I have generally found that high quality tequila does the job rather well.

Pickling – some forms of preservative never go out of fashion.

It is well known, in Scotland, that the best cure for germs in the body is highland spring water, flavoured with single malt passed through a purifier that eliminates germs through the well known process of distilling them onto the sides of a copper kettle to produce “The Cure”, as that well known social scientist William Con Nolly has labelled it..

Drinking at least four ounces of this form of 80% pure water per day has kept Scots a leading authority on purity and germ-free lifestyles for at least three centuries longer than the TOW (Treaty of Waitangi) has existed. (NB The date on which the Cure was first prescribed is the subject of various claims for proprietary interests lodged by the tribes (clans) that inhabited the country prior to invasion by the English.

I have generally found that high quality tequila does the job rather well.

As for train verses trucks if the trucks paid their full costs then you might find rail and coastal shipping could be viable.

If the Greens had to scavange in the fields for enough food to stay alive they would have no time to spare on their fluffy minded bullshit which if, enacted, would drive humanity back to those very scavanging days….while killing millions on the way via disease and starvation.

So the bounty Capitalism bought man may have also allowed the seeds of its destruction to be planted in the minds of its youth by its very sucess at freeing people from burden and allowing them time to think…..and think poorly and irrationally…….sigh!

I’m with goodgod – if you dont like bottled water dont buy it. Let the market sort it out.

Seems so easy, doesn’t it. So seductively simple. Clearly, KiwiGreg, you just don’t understand. Let’s see if I can explain it.

See, there are ordinary humans – flawed, greedy, slothful and stupid. Then there are politicians – noble, omniscient, and driven only by the purest motives.

Sadly, if we could be relied upon to understand the issues and act in our own best interests, there’d be very little need for politicians, and they’d mostly be genuine public servants – there to enact our will. But so deeply flawed are we that we must turn to these god-like creatures for guidance and, where we fail to see the indelible rightness of their way of thinking, then – with much regret, you understand – they have to resort to bans and – with even greater regret, it must be said – penalties.

These student pollies are only practising for their future. A future whereby they save us all from ourselves and make our lives immeasurably better by regulating, banning, penalising, punishing and imprisoning us.

If only we had their understanding, their self-sacrifice – accepting as they do mere six-figure salaries for becoming MPs, regulators and busybodies – their inherent superiority…

It is all our fault we were not born into this class, and we should be thoroughly ashamed.

No need to live against your will old son.

Do the world a favour and lessen the human carbon footprint while providing fertiliser for Gaia.

Top yourself.”

You have to remember that Greens are a western phenomena. They like to have runnign water, electricity for their internet and so that they can boil tap water to then cool down in a fridge and put in their reusable drink bottle. They don’t care about Africans who they want turning foot treadmill pumps 18 hours a day to irrigate their fields. Greens are anti-human.

[DPF: Refusing to fund a campaign is not banning it. I know this concept is foreign to you. Here is the difference. You can out of your own money buy adverts for Buy NZ made. No one is stopping you. However Leeds Uni have voted to actually stop people using their own money to buy bottled water]

No need to live against your will old son.

Do the world a favour and lessen the human carbon footprint while providing fertiliser for Gaia.

Top yourself.

Yeah, because banning a political movement is not THAT much different than banning bullshit little plastic bottles that are ruining the environment. Those greenies are SO histrionic!

[DPF: Actually our Green friend only wanted to ban bottled water. Bottled coke was fine]

a. its own sources of bottled water;
b. clean, safe drinking water on tap.

I think the fact that we have competing brands of bottled water is a pretty good example of collective human stupidity. One in five children in our world go without safe drinking water, and we’re paying marketing teams to come up with ad campaigns that say drinking H2O from a bottle with “Pump” written on it is better than drinking H2O from a bottle with “H2GO” written on it.

Go, the human race. It would be comical, if children enjoyed dying of diarrhoea.

When refreshing your eco-canteen, place a few tadpoles inside. They’ll eat the backswimmers and create a beautifully balanced micro-ecosystem.

Oxygen weed inside a 2L water bottle makes a fantastic dinner party conversation starter.

Remember, when using fresh water snails to clean the inside of your eco-bottle, choose ones small enough to fit through the neck. When fully grown, slice the bottom from the bottle above a pan of boiling water and enjoy an easy, no mess snack.