This pit thread is a result of the Cafe Society thread, Bottled water- Is it really worth it? (Scam or not) where, thanks to Mr. Barbarian, Alleged Economist, things are getting a little too heated for the forum.
There’s the usual give and take: some people like bottled water for the convenience, or because their tap water tastes bad. Others think it’s a waste of money because most bottled water is just tap water, or the bottles are bad for the environment.
The Barbaric One says that it is indeed a scam, because instead of water in a bottle being sold as “bottled water” it’s being sold as Organic Free-Range Mythical Unicorn Jizz that’ll cure your hangnails, give you perfect pitch, and make you irresistable to the sex partners of your choice, and we brainless drones are falling for it because marketing.
post 15
Right, the same sort of marketing campaign used for every consumer product from tampons to lawn tractors is equivalent to being tortured. :rolleyes:
post 25
Cute. “This poster disagrees with me, so let me condescendingly paint him/her as a brainless drone who can’t make a decision unless an ad exec makes it for him/her.”
post 68, bolding mine
Jesus fuck, did a bottle of Evian shoot your Pa just to watch him die?
I’ll grant that installing a filtration unit is likely cheaper over the long run than buying bottled water. However, if someone doesn’t have the ready cash for a large one-time purchase but can more easily squeeze $5-10 for bottled water into their weekly budget, that’s their business. If someone can afford it but just doesn’t want to, that’s their business. If they think little purple men from Neptune are telling them water purifiers are the devil… that’s FUBAR, but their business.
Why the fucking hell are you so bent out of shape over how other people choose to spend their own fucking money?
I had phrased that in a more CS-friendly way when he decided to clarify his position in Post 83:
That’s right, sheeple! Wake up! The Reverse Osmosis Messiah hath arriveth to free us from the tyrranical yoke of Big Water!
When I replied to that saying that doing the online equivalent of grabbing people and screaming into their faces maybe wasn’t the best way of going about that, he responded:
No, you just said that people who don’t pony up for a water purification system deserve bad teeth and killer flatulence. All sunshine and buttercups, you.
Well, I guess it’s good to know you’re sneering at us on a fully adult level.
Gosh, they can’t possibly be doing it because they’ve found an alternative way that works for them. Clearly the water company shills are literally worse than Scientology.
I’ll… hand myself over to the reprogrammers at once. 
If I’m not back by 6 pm, someone please feed my cat. Just remember, he’ll only eat Purina One, the Chicken & Turkey flavor, because he’s been brainwashed into thinking that’s the One Edible Food by eee-vile marketing shills of Big Pussy.
