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> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 05:35:58 +1100, Bruce >
> wrote:
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>>On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:27:47 -0500, Gary > wrote:
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>>>Bruce wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In Australia, town water often tastes of chlorine. Don't you have that
>>>> problem in the US?
>>>
>>>Only summer occasionally here. That's just when someone adds a
>>>bit too much to the city water.
>>>
>>>The chlorine kills many nasty germs. If you let water sit in a
>>>water tower plain, you would be drinking swamp water.
>>>
>>>From your tap, just let it sit out overnight uncovered and the
>>>chlorine will evaporate.
>>
>>The more you smell it, the harder it's working and the dirtier your
>>water was.
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>
> I have told you about the water where I live, there is no chlorine
> smell at all save a few days every few years, I went to Nashville
> Tennessee for a summer job once and the water there smelled like a
> swimming pool. You take a shower and I just could never feel clean,
> Not could I drink it without gagging. To the people there it was
> perfectly normal, but to me it would have been the same as drinking
> water from a swimming pool

Jinxy! Since he was taking the shower, of course you would never get clean!