Can always agree to disagree

I think I got closer Raider (which is my favorite team in any event!).  But good to see you are learning your economics well (I have a degree in the field as well).

Not too far from what I expected, but some of the questions could use a neutral vote.

I had a problem with a lot of the questions. The one about bottled water, for example, assumed tap water wasn't fresh or not available, whereas here it is both fresh and available.

I think the idea behind the bottled water question is whether you think some things are too "sacred" or "fundamental" to be considered commodities...

As an example, some Native Americans would consider buying and selling land fundamentally flawed since land is something for all to enjoy...

But yeah, that was a rather odd question....

Entirely predictable.

And water IS... too fundamental to be a commodity sold in the name of profit.

For mine, bottled water is a crime against humanity and its purveyors should be fined heavily.  Why?  Because most, if not all bottled water sold as spring or mineral water is in fact 'town' water that's been filtered, and therefore fraud/a crime.

I've never bought bottled water... never will.  If I want filtered water I'll do it myself... even flavour it if desired.

If you want Bali Belly...go to France and drink their water....from a tap.

That's why they're the world's greatest makers of cheap, crappy wine....;)

Oh....the hit-rate was about 100 out of 160 .... RMIT Architecture tour.....1973.  [I was one of the 100]....;p

Ah, but I'm not going there... or anywhere OS.  Thus my chances of bad tap water are minimal... given all ours is filtered to remove additives, impurities and other crap.

As for crappy French wine, not a drop will pass my lips... nor will I partake of it intravenously.  Never fancied wine even when I was a drinker, so it's not on any current or future to-do lists.

Well...re bottled water...when it's actually more expensive than petrol it's really getting a little silly....but then the 'liquid' which is far more expensive than blood.....is printer ink.....;p

Printer ink is pretty fucking crazy expensive.  When I run out of ink, I think to myself "Should I buy a new ink cartridge or just throw out the entire printer and buy a new one...same fucking price".

Eh...that actually may be the case...it certainly would make more sense from a modern perspective...

I saw some ultra-expensive bottled water in a cafe fridge once... $7.20 for 600ml of peach flavoured [most likely tap] water.  If that's not frickin' criminal I dunno what is.  Worse still, Coca Cola, not satisfied with sales of Coke and other pollutants they stick in bottles, got into the bottled water scam and flogs of mega-litres of the stuff, calling it spring water when we all know the Coca Cola factory is nowhere near a f**king spring.  And I'm sure they truck it in from some distant spring when town water is so cheap/readily available.

Ah, but there's always refills. I rotate two sets of ink cartridges and I have refilled them by a local company @ 25 bucks a time.. that's for the black and colour tanks.  Not only is the quality good, the ink lasts somewhat longer than the Epson stuff.  Same when I had a HP 3-in-one, which drank ink just thinking about the job at hand.

I love bottled water. We always have some nice 16.9oz bottles and some of the smaller ones too for our little guy.

Oh well, if you want to pay big bucks for something I and millions of others pay little or nothing for, it's your choice/money.

All the questions concerning sex are calibrated according to American puritanism that seems laughable to most people here in Europe, so you automatically collect many left/liberal points for something that sounds just common sense here (few people here would understand how what happens between consenting adults behind a closed door could possibly be a matter to somebody else, same goes for pre-marital sex, etc). All these questions have a strong medieval scent for people from my country.

Wow, some of you are really humorous. 

So here's the deal, if you are really getting your water for free make sure you boil it for at-least 5 minutes. It won't taste as good due to the oxygen loss but it will be safer. I'm assuming you'll be using wood to boil too so as to make sure the whole process is free.

There's some other filtration or distilling processes you might try too though I'm sure some cost will be involved in setting these up.

All our drinking water is boiled... then filtered... then refrigerated. 

Not that I drink it straight myself.... well not any more. 

Not since ma told me fish f**k in it.

I guess you people who live in third world countries don't have clean tap water like we do

I saw a rather hilarious Penn and Teller episode (That's Bullsh!t was the name of the show) on bottled water.  They used a garden hose behind a fancy restaurant to serve 'bottled water' to the guests.  Nobody complained and the waiters would even get complements on the taste.

Coca Cola (and Pepsi for that matter) take the exact same water they use to make their soft drinks, and sell it in bottles.  For more money then the equivalent size of soft drink. 

I get clean tap water, but the water board puts in additives [fluoride, etc] that make it taste like crap... thus it's boiled and filtered to make it taste like water from the purest spring.

I guess it's a personal thing. I grew up on flouride, and I don't much like the taste of water without it.

It's not just the fluoride, though.  There are other additives that make the water taste awful, though worse in some areas than others.  My daughter lives about 15 minutes away and her tap water is far nicer than ours.  My sister lives 35 minutes away in the opposite direction and her water is positively foul straight from the tap... so much so I refuse to drink it. 

It depends on the storage facility for each area, I think, and how heavy handed they are with the chlorine, fluoride and other stuff added to keep us healthy.  Frankly, I'd rather take my chances and just have straight, clean water without the additives.