an interesting blog post about bottled water by one of the guardian's food critics.
he seems to equate bottled water with sparkling water, which is two entirely different beasts in my mind. i personally feel that sparkling water is much more worthwhile than bottled-water as we north americans are familiar (the distilled variety).
drinking normal bottled water is in my mind the biggest waste of money and resources ever. you are literally paying for something that you have free access to. this idea is unheard of in any other business model -- it's the equivalent of a dairy farmer buying bags of milk from a grocery store.
as for sparkling water, i feel like you're literally just paying a premium for...bubbles. which is pretentious, i will not deny. but at least you're paying for something you can't get out of the tap attached to your kitchen sink.
...in unrelated events, a worker at pearson airport has been suspended for altering her work uniform (a skirt) to be longer, citing religious reasons.
i'm not entirely sure how i feel about this. i'm not going to go all quebecois xenophobe or anything, but i mean...she has the option to wear pants. she thinks they show too much of her shape, so....wear looser pants? is it really the companies responsibility to allow uniforms to accommodate every possible religion?
isn't the whole premise of religion that you have to make sacrifices in your life? why expect your company to accommodate you fully when you knew going into it that the job entails adhering to certain rules?
in my opinion, she should just find a new job or something. i prefer my airport security to be more hottie than dowdy anyways, but hey, that's just me.
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