Yeah, thus my comment: “The people who can’t afford the filters – (they’re pretty expensive), just let 'em get sick. Survival of the fittest, right?”
Uh, yeah - I got that loud and clear. I was agreeing with you.
Yeah I know, and I was agreeing with you too 
Just making the point clear for the audience.
I tend toward scotch or gin, myself. While I likes me the Baileys, I prefer the higher alcohol content. For, um, safety reasons.
Actually, I didn’t say anything about that. Blowero raised the topic of libertarianism. You don’t have to be libertarian to criticize the government. You know — like Dubya, the Shrub, right-wing nuts in Congress, and all that.
Yeah, sure you didn’t. Unfotunetly for you, people 'round here know how to read subtext.
Yes, it’s a veritable Miss Cleo convention.
Either that, or a bunch of folks who reject deconstructionism, and believe that language is an effective tool of communication.
Daniel
Yeah, it really takes psychic powers to figure out what’s going on in your mind. You’ve got 18,000 posts, and 17,000 of them are inane drivebys about how great libertarianism is and how every other form of government is inherently tyrannical and oppressive. But that has absolutely nothing to do with this OP. Uh-huh. Sure.
Pull the other one. It’s got bells on it.
Actually I thought the Miss Cleo thing was kinda funny.
It’s a good thing you’re witty, Liberal, that does make it fun. I just wonder what it is you do for a living. And where you think you’re going to find the perfect people to live in your perfect world. It’s a nice fantasy, but come on. As soon as the Internet was invented what happened - - people started creating viruses. It’s inherent. We’re saints and sinners. Might as well have a system of contrasting powers and interests that lets the good and the evil flow freely.
Which airlines serve tapwater? The only thing I’ve ever seen while flying is bottled water, and on many of those, you get the little mini bottle instead of it being poured out of the liter-sized bottle.
I’m sure the ice is made from tapwater, though.
And I’m equally sure that the ice is made from tapwater on the ground, not from the airplane’s supply of in-air water; if there’s poop in the ice, that’s due to bad water supply in the municipality where the ice was made.
Daniel
So…um…where do you think the “airplane’s supply of in-air” water is coming from?
From the ground–which is totally irrelevant. Obviously, since airplanes have a higher rate of contamination than groundwater systems (and probably a much higher rate than the ground water systems of municipalities that contain airports, inasmuch as it’s probably poorer rural areas that have high ground failure rates), the contamination is happening somehow in the airline’s system, probably on-board the plane. The ice most likely comes on-board through a different vector than the liquid water, and so isn’t especially likely to have a contamination rate higher than that of the municipality that provided it.
Daniel
Or, to put it a bit more obviously: ice machines capable of making enough ice for an entire plane worth of passengers in a short time are bulky, noisy, and energy-hungry, all of which make them unsuitable for use on the plane itself. The ice is supplied by the caterer at the airport, same as the other food and drinks served in the air. So the plane’s water supply has nothing to do with the ice.
Really, the big problem seems to be the water for hand-washing. It’s kept at such a pleasantly warm temperature that I have to wonder if the bacteria don’t love it, too. (Every plane I’ve been on in the last decade has had a sign above the lavatory tap warning that the water is non-potable.) I’ll be bringing a little travel pack of baby wipes from now on, and using them on my own and my kids’ hands before eating and after using the toilet, in addition to the usual wash. But really, airplanes are giant flying germ farms. It’s hardly a secret, it’s a risk you have to take if you choose to fly.