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What is "My Two Bits?" My Two Bits is the official editorial page for the editor of Techtite.com. Techtite will accept reader submissions, for reviews as well as any editorials deemed well written and pertinent to this web site's audience. ----------------- A Sampling Of Past Editorials: ---DEATH to pop-up window commercials! ---PG-13: An Asset, or a Curse? ---Is Chrissy Snow in Charge of Disney...? ---This Editorial Can Be Closed By Clicking This TINY LITTLE DOT! ---100 Years to Live...? Poor You! ---Brad, Jen, Angelina, and those who give a flying... ---"Big Brother," Kaysar, and The Value of a Game... ---Paranoia, Box Office Destroy-a... ---"State of the Site" Address, 2006. ---Why Hollywood Needs Its "Stones" ---The X-box 360's "Three Red Lights of Doom" ---The Bizarro PSP/360 Switch! ---Is PSP Too "Good" For Its Own Good...? ---What Is Big Brother All Stars Minus "Six"? ---Why Lara Croft Won't Do Playboy(!). ---What's in Your Wallet Brain? ---Baby, If You Ever Wondered What 'ART' Is... ---Season Finale Reactions: '07 ------------------ Sidebar: -------------------- No sidebar comments for this review. Yet. |
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The latest My Two Bits editorial (Summer 2007) is titled : The Ongoing Bottled Water Debate...------------------------------------------------------------------- So I turn on the TV one night and some guy in San Francisco is hosting a sort of anti-bottled-water "rebellion" of sorts. He forbade anyone to bring bottled water to the event, and the only liquid offered was tap water. There's no way of saying this gently, so I'll just get to it: what a total moron. Yet as Forrest Gump put it in that Tom Hanks movie: stupid is as stupid does. Suddenly, it's "taboo" to want to drink fresh water and, well...live longer. Why's that, now? The problem comes from two fronts; each with their own spectrum of myopia. One: many people don't recycle their plastic water bottles, so gosh, all the people who do recycle their plastic bottles must suffer. Secondly: one single idiot among the bottled water companies is actually selling tap water, so gosh oh golly, "all" bottled water is a "scam." While everyone's entitled to their opinion, one three word question demands to be asked: are they serious? Let's first attack the "please recycle" angle. Attacking plastic bottled water bottles when Coke, Sprite, Pepsi, Sierra Mist, root beer, Doctor Pepper, and all their friends are using the same plastic bottles, is so inane, I see no further need to debate it. No; seriously. You don't like people who don't recycle? Tell them to recycle. Problem solved. Next! Then there is the bigger argument, implying some conspiracy-laden drivel that bottled water is one big scam. Okay; let's pretend that's possible. If you truly think tap water is the same as bottled water, buy a bottle of Evian (any small bottle will do). Then fill a cup with your favorite tap water. Take a good hearty drink from each. I'm telling you; the difference will be obvious. Tap water tastes bitter or just plain chemical-filled. Bottled water literally tastes "fresh." That's the whole point of water. Ah yes; there is that one exception of bottled water that is actually tap water. How many times do I have to hear that "all" bottled water is a scam, thanks to this one company and its one example of tap water sold off-the-shelf? The idea is as stupid as when people wondered if automobiles would become "obsolete" after the first defective Pinto was discovered. Yes, you can compare tap water to other tap water. Does any politician dare to refute how fresh tap water is by a legitimate spring water brand? If the answer is "no," well then...shut up, please. Of course; in all debates there's a happy medium. Dasani, for example, makes no bones about it: the water they sell is not from tap water, though not from a stream, either. It's water after the Coca-Cola company threw it into a ton of filtration methods, to make fresh water, well ..."artificially," or however you wish to call it. To be honest; all they did is take the water they use for their sodas and sell it as-is. What is the first ingredient in every Coca-Cola soda product? Water. It's not like the "water" they use comes from the Swiss Alps. Mind you; I'm not trying to get fans of pure water to no longer buy Coca-Cola products. I'm just being realistic here. There is a happy medium here. You don't need to buy expensive spring water, though if you're telling me tap water is fine as-is: no, seriously, you're a total moron. Sorry. So, many a small town mayor may think that the prior paragraph says it all: stop being so fussy and settle for your chemically infested sludge tap water. Let them. All I know is that I drink bottled water, and yes, I recycle. If some other poor slob drinks bottled water and doesn't recycle, well; bring it up with them. As for me; I will come to any public assembly with my own water, thank you very much, and I will recycle the bottle I came with. If that isn't good enough for your local town's mayor, may I suggest a new mayor this fall? As Always: I'm Techtite,
and these are My Two Bits...
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