What is it with children growing up with Brita?

They learn, and correctly I might add, that if they use that filter they won't find any mermaids in their drinking water. A disgusting possibility, now that you mention it.

Oh sure, tell that to the last mermaid that got through. She's hogging the bathtub and using my razors.

Well, Brita would never send such an adverd here in Germany (you know that it's a German firm?), since they are engaged already quite a lot at courts: the water running out of Brita is worse than normal tap-water when you don't follow the instructions very carefully - and still is dangerous for use with babies after a few days (too many germs in the filter).

Never heard of Brita!

Found a mermaid once, she was my girlfriend (ala Splash) till me mate stuck her on the barbie. "One man's meat is another man's poisson". Couldn't argue with that.

Ha ha ha, LOL - poisson!

Have you noiced how insanely happy pringles makes people?

Thanks C-li.



Err, no.

I never drink water - mermaids f... in it....

Or - is that mer-people?

Either way, it is a shock to tender sensibilities.

As is the stuff about filters. How a germ could survive the chlorine in MY filter, I do not know....

Aw! If I knew that I could start collecting mermaids from my taps, I would have implored people NOT to use Brita filters!! I could have started a dancing troupe by now.

I truly grieve the loss of your mer-friend, Mr. S; did you try to fight against such an atrocity!

Walter, very interesting. does Brita not use a charcoal granular filter/ or are there cracks in the medium so that water seeps through.
over here, most of these trhings are sold as final filters and the water going through is already chlorinated 9and then its de chlorinated) So if someone leaves the filter goinfg for longer than its rated, bacteria builds on the charcoal and then starts to pass off into the glass of water. Most of the fear they put into their commercials is BS because every water company has to provide a consumer confidence report showing the chemical tests performed on the final product.

however, many of us have wells and i use a very complex system of getting out the acidity and then we have 2 really big charcoal filters for taste and final cleanup being done by a micro filter.

first I heard that Brita has been in court cases.

That's not a mermaid, cav, it's my cousin Jed. He's tried this little scam before. Just tell him there's a case of Bohemian in the front yard and shut the door behind him.

Really, he's harmless, but all the scales in the couch cushions are a real nuisance.

Dang, so those WERE man boobs....

And don't go poking around in the cloaca unless you're prepared for a real shock...

I just KNEW cloacas were gonna get into this act!

Mer-folk do NOT have 'em - they just have their doings hidden behind scales - they sort of part at the crucial moments...

Sheeesh!

I held a cloaca to my ear once and heard the ocean....or was it the wind?

There have been at several civil trials, against hygienic institutes (some professors seem doing such since years) consumer agencies and water suppliers.

General opininion of consumer agencies and hygienic institutes is that our normal tab water is as good before running through the Brita as afterwards ... with the only restriction that it isn't so chalky (if) anymore.

Man, I had something to add here, but husker's entreaty toward class and civility got to me. aw, well.