Bublers? Seriously have you been to school?

Bublers, a horror for most Australian citizens, and public schools across the globe. On our first day at school, it was such an exciting little contraption, it was like a fountain that you were allowed to drink out of, hence the street/school yard (hey it was near a street) name of 'fountain', because seriously did it not annoy you that you were always told not to drink from the fountain? Turns out your parents were right.

The human body has a high proportion of water, and you think that with our recent rain (I'm not going to go into the Victorian or Queensland floods, having successfully decided I wanted to live) that we would be able to keep our fountains going. But every single one that I have ever tried has sucked, not literally but figuratively, unless you consider not working well literal. The water pressure was terrible, forcing you to put your mouth close to the tap, and for many people this was too close. Some people made out with the tap, others decided to force smaller people to make out with the tap. Sure blood and mucus wash away, and it is left clean, that is why those people on all those cop shows never catch anybody...wait a second wasn't there that guy that...did they? No, wait...., that is not how body fluids work!

Also water is a notoriously good environment for bacteria and protozoa, and algae, but you knew all that, that is why people wash their hands....no people don't do that either... I'm sure there is a good thing about them. Think, think... aha in a movie this one time it caused a girl to bend over and...wait, didn't really need a bubler for that.

Also on a hot day, there was always some idiot who was trying to fill up his bottle from the slow ass bubler...yeah pal, recess isn't that long....move out of the way! Or the people who were actually sick trying to use the bubler...these are the same type of people that gave us chickenpox, and year after year bring us the common cold, and will eventually fulfil their purpose of bringing upon the zombie apocalypse because hey somebody had to be the first zombie. Mmmmm....

They tried on certain fountains to amend this by placing a small filter tap, that worked less well then the damn fountain, so not only am I getting a poor drink, but I have to watch awkwardly at some idiot filling up his 2L water bottle so he can play one game of octo.

In essence bublers are some the evils of public education, and no they do not get better when you go to university, but worse because now you know that at least one person has been to the microbiology lab...and I'm not to fond of that green mold.

Is bottled water the answer though, it does not come from the mountain or spring (really? You thought it did?), but mostly from the local water catchment area, usually with less strict health regulations that dictate the levels in our tap water. It also costs substantially more, and most of the bottle; add chemicals that encourage microbiological growth, cause harm, and are bad for the environment. Yay! Sounds good uncle bill.

Personally if people want to shell out money for the 'peace of mind' factor, let them be. But to take away that factor of our education, to separate the pretentious from the humble, the rich from the poor, University of Canberra who do you think you are?! Removal of bottled water to 'help the environment', and your replacement is bublers?! Seriously a bubler is out in the public, and people are idiots, we destroy and taint (figurative and literally) every public thing given to us. So it is a choice of the lesser of two evils?

Why not have the clubs each hand out cordial, or have somebody come and sterilise the bublers with some pure vodka- you might have an increase in drinkage after the sterilisation. Or have normal taps placed around, they poor better, fill bottles faster, and because of their relatedness to the ground less people will bend down to make out with it.

Hopefully I haven't turned you off of water, because remember folks- you need it to live.

Dale Stam

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Like the great phoenix, I have arisen from the ashes of 2010, true it has taken some time for me to recuperate but the fact of the matter is that I am back and writing.

Thanks for all that came back to reread certain topics, and a great salutations to my northern hemisphere friends, thank you.

Do I have a firmer grasp on what this blog will be about? No.
Do I care? Not really, let the random posts begin.