Tap Water

[Silver Bear]

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Interestingly the Mum of that girlfriend was from a place that's now in Poland. Her family were evacuated to Hamburg at the end of the war, where she lived until going to university in London & meeting her Dad.

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There was a massive transfer of Silesian and Sudeten Germans after the War, some to the 'Russian zone' (DDR) and some to what became the Federal Republic. And a fair old number went to Australia as "reffos" (local slang for refugees) or North America.

[Richard1978]

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If I may tie this in with another thread in which you mention the Baltic region: outside a pub in Horton-in-Ribblesdale I once met a very nice and very old chap with a strong German accent. ‘You’re not from round here?’ I asked tentatively. He told me he was from Königsberg, a German city that is now in Russia as Kaliningrad. He was a former Displaced Person, probably a POW: there were many DP camps in Ribblesdale and Ribble Valley and many of the men stayed in the area, married local girls and integrated completely.

Interestingly the Mum of that girlfriend was from a place that's now in Poland. Her family were evacuated to Hamburg at the end of the war, where she lived until going to university in London & meeting her Dad.

[Silver Bear]

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When my old girlfriend lived in Nelson we often drove out country pubs in that area.

If I may tie this in with another thread in which you mention the Baltic region: outside a pub in Horton-in-Ribblesdale I once met a very nice and very old chap with a strong German accent. ‘You’re not from round here?’ I asked tentatively. He told me he was from Königsberg, a German city that is now in Russia as Kaliningrad. He was a former Displaced Person, probably a POW: there were many DP camps in Ribblesdale and Ribble Valley and many of the men stayed in the area, married local girls and integrated completely.

[Richard1978]

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I love the Forest of Bowland area round Clitheroe. Lots of traditional log fire country pubs with good beer and nice old boys who talk a lot and are very welcoming to me as a ‘Bloody Southerner’.

When my old girlfriend lived in Nelson we often drove out country pubs in that area.

[Silver Bear]

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The Forest of Dean too near Gloucester Silver Bear; a mining area where Rank Xerox was the main employer in the seventies before the Trade Union's killed it off & Ranks gave up and moved back to Welwyn Garden City

They sang local songs and read local poetry in the Forrester accent

Yes, I've been there. It's an interesting and atmospheric place where the locals think of themselves as neither English nor Welsh, but Foresters. There's a pub where I remember buying a round of drinks in England and carrying them across a bridge in the garden to drink in Wales.

[Twocky61]

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The Forest of Dean too near Gloucester Silver Bear; a mining area where Rank Xerox was the main employer in the seventies before the Trade Union's killed it off & Ranks gave up and moved back to Welwyn Garden City

They sang local songs and read local poetry in the Forrester accent

[Silver Bear]

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lol

I used to live in the Lancashire village of Hesketh Bank. In the local pub the old fellers came out with humorous antidotes; especially if you plied them with beer lol

I love the Forest of Bowland area round Clitheroe. Lots of traditional log fire country pubs with good beer and nice old boys who talk a lot and are very welcoming to me as a ‘Bloody Southerner’.

[Twocky61]

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lol

I used to live in the Lancashire village of Hesketh Bank. In the local pub the old fellers came out with humorous antidotes; especially if you plied them with beer lol

[Silver Bear]

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"Aye up" God said when he met the Yorkshire people after St Peter had let them in through the pearly gates lol

I like the dry Yorkshire sense of humour.

[Twocky61]

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That is so ... Yorkshire! God’s Own County.

"Aye up" God said when he met the Yorkshire people after St Peter had let them in through the pearly gates lol

[Silver Bear]

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There was a company in Yorkshire a few years ago that were caught bottling tap water and repackaging it . Made millions but the owners got off with a severe warning as I recall ..


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That is so ... Yorkshire! God’s Own County.

[staffslad]

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There's a Penn and Teller Bull%!$& episode where they serve really fancy-sounding exotic bottled water at a posh restaurant and the customers say how good it is and how superior it is to standard tap water...only what they are serving is actually tap water in fancy bottles and the customers are completely fooled.

Tap water for me, as well, unless I am in a developing country where it is not safe.

[Richard1978]

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There was a company in Yorkshire a few years ago that were caught bottling tap water and repackaging it . Made millions but the owners got off with a severe warning as I recall ..


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I remember Coca Cola did almost the same thing with Dasani water, which was tap water given a light chemical process before being bottled.

[Zincubus]

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There was a company in Yorkshire a few years ago that were caught bottling tap water and repackaging it . Made millions but the owners got off with a severe warning as I recall ..


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[Twocky61]

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Tap water for me too

If we were in the developing world; then bottled water is necessary as the 'tap' water there is not suitable for human consumption, what with all bugs & stuff in it

We here in the Western world should count ourselves lucky