Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > Yes, I never understand why yuppies find it necessary to carry a > bottle of water around with them at all times. Must have something to > do with bottle feeding when babies, and they just can't, or won't, > grow up. (After all, "progressive" government will care for them like > children.) > > [Arlo] > Can't have anything to do with foul-tasting tap water or aggressive > free-market advertising, can it? Naaaahhh..... Must be "liberalism".
Foul tasting water? From your government water treatment plant? Naaahh. > [Arlo] > Our tap water tastes horrible. I run a distiller at home on all my > drinking water. But even that is far cheaper than buying bottled > water, and filling our landfills up with mountains of plastic bottles. Let's outlaw plastic water bottles and whatever is in them. > But the water where I work tastes fine out of the fountain. Indeed, I > fill up my reusable bottle from it. But sitting next to it is a > bottled water machine that is empty by the end of each week. > Sometimes I do think its a bit like the Starbucks phenomenon, you > know, you're "cool" if you're carrying around a "Starbucks" cup, but > a Dunkin' Donuts cup or (GASP!) a thermos from home makes you very > untrendy and mockable. I know students who actively dislike > Starbucks, but tell me they use a Starbucks cup because it makes them > appear hip. Ah the wonders of marketing.... Within the social level are levels of status. Has always been. Will always be. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
