If you wanted to know what really goes into bottled water, watch this show. If you were curious as to whether or not Feng-Shui was worth a dime, watch this show. One of the best episodes in one of the best series on TV. From showing 4 different Feng-Shui experts remodeling the same apartment in four different ways, to serving hose water in fancy looking bottles to unsuspecting people. This show is genius. Sure the language is at times obscene and the host's sometimes get mad and scream but that's half the fun. Watching these two men chase down the things that we don't want to think about. Perfect television! If you don't believe me, well go on drinking your bottled water in your Feng-Shui house. It's all Bullshit anyway.
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Bullsh!t's Bullsh!t - half truth and nonsense in this episode
Falcon421 April 2008
Warning: Spoilers
I love P&T: Bullsh^t. I even bought it on DVD. A lot of this stuff is stuff people really need to hear. But... unfortunately, when you're WRONG about something, you fail catastrophically.
In this case, the first half of the episode is alright. They debunk the bullsh_t known as Feng Shui, and the bullsh@t artists that go around charging thousands of dollars to rearrange your furniture. Yeah, try doing that with my apartment! You'd spend most of your energy stepping through the junk... maybe I should hire the one that charges by the square foot. I'd end up back only a few bucks ;) Anyway, the bullsh!t comes in on the bottled water.
Yes, it is pathetic that companies get away with charging SOFT DRINK prices for filtered water! But that's where the bullsh#t ends: it's still filtered water! You're pretty much paying for packaging and marketing, for what really only costs a few cents a gallon - even purified. The major difference between bottled water and tap water is that bottled water is HEAVILY PURIFIED off the tap (municipal) supply, then after being purified, it's bottled and shipped instead of pumped through pipes collecting all manner of garbage.
Do you really want to drink the same water that washes your dishes, waters your lawn, cleans your car, and pulls your sh!t out of your toilet bowl? I sure as heck can never bring myself to drink tap water - and I'm legally homeless. I own a water cooler and fill my bottles at the grocery store for 25 cents a gallon (on food stamps anyway). The quality is _FAR_ better than the junk that comes out of the tap. Even when I go to someone's house and they offer me a glass of water, I can immediately tell if it's tap or bottled water. THERE IS a huge difference and it's not just marketing.
The bull$hit in bottled water is not that it exists - it fills a huge need. The bull$hit is in companies marketing it by the 20-oz bottle.
I stopped watching this episode the second they shouted "BS!" at the label saying it comes from a municipal water supply. All filtered water does. They just failed to mention that it's heavily filtered... ugh. I've lost a bit of respect for P&T after seeing this episode.
Maybe I need to go watch the Circumcision episode again to renew my faith in P&T. :P
In this case, the first half of the episode is alright. They debunk the bullsh_t known as Feng Shui, and the bullsh@t artists that go around charging thousands of dollars to rearrange your furniture. Yeah, try doing that with my apartment! You'd spend most of your energy stepping through the junk... maybe I should hire the one that charges by the square foot. I'd end up back only a few bucks ;) Anyway, the bullsh!t comes in on the bottled water.
Yes, it is pathetic that companies get away with charging SOFT DRINK prices for filtered water! But that's where the bullsh#t ends: it's still filtered water! You're pretty much paying for packaging and marketing, for what really only costs a few cents a gallon - even purified. The major difference between bottled water and tap water is that bottled water is HEAVILY PURIFIED off the tap (municipal) supply, then after being purified, it's bottled and shipped instead of pumped through pipes collecting all manner of garbage.
Do you really want to drink the same water that washes your dishes, waters your lawn, cleans your car, and pulls your sh!t out of your toilet bowl? I sure as heck can never bring myself to drink tap water - and I'm legally homeless. I own a water cooler and fill my bottles at the grocery store for 25 cents a gallon (on food stamps anyway). The quality is _FAR_ better than the junk that comes out of the tap. Even when I go to someone's house and they offer me a glass of water, I can immediately tell if it's tap or bottled water. THERE IS a huge difference and it's not just marketing.
The bull$hit in bottled water is not that it exists - it fills a huge need. The bull$hit is in companies marketing it by the 20-oz bottle.
I stopped watching this episode the second they shouted "BS!" at the label saying it comes from a municipal water supply. All filtered water does. They just failed to mention that it's heavily filtered... ugh. I've lost a bit of respect for P&T after seeing this episode.
Maybe I need to go watch the Circumcision episode again to renew my faith in P&T. :P
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