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International Knowledge Exchange / Re: Tap Water
« Last post by Poesie on July 13, 2019, 09:15:31 pm »
Tap water is the go for me too (another Australian) and has been in all the places I’ve lived, Newcastle, Darwin and Canberra. Darwin tap water was a bit interesting, often with little floaty bits in it, but it was still safe to drink. Took a while to get used to the taste though. Have also stayed with rellos who didn’t have town water - so drank rain water from a tank and used bore water for washing, etc.
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International Knowledge Exchange / Re: Tap Water
« Last post by STiG on July 10, 2019, 08:09:50 pm »
In Ontario, if you are on municipally supplied tap water, it is probably just about the safest water going, after the tragedy in Walkerton in 2000.  I grew up on well water from a drilled well, which is also a secure source.  You can get it tested for bacteria up to 4 times a year with your local health unit.  So I drink tap water pretty much exclusively, usually carrying my own water bottles when I'm out and about.

If I'm travelling, I'll ask my hosts if the tap water is good or if I'm going to be m/hotelling it, I'll do a little research ahead of time to see what the tap water is like.  There are a couple of places - in North America - where I chose not to drink the tap water because of my research.
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International Knowledge Exchange / Re: Tap Water
« Last post by lowspark on July 10, 2019, 09:45:30 am »
I drink tap water and most people here do I think. (Houston)
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International Knowledge Exchange / Re: Tap Water
« Last post by Airelenaren on July 08, 2019, 08:06:36 am »
German tap water is generally safe to drink, but mine in particular is probably not (recurring issues with old, tight pipes). That said, I didn't like the taste of any tap water I've encountered so far, it always tastes chalky to me.
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International Knowledge Exchange / Re: Tap Water
« Last post by Free Range Hippy Chick on July 08, 2019, 02:49:49 am »
In the UK, so yes, tap water is safe to drink. We have a lot of variation in water hardness, so in some areas it may not taste great, but it won't do you any harm.
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International Knowledge Exchange / Tap Water
« Last post by Oz diva on July 07, 2019, 10:09:09 pm »
Do you drink your tap water?

I do. Here in Melbourne we have excellent and very clean tap water, but I know that is far from universal. I tutor international English students and we tell them they can drink water from the tap, but that seems so odd to them that they look at us quizzically or in disbelief, and I’m sure ignore us. In any case Chinese people rarely drink cold water, so that’s another impediment, however I don’t know if they use bottled water to heat or tap.
 
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General Discussion / Re: I Accomplished Something Today! Or Plan to...
« Last post by Oz diva on July 07, 2019, 08:52:04 pm »
It’s pretty early still, I plan to do some writing. I try to write 1000 words a day, it doesn’t always happen that way.
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General Discussion / Re: TIL: Today I Learned...
« Last post by Oz diva on July 07, 2019, 08:49:46 pm »
Well not today, to be honest, but I recently learnt a fact which kinda blows my mind.

I have been conducting some family history research and even made the trip to Ireland last month.

The population of Ireland has still not got back to pre-famine levels; so many died or emigrated. It’s just interesting to me, because due to better health outcomes, most countries populations have increased in 170 years, but not Ireland. 

Anyway as you probably know it is a stunning country and I had a wonderful time.
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General Discussion / Re: Ongoing grocery delivery thread
« Last post by DragonKitty on July 06, 2019, 04:46:08 pm »
Lynn, that order was the first time we had used Instacart, and he had not clicked on ‘no substitutes’, not yet seeing the need for it then.  He now clicks on it every time, because we can be quite picky about getting certain brand names.  And have had the wrong groceries delivered once, which thankfully he caught right away because he had not ordered any sodapop.

I also had one Amazon order that I assume was misdelivered. The day it was scheduled for delivery, I sat on the couch all day waiting.  Then when I checked for the status late in the day, I was shocked to see it saying ‘delivered’, when it hadn’t been.  I called them so I could talk to an actual person, and of course they tried to say that I had missed it.  But of course if I had missed it, then why does it say it was delivered?!?  Eventually he promised to resend the order, which I did get that time around.  I am happy to say that all of my subsequent packages have all been delivered correctly (knock on wood).

The one place I have had delivery issues with is Grubhub.  At first, everything had been fine.  Then I started getting incomplete orders delivered, and refused to send someone out to get the rest of the order. The only thing that they would do is offer a $5 coupon for my next order, which doesn’t help for an incomplete dinner that day.  That happened three times.  My break with them was when a $70 dinner order was delivered to the wrong address (I assume).  When the order showed up as delivered and we had seen no-one near our house, I immediately called about it.  At first they said I should wait a little longer for the food to get there, but I argued that if it had been delivered and we didn’t have it, it wasn’t coming to us.  I finally got them to refund the money, but the only recompense offered was a $5 coupon for the next order, which should be emailed in a few days.

We have since switched to DoorDash and UberEats.

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Wedding Etiquette / Re: 3:30 pm wedding starts at 5 pm
« Last post by MrTango on July 04, 2019, 03:30:28 pm »
If the invite said the wedding was at 3:30, I would have waited until 4:00 at the latest unless someone volunteered a good reason why the wedding was being delayed.  At that point, I'd have left.
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