By Invitation Only

[Wally]

More like a younger, black version of you. Sans the pipe cleaner arms.

 

[Wally]

Newark handing out bottled water as filters appear to fail to protect residents from lead

Those filters will not remove lead very effectively. What they need is a reverse osmosis system, but they are expensive and need maintenance.

 

[oldngray]

Those filters will not remove lead very effectively. What they need is a reverse osmosis system, but they are expensive and need maintenance.

What they really need to do is replace old lead pipes. That costs money though. Water mains around here aren't lead but getting old and starting to have a lot of leaks so they have been replacing everything.

 

[Wally]

What they really need to do is replace old lead pipes. That costs money though. Water mains around here aren't lead but getting old and starting to have a lot of leaks so they have been replacing everything.

Many of those projects were done in the 1950's and early 60's. Lots of lead solder.

But the real problem is chlorine. The government worried about trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, byproducts of disinfecting water, handed down regs to reduce those levels, so treatment plants had to change what they do, the result is change in water pH. The more acidic water is dissolving lead.

 

[Wally]

In places like Flint and Newark I would give trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids reduction exemptions. Simple charcoal filters will work on those chlorine compounds.

 

[moreluck]

In places like Flint and Newark I would give trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids reduction exemptions. Simple charcoal filters will work on those chlorine compounds.

good spelling challenge!!

 

[Wally]

good spelling challenge!!

Try-halo-meth-lanes?

The media goes off with these reports like this came from nowhere.

 

[Wally]

Who are these people? I've been on 3 this year already.

Americans say they can't afford a vacation - BNN Bloomberg

 

[upschuck]

Who are these people? I've been on 3 this year already.

Americans say they can't afford a vacation - BNN Bloomberg

When I was a youngin, the only vacations I had were when we took my brothers to college.

 

[Wally]

When I was a youngin, the only vacations I had were when we took my brothers to college.

Yep, us too. No a/c and one TV.

 

[upschuck]

Yep, us too. No a/c and one TV.

Us too, a 13" tv at that, and a fan in the window. We had it bad back then.

 

[Wally]

Us too, a 13" tv at that, and a fan in the window. We had it bad back then.

Lol. We did have a pool which was great as a kid.

 

[Brownslave688]

Who are these people? I've been on 3 this year already.

Americans say they can't afford a vacation - BNN Bloomberg

Ppl think they need to spend 5k on a vacation.

 

[Brownslave688]

Wife’s student loan finally dips down to 5 figures this week. Only a few years left!!!

 

[upschuck]

Lol. We did have a pool which was great as a kid.

Had a neighborhood pool within a 5 minute walk, that some years we'd get the yearly pass.

 

[upschuck]

Ppl think they need to siege 5k on a vacation.

They rob a bank on vacation or something? Can say I've never done that.

 

[Wally]

Ppl think they need to siege 5k on a vacation.

Easy to do. Our beach rental is that much.

 

[Brownslave688]

Easy to do. Our beach rental is that much.

It’s also easy to not spend near as much.


My grandparents were poor. They had 4 kids. One thing they did was go on a family vacation every year. They packed sandwiches for the whole trip and road tripped

 

[Brownslave688]

When dad is in charge you have birthday cake for breakfast at 11 am.

 

[Wally]

It’s also easy to not spend near as much.


My grandparents were poor. They had 4 kids. One thing they did was go on a family vacation every year. They packed sandwiches for the whole trip and road tripped

Good luck getting that deli order and the kool-aid through airport security.