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Making Tea xkcd.com/3022

NGL, I twitched.

Same here, and I absolutely loathe tea. Have done since I was a child, but apparently I make a good cuppa.

See I love ice tea but that's because I've been drinking it since I was a kid. Oh and how are you doing going through life with two heads? (looking at your name there)

ok this grosses even me out and I'm a yank. I was always told never to cook with or drink hot tap water (hot water dissolves the lead in pipes easier, & apparently even new pipes have small amounts of lead. or so I've read.)

The reason I was told not to drink hot water from the tap was that hot water tanks generally spent a lot of time at 50-70 Celsius, which is a great temperature for breeding Legionella bacteria. They only went through a cleansing cycle at over 85 Celsius once a month, if the householder remembered 😬

Modern systems do that automatically and usually daily

In Europe we have pipes of copper. At least where I live.

As an American Gen X'er. I just assume that there is so much lead in my blood that when I am cremated that they are going to use part of my ashes to make ammunition.

Doesn't it lead to superpowers or something?