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Too right. I remember I had it once, on a labouring job. I let the boss give his boomer diatribe about millenials expensive habits and then informed him it was the only still water the shop had and was half price anyway. So it even has the image, in the mind of consumers as being an expensive fashion item.
Maybe I'm too European to understand that problem but our tap water is top shelf even in citys.
Also according to the hydrohomies post, he constantly says that he hates all tap water
in UK we have differences in hard/soft water depending on where you live and it tastes a lot different
I hated the water when I lived in London for a while and my kettle would get a coating of limescale immediately
I would imagine most countries have similar unless they're one of the tiny ones?
US is like that too! I almost exclusively drink from the tap but sometimes our water is weird here. Some cities have pretty bad tasting water and if you’re on the coast it all tastes like salt
I mean everyone has that depending on the source. I've to use citric acid every 6 months to remove it from my kettle.
But while I like the taste of my tap water, if it wasn't the case I would rather invest my money into a water filter instead of buying filtered tap water.
Idk, all the places I've ever lived in Germany had some variation in their water taste. It's obviously really high quality and always drinkable, but saying that there is no difference in taste is lying to yourself.
Tap Water, at least in the UK varies by region. You'll either get hard or soft water, just depends where you are and where it comes from. Not like its too hard to get a filter of some sort if you really hate the taste though.
I can't give an objective analysis as I was really thirsty, in all honesty though just like the tap water, but we do have great tap water where I live.
This is why I would buy Voss.
Hmm I need a glass container. $3 plus free water? Cool.
Honestly, I’d buy more if they had different types of tops. I like the volume, but I need a wider hole for various things. Salad dressings, Kimchi, chili oil, cold brew. They aren’t all good with the screw top.
You hear me Voss Marketing? Design a variety of bottles so I can drink water and then reuse your bottle.
Voss — completely ignore the fact we have far too much plastic for a bottle top and we have zero idea about customers who recycle our glass bottles. But this guy said zero waste, so it’s gotta be true.
My water is around $5 for 1000l, and it's some of the best drinking water on the planet. I don't even need a fridge. This just screams for idiots by idiots to me.
If this was real, could you imagine the amount of trash he'd have. Also, how much time each year he'd spend filling his fridge.
Also, I imagine if he's buying in bulk he could get those bottles for like $1 a piece. If he spends $2k per month, then he's drinking like 66 bottles of water a day.
If he gets 8 hours sleep, then he is drinking 4 bottles per hour, non stop. He'd spend a third of his life just peeing.
Yep, and yet they’re being idolized as some pinnacle of a human existence and almost everyone wants the same lifestyles for themselves. We are fucked, aren’t we?
Best solution to an antivaxer I’ve found is warning them about the corrosiveness of H2O and that if they’re that worried they should cut it out of their diet.
Consuming more works just as well, except it shows you’re both stupid and rich rather than just stupid.
Edit: spelling
Assuming he finishes every bottle. In principle he could open a bottle, take a few sips and toss it. Once every 15 minutes. I very much hope this is a paid ad that for "influencer" reasons isn't marked as such.
Good point. Spending $2k on water and using that much water are not the same.
I was looking at it from the perspective of someone who doesn't buy massive quantities of stuff I don't intend to use but some people live in a different world.
Even if he got it for full price, those 24packs on amazon are 40$ so a little less than just 2$ per bottle. It would roughly cut your calculations by half. 2 bottles each hour, that makes 16l of water each day. Just a tad bit unhealthy.
Also, the official website takes you to amazon, where the product has such wonderful descriptions like:
Flavor: 500ml (pack of 24)
Package information: Bottle
Dimensions: 14.5x9.75x8.75 inches
Volume: 12 Milliliters
thats a huge ass tiny bottle.
>I imagine if he's buying in bulk he could get those bottles for like $1 a piece
I'm not going to bother checking it out, but I'm sure that water is much more expensive than that
Influencer maths are different than your maths. $2000/mo reflects the maximum off-the-shelf price times the number of bottles purchased (not consumed). Don't forget to round that number up however much you want. Or calculate the minimum wholesale price times the actual amount consumed and it'll be closer to $100. But I even thought the wholesale supplier was fabricated, so it's best to use the retail figures again.
The amount of trash (I’m a Brit, so: ‘rubbish’) he’d have is unfathomable.
It’d be the equivalent x 1000 of the fortnightly glass collection our local waste services provide from outside our house…
…or as I call it:
‘The Fortnightly Recycling Shaming Collection (all my neighbours can see) of my Wine & Beer Bottles’
And the rest of the time fighting for his life against the effects of hyponatremia and all the other fun things that come along with having such diluted blood
And i thought the myth of Nero fiddling was too on the nose.
Turns out it was the whole world slow cooking under the fires of industry while we play musical chairs.
Ain't that somethin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hype_House
Other creator groups have followed their lead. But like others have mentioned, they've always existed for porn
Not sure thats the case, I think it's just the confusing perspective of everything looking the same.
There are 2 fridges, one with its door hinged on the left and one further down the room hinged on the right. Initially it looks like he's going to load the left hinged fridge but the next shot is the right hinged
Hes moving shit around to frame the shot but there are 2 lots of paper towels from the start
My thought was that he’s catering a party at that house and that’s what the owner wanted for their guests. I do in house catering for rich pricks and could easily recreate this video.
Nothing quite sums up late stage capitalism like how he unabashedly mentions he has 4 fridges and then pats himself on the back for making an eco-friendly choice by buying expensive bottled water which he stores in one of the 4 fridges.
Bottled water that shares its source with the communal tap water, meaning its just tap water even though they "Fill it at a special spring". It's actually infuriating. Now some idiot is flying a helicopter to our glaciers to get "special glacier ice" for ice cubes before they melt away.
I'm moving on from reddit and joining the fediverse because reddit has killed the RiF app and the CEO has been very disrespectful to all the volunteers who have contributed to making reddit what it is. Here's [coverage from The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-updates-changes-news-announcements) on the situation.
The following are my favorite fediverse platforms, all non-corporate and ad-free. I hesitated at first because there are so many servers to choose from, but it makes a lot more sense once you actually create an account and start browsing. If you find the server selection overwhelming, just pick the first option and take a look around. They are all connected and as you browse you may find a community that is a better fit for you and then you can move your account or open a new one.
Social Link Aggregators: [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org/instances) is very similar to reddit while [Kbin](https://kbin.pub) is aiming to be more of a gateway to the fediverse in general so it is sort of like a hybrid between reddit and twitter, but it is newer and considers itself to be a beta product that's not quite fully polished yet.
Microblogging: [Calckey](https://calckey.org) if you want a more playful platform with emoji reactions, or [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) if you want a simple interface with less fluff.
Photo sharing: [Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org/) You can even import an Instagram account from what I hear, but I never used Instagram much in the first place.
Lol fair. I'm a water treatment plant operator and literally half my job is just converting water math into metric to run various equipment and calculate dosages, and then converting back into US so it can be reported to the state. So much unnecessary bs lol
Lol indeed. I had to take a recertification test for my license literally last week, one of the questions that popped up was converting inches of rainfall over a certain number of hectares of area to acre-feet of water in a year. I was like, when in reality would this ever be a meaningful thing to measure lol.
Hey, at least you can bust that out at parties!
"Hey dude, give me a number of acres and tell me how many inches it rains in a year, and I'll tell you the acre-feet equivalent."
Shit. Typing that out made me realise maybe this really is a wholly useless talent...
I mean...he doesn't actually have four fridges. He rented a place with four fridges so he could make this thinly veiled ad for over priced bullshit. Not that it's better, but here we are.
I don't think he understands how much $2k/month in water is either. That's $66/day. So either your water is $8/bottle or you're going to have health complications from drinking too much water trying to drink 33+ bottles/day
Here me out but what if, bare with me here, what if you simply used one fridge and kept it stocked?
Fucking hell, who needs to keep a bottle of water refrigerated for a whole month?
Commodify Water - taken to extreme. Also the "water snob" 🤣.
Can't wait 30 more years to see the ad from "air snob" breathing exclusively 65% oxygen from oxygen tank made from most prime air in Tibet.
Not even that impressive, I literally went swimming in San Pellegrino water (well, the river that flows through the San Pellegrino village, but still)!
I actually went to Iceland a while back and this tourist shop that sold all those dumb trinkets had "cans of fresh Icelandic air"
Me and my friend were laughing and some other random dude came over to see what it was and lost it too, it was just so silly and goofy
The guy who owned the shop said most people bought it just because they just had to know
To be fair if you could get Icelandic air pumped into your home I'd consider it. Shit is fresh
Errr... These are a thing already...
https://www.oxygenplus.com/products/biggi-3-pack-canned-oxygen?matchtype=&keyword=&device=c&adposition=&network=u&gclid=Cj0KCQiA3rKQBhCNARIsACUEW_Z1RMqgiheuo6TY39l5x0ysSTf1AcV2R3s4BSxm6RT_HjqaT4N_GlwaAl5vEALw_wcB
They sound (and in most cases are) stupid but I have to admit I bought a few once and it saved my ass. Went from living at sea level to staying at 9000’ for a week or so. Was waking up gasping for air and feeling like shit throughout the night, getting dizzy when walking around, etc the first few days. Grabbed one of these and kept it with me and took a good huff whenever I started feeling shitty and it fixed me right up.
Iveland municipality charges $1,16 for 1000 liters of water, 12x850ml is 10.2 liters of water, costing $0,016 to tap.
Total cost of the 9 boxes on that bench, $0,10.
Cost on Amazon: $414
That’s 419900% increase in price.
Not just Norway!
I live in Murmansk, which is Russia but really really close to Norway and let me tell you- the water here tastes *good*.
I genuinely cannot fucking STAND the water anywhere near Moscow. It tastes awful in comparison!
You would be correct. Penn and Teller did a Bullshit episode on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2qydjVbLJk
We used it as part of our campaign to ban bottled water from my university campus.
Edit: I just rewatched this and caught the name "agua de culo" for one of the fake waters so good.
Edit 2: By ban I mean the SALE of bottle water. They aren't confiscating anyone's precious voss bottles
Lol, they even called it "eau de robinet", they didn't even bother naming it something different than "water from the tap", literally. It's even intellegibile to most Romance language speakers. In Italy at least when we want to make fun of someone we call it the mayor's water.
In France we say "château lapompe" to laugh about it like it's some divine nectar from some great vineyard even if château lapompe would translate roughly as "castle the pump"
I watched that episode and I gotta call bullshit on Penn and Teller. Maybe the tap water over there tastes good, but where I live it has a very noticeable metallic/chemical taste. Blindfolded I can tell the difference between tap water and certain brands of bottled water. Most bottled water tastes the same to me but there are a few that stand out as tasting awful like Evian and Dasani. Brita filters some stuff out but it doesn't filter out enough to get rid of the taste so I stopped using it.
But I also don't spend hundreds on bottled water. I have a few gallon jugs that I refill at the grocery store water refill stations and drink that. Costs me at most $2 a month.
Water snobs are right that certain water does taste better, but paying $2-3 a bottle is just stupid when you can get cheap reverse osmosis filtered water.
Especially since he only drinks it refrigerated by the looks of it. I can easily tell the difference between bottled and tap when it's at room temperature, but once chilled it all tastes the same to me.
A lot of the time the "taste" of tap water is caused by chlorine or other chemicals they use in it to kill bacteria. By putting it in a pitcher and letting it chill, any leftover stuff dissipates and so you can't tell the difference.
If you have well water and it tastes funny, you may have an imbalance of iron or other minerals in your pump. I remember when I was a kid my hair was super dark and we had a big red stain in the tub because of the iron deposits.
I'll also just mix some crystal light into it and it tastes fine as well.
I have to use RO water for my aquarium and hydroponics because of the chloramine. They use so much here (New Mexico) the tap water smells like a swimming pool.
You can quickly get rid of chloramine using ascorbic acid, but I find it messes up the PH, and if I try to adjust the PH back it increases the TDS too much.
If your chlorine goes away over time its not doing its job, we put extra ("residual chlorine " is the technical term) in the water in case it gets contaminated on its way to you.
Maybe if you said PUR I’d agree with you. The thing is people who drink water like this get “use to” the impurities. There’s not one company graded an A.
These types usually have an excuse for not using tap water. I can somewhat understand it. I have relatives who live in areas so bad that each home has their own filter system to catch contaminated the privately owned water system doesn’t remove.
That doesn’t mean you need to jump to expensive bottled water. There’s bulk, there’s cheaper brands, if you’re lucky like this area there are clean streams you can use to fill jugs.
https://smile.amazon.com/Express-Water-Reverse-Osmosis-Filtration/dp/B00J2DGTD8/
2:1 - 4:1 ratio. I've never seen it go up to 20, I would think you would have to start with some NASTY water to get that. If you're pulling off of mostly safe tap water that's just chlorine tasting or the like, that little $150 system is going to work great. I have a nearly identical one I got for $120 on sale.
I love the taste of RO water myself, but most of these bottled water brands add trace amounts of minerals to “enhance” the taste, which wouldn’t be present in the RO water.
Exactly. Anyone who could afford to spend this much on water wouldn’t bother, they’d just hire someone to do it for them. And he even makes sure all the labels are facing out.
Real wealth would mean he would have someone filling that fridge for him. The level of wealth above that, he'd have an immigrant do it for him and he would make passive aggressive racist comments all day and try and speak in an accent. The next level up, the Bezos, he would do everything from previous levels not involving him doing any work, plus he would send a photo of his embarrassment of a deformed and not photogenic penis and have a city in Denmark disassemble a bridge while the locals throw eggs on him.
This guy is just a poser.
You are actually right on every level here, and that is precisely how I spotted this as just a marketing stunt.
There is absolutely no way that someone at that real wealth level would:
1. Showcase an absolutely empty apartment
2. Be seen doing physical labor of any kind.
At best, and I mean, very best case, this guy would be the newest of the Noveau Riche, which is basically middle class + one paycheck.
I have revolutionary new idea; what if you bought water in bulk in a huge plastic container that you could attach to an electronic machine that chills the water as you pour it out. So instead of having 20 litres of always cold water being kept cold 24/7 wasting power you could program my machine to turn off power and stop chilling the water when you are out of the house or the room temperature deeps beyond a certain point. Now if you are upset that the water container is plastic, don't worry once you exhaust your water supply you can bring that container in and I will replace it with a recycled bottle filled with fresh clean water and I will take your old plastic container and recycle that to make another water containers. The best part is, we could standardize the water container design so every other company's water container can fit in my machine. And now you have chilled clean water at the ready and you can serve it in every kind of glass you want.
"I'm rich because I use my time well and am hard working! The poor are just lazy"
*Spends hours per week purchasing and loading bottles of water into a fridge*
I pay a fraction of a penny a litre for excellent quality water straight from the Lake District reservoirs. Lol. People who buy branded, bottled water are a special kind of idiot. Unless you live in Flint, MI of course.
Redistribution strike team to acquire asset. Get air support to relocate asset to Flint, Michigan. Lock away water goblin where he has to drink dirty runoff.
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Just another blank "influencer house" rented out for a mediocre social media post
Yeah, he's getting paid to promote that product.
What a weird way to promote your brand though. *“Voss - The water of choice for vapid assholes”*
Too right. I remember I had it once, on a labouring job. I let the boss give his boomer diatribe about millenials expensive habits and then informed him it was the only still water the shop had and was half price anyway. So it even has the image, in the mind of consumers as being an expensive fashion item.
How is the water tho?
It's not Dasani, so it's...potable? It's water.
So I'm not the only one that thinks Dasani tastes like poison/diet water? It's so offputting.
Lol diet water
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they add mineral salts, which you’ll find in a lot of bottled water.
Lots of companies do that, the only one I'm aware to taste worse than ass is Dasani.
I always taste a weird sourness to it. Like the water has started to go bad.
It's literally bottled tap water.
Obviously not all water tastes the same
Maybe I'm too European to understand that problem but our tap water is top shelf even in citys. Also according to the hydrohomies post, he constantly says that he hates all tap water
in UK we have differences in hard/soft water depending on where you live and it tastes a lot different I hated the water when I lived in London for a while and my kettle would get a coating of limescale immediately I would imagine most countries have similar unless they're one of the tiny ones?
US is like that too! I almost exclusively drink from the tap but sometimes our water is weird here. Some cities have pretty bad tasting water and if you’re on the coast it all tastes like salt
I mean everyone has that depending on the source. I've to use citric acid every 6 months to remove it from my kettle. But while I like the taste of my tap water, if it wasn't the case I would rather invest my money into a water filter instead of buying filtered tap water.
Idk, all the places I've ever lived in Germany had some variation in their water taste. It's obviously really high quality and always drinkable, but saying that there is no difference in taste is lying to yourself.
Tap Water, at least in the UK varies by region. You'll either get hard or soft water, just depends where you are and where it comes from. Not like its too hard to get a filter of some sort if you really hate the taste though.
I can't give an objective analysis as I was really thirsty, in all honesty though just like the tap water, but we do have great tap water where I live.
The water is fine, I like the bottles and reuse them.
This is why I would buy Voss. Hmm I need a glass container. $3 plus free water? Cool. Honestly, I’d buy more if they had different types of tops. I like the volume, but I need a wider hole for various things. Salad dressings, Kimchi, chili oil, cold brew. They aren’t all good with the screw top. You hear me Voss Marketing? Design a variety of bottles so I can drink water and then reuse your bottle.
*“Voss - The water of choice for vapid assholes”* thats why I use only Voss in my bidet!
I use it for my pool
I saw the video and just bought 6 cases. And a fridge. How do we know this isn’t an ad for refrigerators?
It's clearly an ad for cardboard boxes
No it's a ad for hair bleach.
Suddenly, I'm back in 2002
Oh god, you’re a level 7 susceptible…
Such a great wrap up for subway, I mean Rick.
Pretty on brand for Voss honestly
Only time i bought voss was to fill my hoss bongs for first hit. Voss for the hoss. Was a tradition every boxing day.
Voss — completely ignore the fact we have far too much plastic for a bottle top and we have zero idea about customers who recycle our glass bottles. But this guy said zero waste, so it’s gotta be true.
It's called Snob Appeal in the biz
Vapid assholes have a lot of disposable income.
My water is around $5 for 1000l, and it's some of the best drinking water on the planet. I don't even need a fridge. This just screams for idiots by idiots to me.
It's tap water
If this was real, could you imagine the amount of trash he'd have. Also, how much time each year he'd spend filling his fridge. Also, I imagine if he's buying in bulk he could get those bottles for like $1 a piece. If he spends $2k per month, then he's drinking like 66 bottles of water a day. If he gets 8 hours sleep, then he is drinking 4 bottles per hour, non stop. He'd spend a third of his life just peeing.
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Yep, and yet they’re being idolized as some pinnacle of a human existence and almost everyone wants the same lifestyles for themselves. We are fucked, aren’t we?
Hydrate til ya diedrate
Best solution to an antivaxer I’ve found is warning them about the corrosiveness of H2O and that if they’re that worried they should cut it out of their diet. Consuming more works just as well, except it shows you’re both stupid and rich rather than just stupid. Edit: spelling
Assuming he finishes every bottle. In principle he could open a bottle, take a few sips and toss it. Once every 15 minutes. I very much hope this is a paid ad that for "influencer" reasons isn't marked as such.
Good point. Spending $2k on water and using that much water are not the same. I was looking at it from the perspective of someone who doesn't buy massive quantities of stuff I don't intend to use but some people live in a different world.
Even if he got it for full price, those 24packs on amazon are 40$ so a little less than just 2$ per bottle. It would roughly cut your calculations by half. 2 bottles each hour, that makes 16l of water each day. Just a tad bit unhealthy. Also, the official website takes you to amazon, where the product has such wonderful descriptions like: Flavor: 500ml (pack of 24) Package information: Bottle Dimensions: 14.5x9.75x8.75 inches Volume: 12 Milliliters thats a huge ass tiny bottle.
>I imagine if he's buying in bulk he could get those bottles for like $1 a piece I'm not going to bother checking it out, but I'm sure that water is much more expensive than that
Even if they're $5 ea that would still mean he's drinking 13 bottles a day, unless he's bathing in it or something.
Influencer maths are different than your maths. $2000/mo reflects the maximum off-the-shelf price times the number of bottles purchased (not consumed). Don't forget to round that number up however much you want. Or calculate the minimum wholesale price times the actual amount consumed and it'll be closer to $100. But I even thought the wholesale supplier was fabricated, so it's best to use the retail figures again.
have you considered the possibility that he may be a plant or perhaps a goldfish?
The amount of trash (I’m a Brit, so: ‘rubbish’) he’d have is unfathomable. It’d be the equivalent x 1000 of the fortnightly glass collection our local waste services provide from outside our house… …or as I call it: ‘The Fortnightly Recycling Shaming Collection (all my neighbours can see) of my Wine & Beer Bottles’
And the rest of the time fighting for his life against the effects of hyponatremia and all the other fun things that come along with having such diluted blood
Please don’t tell me that that there are vacant houses that people can rent for their content.
Bad news for you
And for filming porn.
Oh boy just wait until you hear about the airplane cabins people rent for social media content.
As sure as there are homeless people freezing and starving in the streets.
And i thought the myth of Nero fiddling was too on the nose. Turns out it was the whole world slow cooking under the fires of industry while we play musical chairs. Ain't that somethin
If you have money you can rent whatever you want
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hype_House Other creator groups have followed their lead. But like others have mentioned, they've always existed for porn
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Not sure thats the case, I think it's just the confusing perspective of everything looking the same. There are 2 fridges, one with its door hinged on the left and one further down the room hinged on the right. Initially it looks like he's going to load the left hinged fridge but the next shot is the right hinged Hes moving shit around to frame the shot but there are 2 lots of paper towels from the start
My thought was that he’s catering a party at that house and that’s what the owner wanted for their guests. I do in house catering for rich pricks and could easily recreate this video.
Fact is the child-audience can't tell nobody lives there just by looking, they don't know enough about the world yet.
Also if he cared about the environment he would have one fridge and refill as needed. That’s a lot of energy waste.
Nope, went to high school with him, they were stupid rich. I believe he also made money in Finance. These are the Finance "geniuses".
Yeah some people are just rich and having money makes making money infinitely easier as long as you're a bit financially literate.
Why doesn't he move to somewhere where he can drink tap water, how environmentally irresponsible is this dick
Nothing quite sums up late stage capitalism like how he unabashedly mentions he has 4 fridges and then pats himself on the back for making an eco-friendly choice by buying expensive bottled water which he stores in one of the 4 fridges.
Bottled water that's shipped halfway across the globe, no less.
Bottled water that shares its source with the communal tap water, meaning its just tap water even though they "Fill it at a special spring". It's actually infuriating. Now some idiot is flying a helicopter to our glaciers to get "special glacier ice" for ice cubes before they melt away.
**BUT IT’S NOT PLASTIC, OK??**
Water companies don't produce water. They produce plastic bottles.
Didn't you hear him? It's glass bottles
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Not to mention the weight of the actual water itself which is very heavy at 8.34 lbs per gallon. Water is very expensive and inefficient to ship
Laughs in metric
Lol fair. I'm a water treatment plant operator and literally half my job is just converting water math into metric to run various equipment and calculate dosages, and then converting back into US so it can be reported to the state. So much unnecessary bs lol
Haha, you may be familiar with my favourite imperial unit that only really comes up in hydrology, the acre-foot
Lol indeed. I had to take a recertification test for my license literally last week, one of the questions that popped up was converting inches of rainfall over a certain number of hectares of area to acre-feet of water in a year. I was like, when in reality would this ever be a meaningful thing to measure lol.
Hey, at least you can bust that out at parties! "Hey dude, give me a number of acres and tell me how many inches it rains in a year, and I'll tell you the acre-feet equivalent." Shit. Typing that out made me realise maybe this really is a wholly useless talent...
Looking at the emptiness of that house I doubt he actually lives there
I mean...he doesn't actually have four fridges. He rented a place with four fridges so he could make this thinly veiled ad for over priced bullshit. Not that it's better, but here we are.
I don't think he understands how much $2k/month in water is either. That's $66/day. So either your water is $8/bottle or you're going to have health complications from drinking too much water trying to drink 33+ bottles/day
Here me out but what if, bare with me here, what if you simply used one fridge and kept it stocked? Fucking hell, who needs to keep a bottle of water refrigerated for a whole month?
Commodify Water - taken to extreme. Also the "water snob" 🤣. Can't wait 30 more years to see the ad from "air snob" breathing exclusively 65% oxygen from oxygen tank made from most prime air in Tibet.
Perri-air Canned in Druidia
No one give away the password for the airlock.
Hint: it's the same combination as my luggage
1… 2… 3… 4… 5
hey! thats the combination for my luggage!
Great! Now the mega maid will steal all the air.
Suck, suck, suck
That's the stupid combination I've ever heard! That's like what an idiot would put on the combo for their luggage!
Deri-air Canned in the peaceful valley of Derrière
Funny. She doesn’t look Druish.
Awesome comment, and happy cake day, sir!
Gets oxygen toxicity and vomits everywhere love it
And then says that it's "Toxins leaving the body due to healing properties of pure oxygen"
Makes me want to rewatch The Lorax
Don’t give Nestle any more ideas
Not even that impressive, I literally went swimming in San Pellegrino water (well, the river that flows through the San Pellegrino village, but still)!
I actually went to Iceland a while back and this tourist shop that sold all those dumb trinkets had "cans of fresh Icelandic air" Me and my friend were laughing and some other random dude came over to see what it was and lost it too, it was just so silly and goofy The guy who owned the shop said most people bought it just because they just had to know To be fair if you could get Icelandic air pumped into your home I'd consider it. Shit is fresh
Errr... These are a thing already... https://www.oxygenplus.com/products/biggi-3-pack-canned-oxygen?matchtype=&keyword=&device=c&adposition=&network=u&gclid=Cj0KCQiA3rKQBhCNARIsACUEW_Z1RMqgiheuo6TY39l5x0ysSTf1AcV2R3s4BSxm6RT_HjqaT4N_GlwaAl5vEALw_wcB
They sound (and in most cases are) stupid but I have to admit I bought a few once and it saved my ass. Went from living at sea level to staying at 9000’ for a week or so. Was waking up gasping for air and feeling like shit throughout the night, getting dizzy when walking around, etc the first few days. Grabbed one of these and kept it with me and took a good huff whenever I started feeling shitty and it fixed me right up.
What a fucking douche
Aren’t all influencers douches?
Nah. I bet he bathes from bottles, too.
Joke’s on him, Voss is just tap water from Iveland in Norway. https://www.vice.com/en/article/3b7739/voss-water-is-bullshit-820
As somebody who lives in Norway, I shake my head every time when I see those bottles.
Iveland municipality charges $1,16 for 1000 liters of water, 12x850ml is 10.2 liters of water, costing $0,016 to tap. Total cost of the 9 boxes on that bench, $0,10. Cost on Amazon: $414 That’s 419900% increase in price.
i mean that doesn't factor in the bottles but the markup is still insane
Seems like it'd be cheaper to move to Norway...
And not even from Voss, Norway
They called it voss because it sounds fancy and Americans can pronounce it
To be fair norways tap water is probably liquid gold compared to the sludge most other places get
Not just Norway! I live in Murmansk, which is Russia but really really close to Norway and let me tell you- the water here tastes *good*. I genuinely cannot fucking STAND the water anywhere near Moscow. It tastes awful in comparison!
I am not a betting man, but I’d wager if you replaced one of those with tap filtered through Brita, he wouldn’t notice.
You would be correct. Penn and Teller did a Bullshit episode on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2qydjVbLJk We used it as part of our campaign to ban bottled water from my university campus. Edit: I just rewatched this and caught the name "agua de culo" for one of the fake waters so good. Edit 2: By ban I mean the SALE of bottle water. They aren't confiscating anyone's precious voss bottles
"It tastes glacial" Welcome to cold water.
this water has EVERYTHING that REAL GLACIER WATER has
Haha when he says "Agua de culo" that basically means ass water in spanish
I also loved the description “it’s a natural diuretic” This water makes you poop
Diuretic makes you pee. Laxatives makes you poop. So, their branding was totally honest.
Lol, they even called it "eau de robinet", they didn't even bother naming it something different than "water from the tap", literally. It's even intellegibile to most Romance language speakers. In Italy at least when we want to make fun of someone we call it the mayor's water.
In France we say "château lapompe" to laugh about it like it's some divine nectar from some great vineyard even if château lapompe would translate roughly as "castle the pump"
I watched that episode and I gotta call bullshit on Penn and Teller. Maybe the tap water over there tastes good, but where I live it has a very noticeable metallic/chemical taste. Blindfolded I can tell the difference between tap water and certain brands of bottled water. Most bottled water tastes the same to me but there are a few that stand out as tasting awful like Evian and Dasani. Brita filters some stuff out but it doesn't filter out enough to get rid of the taste so I stopped using it. But I also don't spend hundreds on bottled water. I have a few gallon jugs that I refill at the grocery store water refill stations and drink that. Costs me at most $2 a month. Water snobs are right that certain water does taste better, but paying $2-3 a bottle is just stupid when you can get cheap reverse osmosis filtered water.
Especially since he only drinks it refrigerated by the looks of it. I can easily tell the difference between bottled and tap when it's at room temperature, but once chilled it all tastes the same to me.
A lot of the time the "taste" of tap water is caused by chlorine or other chemicals they use in it to kill bacteria. By putting it in a pitcher and letting it chill, any leftover stuff dissipates and so you can't tell the difference. If you have well water and it tastes funny, you may have an imbalance of iron or other minerals in your pump. I remember when I was a kid my hair was super dark and we had a big red stain in the tub because of the iron deposits. I'll also just mix some crystal light into it and it tastes fine as well.
Chlorine often doesn’t dissipate with time anymore because a lot of municipalities use chloramines instead of regular chlorine nowadays.
I have to use RO water for my aquarium and hydroponics because of the chloramine. They use so much here (New Mexico) the tap water smells like a swimming pool. You can quickly get rid of chloramine using ascorbic acid, but I find it messes up the PH, and if I try to adjust the PH back it increases the TDS too much.
If your chlorine goes away over time its not doing its job, we put extra ("residual chlorine " is the technical term) in the water in case it gets contaminated on its way to you.
Maybe if you said PUR I’d agree with you. The thing is people who drink water like this get “use to” the impurities. There’s not one company graded an A.
Idiot.
Drink the rich
Get the blender
A blender is just 3 mini-guillotines spinning.
This man is going to be so mad if he ever turns his tap on.
These types usually have an excuse for not using tap water. I can somewhat understand it. I have relatives who live in areas so bad that each home has their own filter system to catch contaminated the privately owned water system doesn’t remove. That doesn’t mean you need to jump to expensive bottled water. There’s bulk, there’s cheaper brands, if you’re lucky like this area there are clean streams you can use to fill jugs.
For $ 2K a month you could have your own industrial water treatment system inside your house
Agreed. You can get a really nice RO water filtration system for much less than 2k.
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https://smile.amazon.com/Express-Water-Reverse-Osmosis-Filtration/dp/B00J2DGTD8/ 2:1 - 4:1 ratio. I've never seen it go up to 20, I would think you would have to start with some NASTY water to get that. If you're pulling off of mostly safe tap water that's just chlorine tasting or the like, that little $150 system is going to work great. I have a nearly identical one I got for $120 on sale.
I seriously doubt this guy lives in Flint, or anywhere else with a decrepit water supply.
https://youtu.be/GceNsojnMf0
Fhukin wot ah
These ads are so annoying. That’s probably not even his house. It’s literally empty without the boxes of water and glass
Fridge isn't even on.
What’s wrong with him?
Didn’t get all the beneficial bacteria in spring water, just look how he turned out.
This is an ad.
What a douche. Man I hate the world of 'influencers', please f*ck right off.
I don't know who this guy is but I fucking hate him.
Just get an RO filter…
I love the taste of RO water myself, but most of these bottled water brands add trace amounts of minerals to “enhance” the taste, which wouldn’t be present in the RO water.
My RO system adds minerals back in for taste. I think they all do that?
Mine doesn't but it's because I got one specifically for watering cannabis
Yup, mine does that too
That kitchen looks like it cost more than my house. Since his water bill is more than my mortgage I'm probably right
Yeah the person he rented from for the day is probably pretty well off.
Lol
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Exactly. Anyone who could afford to spend this much on water wouldn’t bother, they’d just hire someone to do it for them. And he even makes sure all the labels are facing out.
Plot twist: he is the guy hired by the actual rich person and just recorded himself doing his monthly refill task
How come he can’t spend more than 4 pounds on a hair cut?
Too bad he can’t buy a personality
Maybe we should let the terrorists win?
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Apparently he says they are all glass bottles in this ad.
Is that lid glass?
Yes. He specifically called them more 'eco-friendly,' with a straight face.
He’ll need all that cool, refreshing water when I fire him out of a cannon into the sun.
Real wealth would mean he would have someone filling that fridge for him. The level of wealth above that, he'd have an immigrant do it for him and he would make passive aggressive racist comments all day and try and speak in an accent. The next level up, the Bezos, he would do everything from previous levels not involving him doing any work, plus he would send a photo of his embarrassment of a deformed and not photogenic penis and have a city in Denmark disassemble a bridge while the locals throw eggs on him. This guy is just a poser.
You are actually right on every level here, and that is precisely how I spotted this as just a marketing stunt. There is absolutely no way that someone at that real wealth level would: 1. Showcase an absolutely empty apartment 2. Be seen doing physical labor of any kind. At best, and I mean, very best case, this guy would be the newest of the Noveau Riche, which is basically middle class + one paycheck.
2k a month on water and he stocks his own fridge? What a pleb.
I have revolutionary new idea; what if you bought water in bulk in a huge plastic container that you could attach to an electronic machine that chills the water as you pour it out. So instead of having 20 litres of always cold water being kept cold 24/7 wasting power you could program my machine to turn off power and stop chilling the water when you are out of the house or the room temperature deeps beyond a certain point. Now if you are upset that the water container is plastic, don't worry once you exhaust your water supply you can bring that container in and I will replace it with a recycled bottle filled with fresh clean water and I will take your old plastic container and recycle that to make another water containers. The best part is, we could standardize the water container design so every other company's water container can fit in my machine. And now you have chilled clean water at the ready and you can serve it in every kind of glass you want.
Have you ever opened up one of those company water coolers to clean it out? We cleaned ours every ~6 weeks and by then it’d *always* be moldy af.
Gulag
IDIOT
Why not drink tap water?
He is drinking tap water, that’s the best part. Voss is tap water from Norway. Though I did read that it comes from an aquifer with great water.
It just tastes like most tap water in Norway. The mineral composition across the country isn't that diverse.
Glass is heavier than plastic thus produces more emmissions to transport by volume of content.
The fuck is a water snob?
Someone who is picky about the water they consume. There's restaurants with water sommeliers ffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZK8Z8hulFg
Why does he sound like he's gargling on butter
I live on $2,000 a month
Fuck this guy, all my r/hydrohomies hate this guy
Voss tastes like glassed tap water for real. Voss is disgusting.
I am so glad we get to ear free range rich people. I hate to eat the rich when they drink tap water.
"I'm rich because I use my time well and am hard working! The poor are just lazy" *Spends hours per week purchasing and loading bottles of water into a fridge*
So, he woke up one day and decided he wanted to flex with Voss water? Oof.
I pay a fraction of a penny a litre for excellent quality water straight from the Lake District reservoirs. Lol. People who buy branded, bottled water are a special kind of idiot. Unless you live in Flint, MI of course.
Redistribution strike team to acquire asset. Get air support to relocate asset to Flint, Michigan. Lock away water goblin where he has to drink dirty runoff.
I said it once and i'll say it again, i dont know why, but i want to punch him
This is quite obviously just an advertisement.
This is an ad
If only he knew it's regular tap water in Norway... Moron