NYC's Tap Water: Clean But Filled With Crustaceans

this is outrageous! now the city will charge us extra for the crustaceans!

my fellow jews need clean water

screw all you haters, may you remain poor and uneducated.

Reminds me of this: http://bit.ly/9rNsAi

jews

going to hell due to the water since they stepped foot on nyc soil

Oy, who knew it was so hard to be a good Jew?

year 2025: nyc cleans the water system. copepods become extinct.

year 2030: one scientist states, "d'oh! those crustaceans prevented us from getting all these diseases that were wiped out a long ago."

year 2050: humans deal with even more diseases than ever.

just a theory...

if they clean the water system for the jews, then that mosque can go anywhere it wants!

Would you consider yourself a bigot?

No. I am not intolerant because it is is different - I'm intolerant because it's ignorant and disgusting.

Copepods - it's what makes NY bagels the best!

and pizza

mmmmm...scrimps

"We hope the city will do something to purify and filter the water to accommodate a few hundred thousand Orthodox, observant Jews."............ They cry out loud, NY listens. Can you hear us Bloomy??

looks like that stuff i've been drawing over and over and over as a very confused child, telling my parents and others "they are always with us." no one believed me. well, i'll be darned...

Comment of the week.

lol

I hate articles like this, because the reality is there are little organisms and in every body of water and on every surface. I generally try really hard not to think about it lest I go totally nuts being so grossed out by it. Because it's silly to be grossed out, because the little bugs don't hurt us, but whenever I see a picture like that...well it makes me scream like a little girl.

i too, screamed like a little girl when i saw the picture -- it was very uncharacteristic. :\ i've learned to accept this fact now.

It didn't take long for the crazy racist shit to come out.

That is NOT racist. Race is not a real thing. This is a cultural/religious thing. Dressing up and acting a certain way has nothing to do with "race".

how do the orthodox vegans feel about this?

You mean felixthecat? Will he have to stop drinking water? Cuz you know even if he filters them out with a brita or something, he's basically sentencing to death the multitudes of mini shrimp stuck in the filter. And we all know how he feels about killing animals.

checkmate for felix. and it's time to chant, "ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US."

eerie. the only defense is "well, i can't physically see them so it's ok." yes, but imagine those tiny little copepods perishing in our bodies, absorbed by our intestines...

and the buddha says "life in all forms is precious. say no to death, say no to water!"

felix eats live copepods.

just got a new t-shirt idea. no, no, nothing to do with this. what-so-ever. (he he he)

At the time, Rabbi Abraham Zimmerman said, "We hope the city will do something to purify and filter the water to accommodate a few hundred thousand Orthodox, observant Jews."

Buy a fucking water filter. It's not NYC's job to make the water "kosher" for you.

Agreed

+10000000000

Seriously.

+1

oh god. I agree with snickerdoodle.....

*shivers and runs to shower*

I've never understood this controversy; Jewish law unequivocally holds that any animal too small to be seen cannot render water unclean. I just don't get it.

don't you dare get any of that boognish in my water, man! unclean!

I get a kick out of a religion run by lawyers. & I don't mean that dismissively, I am for real. I like that there is a rabbinical tradition of dudes being like "come on, if you can't see it, God can't have meant it," & then finding some quote to back it up.

These must be Super-Ultra Orthodox Jews. They don't mess.

Now I'm going to have to put drawn butter atop my water, too.

Buy a Brita filter, Rabbi!

Would a water filter even help? I mean, with stuff this small?

They're not that small. About 1/50 of an inch long.

Honestly, if these guys are going to freak out about something in the water, it really should be the chlorine, Giardia, heavy metals, etc.

Probably not, but it might make him feel better. As if God, oh excuse me, G-d is removing it by osmosis, or g-dmosis.

"Copepods? In MY tapwater?"

It's more likely than you think.

"We hope the city will do something to purify and filter the water to accommodate a few hundred thousand Orthodox, observant Jews."

Yes! Because back during the dawn of Judaism thousands of years ago they obviously had the facilities to detect microscopic organisms in their water. Why is NYC so behind the times???

If they are going to build a mosque at the 9/11 site, they might as well clean up the water. It seems a touch wrong to ask New York City to be tolerant towards one faith, and not another. Of course they could just be intolerant to both and set a precedent that way.

The difference is that not one penny of city money is being used to build the mosque. I'm sure the city would be very tolerant of the Orthodox Jews purifying their own water with their own money.