Older women and you..

[Gudrid]

laugh. one of my neighbors looked out a window to her backyard and saw a mountain lion eating her cat, police came and shot it~black hills, but it wasn't quite as big as that one.

[kegkilla]

Originally Posted by PigBenis

amidoinitrite?

wrong

[Pennilenko]

Originally Posted by Millie

Hmmm. That is a pretty compelling argument, actually. :\ But what about all the antibiotics and hormones and traces of antidepressants that have been found in civic tapwater recently? Granted, that was in NYC. But it doesn't seem farfetched to think that could be happening here in LA -- a city probably even more full of antibiotics, hormones, antidepressants, etc. I'll take your word for it if you say that stuff doesn't really affect LA tap water. Because truth be told, I'd love to stop having to buy expensive and plasticky bottles all the time. I'm just very concerned about traces of drugs in my tap water. More concerned about that kind of stuff than I am with bacteria, actually.

California water isnt stored there, it gets used as fast as it get piped in over that pass near victorville Cahon pass i think it is, when you get on the backside heading north you can see the pipes. Colorado river and a few smaller sources feed southern california her water, Its only stored long enough to process it in environmentally sealed storage facilities.

Bottled water has, zero flouride(responsible for good teeth in california), most of the time zero important minerals that water is supposed to have, and possibly agressive water depending on the cheapness of the bottling company. Tap water can have a clorinated taste, in the southeast it is clorine but in california its the flouride that gives it that peculiar taste. Seriously i live in florida now and i yearn for my cali tap water. The teeth here are horrible and if you leave your water on the table for a couple of hours it developes a moldy smell, and this is for people lucky enough to have city tap water, well water and watertable stories are sheer horror.

I envy all of you in california with that good tap water.

Most of the info i have provided can be verified with some google searching. Also california water districts have proud websites that often educate and showcase the quality of the water systems.

P.S. I even think discovery channel did a special on the technological prowess of the various water districts there. Might want to check their library of episodes for that.

[Millie]

Does every region in SoCal have good water? Would water in Malibu differ from water in LA proper?

[Pennilenko]

Originally Posted by Millie

Hmmm. That is a pretty compelling argument, actually. :\ But what about all the antibiotics and hormones and traces of antidepressants that have been found in civic tapwater recently? Granted, that was in NYC. But it doesn't seem farfetched to think that could be happening here in LA -- a city probably even more full of antibiotics, hormones, antidepressants, etc. I'll take your word for it if you say that stuff doesn't really affect LA tap water. Because truth be told, I'd love to stop having to buy expensive and plasticky bottles all the time. I'm just very concerned about traces of drugs in my tap water. More concerned about that kind of stuff than I am with bacteria, actually.

Ohh crap i almost forgot....the part about the antibiotics and hormones and crap............only happens with water systems where, waste water gets reclaimed into drinking water. NYC

Basically in some districts in NYC human waste water goes through many processes to be reclaimed. The hormones and drugs and stuff literally comes from human waste and cannot be filtered out of the water by any means that does kill bacteria and filters particulate. I bet most nyc peeps dont even know that they are drinking their own .........well you know.......

[Millie]

There have been various attempts in the past to start recycling waste water into drinking water in Los Angeles County. I'm not sure if any of those programs have gone into effect yet, but if/when they do, I'm not touching the tap water.

Also, apparently (according to Google, at least), Los Angeles tap water has never been fluoridated until late 2007. That's odd.

I realize LA has a huge water problem, and that the water problem will only get worse over time. But I don't understand why they can't just start building desalinization plants on the Pacific. It worked in SimCity!

[Pennilenko]

Originally Posted by Millie

Does every region in SoCal have good water? Would water in Malibu differ from water in LA proper?

Same water along the coastline, it only changes up on the outskirts of the desert and san diego.

There are some independant collection points, reservoirs, that feed some places but those are litterally small townships on the edges of death valley.

San Diego actually has alot of water comming in from natural springs in the cleveland national forest......(this is the Gov protected lands in that triangle that is Orange county,San Diego County and Riverside County). The city of orange has the best water out of all the counties. Simply because it has the absolutely newest facility its been completely rebuilt. And when i say it has better water, its such a marginal measurement that its rediculous to even say better.

[Pennilenko]

Originally Posted by Millie

Also, apparently (according to Google, at least), Los Angeles tap water has never been fluoridated until late 2007. That's odd.

I just googled. found this.

Fluoride factsheet

P.S. In plumber school.....for lack of a better educational term to describe it. We toured alot of facilities. I remember clearly alot of station managers were like, "weve been flouridating for 25 years but its not really big knowledge." Mainly because, and this is mearly opinion, for every new advantages technology or discovery theres some knuckle dragger that thinks its going to send us all to hell. There is so much hush hush in public works for that very reason. Im not saying what you read in google was wrong, its just counter to what ive whitnessed first hand. Thats all.

I really beleive every ounce of what i said about bottled water and the tap system is the truth as ive participated in it.

[Pennilenko]

Originally Posted by Millie

But I don't understand why they can't just start building desalinization plants on the Pacific. It worked in SimCity!

This is already happening, the tech gets cheaper every year. Soon we will have to deal with the consequences of polluting our oceans for the last 400 years with human waste.

[Malice]

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[spronk]

haha goal complete, thread about dating derailed into bottled water! oh, and just get a filter system in the house and you are all set, thats what I mean by tap water - its < $1000 for a soft water conditioning system that softens all your water, or hell just pay $40 and get a PUR or brita water filter thingie at costco. And thats what pisses me off when my wifes friends who only drink bottled water come over, even after I've tried explaining many times why tap/filtered water is way better than bottled water, they all basically shrug and more or less say "bottled water makes me feel more hip". Plus in our house we have a water conditioner, a water dispenser out of the fridge (which also processes), AND a brita canister in the fridge for ice cold water.

vvoid - the best way to date older women is through friends. 90% of the women who are nice, normal, etc past age 35 aren't going to be doing much in online dating, they were career focused, had a very long relationship that fell apart, whatever. Get married friends to invite you over to parties, every married woman out there has a single friend who is "just perfect for you", but they won't hook it up until they are sure you are a good guy. Best picks imo would be schoolteachers or career women (doctors, lawyers).

[Gudrid]

"Despite dental pressure, 99% of western continental Europe has rejected, banned, or stopped fluoridation due to environmental, health, legal, or ethical concerns"

Fluoridation status of some countries

imho we don't need it, people just need to brush. I don't believe fluoride in the water will help prevent teeth problems for people eating McDonalds and drinking soda-pop-cola every day. For homeless or poor people maybe, but having healthy teeth is probably the least of their worries.

[Lejina Bloodbath]

Personally I always was amazed at the counts of heterotrophic in the samples of bottled water I analysed (I'm microbiologist and the lab I used to work at would do the water analysis of pretty much all the towns, cities and wells of the eastern half of the Quebec province). Every year we'd have high school students coming to our lab with bottled water asking us for analysis for their science project. Canada used to have a regulation on the acceptable number of those you can find in potable water (the analysis is still routinely done, as one of the parameters to assess the general quality of the water, but to have a low count isn't actually part anymore of the requirements to allow distribution to the public) and the bottled water I saw pretty much always exceeded the maximum allowed, but since it wasn't tap water it never fell under the regulations in place at the time.

Then there's of course the simple fact that you have water sitting there and sucking shit out of the bottle for god knows how long.

The way I see it, the bottled water industry is legit for selling water in a convenient bottle you can buy anywhere and carry with you (duh): it's a disposable bottle business. But people buying said bottled water as the healthy way to get your daily water intake? Now im puzzled. From a microbiological stand point, bottled water's quality is very average at best (funny thing, it's those who would average the best scores were usually well known bottled tap water). If you're in the middle of a shopping mall and your choices are a bottle of coke or a bottle of water, the latter is the healthy solution, but any more than that is a waste of money on an expensive product of subpar quality.

[Snugglebear]

The advantage of an older woman is that she knows you are young and have no money. She isn't going to come looking for you to pay for that abortion.

As for "hang-ups" or "set in her ways," I don't mind it too much. I guess it's because where I'm from, even the 20-year-olds have kids and ex-husbands.

[Malice]

I can appreciate the sex appeal of a cougarmilf but... I don't think I could ever date one.