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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-11 11:45 PM
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People's superstitions about "contamination" never cease to amaze me.
A news story about the draining of a city draining it's reservoir because a guy pissed in it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1363153

If you give people perfectly pure water that was purified from waste water people are grossed out and refuse to drink it, as if it somehow magically retains a memory of being in sewage, it's bizarre.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-11 09:48 AM
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1. OMG! It's the urine-equivalent of homeopathy: Homeopissy!
If the guy was an Indigo, then maybe he could have passed it on to the whole town. The city might have screwed up by releasing it.
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