Believe me, it matches my fashion, to a tee.
Tripler
Green is in this year, people!
Another regular camelbak user here. I only use it for running or biking, but the thing is, I run and bike everywhere, to the store, school, if I don’t have to drive I won’t. So I will have it with me even whe I don’t look like I’m “excercising”, because It’s a Lifestyle ™
I needed some ridiculously expensive high tech trail sandals. They needed to be waterproof, trail-capable, closed toe and very comfy. For reasons of budget, these also had to double as work shoes.
I chose these because they are appropriate to wear to work and in general city situations without making me look too dorky. I passed up these because they are trail shoes and not appropriate for wear in civiliazation. One makes you look like a civilized person. The other makes you look like and asshole who wants to make sure everyone absolutely knows her weekends are X=TREME!
I rode century in NC in August in pre-camelbak days. I went through 11 large water bottles filled with half water/half Gatorade, as well as numerous bananas, fig newtons, etc. When I finished I was barely sweating and I didn’t pee for hours.
Your fluid/fuel requirements are not necessarily universal.
Sounds like me every year when I ride the “Hotter’n’Hell” in Wichita Falls, Texas, also in August.
You forgot the “In my humble opinion.” You ** always ** forget the “In my humble opinion.” Your SD persona would be much more pleasant if you weren’t so damned absolute. In * my * humble opinon, the first pair you linked look absolutely dorky with that almost Puritan buckle. * Chacun a son gout *.
No it’s not.
While CamelBak makes bottles too, I believe that we’re talking about the back-pack with a bladder that they also make.
I have those very same sandals, even sven! I got 'em in Hawaii because the sneakers I brought with me were Too Damned Hot for the tropical climate, yet I needed something that would guard my toes from getting lacerated on lava. Wimpier flip-flops weren’t doing the job. The Keens are extremely comfortable and I love them. Given the weather this week, I think it’s time to get 'em out of my closet for the season.
Now that’s what I called informed opinion making!
A single, twenty year old example of one jusrisdiction where 1.8 percent of the population experienced symptoms of infection which certainly could be due to inadequate civil water treatment.
Damn, those government thugs! This was probably a conspiracy!
Certainly does justify a thousand fold increase in the cost of drinking water, yep it does! Uh huh. Dat’s right.
Way to fight ignorance, Fin.
Tris
Rule of Reason: “If nobody uses it, there’s a reason.”
In my opinion, the first ones don’t look much better than the second pair. Then again, I don’t see anything objectionable about the second pair either. I wouldn’t wear either, but that more my sense of style.
Thousand-fold increase? Britta filters are mighty pricey where you come from.
Don’t know where you live, but a lot of communities have aging water distribution systems. Public water supplies * are * generally very safe and carefully monitored but as my cite demonstrated, stuff does occasionally slip through. If this were Great Debates or GQ, I suppose I could have been arsed to dig up more cites for you. In MPSIMS, was I wrong in thinking that it was OK to just point out that it’s not a totally effete gesture to drink filtered water?
Your comparison was bottled water vs municipal tap water, not Britta filters vs bottled water.
In my town, water cost $6.50 per thousand gallons or less. That works out to 0.00005 cents an ounce. In 20 ounce bottles, drinking water runs 8.8 cents an ounce, not counting delivery.
Oh, my, you are right, it was not an thousand fold increase, but rather a 1700 fold increase. My bad.
But, hey, you and your money are not going to be out there competing for things I value, so, go for it.
Tris
That wasn’t my comparison. But Tripler was talking about filtering water and putting it in his camelBak. That was the original context. But hey, if you feel that bottled water is morally wrong, I ain’t gonna argue with you.
I’ve lived in places where the tap water tasted as good as bottled water, and I’ve lived in places where it really, really didn’t.
So living in a place where the tap water tastes fine doesn’t really put you in a great position to say that everybody across the country has tap water that doesn’t taste like dirt or chlorine or worse.
What does it say that my first thought upon reading the thread title was “racism” and my first instinct upon clicking the thread was to check if the OP had been banned?
coughs
Tap water does not always taste the same as bottled water. Around here I can tell what city a restaurant is in by the taste of the water. I can’t even drink the water in my home city, we have a filter on the fridge.
I’ve never seen a camelback on person just going about an average day but it can’t be any more annoying than the people constantly making little sucky noises while drinking out of their water bottles. Forget about Generation X or Y or whatever, this is the generation of “The Constantly Hydrated”. I’ve got friends who can’t drive to the store without having a water bottle. Sheesh. They’re like baby bottles or pacifiers.
SUCK SUCK GLUGGLUGGLUG SUCK SUCK
Camelbacks are good for all day excursions of any sort, filled with ice and water they really can make a hot day more bearable.
I agree. Water quality varies from city to city, but even in mine, I can taste the difference enough to predict whether someone’s given me tap or bottled. Filtered’s a good middlepoint in a pinch. I wholly recognize that bottled water probably has more pollutants than tap and not as healthy (especially if you live in California where they put fluoride in the water) But I honestly just can’t stand the taste of tap.
First, I made no mention of, nor even a veiled reference to morality, whatsoever. Your decision to make that accusation is transparently illogical, and incorrect.
I responded to your comment, made in reply to even sven mentioning tap and bottled water, which mentions that filtering alone is touchingly insufficient to your enlightened understanding. It was this particularly egregious bit of pseudo documentation I wished to heap scorn upon. Even MPSIMS is a place to fight ignorance.
Drinking bottled water is an affectation. It’s harmless, and generally benefits those who make their fiscal choices reasonably by removing fools money from the market place. Dreaming up dangers which one can pretend to avoid by drinking bottled water is a self justification. Publicly advocating that this opinion is based on some sort of rational facts is disinformation. In this particular venue, heaping scorn on stupid ideas is pretty much habitual.
Tris
“You can go wrong by being too skeptical as easily as by being too trusting.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
That thread title really fooled me. I thought you were referring to one of these bridges. I thought gee, they aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but no place in society is a bit harsh.