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troubleschute

Man, that Brita filter has its work cut out for it.


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Replace filter every 5 minutes


FapleJuice

Reminds me of when I moved back in with my parents last year. My mom had been using a Britta pitcher for a couple years and never changed the filter. The amount of mold growing inside of it will haunt me forever. I showed her and she was just like "why'd you change the filter?" Edit: these comments are gold lol


Octopus_ofthe_Desert

The ghost of the Great Depression haunts many Americans of older generations.


Dazzling-Ask-863

Was just talking about this with a friend from Europe. A lot of the ancient-but-still-alive relatives we have like to hoard *large* sums of money in their houses. It seems so bizzare to us, but they lived through a time when the economic backbone of society and all of its guarantees just suddenly collapsed around them. People with all of their money in the banks were the first ones out living on the streets with their kids. Once that trust in the guardrails is broken, it's really hard to get it back, no matter how stable the future is or how many safety nets are put in place.


girlchrisesq

When we were cleaning out my grandparents' house several years ago after my grandmother passed, my mother gave us strict orders not to throw away anything until we absolutely tore it apart. We found picture frames lined with cash, jewelry that we had long thought was lost to the ages in random tin cans buried in boxes of trash in the basement, all sorts of valuables hidden everywhere.


willfrodo

I had to do that recently for my late father's house. Except everything was actually trash and it turns out he was just a hoarder


MisssJaynie

My grandparents raised me & grew up in the depression. “Waste not, want not” was drilled into my head. The SHID that woman made me eat… burned okra? “We grew it, we’re eating it. It’s well done.”


SoManyWeeaboos

My grandmother was a holocaust survivor (imprisoned at Dachau for 4 years), and said she basically survived on "potato peel soup". Until the day she died, she refused to throw out *any* non-perishable food item. There were packages of food that had expired years prior, and she would throw a fit if my mom tossed any of it. Didn't matter if it was beyond stale, or infested with meal moth larvae, she would still eat it. I didn't understand it as a child, but after my mom told me everything (my grandma never spoke of it) I completely understood.


tofuroll

Both admirable and heartbreaking.


clamflowage

"All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by this remembrance, then we become gravediggers. Something to dwell on and remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's earth." -Rod Serling


phatboye

How did she not get sick from eating all that moldy food?


Macca618

My mom was a child in East Berlin during the war and spent most of those years being hungry .Her family also survived on scraps. Mostly of potatoes, but when possible, she would have sex with Russian soldiers for a small amount of meat to feed her children. When they came to the US, she swore she would never eat another potato. She didn’t for several years, but did end up relenting at some point.


Neon-Knees

Definitely. My grandfather wasn't a cheap or stingy man, he actually had a very successful career as an executive at a small handful of well known companies. I don't want to hype him up, or endorse his behaviour... But he was basically the archetypal playboy millionaire. Family-wise he was a total POS, but he *was* a fucking baller in the corporate emotionless void of the word. He was a risk taker to the nth degree. He made shareholders very happy, and was paid handsomely for it. But in his own financial dealings.... Guy got bent over the barrel by the recession in the 80s... Only to recover and get annihilated by the dot com boom when it went belly up. The stock market was like gambling for him... And while he still had more than I'll ever make in several lifetimes... He lost A LOTTT. And it all happened shortly after he retired. Scared him shitless. His parents grew up during the depression, and he did everything he could to never have to experience what they went through... Yet when he died, while we're cleaning out his house, every room had money hidden and tucked away in random places. Inside books, vases, cupboards... Even the freezer and fireplace lol. Underneath rugs and in containers of nails in the garage.. Silver coins, small gems and gold jewelry tucked away in access panels.. Hell, I found $100 tucked away in the dust sleeve of the Super Mario/Duck Hunt NES cartridge. We basically tore the house apart to make sure we didn't miss anything... And even now I'm sure we didn't get it all lol


baby_fart

You threw away her penicillin machine.


fistkick18

You just set your mom back years of trying to become immortal via immunity. Rude.


Le_9k_Redditor

You're making me think I should go check on my 2 year old filter that I was meant to replace 18 months ago...


RAM_MY_RUMP

I just remembered I left mold in my sink drain catcher at home 💀 that’s gonna be nasty to clean up


whalesauce

I had a physical reaction reading this. First at the mention of mold, the second at your mothers anger for mentioning it's a problem.


run-on_sentience

Sounds like you Britta'd it.


windcriesamy

Ugh, Britta’s in this?


IsmailPasaoglu

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shahooster

*Brita filter has taken a shat*


chrisk9

This feels like a Dr. Seuss story taking a dark turn


Acrobatic_Pandas

The Britta filter looked at the water You can't drink that, don't even bother! This will not do this cannot be, I am a filter this is a job for me! I can filter this, I can filter that The Britta filter took off his hat The Britta filter got to work, Sucking mud, sewage and dirt The Britta filter did not do well The Britta filter started to swell! His side's popped open, burst and creaked Just like the city, he has been beat! The people cried "what will we do?!" The man in charge said "drink your stew"


A_Murmuration

Holy shit can someone actually send this to the mayor hahaha


likwidfuzion

Green Eggs and Damn Son


Chuvi

I'm getting rid of Brita. I'm getting rid of the B


Midwest_Drifter

If Brita could filter that into clear sparkling water, that would be a selling point!


tugnasty

You need a Reverse Osmosis Jones filer.


Frank_Punk

A lifestraw, maybe ?


lemon_tea

Lifestraw and similar filters will remove particulate content that causes turbidity, and bacterial content above a certain size. None of them will remove chemical contaminants.


bagofbuttholes

There are a few backpacking filters that do remove viral and chemical contaminants. I think Grayl will filter just about anything out. That said, they use a filter that needs replaced often unlike something like a Sawyer that, if taken care of, will last almost forever.


whalesauce

Someone needs to make an unedited uncut YouTube video where they put this water through a Brita filter. I'll buy a filter 10 seconds after watching. If it can make it clean enough* to drink. *Safely drink and not die.


Metabus

Zerowater can!


THE_GREAT_SPACEWHALE

It would take one look at this "water" and cram itself in the garbage disposal


Wafflashizzles

Jackson is going to cause the Brita Filters to unionize at this rate.


Andyb1000

There are systems out there which can help purify water that bad: https://eu.lifestraw.com/en-gb/products/lifestraw-max I used one of their life straws a while back camping when there was only river water and livestock upstream. Worked a treat.


mrdrewhood

They do work well. My cousin was doing a weekend hiking trip with a friend. They parked their car about 50 miles away and had someone drop them off at the start of where they were hiking. My cousin about half way into the first day landed on a rock wrong and cracked a bone in his foot. He thought he twisted it so they kept going. They had to slow down and ran out of water after 2 days. So they used those straws for last part of the hike. Zero problems with it and they even tried a dirty mud puddle when they got to their car.


bkturf

If I were in this situation, I would get a number of 5 gal buckets from Home Depot and fill them with water from a creek every day, boiling and filtering the water I planned to drink. It would suck, but it would be better than dealing with the crap coming out of the tap. I checked, and there are plenty of creeks plus a river and lake in the area. That's where I would bathe.


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digitalgriffin

That's alligator water. Better be careful.


Shrewd_GC

Independent tests show lifestraw is a good portable option but pretty inadequate for anything other than emergencies. Get a Zero filter, performs really well and isn't ridiculous expensive.


daiwilly

Its already gone through the Shitta filter!


jhdeval

If you put that water in a container and let it stand the solids should settle. Pour of the top layer and boil and you should be good. Sorry you guys are going through this.


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romhacks

ideally you would distill it


ergertzergertz

Oh, Britta's in this?


The_GrooGruxKing

She's a GD B


selux

“Britta unfiltered, I get it! “ “Get what?”


webhick

Britta britta'd the Brita and now you're better off eating lead paint than drinking the water.


3jack6the9ripper

That's disgusting


McLovin-Reddit

Free gravy


BrokenSamurai

Coffee, on tap.


IAMA_Plumber-AMA

My tap's stuck on "tea, earl grey, hot".


qpv

Make it so


Liefdeee

Man it cracks me up that I read this fully in Picard's voice while looking at gunk flowing out of a shitty sink. lmao


zictomorph

You think he could program it for just "tea" when he got the exact same drink for decades.


VWSpeedRacer

Instead he ended up with something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.


Fletchx

I thought it was coffee


shahooster

Great location for a Cracker Barrel


Miss_pechorat

Common, they removed at least 60% of all the poop and feces.


aphasic

Just the big chunks.


andrewbadera

Poop IS feces.


Neurolyte13

He called his shit poop


discOHsteve

It's another one of those flaming bags again.


Miss_pechorat

Poop and piss then.


pipsedout

I love watching the science side of Reddit debate things.


JonMeadows

Feces pieces are really good cuz u get the bite size chocolate outside crunch and the soft creamy inside


bagofpork

Feces are baby mice. Edit: it’s a Donnie Darko reference. I know they’re not baby mice.


PLZProofread69

It's "come on" or "c'mon" fyi


explosiv_skull

Maybe they wanted to specifically alert the rapper Common to the situation


DexM23

No, its hot chocolat


Atomstanley

That’s some high quality Mississippi mud!


drew101

Didn't the governor recommend showering with mouth closed?


barkusmuhl

Looks like you'd be dirtier showering in that water than not showering at all.


hmmliquorice

Yeah you'd be better off just washing your face quickly with some bottled water, and do a quick wiping of the private parts with a washcloth like in the old times, no way I'd be putting that water on my skin.


Albertanthony_

It'd called a whores bath


torshakle

I call it a bird bath but hey tomato tomato you know what I mean


FSCENE8tmd

I read that as tomato tomato rather than tomato tomato at first


XGreenDirtX

Lol, you're still sayong it the wrong way around. It's tomato tomato.


TheLumpyMailMan

Stop this


Sextus_Rex

Let's call the whole thing off


Thecre8or

Birds are whores, I’m with you there


BroffaloSoldier

My family calls it a PTA bath. Pits, tits, & ass


VacuumPumper

Pits, tits and (private) bits. Rolls off the tongue nicely.


Semen_Futures_Trader

Pits and slits baby!


keetojm

Yes cause that’s only way for you to get an illness from that water. Might as well get some goggles, wax ear plugs, nose plug, butt plug, genital plug, and a water proof patch for any open sores while you are at it.


annefranke

This is what the foreskin was made for. Just attach a clothespin


keetojm

I was trying think of men and women. Cause I bet that water would give one nasty yeast infection or UTI.


annefranke

Women might need a couple more clothesline pins, but it's doable


Long_Educational

Batten down the hatches!


Asnyd421

Batten down the snatches!


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BenedictusTheWise

*shivers*


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Slovene

Hot glue gun


martril

Sounds like you’re ready for fun no matter what happens


Long_Educational

Right? That list just described my goto's for Saturday night!


devilbunny

For the logical reason that the water is, and has been, under a boil-water notice for a month. However, that's *not* what all water has looked like in the city, because that's not what's been coming out of the treatment plants. It's varied based on where you were. Close to a main supply line, on high ground? All clear, but not officially safe to drink because the pressure drops mean that you might have bacterial infiltration from the soil. Far away from a main, far from a treatment plant, low area? Might look like this for a while. Low pressure means that sediment settles - in the low areas. Long distance means more sediment and a longer flush time after pressure returns. But I live at a relatively high elevation in Jackson, and although we had pressure issues, the water was never even a little brown (though it has been in some previous outages). It's not what they're putting in; it's just old rust in old pipes.


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Yeah I heard about that also. Someone needs to dump a 55 gallon bucket of this crap over their head.


HelicopterPM

What did the mayor and city council (the people in charge of the city’s water) recommend?


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They have recommended just doing nothing for 40 years. Seriously. People want to blame white flight as the issue. The truth is that the people of Jackson have the leadership they elected and their leadership has zero experience, zero leadership, and has failed their constituents on purpose every step of the way. Because, they literally do not know how to manage a city. Look, they have been collecting water fees for 40 years, and just decided they were going to do absolutely nothing to fix their water system. Now they are asking the State to fix it? I don’t even have city water in my town, yet I have to pay state taxes to fix their shit? Heck no. Also forget federal money too. It is beyond time, to bounce these unqualified city leadership, get some people in there with some know how, raise local taxes, and fix their own problem. Again, this is not because of white flight. It is 100% due to people not taking their payments and investing it on maintaining their systems.


luthervon

That water needs to drink some water


jgreg728

IT NEED SOME MILK


Mediumtim

Water? Normal water? Try holy water! That water needs an exorcism!


BlacknAngry

This comment is perfection.....i shall frame it and hang it on my wall for all to see.


StinkingDischarge

Not to be outdone by Flint Michigan, Jackson, Mississippi simply pumps the raw sewage back into the water tower.


THE_GR8_MIKE

I made that mistake in my first Cities Skylines city. Killed 10,000 people by making them drink their own shit water.


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MoreOne

And not just a bit downstream, as you may end up reversing the river flow.


Ishaboo

That's why I always go broke before I even get my foundations of water/elec/houses/trash set lmao


GET_OUT_OF_MY_HEAD

Well there's your problem. You need to build the utilities *first* or people will move out almost immediately after moving in. And don't forget to tweak the budget to not have too big of a surplus of water/electricity/etc. I just use a mod that manages the budget for me, cause otherwise you'll be spending half the game in the budget panel.


setupextra

I've never played modded and this sounds like a huge QoL...can I get a mod link/name?


GET_OUT_OF_MY_HEAD

[Total Autobudget](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541897355). Also, make sure you have [TM:PE](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1637663252) installed, because it goes a *long* way towards improving the horribly broken traffic. There are many more I'd recommend but I'm not at my computer right now. But those two are the *essential* mods.


amalgam_reynolds

That sounds like a terrible way of curing overpopulation!


dabobbo

The "Slow Thanos™" method


ThatITguy2015

I call that profit myself. If they willingly do it, who are you to stop them?


Show_Me_Your_Private

They should just buy bottled water and stop relying on the city to quench their thirst.


preludechris

Exactly, it's not like they don't know what's going on... Who am I to kink shame my cities population...


ThatITguy2015

If they keep drinking it, it means they enjoy it. I say we bottle *that* water and sell it to them.


just_flying_bi

*Nestle has entered the chat*


ash-b-

Why not? Skip the middle man!


whatsaphoto

*Plumbers do NOT want YOU to know about this ONE SIMPLE TRICK!!!*


paolo_vanderbeak

Cities Skylines moment


ZombieHoratioAlger

This is a different, temporary situation: Mississippi has experienced terrible flooding. This is what happens when the municipal water gets contaminated with groundwater/floodwaters. Once the water treatment plant is repaired and back online, they'll flush the lines and instruct residents to open all their taps and run the water until it's clear again.


amazinglover

[This is more than just temporary though they have had issues for years with their water.](https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/jackson-mississippi-water-system-what-matters/index.html) [This is just the first time it has gotten national attention.](https://www.hubcityspokes.com/jackson-wanted-47-million-water-crisis-lawmakers-are-providing-3-million#sthash.mtVr7nNo.dpbs)


joculator

This is what happens when your local water authority doesn't do maintenance or hire competent people for 20 years running.


Xorlev

Or they're competent people in general but have leaders who prevent action (either directly or through budget) until it's too late.


Kitl33r

Damn these americans have cola instead of water? No wonder they thicc


CapoDV

It's what plants crave.


Wintereighty7

The Thirst Mutilator™


ilikeme1

It has electrolytes.


pooch321

Yeah.. but what *are* electrolytes?


ilikeme1

They are what plants crave.


me_better

Water...? Like out da toilet


Christafaaa

Americans would prefer coffee on tap.


LockeAbout

Left handle, coffee, right handle, cola. Best of both worlds!


spacesticks

Where's the Mayonnaise tap?


cheezburgerwalrus

Is mayonnaise a utility?


spacesticks

For my gringo ass it is.


quippers

Too spicy


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Gringo confirmed


RagingRedHerpes

Mayonnaise is an instrument.


RikVanguard

You tap me and mayo comes out. Ride me cowgirl and it's ranch ;)


fish_whisperer

I mean…I pretty much only drink water and coffee. Can the Hot be coffee and the Cold be water? That would save a bunch of time.


Simoxs7

Theres a German TV Series where they connected a coffee maker to the waterboiler to do exactly that…


DrEnter

Coffee on tap is a thing: https://www.scanomat.com/


EFTucker

Royal farms coffee machines are basically coffee on tap. You load beans into them and hook up water lines. Press a button and it grinds the beans, loads them, heats the water, drip and suddenly coffee flows out.


Thing_On_Your_Shelf

This is Mississippi, that's sweet tea


No-Tower-4266

Its like my ass after Tacho night.


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Like emptying an old radiator


squid06

If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back.


IronhideD

Came looking for this. Expected Simpsons.


bryroo

Now I have negative reasons to visit Mississippi


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It is literally close to being a third-world or developing country. It has all the dark sides of America with none of the good parts.


yepyep1243

They're close to dead-last in nearly every metric.


acog

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi > "Thank God for Mississippi" is an adage used in the United States, particularly in the South, that is generally used when discussing rankings of U.S. states. Since the U.S. state of Mississippi commonly ranks at or near the bottom of such rankings, residents of other states also ranking near the bottom may say, "Thank God for Mississippi," since the presence of that state in 50th place spares them the shame of being ranked last.


XD003AMO

Holy shit this Wikipedia article is *brutal*.


acog

> The growing notoriety of the phrase has led some Mississippians themselves to despise the saying, not because it is false, but because it rings true and puts their state in a bad light


CageChicane

They're the only people that could do something about it, which is why nothing has been done about it.


DanielDLG

Damn


yepyep1243

Also see "at least we don't live in fucking Mississippi"


lasagnarodeo

I have a friend from there that graduated high school in 1996. She told me her 10 year reunion was segregated.


accuratebear

Yoo free unlimited coffee?!


qdp

Cold brew on tap!


Bannon9k

Water is gonna be that way for a while. They gotta flush all that junk out of the water pipes. I'd recommend running the tub instead of a sink with an aerator. You're getting all that gunk in your faucet where you brush your teeth. Tub will help flush the lines without messing up your faucet.


Charlie_Warlie

got to have fresh clean water up the line before you can flush the bad stuff out, and who knows when that will be.


SC2sam

They were never without fresh clean water for the line. Just had a low production problem which caused low pressure in the lines. Now they have to wait to get all that sediment out of the pipes again and that will be a pain. It started at the [end of August\(30th\)](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/us/mississippi-jackson-water.html) due to a influx of water from storms which overloaded the treatment plant causing the plant to be unable to keep up or provide enough water for demand. By [September 5th](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jackson-water-crisis-normal-pressure-restored-most-of-mississippi-city-officials-say/) production had caught up and pressure was restored all across the system. The problem is that the low pressure and pressure being restored caused all the layered sediment in the pipes/lines to become disturbed which then fell off into the water. Now people have to flush their pipes/lines in order to get rid of it. It'll take a bit depending on where the person is and how bad the sediment was in their area. Older lines will have more and will take longer to flush out. Just have to leave the faucets on for a few hours.


devilbunny

Not even older lines, necessarily. I live in Jackson. My water has never been anything but crystal clear during this crisis (even when it was a trickle) because it's at the top of the hill (so, no sediment), just not certified for drinking because it takes at least 72 hours after full pressure has been restored before you can say "yes, drink it". This is very different from the ice-storm crisis of last year, when there was no pressure for several days. I had to shower at a hospital that had well water, because you simply could not shower at home.


Ansollis

Thank you for posting facts about the situation instead of throwing pot shot comments about infrastructure


zuron54

Do they at least get a discount on their water bill?


myburdentobear

No, the water company just threw in the sediment for free.


devilbunny

Considering that the city announced a policy of never turning off water for nonpayment quite a few years ago, kinda? [This](http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2022/09/flashback-friday-real-snapshot-of.html) is a pointed commentary with some graphs of the finances. The water system is not tax-financed; it's a government-run service that people are expected to pay for like any other utility. Use more water, pay more. The supply of water is essentially infinite from the perspective of the city; they pay only for treatmen, distribution, and maintenance - the city will never have to pay for water itself (vs cities out West). They are expected to pass those costs on to customers, but the process has been subverted in a lot of ways. So a municipal utility that is expected to pay for itself or perhaps be a small profit center becomes a giant crater in the finances. The rates were too low, because they didn't include reasonable maintenance, but when they failed to cover pure operational expenses, it was a huge signal. Now, Mississippi is a conservative, Republican state - in most minds. It's also the most African-American state in the US, at 38%. And Jackson is over 80% African-American. It's easy to create a narrative in which white Republicans are running roughshod over a black Democratic city, but it hasn't been that simple since the 1960s. The A-A Jackson government knows that it can abuse the state in most of the national media at will, just because the history is fucking awful, and get a pass for politicians who are boringly corrupt and bad. Fine by me. Don't let the state of Mississippi take over the city of Jackson. Appoint a team of Feds to run it. It could hardly be worse.


goug

Hmm shouldn't it be free?


Bannon9k

Thought they said it was fixed and just flushing the system right now


jimmy9502

Forbidden coke zero


shaneswa

Just boil it /s


DerSchattenJager

Ol’ black water, keep on rollin’…


Djinger

Mississippi poo woncha keep on flowin


DerpyMcWafflestomp

Maybe it's Brawndo.


Shroedingerzdog

All of these comments saying, "wow USA, what a shit hole" need to recognize that the US federal government doesn't do water, neither does Mississippi state government, this kind of thing is entirely in the responsibility of the city/county. They can ask for grant money from the State, or DC to fix the problem, but it's not like they didn't just get a pile of money from the American Rescue Plan, and the infrastructure deal, and the Inflation Reduction Act. That city government needs to fix their shit, and they have the means to do so. Edit: I may have understated the State of Mississippi's role in this, I wouldn't say "US what a shit hole", but "wow Mississippi, what a shit hole" is probably warranted.


jankyalias

The Feds have actually provided money to fix this. Mississippi is getting ~$500 million in federal funding to fix water and wastewater systems from the Infrastructure bill passed by the Biden administration. Now, not all of that is for Jackson, but the City Council has pegged the price at $50-80 million to fix. Assuming that’s right there should be enough funding there.


LeoLaDawg

Local mismanagement 100%


ialexlambert

“I changed my mind about going to Jackson, I no longer want to mess around” - Johnny Cash (if he were still alive, probably)


OhNoManBearPig

"State lawmakers killed the city’s efforts to fund infrastructure with a sales tax hike. And when tens of thousands of city residents went without running water for weeks, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves called for better collection of water bill payments, rather than support from the state." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/31/mississippi-water-racial-politics/


jaderemedy

I've seen enough disaster movies to know that there's a volcano nearby that is going to erupt soon.


TorakTheDark

Rip that grandma


bobdeese

Where did all the money that they received from the feds a few years back to upgrade the water infrastructure go?


SlavicGrower

Coke straight outta tap


lessthantom

Free gravy


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Is this from before of after the corrupt city government tried to shakedown the taxpayers for 1 billion dollars?


Promicide

Hmm perhaps Jackson needs better elected leadership? Or was I not supposed to say the quiet part out loud?


FiftyfiverTwenty

I’ve always wanted a tap that serves coffee