"anything with a sort-of face, I assign human emotions"
last I checked emotions are an attribute, it's just that how I read it I didn't see any human qualities given. although in retrospect "poor bunny!" should have tipped me off to feelings of pity to a scared and defenseless creature.
I spent about $300 replacing every light bulb in my house with CF bulbs. Though they are supposed to last for 5-7 years, depending on the maker, I have had two go out on me in the last year. That's not a bad average, but as each one goes out, my disappointment grows because I am losing money on my investment. Hope the rest hold out!
1. The tapwater in this country is undrinkable (China).
2. People subsist entirely by collecting empty plastic bottles and returning them for the collection fee, whereupon they are recycled. They feed their entire family by doing this every day.
Besides, if you can afford to buy bottled water, you're greasing the economy. Further (and I know it's frivolous) - Italian water is vastly superior to most others (and comes in glass bottles).
My problem is with the Coca-cola and Nestle "purified" crap. It may not have too much cadmium in it, but really, the price is all profit.
I'm sure America just has a recycling problem, in this case.
I realized that a big irony for me was that I wasn't trying for what I really wanted because I really wanted it. The fear of wanting it made it hard for me to go after it. Crazy.
Hi, Sarah. I think the point about fear is especially poignant. I can't imagine how many of us never try for what we really want because of it. As always, a great blog post.
- Stinks
- Tastes bad
- Looks bad
- Has chemicals in it
- Has hormoes in it (ever wonder what happens to all those birth control pills?)
- Has various drugs in it (no, treatment does not remove some of these)
- etc.
I'm sticking to bottled water and I recycle the bottles.
I found some great deals, but when I searched for "Coach", I found several listings spelled "Cocah" that were all by the same seller. I don't think fat fingers did that several times in a row. Not unless they chose the "List another like this one" option and REALLY didn't proofread.
Thanks for highlighting my eBay misspelling tool, I'm really glad that you find it useful.
With reference to the comment above, that's the exact reason why with Missing-Auctions.com allows you to search for correctly spelled items and also allows you to search completed eBay auctions so that you can do the research.
Now, having blogged on here, I really need to post on the Missing-Auctions.com blog !
The funny thing is you criticize someone for voicing their opinion and then you attack it without making a point. If you read the article you would have noticed that she believes drinking water out of a bottle is ridiculous because not only is it bad for the environment, but because we get it for FREE! By the way, what drink doesn't come in a bottle and requires more consumption of resources than bottled water? If you are going to make a criticizing comment please back it up with a fact.
For everyone else:
Another solution is filling up the 5 gallon jugs of water and refilling a metal water bottle. Drinking from a plastic bottle is bad for your health and the environment.
The flip side of sellers misspelling keywords in a listing is buyers misspelling keywords in a search. hammertap did an analysis and found that certain misspellings actually resulted in a higher final price, not a lower one.
Bottom line: go ahead and search for misspelled listings, but compare those listings side by side with listings with no typos. And if you're a seller, you may want to use deliberate misspellings.
I'm really happy to hear that bottled water in Germany comes in glass bottles. That's a great thing. Having never been to Europe, I've never seen this, but I admire it. I really wish we would do the same here - but I don't think we will for two reasons.
America is a large, large country, and the added weight of using glass bottles would seriously increase the cost of transporting the water. And anyway, I feel like we shouldn't be transporting it to begin with.
Glass bottles break, and there's nothing we Yanks love more than suing for an injury caused, directly or indirectly, by something manufactured by a large corporation.
I really appreciate the comments that have been made here. Please note that this is the first article in a series of three.
I'm going to go ahead and address Rabid McRetard here, just in case some of his inbred brethren stop by with similar complaints:
Drinking bottled water is better then drinking coke, beer, or anything else in a can or bottle. Everything you say about water also applies to every drink that comes in a bottle except those drinks take even more processing and consume even more resources. What kind a stupid idiot are you that you can't figure that out? Always remember that if you keep your mouth shut people might think you are an idiot, but when you open it and say something colossally stupid then everybody knows you are an idiot.
Nowhere in my article will you find me encouraging people to go out and purchase Coca Cola in lieu of bottled water. I don't drink much in the way of bottled Coke or Pepsi, BUT of course, they are as damaging to the environment as the plastic bottles used for water.
The difference that I was attempting to point out is that we are shipping in water from other parts of the world, which is wildly inefficient. Because it takes fuel to get it here. What kind of an idiot are you that you can't understand THAT?
I have found so many great things on CL. Furniture, housing, hunky men willing to do my bidding, all for free. It is a good thing indeed.
Can I add that I ALMOST met Craig once, when I lived in the Bay Area. Attended the same party, but missed meeting him by FIVE MINUTES. I'm aware that this is less exciting for some people than for others, but I owe Craig big-time.
I usually buy ONE BOTTLE of water, drink it, and fill it again and again from tap water that has been thru Brita water filter. I use original bottle for several months before finally recycling it.
Yes, assuming that I use words in accordance with their actual meaning is a common mistake among my readers. Don't make it again. :)
There are so many great sites the have peep-cooking recipes. Google it, I highly recommend the Peep Kabobs!
too much time at your hands. Still better than this other money game I have seen the other day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61lCrsRPmv0
"anything with a sort-of face, I assign human emotions"
last I checked emotions are an attribute, it's just that how I read it I didn't see any human qualities given. although in retrospect "poor bunny!" should have tipped me off to feelings of pity to a scared and defenseless creature.
Looks like he just edited the part out where he took out the dollar bill and replaced it with a hundred dollar bill.
I spent about $300 replacing every light bulb in my house with CF bulbs. Though they are supposed to last for 5-7 years, depending on the maker, I have had two go out on me in the last year. That's not a bad average, but as each one goes out, my disappointment grows because I am losing money on my investment. Hope the rest hold out!
1. The tapwater in this country is undrinkable (China).
2. People subsist entirely by collecting empty plastic bottles and returning them for the collection fee, whereupon they are recycled. They feed their entire family by doing this every day.
Besides, if you can afford to buy bottled water, you're greasing the economy. Further (and I know it's frivolous) - Italian water is vastly superior to most others (and comes in glass bottles).
My problem is with the Coca-cola and Nestle "purified" crap. It may not have too much cadmium in it, but really, the price is all profit.
I'm sure America just has a recycling problem, in this case.
a free super nintendo with some games, I call dibs
I can agree with bad sanitation of the water, but have you tried purification filters? like Pur, or the countless others?
Not new news but another great way to save on eBay is to snipe the auction. Two free ones I've used are:
http://www.skimp.org
http://www.gixen.com
I realized that a big irony for me was that I wasn't trying for what I really wanted because I really wanted it. The fear of wanting it made it hard for me to go after it. Crazy.
Hi, Sarah. I think the point about fear is especially poignant. I can't imagine how many of us never try for what we really want because of it. As always, a great blog post.
Such as: the next installment of my water series!
You are misssing some things.
My American tap water:
- Stinks
- Tastes bad
- Looks bad
- Has chemicals in it
- Has hormoes in it (ever wonder what happens to all those birth control pills?)
- Has various drugs in it (no, treatment does not remove some of these)
- etc.
I'm sticking to bottled water and I recycle the bottles.
I found some great deals, but when I searched for "Coach", I found several listings spelled "Cocah" that were all by the same seller. I don't think fat fingers did that several times in a row. Not unless they chose the "List another like this one" option and REALLY didn't proofread.
The men outnumber the women by something like 4 to 1. So yeah, even a plain Jane such as myself can find a Brad Pitt.
Ha. Not really.
it wouldn't be hard for a lady to get hunky men to do her bidding for free.
Thanks for highlighting my eBay misspelling tool, I'm really glad that you find it useful.
With reference to the comment above, that's the exact reason why with Missing-Auctions.com allows you to search for correctly spelled items and also allows you to search completed eBay auctions so that you can do the research.
Now, having blogged on here, I really need to post on the Missing-Auctions.com blog !
Hey IGNORANT,
The funny thing is you criticize someone for voicing their opinion and then you attack it without making a point. If you read the article you would have noticed that she believes drinking water out of a bottle is ridiculous because not only is it bad for the environment, but because we get it for FREE! By the way, what drink doesn't come in a bottle and requires more consumption of resources than bottled water? If you are going to make a criticizing comment please back it up with a fact.
For everyone else:
Another solution is filling up the 5 gallon jugs of water and refilling a metal water bottle. Drinking from a plastic bottle is bad for your health and the environment.
The flip side of sellers misspelling keywords in a listing is buyers misspelling keywords in a search. hammertap did an analysis and found that certain misspellings actually resulted in a higher final price, not a lower one.
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=2000291615
Bottom line: go ahead and search for misspelled listings, but compare those listings side by side with listings with no typos. And if you're a seller, you may want to use deliberate misspellings.
I'm really happy to hear that bottled water in Germany comes in glass bottles. That's a great thing. Having never been to Europe, I've never seen this, but I admire it. I really wish we would do the same here - but I don't think we will for two reasons.
I really appreciate the comments that have been made here. Please note that this is the first article in a series of three.
I'm going to go ahead and address Rabid McRetard here, just in case some of his inbred brethren stop by with similar complaints:
Drinking bottled water is better then drinking coke, beer, or anything else in a can or bottle. Everything you say about water also applies to every drink that comes in a bottle except those drinks take even more processing and consume even more resources. What kind a stupid idiot are you that you can't figure that out? Always remember that if you keep your mouth shut people might think you are an idiot, but when you open it and say something colossally stupid then everybody knows you are an idiot.
Nowhere in my article will you find me encouraging people to go out and purchase Coca Cola in lieu of bottled water. I don't drink much in the way of bottled Coke or Pepsi, BUT of course, they are as damaging to the environment as the plastic bottles used for water.
The difference that I was attempting to point out is that we are shipping in water from other parts of the world, which is wildly inefficient. Because it takes fuel to get it here. What kind of an idiot are you that you can't understand THAT?
I have found so many great things on CL. Furniture, housing, hunky men willing to do my bidding, all for free. It is a good thing indeed.
Can I add that I ALMOST met Craig once, when I lived in the Bay Area. Attended the same party, but missed meeting him by FIVE MINUTES. I'm aware that this is less exciting for some people than for others, but I owe Craig big-time.
Nicely done.
I usually buy ONE BOTTLE of water, drink it, and fill it again and again from tap water that has been thru Brita water filter. I use original bottle for several months before finally recycling it.