Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:03 pm
I can understand a filter if the water tastes funny, but my filter takes out almost everything, including fluoride that gets added to protect our teeth. Seems daft to me.
Yeah, I think we're just in the habit form the previous house. The water supply at this one is very different and doesn't really need filtering at all. We don't filter everything and, for a variety of reasons, regularly use 2 kettles. One has never seen filtered water and the other only filtered water and there's negligible scale in both. The filtered water tastes a bit 'flat" too but makes good tea.
The issue with overusing disposable, charcoal filters is that you can get stuff growing in 'em. At one job, when I did science, we had a liquid chromatograph that had in-line filters. Don't swap them out often enough and green gloop grew in them.
Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:03 pm
I can understand a filter if the water tastes funny, but my filter takes out almost everything, including fluoride that gets added to protect our teeth. Seems daft to me.
The standard Water2 filter doesn't filter fluoride without adding a separate cartridge for it. So with teh standard set up you can block microplastics etc and save the world and yer teeth!
Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:03 pm
I can understand a filter if the water tastes funny, but my filter takes out almost everything, including fluoride that gets added to protect our teeth. Seems daft to me.
The standard Water2 filter doesn't filter fluoride without adding a separate cartridge for it. So with teh standard set up you can block microplastics etc and save the world and yer teeth!
My wife listens to far too much 'doom radio' and now has a bee in the bonnet about our exposure to microplastics (hence the glass Brita jug). I'll go as far as significantly reducing the amount of synthetic clothing I own - with pleasure - but, knowing there's 10× the amount of microplastics in the home (and more in the typical car) than there are outdoors, I'm not going to fight a battle I can't win!
As Denis Potter said as he chain-smoked his way through an interview 'Pah. I'm not going to die from smoking'. (He had incurable pancreatic and liver cancer). Well I don't think I'll die of microplastics!
Easy wins like a glass jug and filtered water in tea etc? Get sniffy about synthetic clothes etc etc? No problem.
Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:03 pm
I can understand a filter if the water tastes funny, but my filter takes out almost everything, including fluoride that gets added to protect our teeth. Seems daft to me.
The standard Water2 filter doesn't filter fluoride without adding a separate cartridge for it. So with teh standard set up you can block microplastics etc and save the world and yer teeth!
My wife listens to far too much 'doom radio' and now has a bee in the bonnet about our exposure to microplastics (hence the glass Brita jug). I'll go as far as significantly reducing the amount of synthetic clothing I own - with pleasure - but, knowing there's 10× the amount of microplastics in the home (and more in the typical car) than there are outdoors, I'm not going to fight a battle I can't win!
As Denis Potter said as he chain-smoked his way through an interview 'Pah. I'm not going to die from smoking'. (He had incurable pancreatic and liver cancer). Well I don't think I'll die of microplastics!
Easy wins like a glass jug and filtered water in tea etc? Get sniffy about synthetic clothes etc etc? No problem.
Sooooo your original plastic jug.. where is it now?
The standard Water2 filter doesn't filter fluoride without adding a separate cartridge for it. So with teh standard set up you can block microplastics etc and save the world and yer teeth!
My wife listens to far too much 'doom radio' and now has a bee in the bonnet about our exposure to microplastics (hence the glass Brita jug). I'll go as far as significantly reducing the amount of synthetic clothing I own - with pleasure - but, knowing there's 10× the amount of microplastics in the home (and more in the typical car) than there are outdoors, I'm not going to fight a battle I can't win!
As Denis Potter said as he chain-smoked his way through an interview 'Pah. I'm not going to die from smoking'. (He had incurable pancreatic and liver cancer). Well I don't think I'll die of microplastics!
Easy wins like a glass jug and filtered water in tea etc? Get sniffy about synthetic clothes etc etc? No problem.
Sooooo your original plastic jug.. where is it now?
Recycled into micro-plastic beads perchance?
Nooo...! It's a plant-watering jug now and I kept the lid with the old 28 day timer and that will be my 'change filter' timer for the new glass one.
The micoplastic train is long gone. The soil, the sea, all the animals and us are full of it. We may die of it, we may not, but trying to 'fix' it is shooting for the moon.
Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:03 pm
I can understand a filter if the water tastes funny, but my filter takes out almost everything, including fluoride that gets added to protect our teeth. Seems daft to me.
The standard Water2 filter doesn't filter fluoride without adding a separate cartridge for it. So with teh standard set up you can block microplastics etc and save the world and yer teeth!
My wife listens to far too much 'doom radio' and now has a bee in the bonnet about our exposure to microplastics (hence the glass Brita jug). I'll go as far as significantly reducing the amount of synthetic clothing I own - with pleasure - but, knowing there's 10× the amount of microplastics in the home (and more in the typical car) than there are outdoors, I'm not going to fight a battle I can't win!
As Denis Potter said as he chain-smoked his way through an interview 'Pah. I'm not going to die from smoking'. (He had incurable pancreatic and liver cancer). Well I don't think I'll die of microplastics!
Easy wins like a glass jug and filtered water in tea etc? Get sniffy about synthetic clothes etc etc? No problem.
I've always thought Basking sharks need to be a bit more careful thesedays.
Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:03 pm
I can understand a filter if the water tastes funny, but my filter takes out almost everything, including fluoride that gets added to protect our teeth. Seems daft to me.
We use ours (Britta jug, defunct timer - so marked on calendar) for water that goes in the kettle or saucepans*
Drink tap water.
* To quote someone "the water here is so hard it has tattoos and a dog on a rope"
Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:03 pm
I can understand a filter if the water tastes funny, but my filter takes out almost everything, including fluoride that gets added to protect our teeth. Seems daft to me.
We use ours (Britta jug, defunct timer - so marked on calendar) for water that goes in the kettle or saucepans*
Drink tap water
* To quote someone "the water here is so hard it has tattoos and a dog on a rope"
Come to 'sunny' Cornwall. Water from the tap is NOT hard, 10 years now and never descaled a kettle. Mind you, it probably doesn't help heart disease, but you win some, you lose some.
Deviating a little but linked via microplastics and the byp theme - there is a trio of programmes on R4 called 'Toxic' which might scare the bejabers out of us all on microplastics, flea treatments for pets (and that one really is and ) and our clothing.
Trigger warning: Not for those of a nervous disposition.
Count Steer wrote: Thu Feb 26, 2026 8:18 am
Deviating a little but linked via microplastics and the byp theme - there is a trio of programmes on R4 called 'Toxic' which might scare the bejabers out of us all on microplastics, flea treatments for pets (and that one really is and ) and our clothing.
Trigger warning: Not for those of a nervous disposition.
Headline yesterday, something like "70% prostate tumours contain microplastic"
No idea whether it linked to cause or just correlation.
Researchers have detected microplastics in nearly all prostate cancer tumors examined in a new study. Tumor tissue contained about 2.5 times more plastic than nearby healthy prostate tissue. Scientists say this is the first Western study to directly measure plastic particles in prostate tumors. More research is needed, but the findings suggest microplastic exposure could play a role in cancer development.
Coca cola is BMP ! I like the occasional rum & coke snd had a couple last night and as usual I feel as sick as a dog today. Coke affects me worse than a curry! I really should k ow better!
Truck broke down last night. Lost all drive at a junction and then stopped dead and the dash lit up like Blackpool. Called out the recovery, some kid comes out with a laptop, plugs it in and away it goes. Some module had a hissy fit and shut the gearbox and then the engine down. Late home and waiting for it to do the same today.
Why they just didn't buy manual trucks is beyond me.
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 11:19 pm
Rush are doing a UK tour in 2027.
I don't mind Rush.
Cheapest tickets on Ticketmaster £202... plus £3 booking fee!
Just reading about The Professor, and am halfway through his book Ghost Rider. Fascinating man and hugely talented individual. Prolific cyclist and motorcyclist.
I have been a life long fan of Rush. Hopefully younger generations will discover them.
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