That’s the trouble with words like ‘artificial’ and ‘natural’. They mean nothing. It would be better to call them refined additives, because I expect the “stevia” would be in a refined, extracted form when added - whether substantially changed from the form present in the plant or not, this could be considered artificial, if we insist on using this word.

I appreciated this comment, that’s a great show and tell story.

It’s becoming that way, but it’s still definitely closer to British English.

I think the term of art these days is that you have a ‘trains agenda’

I only had it a few times in Australia but I didn’t like it, it tasted very different from the other colas.

No need for that sort of insult. We’re talking about water here for fuck’s sake.

Sounds like you have hard water

Vitamin C is ascorbic acid, but otherwise agree

Purer ≠ cooler

Fucking American class culture and anyone who’s not an ignorant idiot is “a nerd”. Get fucked, The World

And fear overpowers intelligence yet again.

*knows

Occupational hazard. Doesn’t mean said engineer isn’t owed compensation though. On the contrary.

A better quote

It was clear from context what was meant, i.e. torrenting copyrighted content. Let’s not be disingenuous about this.

Interesting, so it’s a Yiddish variant of Scheißer?

Yesterday

Cursèd Saracens did spoil my day

Give us strength to crush those hordes, I pray

Oh, I believe in Huns to slay

Uranium powered fission technology, not all nuclear. Look into Thorium

I dunno, sounds like a solid Anglo-Saxon name, like Æthelstan.

Thanks Pipey