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Why can't you drink the water in Spain?

Because in most places their tap water gives you the shits.

The point was more that she thought you couldn’t drink it Skegness to be honest mate, and that she thought that Skegness and Spain were the same distance away.

I suspect you are well aware of this though, and are just trying to clever, whilst coming across like a tedious pedantic bell end.
 


A lass who used to be in So Solid Crew was on "Celebrity" Pointless a couple of weeks ago. The question was: Name a country beginning with one of the following letters. One of the letters was A. She said Africa.

My lass has said the same thing whilst watching pointless in a similar/same question. In fact it couldve been the same episode as i do recall her responding with a 'see im not the only one' type comment after i rolled my eyes in disapointment to her answer.
 
Because in most places their tap water gives you the shits.

The point was more that she thought you couldn’t drink it Skegness to be honest mate, and that she thought that Skegness and Spain were the same distance away.

I suspect you are well aware of this though, and are just trying to clever, whilst coming across like a tedious pedantic bell end.
Bit harsh there marra

Before Spain joined the EU in 1986, the country was torn by the after effects of the civil war. Subsequently investments in infrastructure including tap water were lagging. Some cities like Madrid, Bilbao, Vigo and A Corunahave excellent tap water but others had limited regulation and sub standard filtration and quality testing.

In the coastal areas such as Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Malaga and Cadiz you will therefore hear a lot of people tell you that they don’t recommend drinking the tap water. One of the reasons is that tourists in the 60s to 80s did not drink the tap water and as Spaniards got wealthier they also switched to bottled water.

Between 1986 and 2008 Spain received 21 billion euro in EU funding for water infrastructure. Today they have some of the most advanced public water filtration and waste water management solutions in the world
 
Now I don’t claim to be any sort of genius on the topic of maths, but surely this takes the piss. Last week I was talking to a lass at work who reckoned her boyfriend thinks she’s thick because she couldn’t work out how long it would take to travel 60 miles at 60mph. Naturally, I agreed with her boyfriend that she is indeed thick as the answer is clearly 1 hour (60/60=1), simple yes? Wrong, this was an impossible thing to explain to her and she couldn’t get it out of her head that it took her about 45 minutes to get from Peterlee to Barnard Castle which is 30 odd miles so how can it only take an hour to do 60 miles :rolleyes:
After spending far longer than intended trying to explain the basic rules of arithmetic, I ring my mate who is also on shift to confirm I’m right as I’m starting to doubt myself. I put the same question to him and he replies ‘well it takes me about an hour and a half to get from here to Newcastle’. :eek: I put the phone down.

Neither of them knew the dates of the First World War either. Surely this is basic stuff or is this just how it is now?

Booked a hotel in Wales and our lass asked if she needed her passport. Why would you need your passport to go to Wales? Well its another country and you need your passport to go to another country. Explained that Wales was connected to England like France is connected to Spain....She looks puzzled then says "I thought France and Spain were Islands".....All Im gonna say is its a good job she is as fit as a butchers dog, a brill mam and a cracking shag (NO!)
 
Why can't you drink the water in Spain?

As far as Im aware its because it has really high mineral content that our stomachs struggle to deal with as we dont drink it very often....My uncle works on cruise ships and drinks water whatever country he is in and he is fine as his body is used to it.

I think lots of people think its because its not clean and full of dodgy bugs without realising that the entire local population drinks it.
 
T_bore really struggled with this a few years back. He asked how long it would take to walk to the stadium from one of the pubs down deptford, I correctly pointed out that it would depend on how fast he walked. Could he fuck understand that simple concept.

I once walked from the Barnes, it took f***ing ages and it was pissing down with sleet.
 
Our lass asked me who “Alvin Einstein “ was the other week .

She also thought the word “miscellaneous” meant men’s trousers .after I stopped rolling about the deck laughing I asked how she come to that conclusion “because at work when I put a pair of men’s trousers through the till we have to press the miscellaneous button “

The son rips her to bits tbh Every tea time .
 
Because in most places their tap water gives you the shits.

Why's that? How does their coke etc in pubs escape such germs?

As far as Im aware its because it has really high mineral content that our stomachs struggle to deal with as we dont drink it very often....My uncle works on cruise ships and drinks water whatever country he is in and he is fine as his body is used to it.
Differing mineral contents could be found in Skeggy too.
 

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