Hmmmm, my Algonquin buddies are doing pretty good....

However, different story with the aboriginals on the east coast, but ya know, *its not because Obama wants a pipeline to bring crude from Alberta*

Are you actually supporting something Obama is doing?

I love when people who are known to attack other people as bigots are the first to jump up and down and scream and condemn people as evil based solely on the place of their birth. That's awesome...makes it that much easier to dismiss every single thing they say as meaningless.

Just as a side point, classism is not a good response to racism.

Best caffeinated drink is Ito En's dark green tea. Otherwise, it's mineral water (Gerolsteiner) for me.

The Coca-Cola commercial just underlines something we've all known for a while--

Americans?
They're pretty OK, just like any group of people, they can even be awesome sometimes.
'Mericuhns?
...Man...people with brain stems are getting pretty tired of them...

"Best caffeinated drink is Ito En's dark green tea. Otherwise, it's mineral water (Gerolsteiner) for me."

Damn, Putin...even in a conversation about a Coke commercial you manage to somehow be more pretentious than me...

Even in a conversation about Coke you manage to lash out at me for no reason.

http://www.gerolsteiner.com/

pre·ten·tious priˈtenCHəs/ adjective
pretentious 1. attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

You *really* can't figure out why he called you pretentious? I'd hardly call Obi speaking the truth as "lashing out".

"Water" would have been sufficient. "Bottled Water" a bit snooty.

"it's mineral water (Gerolsteiner) for me. " is pretentious.

Drinking bottled water as opposed to tap water is quite hurtful to the environment due to the carbon-dioxide emissions caused by the transports. Unless you live in an area where tap water is not drinkable you should really avoid buying bottled water.

So being specific = being pretentious?

Everyone posting here was specific about their tastes - both type and brand. Guess we're all pretentious.

Actually, Gerolsteiner is my favorite mineral water (or is it Mineralwasser :-) ).

And Gerolsteiner is way more than merely bottled water. That would be like calling Perrier "bottles water". If you ever taste mineral water, you will understand. Just as yellow mustard and Grey Poupon are different, so bottled water and mineral water are different.

And Oscar proves the point that he doesn't know the difference between bottled water and mineral water.

Putin....buddy old pal...I kidding. I joke. I make humor, as did Obi. Seriously, pal,lighten up. I'm trying to play nice with you.

Oscar - you are a retard. That is all. Normally I'm all for tap water....I'm going out tonight to buy 4 cases of bottled water, just to irritate oscar with conspicuous consumption of an otherwise almost-free commodity, as well as adding to the destruction of the planet out of spite for teh hypocrites trying to tell me how to live. Woo hoo!!!

Oscar -- if you are concerned about the planet and foul, atmosphere destroying emissions <shivers in fear!!!!>... then turn off your fucking computer, which is powered, most likely, by coal or some other scarrrrrrry energy source.

Tap water? Do you know how inefficient treatment plants are and how much toxic emissions come from the trucks delivering the chemicals an a daily basis to them are? Spring water is much better for the environment.

Ice-makers consume a lot of energy, just thought I'd add that. Refrigeration is a large energy cost.

I do agree that tap water is better for the environment than pouring 12 fluid ozs of water into billions of plastic bottles. Thankfully mineral water comes in glass bottles.

Oh wow, I just discovered that I have something in common with both Putin AND Draugnar! God help us all!

You know you can buy 1 and 3 gallon jugs of "bottled water", right? That's what we did at the cabin (the well water in Hocking Hills simply can't be drunk). We bought two 3-gallon bottles for the weekend and used it for coffee and tea and drinking water and the dog bowl water (hey, if I'm not willing to drink it, I won't make my dogs drink it either).

Jugs and cartons are difficult to recycle. Columbus doesn't recycle jugs. Plus I don't think the taste of ordinary bottled water is much different than tap water, in most cases.

Unless you have to deal with basic well water not run through a treatment plant, like in the middle of a National Forest. :-) At home we use tap water with a filter on the fridge for ice and cold water, and straight from the tap for the teat kettle and coffee pot.

tea kettle. What a Freudian that was.

""it's mineral water (Gerolsteiner) for me. " is pretentious."

Exactly.

"So being specific = being pretentious?"

"Who is your favorite author, Obi?"
"Shakespeare"
^Not pretentious...ish.

:p

"Who is your favorite author, Obi?"
"William Shakespeare, Soul of the Age, the Bard of Stratford upon Avon, baptized April 26th 1564 and thus possibly born April 23rd 1564, appropriate as he died April 23rd 1616, author of 37 or 38+-ish plays, depending on whether you count a few of his collaborations, of 154 sonnets, of several narrative poems, and husband to Anne Hathaway--not THAT Anne Hathaway."
^Overly specific and just showing off to show off my Shakespeare trivia skills that 99% of people don't care about, ergo, pretentious.

How was I showing off my mineral water trivia skills? How is it different than saying one likes a particular brand of tea or soda pop, for example Coca Cola?

Thou dost protest too much.

Pretentious - affecting a positive quality, such as literary acumen, which one DOES NOT ACTUALLY POSSESS.

#obiwanobiwanisapretentiousmoron

^False equivalency:

Basically, what Putin said was the equivalent of you saying "It's classic English literature (Shakespeare) for me." There was nothing pretentious in the way Putin said it and there is nothing pretentious in Gerolsteiner. Had he said "Perrier with a slice of lime in a stemmed glass" then yeah. But not simply stating a popular brand that can be bought quite reasonably (cheaper than Perrier).

At least Krellin admitted he was joking. If you truly think Putin was being pretentious, then it is your lack of knowledge on the subject of mineral water showing through, not any pretentiousness on his part.

^

#readthehashtag.

I know the difference between mineral and bottled water. You don't usually get mineral water from the tap though. I just mentioned the transport for carbon emissions but it's actually also pumping it up from the source, producing bottles, cooling it, i.e. the whole production and distribution process.

And yeah, Draugnar, producing tap water also costs energy (duh!) but producing bottled water costs about 1,100 to 2,000 times as much energy. (http://environment.about.com/od/greenlivingdesign/a/bottled_water.htm). You're a huge idiot for thinking it's the other way around. It doesn't matter much whether it is in plastic or glass bottles either. Plastic bottles cost more energy to produce, glass ones cost more to transport, overall it's pretty much the same.

Anyway, it's great to see how easy it is to excite the anti-environment fools frequenting this forum. You're a bunch of predictable little puppets responding exactly as I had expected.

Oh, and krellin, my computer is powered by wind energy and other sustainable sources, mostly wind though. So, as always, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

You own a windmill?

"Plastic bottles cost more energy to produce, glass ones cost more to transport"

Plastic bottles cannot be recycled into new plastic bottles. Every plastic bottle you use is new plastic. Plastic bottles are downcycled not recycled. Glass bottles are safer (hygiene-wise) and actually reusable.