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I was wondering what the worst source of water any of you have consumed? It could be a puddle or out of the loo....I bet there's some interesting experiences out there :)
trojanargus
11-10-04, 10:08 PM
Used a filter straw to drink 10,000 year old glacial melt water once - cold :yikes:
what makes you ask Tone :bandit: you been drinking something yuck?
mine is a stagnant puddle on dartmoor called "red lake" not pretty!
that would have to be from the river thames when i fell in
Pretty much anything that hasn't had other stuff fermented in it.
:D
Danzo
Tantalus
11-10-04, 10:30 PM
swam in the dead sea once
ick :yikes:
took a kilo and a half of fresh oranges to get the taste out my mouth and i didnt even try and drink the water
the guy selling oranges by the roadside wasnt there by accident
Tant
The Nile was the worst, the Ganes in second place. Both filtered twice and boiled.
galopede
11-10-04, 11:45 PM
The sea at Barry Island. If it's not thrugh you in an hour, you're a dead man.
Gareth
richslaney
12-10-04, 12:03 AM
Mucky Water from puddles with a filter straw or after puri tab treatment when I was in the British Army. Yum, nice and.....eeeeer, Earthy shall we say!
Then I suppose lots of lakes and UK coastal water when Windsurfing.
Probably my worst, was when windsurfing in mid winter a couple of years ago on a resevoir called 'Beaver' near Goole and Thorne (UK).
The wind was blowing a strong and gusty Force 7+ and I had a big fall on my short board and was swimming near the bank.
I'd just surfaced and spat out a huge mouth full of water when I saw something flapping around in the water next to me between me and the bank. I thought it was a bin bag or fabric of some sort, so I pushed it out of my way to grab my rig.
I found what it was.......
It was a hugely bloated, decomposing (I'd say only about 40% flesh left) Dog :yikes: (Labrador I think).
Funny, I felt a little ill for the next few days......... :( :(
I guess that's the gross'est water I've ever drunk. :mad:
I suppose you could also count a few American Beers too . :biggthump
I once took my regulator out of my mouth and inhaled a jellyfish which was pretty vile, but fortunately not much of a stingy one.
:yikes:
Needed about two dozen Piriton and several fags before I would accept I was OK and then drowned the bugger in Carlsberg!
:censored:
You really mean like in the desert, drinking camel wee, don't you Tone?
:D
Danzo
ANDYLASER
12-10-04, 12:25 AM
:rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao: :super:
ANDYLASER
12-10-04, 12:31 AM
I remember at a festival many years ago, where there was a concrete toilet block. Surrounded by a very pungent puddle, 25m across and nearly 6" deep. I went elsewhere.
I also recall a different festival, where many days of rain had formed a small lake in front of the Radio1 stage. This pond was easily 60m across, and sat in the middle were 2 guys in an inflatable dinghy full of beer. Most impressive.
Tantalus
12-10-04, 12:48 AM
dont they call some american beers "love in a canoe"?
Tant
ANDYLASER
12-10-04, 12:51 AM
Yep, especially at the Hollywood Bowl.
ANDYLASER
12-10-04, 12:52 AM
Just before the Parrot sketch. :D :D
Tantalus
12-10-04, 12:53 AM
cos its f****g close to water
Tant
The General
12-10-04, 03:00 AM
That would be a wicked Vimpto.
2x double Vodka
2x double port
1x blue wkd
Water wise... hmmmm... when walking in the hills near Bangor, hot day, not enough water, so drank from free moving mountain stream... tasted ok, till an hour later found dead sheap upstream... called it soup and moved on... :rolleyes:
The water from a lake in Ash Vale which is infested with leptosporidium, I was on a purification course there and we had just purified and filtered using a variable volume doser. Major thing is that you have water with 5ppm calcium hypochlorite in it, it is ten times stronger in taste than a swimming pool :(
dave750gixer
12-10-04, 05:06 PM
student flat in Edinburgh a few years ago. My lodger couldnt be bothered going to the kitchen to get a drink of water cause he was lazy so just drank from the tap on the sink in the bathroom. Next day was violently sick...a lot.
So I looked into the cold water tank and found a dead rodent. From the size and colour looked like a rat that had swollen from decomposition. So I emptied the tank, cleaned in with Milton sterlising fluid. Then filled and emptied it before filling again. (the apologised to the old couple downstairs about the water rushing all day when they complained but kindly didnt tell they why!).
So badly decomposed that i couldnt find the tail :yikes: ......which made him feel even more sick
.......
A couple of days later the students upstairs came down and asked if we had spotted their pet hampster as it had escaped. That explains the lack of tail then :rotfl:
poor thing
The water that comes out of our student flat is bad unless oyu leave it for a few minutes, forgot to do this one time and didn't think it was quite so important when filling the kettle.I was a bit shocked when I had something floating around in my rice curry
what makes you ask Tone :bandit: you been drinking something yuck?
mine is a stagnant puddle on dartmoor called "red lake" not pretty!
So so, when I've been testing filtration systems we've used water from a water butt that's been standing for 4 years, it's gruesome
;)
ScanDgrind
12-10-04, 09:48 PM
Dartmoor, river tavy filled my water bottle and had a good drink after adding puri tabs.
Walkied upstream for about half a mile and started to catch a rather distinct smell "something dead". After another quarter mile I found the source..... One rather well rotted Dartmoor pony :yikes: . Guess it was more like a cuppa soup than a refreshing drink of water.
Tony
The worst water I have ever tasted was that lukewarm stuff in jugs on the lunch tables in primary school :yuck: :yikes: :yuck: you were lucky if there weren't soggy chips and peas floating in it, we once even saw a whole banana in there!
A lot of kids also used to empty the salt pots into it, which of course dissolved so you could not tell. Thirst quenching :mad:
Possibly the worst was when people would tip the left over water from their glass back into the jug for someone else to drink because they were too damn lazy to tip it down the sink :mad: :mad:
Put me off drinking plain water for years.
talking of puri-tabs.. has anyone ever drunk one.. i sucked one out of my platapus a while ago befor it was fully dissolved.. that was, i think, the most disgusting thing i have ever tasted!
TheViking
13-10-04, 10:56 AM
Sweden, this summer. We borrowed 2 litres of a swedish old lady and when we tasted it, we found out that there were loads of iron in it. It was undrinkable! (so I headed for the lake and took something from there). :biggthump
Tvividr
13-10-04, 08:55 PM
Mucky water from a very small puddle in the lowveld in northern South Africa, after we had been trying to find water for most of the day (long story why, suffice to say that me friend had blasted big holes with a shotgun in almost all our watercanteens when he saw a cobra underneath our backpacks). No filter except for my bandana - no didn't get sick !
on exercise in canada I was a driver in a 432 and prep'd my sections meals (i think it was mash with sausage and beans) anyway before taking the meal down tot he trenches I decided to have a mug of water from the jerry can I had used to cook the food - fill mug, take swig - gag.
I sniffed the can and it was rank - emptied it out and out came three well rotted mice!
Needless to say I gave the guys there food and never mentioned the dead vermin.
Happily we all lived with no side effects!
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