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To miss the days when people were just 'thirsty'?!

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Babycham1979 · 12/08/2015 13:43

What's all this shit with, 'hydrating'? It's called drinking fucking water!

Whenever I hear someone claiming to be 'dehydrated', I want to reach for my revolver. No, dear, you're not dehydrated, you're just thirsty. It won't hurt you to wait twenty minutes for a drink.

Advanced capitalism, combined with nanny-statism seems to have fostered a nation of adult-babies who can't got five minutes without a snack, needing a piss, or a plastic bottle to suck on. It truly does my head in.

I can't remember the last time I sat through a film or a play without multiple audience members nipping out at least once during the show. Yes, I do appreciate that SOME people suffer incontinence, or might have needed a shot of insulin but, come on, not on this scale!

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daisychain01 · 14/08/2015 04:39

There are always multiple perspectives to science Queeltie. I like Ben Goldacre, I'll look at his thoughts on it thanks.

The fact is, for me, I find it works well to drink on a regular basis at least hourly and has certainly got my BP problem under control.

nooka · 14/08/2015 04:45

I think that the issue is that much of the 'never get dehydrated' narrative has come from small studies on the general population funded by the water industry, and so likely to be biased in either reporting or design structure or both. I have a masters in public health and conflicts of interest were the first thing we were taught to look for when assessing the quality of a study (it is a huge red flag).

That is of course very different to studies or advice given to people with specific health issues who may well need to take care with their fluid intake.

For healthy people drinking when you are thirsty is all that's needed, and being thirsty for a little while before you have that drink is not a problem.

SilverNightFairy · 14/08/2015 06:17

I urinate frequently. I'm fifty. Have had five pregnancies and love to drink a shit ton of water. Better I use the loo than urinate on your foot.

Charis1 · 14/08/2015 06:29

I agree it is absolutly pathetic. Water bottles are being used as dummies for school aged children and adults. Some completely imaginary, mythical physiological "need" invented by the bottled water industry, and it just gives people an excuse to be entitled and demanding and expect everyone else to have to accommodate their psychological dependency on sucking on a bit of plastic, and the consequent toilet trips.

Everyone knows you don't need to drink throughout the day at all, except on the very hottest two or three days of the year.

It is pure manipulation by the advertising industry, they have made billions out of these lies.

I suppose eventually the court cases will start kicking in......

Charis1 · 14/08/2015 06:33

The fact is, for me, I find it works well to drink on a regular basis at least hourly

This type of behaviour has nothing what so ever to do with thirst, dehydration, or medical need.

Drink every hour if you want, but don't pretend there is any physical reason for it, there isn't. it is entirely psychological.

Charis1 · 14/08/2015 06:34

and don't expect other people to fit around your awkward behaviour.

Tenieht · 14/08/2015 07:09

No one need to drink water every hour. Have you ever thought about all the unnecessary toilet trips and the wasted water flushing your urine down the toilet? Massively selfish and not environmentally unfriendly . The consequences of this "must drink water" complex that some people have is not only anti social and entitled, as in the case of the cinema disruption, but destroying the environment at the same time.

Tenieht · 14/08/2015 07:10

Not environmentally friendly I meant.

RoseDeGambrinus · 14/08/2015 07:31

The thing that bugs me are the signs on the tube "Always carry a bottle of water when travelling". Not "On very hot days you may want to..." Like travelling on public transport is really risky, but don't worry, every illness or incapacity can be fixed by swigging lukewarm water.

LiftandSlide · 14/08/2015 07:40

I'm with you on this OP. Back when I was at school we had a drink at lunchtime and could use the water fountain during morning and afternoon breaks and after PE. None of us struggled with this.

I now do bar work a couple of weekends and some of the youngsters I work with were the first generation who were allowed a water bottle at school constantly.

They drive me mad. They work three hours of their shift before they have a break and seem to be out the back every few minutes because they "have to have a drink" and are "so thirsty" or "really dehydrated."

They are not. They just can't seem to cope without a water bottle surgically attached to their lips. It drives me mad - the whole thing is so unnecessary and I am doing so much more work than them in a night just because they believe they can't go more than ten minutes without drinking more water.

One night a girl complained to our manager because I was training her and she asked if she could have a break to get a glass of water ten minutes before the end of her shift. The last few minutes of the night are the busiest time for us and most of us just want to get stuff finished so we can have a glass of wine then crawl home and fall into bed exhausted get home as soon as possible. I asked her if she could wait ten minutes. She told me that I was violating her human rights!! Confused

ArgyMargy · 14/08/2015 08:06

If only I'd known about proper hydration 50 years ago I could have been a brain surgeon.

This is a very recent phenomenon - my DCs are 19 & 20 and (thank god) when they were at school having water bottles at desks & in bags and drinking every 20 minutes had not yet been invented.

They are not brain surgeons either...

BertrandRussell · 14/08/2015 08:17

It's fascinating, isn't it?

I bet McDonalds wish they had thought of funding a study to show that we are actually malnourished before our bodies tell us that we're hungry, so we need to eat every hour or so whether we're hungry or not so as to maintain optimum nutrition.........

Mind you, the snack food industry has practically done that. I am old enough to remember 3 meals a day, with possibly a biscuit at 11 and 4.30.....

Feline9 · 14/08/2015 08:19

Still amazed how perfect some of your lives must be to find the time to get wound up by how much someone else drinks

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 14/08/2015 08:21

Still amazed how perfect some of your lives must be to find the time to get wound up by how much someone else drinks

Why must my life be perfect just because I think it's funny to watch adults suckling all day?

Feline9 · 14/08/2015 08:22

The anger displayed in some posts seems to suggest some have nothing to worry about other than what other people choose to drink. Amazing really!

Scoobydoo8 · 14/08/2015 08:25

Brainwashed by the advertising industry.

And no doubt if your body is used to being constantly awash with fluid it sends signals that it needs more more often.

Likewise food, does anyone get truly hungry these days? Everyone has to have a milky coffee in their hand or snacks on stuff. But aren't doing the physical work that actually produces real hunger for energy producing food.

SilverNightFairy · 14/08/2015 08:30

I'm guessing there are loads of sad people leading empty lives that cause them to fixate on the drinking and weeing habits of those around them. I just cannot be arsed to bother about what other people do to take of their needs.

BertrandRussell · 14/08/2015 08:41

Still amazed how perfect some of your lives must be to find the time to get wound up by how much someone else drinks"

Well, when it impacts on the environment we all live in, then yes,I'm do get wound up about it. Does nobody think about what happens to all those plastic bottles? Does nobody think it's just a leeeeetle tasteless for our kids to be buying water for a quid a bottle and complaining if they have to go an hour without a drink, when all over the world there are children walking miles a day for a can of fresh water?

gamerchick · 14/08/2015 08:43

I know someone should go and tell those bairns walking hours for water, because water hydrating you is a myth and drinking is for the weak.

Feline9 · 14/08/2015 08:43

You can reuse bottles, and the latter point can be said about anything. It's tasteless to watch TV when there are people who have to work 7 days a week. It's tasteless to want a living wage when people work for 5p a day. Pretty much anything in a first world country could be described that way, however it's a bit pointless isn't it.

BertrandRussell · 14/08/2015 08:44

I just cannot be arsed to bother about what other people do to take of their needs.

Clearly

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 14/08/2015 08:47

I know someone should go and tell those bairns children walking hours for water, because water hydrating you is a myth and drinking is for the weak.

Ah yes - people are really thirsty in Africa which justifies Doris from Chippenham's desire for Volvic every 5 minutes....... Confused

Cotto · 14/08/2015 08:48

Not everyone buys plastic bottles and just bins th e m.
I bought a reusable water bottle about 6 years ago and I fill it with tap water.
Is that Ok ?
Really just butt out of other people lives ,you have no idea why someone is drinking .

Lagoonablue · 14/08/2015 08:54

This thread is hilarious. It doesn't bother me if people eat and drink a lot but agree we seem to have arrived to a point where people need something in their mouths all of the time. Sucking a plastic bottle or a milky warm Costa is quite infantilising. We are all big babies with an oral fixation! ( I'm a psychologist, forgive the Freudian references.)

The snack thing is interesting though. When I was a kid we had 3 meals a day, the notion of snacking just wasn't around. Nothing between meals. My parents generation definitely didn't snack as they were post war and there was no food around. We all eat too much anyway now. I remember my gran only ever drank tea. In total about 5 cups a day. She didn't moan about being dehydrated!

Cotto · 14/08/2015 09:02

There is another thread running about diet which is quite interesting.

I don't slurp or suckle -I drink water before running off to see my next patient.
I don't see people with things in their mouths is a new thing -my dad and grandad had either a pipe or a sweet in their mouths constantly .
I see people with a device in their hands-all the time.
Guilty of that right now!

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