All over Rome there were tons of fountains with people drinking from them constantly. Ditto Florence, and a park right near our Airbnb had a machine with chilled flat and sparkling water. Just went to look at that park on Google maps because I would like to live there, here’s a photo with one guy filling up his water bottles and another in line
It’s so true too. It recently hit me how little Americans walk in a single day compared to people in Europe. I was honestly getting cooped up when I last visited due to the lack of physical activity and I’m not some outdoorsy person either.
So true. I have no idea how that shit got popular here.
According to that Tripadvisor story the nasoni have been around since the late 19th century. I think it’s possible it wasn’t something people talked about to tourists, as it is a bit of adjustment to fill your bottle from a seemingly-random pipe emerging from the street.
I have heard about this before actually. First on this podcast which Lucas talks about it. Then he explains someone put a fake person on the card, so they cancelled his card. He said fuck that and decided to not pay the card…
[00:13:18] Lucas: Okay.I hate paying interest, absolutely hate paying interest. So all my credit cards, I leverage them to make money so I would buy houses with them, rental properties with credit cards.
[00:13:36] Ramit: Huh? Okay, sorry. Go on.
[00:13:38] Lucas: Okay. So I would buy houses with them. I would do marketing sales.
[00:13:41] I would also take trips as well on them, but I’d always, almost always get them off. There was a point in time where I used to make money off of my credit cards by having people on the credit cards as an authorized user, and I was literally getting $50 a month from each person that I added on my credit card.
[00:13:59] The limit was 60,000 on one card, 20,000 on another. And my balance was always low. It was less than a 1,000. So I would literally make money off of my credit cards. They were giving me cashflow. Something happened where one of the people that I put on was a fake person. They had fake social security and IDs and all that. So the card cancelled me.
[00:14:21] And I was like, I’m not paying the card if you just cancelled me. Why am I going to pay the balance if you cancel me and tell me I can’t use the card anymore? Okay, let it go to collection. So I let all of that go to collection, all of it go to charge off, and I said, I’m just going to start over. And around that time is when Trin and I met and we started getting into our relationship and get it better, I had to sell all of my rental properties because I had mismanaged them.
What these folks are doing is reckless imo, but $50 is $50… I have added my partner as an authorized user though, so… it works?
Yeah I was diagnosed with fatty liver and had to simultaneously give up alcohol and sugar while losing weight. Mineral water was the right thing and once I got used to it I kept the habit. I usually get the Kirkland brand or Topo Chico on my Costco runs.
I don’t drink fizzy water in place of water, I drink it in place of soda and beer
