What’s a total waste of money, yet people still pay for?

@Thevy29 just say you're fat

@Nimbus 🤔really with season they are having lol 😆

@userfawkes1105 You haven't been to the reservations in the USA. They are not free due to alcohol, drugs and the leaders of their reservations that sell them the drugs.

@HootyTheNightOwl I have seen that point made very simply, graphically, next to M1 in Nottinghamshire, although if you are the driver you can have only a very quick sideways glimpse of it.

I don;t know if you've seen it too.

Severn-Trent Water's treatment plant there has a long wall facing the road. On this a painting represents:

[1-off 1-litre bottle of shop-bought plain water] = [a long row of 1-litre bottles of plain tap-water]. I think it is 1 to 20.

Potable water via the tap at really quite low-cost, yet people still buy from the supermarkets, big plastic bottles of, what, exactly? Plain tap-water? Then moan about the water bills?

I suspect most people know about the (mainly foreign) shareholders' well-publicised greed and I share their concerns over that; but they have absolutely no idea of the scale and complexity of the public utilities beyond their homes' front walls. Unless engineers themselves, they don't know and don't want to know.

@ArishMell I haven't been by that way in seven or eight years now.

While I don't agree with how Severn Trent and their likes are pumping raw sewage into our waterways, I still don't see the logic of buying water in a single use plastic bottle when you can purchase a water bottle and get it filled for free in a lot of places now.

I admit that this is less than perfect in that you have to ask for a water refill but it's better than having to fill up in a public bathroom and you are reusing your own bottle.

@HootyTheNightOwl Buying a proper water-bottle you can fill at home or a public water-fountain, to use on a journey, is fine.

My comment was about having perfectly good water on tap but still buying expensive bottles of water to drink at home.

"Public bathrooms"? I have often used public lavatories but I thought it was only America that has public bathrooms! :-)

@Jackaloftheazuresand Oh, that's a bit harsh! "Entertainment" goes far further than the current Hello magazine celebrity "singers" and Disney films. The Taliban would agree with you though!

@ArishMell Would they? Their love of drugs and porn tell me otherwise, clearly they couldn't deny themselves indulgences

@Jackaloftheazuresand That's a fair point, and you could apply it to almost anything that has no immediate practical use to the buyer.

Humanity has always craved indulgences and luxuries; and it is too easy to dismiss something as a "waste of money" simply for being something the critic would never buy. .

@MarineBob Works out to cost 28 cent a can


Sell a 24 can case for $40 - Profit is $26.64

@Iwillwait I love Amazon Prime. Free shipping! Tons of worthless free movies! Can't beat that deal!

@FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays not for me.

@FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays
...not if they're worn inside-out apparently... 🤷🏼‍♀

@Donotfolowme Good point!

@ShenaniganFoodie
OH GOD! Say it isn't so! I was just about to invest in a 10 year VIP subscription to get a 95% discount! ...and NOW you tell me this?!