I know that bottled water isn't well-regulated, but distilled is just as problematic for its own reasons. For example, it likely comes into contact with surfaces and potential contaminants while being stored and before being bottled. Truthfully, bottled water from the EU is probably safest, because the EU has standards for bottled water that are enforced.

Where did you get that??!! Distilled water is just PLAIN water, no chemicals or additives. If its good enough as the only water to use in car batteries, good enough for me.

This reminds me of a scene in the movie, Dr Strangelove.

Ripper: Mandrake?
Mandrake: Yes, Jack?
Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Mandrake: Well, I can't say I have, Jack.
Ripper: Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?
Mandrake: Well, I-I believe that's what they drink, Jack, yes.
Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
Mandrake: Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can't quite see what you're getting at, Jack.
Ripper: Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this Earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that 70 percent of you is water?
Mandrake: Good Lord!
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. (he begins to chuckle nervously)
Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?
Mandrake: Yes. (more laughter)
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!...You know when fluoridation first began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way a hard-core Commie works.

[Cronozilla]

I would recommend against drinking distilled water. It has the potential to leech a couple key water-soluble minerals (magnesium, for example) out of your body. It causes stomach upset in some folks (including a guy I knew a few years back). I know that bottled water isn't well-regulated, but distilled is just as problematic for its own reasons. For example, it likely comes into contact with surfaces and potential contaminants while being stored and before being bottled. Truthfully, bottled water from the EU is probably safest, because the EU has standards for bottled water that are enforced.

That is absolutely true! However, you can just take some mineral supplement and be on with your day. And I'm not advocating replacing your normal water intake with distilled.

We don't get that fancy regulated bottle water here and what I'm really saying is: drink the water from your house. Get containers to take it with you if you need it on the go. But I think Distilled water (food grade, of course) is a better option than completely untested unregulated bottled water that has only been filtered so it doesn't appear discolored.

The water I was talking about is steam distilled in food grade equipment and then deionized. The ability of organisms surviving is low. Much lower than dumping it on some carbon.

Mineralization of water, or supplementing it, is a lot simpler and safer than drinking water of unknown contents especially when random samples have been shown to be contaminated with E. Coli and fecal coliform. What was that number a few years ago? 70% of the water brands on the market in the US had 100 times the amount of contamination than the recommended tolerance for consumption?

That sounds like a larger deal than supplementing with some minerals and vitamins you probably need to take anyway because you don't get any in your food.

It's about moderation, but your main water source if you're in a first world nation should be your public water system.

[JoeAwesome]

We have a saying in my old town:

"If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back."

[Fragems]

: Gave the Jeep Service center a call since I haven't heard from them since I dropped it off Monday. Supposedly my "Service Rep" wasn't there so they couldn't tell me jack. They were supposed to be calling me back when he got in, but that was a few hours ago. Guess I'll have to bugger the shit out of them tomorrow if I don't get a call back to day.

: Got called in to work this morning which was a pain in the ass since I only had my standard jeep which is really cramped and definitely not suited to mail delivery. They gave me the short route so 75% of the time I was just on foot delivering mail to cluster boxes each of which has 70 or so mail boxes a piece. However the other 25% was a pain in the ass since I had to put the vehicle in park, unbuckle, and stretch across the passenger seat to get to the mail boxes really did a number on my back.

: Dad just got back from a week long motorcycle last Sunday afternoon(actually got back Saturday, but he lied and most likely crashed at his girlfriends since my Mom/Brother were in moving stuff out). Anyways out of the blue he tells me today that he is going out of town again and won't be back till Sunday didn't bother to tell me where he is going either . So now I have to ask either my Mother or Brother to drive down from Charleston over an hour away to give me a ride to the Dealership in Ashland once they finish servicing it.

Edit: Just got a call back from the dealership seems like when I told them I needed the vehicle "ASAP for work and no later then Friday" all they herd was "Friday". So it's just been sitting there since Monday morning . They are looking at it now though and should give me a call back by the end of the work day .

[Fragems]

So I got the call back well it looks like it's either you Engine Computer, Alternator, or Wiring no shit I could have told you that 2 days ago. Apparently my battery drained completely while there as well. They are going to look into it further and get back to me tomorrow. The guy wasn't super clear about the costs though $300 was mentioned for some reason, but I don't know if that is the cost of what they have done so far or his guesstimate of the total. Hopefully they get their shit together and have this done by Friday or I'm going to be pissed.

[Exhuminator]

So I got the call back well it looks like it's either you Engine Computer

Yeah the ECU was the first thing I thought when you were describing the symptoms. But I really hope it's not that, because that's usually a very expensive part to replace. Although it's usually an easy part to replace from a repair perspective.

[Fragems]

Yeah it looks like they range anywhere from $200-$600 if it turns out to be that . I just hope they figure it out tonight or early tomorrow so they can get it fixed in time.

[Luke]

Yeah it looks like they range anywhere from $200-$600 if it turns out to be that . I just hope they figure it out tonight or early tomorrow so they can get it fixed in time.

Maybe you can supply your own parts, which cuts down on cost.


Smile: All is in order for my museum's even tomorrow. The only thing I need to do is pick up a black masquerade mask and some fabric to complete my dread pirate robert's costume.

Frown: Having to dress like a pirate, and knowing my picture will be in the local paper.

Plus, my wife is being a complete twat and is refusing to even wear an eye patch. I told her "You are going to be the only person there not dressed like a pirate, and people will think you have something stuck up your ass". I mean, seriously, asking her to wear a tiara and to be the princess to my Wesley isn't asking much.

[Exhuminator]

Frown: Having to dress like a pirate, and knowing my picture will be in the local paper.

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