They should be criticized for selling water at a higher price than beer.

astrnomr: They should be criticized for selling water at a higher price than beer.


Bingo.

/beat me to it
//Penn & Teller's BS on the matter is comedy gold

At my grocery store you can get 24 500ml bottles of water for like 5$.

Shroomerguy: Because water tastes better than beer!

Whatever you say, Will.

They should be criticized for buying water at a higher price than beer.

i just got back from germany for worldcup and beer was always cheaper than water or coke...also, in some places it was hard to get regular old water - either large or small bubbles, or some sort of fruit flavoring always seemed to make its way into the water...quite annoying.

and dont even get me started on the lack of ice out there. you wanna know why we have global warming? cause these damn europeans arent making enough ice. glaciers melting? i can make you a damn glacier by next friday if i have enough ice machines.

werd.

Last time I was a designated driver my tab for water was higher than people drinking beer. Insane!

I don't see the problem

2006-07-07 05:50:40 PM Shroomerguy

Because water tastes better than beer!

The article mentions that the beer is sold in cans, so in this case I'm sure you're right.

Shroomerguy: Because water tastes better than beer!


I'd pay more for water. Really.

I'd pay more for water. Really.

But... WHY?!?

I'm upset that I have to pay $1.39 for a liter of Coke, but can get two cans of beer for $1.50.

Not quality beer, mind you...

Purelilac: Beer is about the same price as water at the supermarket.

Because in America, they're pretty much the same thing...

Depends on the beer.

People who buy bottled water = suckers.

WAY TO SOLVE A PROBLEM WITH WATER THAT YOU DIDN'T HAVE BEFORE MARKETING GOT TO YOU.

Well, alcohol is easier to keep uncontaminated, isn't it? Microbes and other dangerous crap like to grow in water.

/I'm not really sure
//total non-professional here

In much of the world, beer is much cleaner than the water. You won't get Montezuma's Revenge from drinking the beer.

Executive Monkey
People who buy bottled water = suckers.

WAY TO SOLVE A PROBLEM WITH WATER THAT YOU DIDN'T HAVE BEFORE MARKETING GOT TO YOU.

When I work out, I like to have bottled water with me. You can't really run holding a glass, and you don't want to have to stop early to go fill one up. Before bottled water (disposable), there was the water bottle (washable).

Depends on the beer.

The beer on sale in Asda (that is mentioned in the article) is

Kroenbourg 1664
Stella
Carling

There might be more but thats 40 for £18.99.

The problem is that water is seen as something to be sold in markets. Really, just turn on your tap.

Shroomerguy: Because water tastes better than beer!

It's funny you'd say that since dried shrooms tastes like ass.

oh and ASDA is owned by WAL*Mart.

This guy is a complete fark-tard.

ASDA sell two 20-pack crates of brand name beers for £18 - working out at 45p a cans or bottles.
The same store charges 54p for litre bottles of leading brand still bottled water.

First of all, he's comparing buying one item in bulk, vs buying the other in a single container. I'm sure he could get a case of water for a few pounds.

Second of all, he comparing a can of beer to a 1-litre bottle of water. Somehow I doubt those cans or bottles are much more than 350 mL.

Way to do math asshat.

Oh, also last time I checked tap water was a few cents per cubic metre.

TheDayMoose

When I work out, I like to have bottled water with me.

Ok, good point. That and hiking trips are the exceptions, but when I buy a bottle of water for those purposes I re-use the bottle a few times by filling it up with tap water.

BTW, I live in Houston and several years ago I heard the City of Houston was bottling its tap water and selling it in other states.

You pay more for water than gasoline, I don't see anyone criticizing the oil companies to any effect...

TFIdiotITFA: Wood, chairman of the Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams, said: "...Compared to what we are earning, alcohol has never been cheaper than it is now and a superb illustration of this is that lager is cheaper than bottled water in some supermarkets."

The idiocy involved here is difficult to put into words. This man is dumber than a monk with no mouth who has taken a vow of silence in the library of Shhh Abbey.

Tap water is free in Scotland.

If beer is cheaper than bottled water, does this mean we can actually do ethanol based fuels really cheap and someone's been holding out on us?

/just sayin'

"For too long the major retailers have been putting profits before social responsibilities by selling alcohol at ridiculously low prices."

Anyone else confused by this statement?

DarkSoulNoHope: If beer is cheaper than bottled water, does this mean we can actually do ethanol based fuels really cheap and someone's been holding out on us?

No, it means bottled water is overpriced.

Water is never free in Europe for the most part it seems. Anything that goes in ya or anything that goes outta ya cost ya in Europe.

beer4breakfast: It's funny you'd say that since dried shrooms tastes like ass.


I LOL'd

TheDaymoose: When I work out, I like to have bottled water with me. You can't really run holding a glass, and you don't want to have to stop early to go fill one up. Before bottled water (disposable), there was the water bottle (washable).

Here's an outlandish idea that just might work. What if, when you finish a bottle of water, you fill it up with tap water? I don't know if that'd work, but if it did, it'd be pretty great I think. I think it's possible!

DarkSoulNoHope:

Gas is cheaper than (some) bottled water too; doesn't mean anything.

Hey, I like water.

Fahkinell: Here's an outlandish idea that just might work. What if, when you finish a bottle of water, you fill it up with tap water? I don't know if that'd work, but if it did, it'd be pretty great I think. I think it's possible!

I have a better idea. Fill it with beer from alba.

Dumbasses thinking tap water from springs labeled "spring water" is somehow better than regular tap water?

Fahkinell: Here's an outlandish idea that just might work. What if, when you finish a bottle of water, you fill it up with tap water? I don't know if that'd work, but if it did, it'd be pretty great I think. I think it's possible!


Or just skip a step and buy American beer.

And this is why I buy vodka. Beer tastes like piss, and I like my water the way god intended it to be delivered to me. Through a goddamned faucet.

Well, wait. I don't buy into that god thing, but I will say this: water is free from the faucet. It's filtered enough for most people. Skip the beer, and drink hard liquor.

You bunch of Nancys.

/runs away!

$3.50 a bottle and I have to drive 50 miles for it.

/worth every penny.

Supermarkets criticized for selling beer cheaper than water.

Wait, they're being criticized for selling Guinness cheaper than Budweiser and Coors? I don't see a problem.

That is crap, you can get water in gallon jugs for 49cents where I live.

Water from the tap is a few pennies a gallon.

If you want your water in fancy portable containers, you will pay for it(you are really paying for the container).

You want to biatch about something? biatch about an hospital billing you $7 for a single aspirin and forbidding you from bringing in your own.

I remember that hot summer day loading trucks at the warehouse when I was 16. It was 100 degrees in the shade with no wind whatsoever and we were loading furniture. Someone passed me a beer and I'll never forget draining it and thinking "this tastes good to me now".

Never had that experience with water.

"Supermarkets criticized for selling beer cheaper than water. "

Now that's just silly. Everyone knows that you can make water by using beer first.

/FARK water
//made by Drew hisself
///only $9.99 a bottle

I still can't believe people buy water... only when in dire situations do I ever buy water. I keep bottles in the car that I can fill somewhere convenient if I know I'm going to need water. I'm of the George Carlin line of thought, whereby a healthy immune system needs practice. Live a sterile life and when you do come into contact with microbes, they'll whip your ass. The last real infection I had was a tooth that went south 15 years ago, and I get cut up all the time from our cats, lawn work, car maintenance, etc. No infections... ever.

Go ahead and keep buying your $4.00/bottle water and slathering yourself in antibacterial goop. Your loss... particularly now that beer is cheaper and healthcare costs are out of control. Survival of the fittest... and drunkest, I guess...

-Wood