please empty your brain below

Leaves you wondering how the human race has managed to avoid extinction.

One of the programmes about the tube featured Bank where they had three women faint during the morning rush hour, note they were all women - as one of the staff (who obviously had no media training) remarked, 'all these women don't eat coz they want to be thin, then collapse at our station'.
They only talk about carrying water, not about drinking it...
Would it be correct to presume that this post is actually not about 'bottled water' and that each comment regarding bottled water consumption on the underground will be awarded a "sigh"..?

At long last, I feel I'm getting the hang of this..
DG

Back in the day there were no supplies of bottled water nor the idea that we should keep one of our hands permanently clasping one. We all just managed. True, there were fewer people and the amount of heat they and the operation generated was less. However, for those who feel the necessity there is a question.
Why do you have to keep on buying water? Take the free bottle and, having drunk the contents on day 1, take it home, wash it, refill it with best Thames and cool in the fridge overnight.

Depending upon the quality of the bottle that LUL's sponsor is using this should last you for quite a while.

Of course, a further consideration is whether you want to assist LUL's sponsor in the promotion of their water. If you don't then take the label off and people won't see the name when you inbibe.
Bring back public drinking fountains.
What next?

TFL teams up with (supermarket) to hand out free samples of (brand of pizza) to Tube passengers?
So, one mayor follows another, but the publicity machine for capitalism rolls on. Noticed any differences yet - REAL differences, I mean?
"Researchers found bottled (water) is subject to far less stringent safety tests than tap water and is much more likely to be contaminated or become a source of infection.

While tap water must be checked daily under a rigorous inspection regime, by contrast, bottled makers are only required to undertake monthly testing at source, it was claimed.

Tap water also contains trace amounts of chlorine that prevent the spread of anything harmful such as bacterial infections, it was reported.

But once filled and sealed, a bottle of water might remain in storage for months before it is sold and contains no disinfecting additives such as chlorine."

Daily Telegraph
they should give out bottled lager. But you can't drink on trains any more; not that that's ever stopped anyone.
How many Tube stations have a Public Lavatory?
I only buy bottled water when in real need,but always take home the bottle,rinse out and refill from the tap and store in the fridge. I haven't yet found a better tasting water than good old Thames.
The carrying of the bottle can be a bit irksome but,of course, it gets lighter!
Another thought, one that as we get older is important- soooooo many public conveniences have been closed and that maybe why many people don't drink too much. Another vicious circle! 🐪🐪🐪
What's the average length of time of a tube journey? It strikes me that even if starved and dehydrated you'd have to be quite unlucky to suffer your actual collapse whilst on a tube train, and conversely, drinking while actually on the train is unlikely to help. It's what you do before you get to the station that's going to count.
One individual's chance of collapsing with dehydration on the tube is extremely small. But when you have millions of passengers, the collective probability is very high.
Oh, dear. Get with the programme TfL.
http://thamesestuarypartnership.org/one-less-push-abolish-single-use-plastic-water-bottles/
If each bottle is 50cl, that's 125 tonnes of water (and a tonne or so of plastic) LU will be lugging around the system, increasing energy consumption and excess heat.
Just don't try to take it on the Dangleway. It's a sort of airline, and we all know how dangerous a bottle of water is to aircraft nowadays.
Euston Platform 6 claimed another victim yesterday... female, not had any breakfast, no water with her. I'm sure that CO2 collects in the disused passageways that form part of the ventilation system, and you get low oxygen tendrils whipping out of the ducts, smacking unsuspecting ladies about the nose. There must be four or five times as many collapses on that platform than any other there.
"Refillable bottles"? Aren't these the sort of containers that we usually refer to as "bottles"?

It is noticable how many public sources of drinking water there are in many European cities, and how few there are in London and other UK towns and cities. Bring back drinking fountains, and public toilets.
A lot of bottled water manufacturers deliberately make unrefillable bottles (with mouthpieces you can suck water out of, but which can't be filled from a running tap).
Whilst I continue to suspect that this post is actually about the US presidential election... DGs interaction seems to indicate that this post MAY actually be about 'bottled water' so I will venture to point out that many bottles with mouthpieces are indeed refillable.

It just takes a sharp anticlockwise twist... and bingo!
...never mind the poor souls on the buses. At least some tubes lines have or will have air-conditioning. Buses on the other-hand are just ovens on wheels...even those fancy new-ones. But who cares about bus-users anyhow...
The brand of bottled water DG has been so careful to conceal is easily identified from the slogan, which it has been using in its advertising since 2012.
In civilised countries where it is hot the price of bottled water is regulated to stop people from being ripped off by shops abusing their market position. In Britain where the free market rules supreme there exists no such regulations which means shop keepers will charge what they think they can get away with!
Yes, I asked for a bottle of water at the newsagent next to Hammersmith H&C last year, and was quoted £1.50. I laughed, walked off to Tesco and bought one for 50p. Had it been 75p or maybe even £1 he might have got the sale...

Mind you, I have a beautiful stainless steel bottle that I use for carrying water in at this time of year.
I guess if the people going through the stations were at all troubled by the plastics waste aspect of water in a bottle, they could always have declined the offer.
As for metal drinks bottles (Kirk) I bought one for cycling, but didn't use it for long: you can't squeeze them!
Travelled into London yesterday by tube; nice air-conditioned trains on the District/Hammersmith & City, lots of people clutching water bottles (including me), but I didn't see a single member of staff. Neither did the woman who fainted at Moorgate, the couples with pushchairs at Barbican, Upton Park and Mile End who needed help getting through the barriers, or the dozen or so obvious visitors to the city who would have benefitted from an experienced person to tell them that the District line doesn't go to Euston. Thanks Boris, your promise to fully staff stations has really been kept well!
They were giving them out at Farringdon - where all the tube trains are already air conditioned.
Jeez, you whine about the stupidest things. So what?
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