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

[Babycham1979]

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!

And why does it bother you? Don't you have some fences to be peering over or neighbours to gossip to or whatever else people who enjoy busybodying do with their time...

ok so the message here is "drink less water & stop peeing all the time"

Absolutely, and can't you see how completely you have been suckered with this one.

THINK ABOUT IT!

you are equating a pathetic, pseudo-scientific, entirely commercially based artificially induce psychological dependency,

with BREATHING

Maybe being hungry is a sign of malnutrition and we should eat so we are never hungry?

It is completely normal not to drink at work. it is cleaner, healthier and more hygienic not to drink at work.

Seriously?

Try taking tea and coffee from Da Workers and see what happens. Most workplaces I know would shudder to an outraged halt.

It is fury as well I have visions of random people proper frothingly mad slapping waterbottles out of people's hands screeching in their faces about being entitled and passive aggressive. It's bizarre.

Charis you're going to do your blood pressure a mischief.

And why does it bother you?

because it impinges on everybody's life all the time, ranging from from having to wait while people have constant breaks in the conversation, right through to the horrendous environmental damage, with a thousand and one other regular irritations in between.

and it is all crap from beginning to end.

From the Death Valley National Park visitor guide:

"Thirst is an early warning and means that you are already dehydrated. It's time to drink water."

Nah, obviously that's rubbish and just they want to sell me overpriced bottled water.

Charis you're going to do your blood pressure a mischief.

quite the reverse, the whole baby bottle suckling habit is doing so many people's blood pressure a mischief ( including mine) so constantly, that I'm glad to sit here and rant about it.

In school, the whole bunch of CRAP is driving us mad.

squirrelled, the clue is in the name, none of us are walking around in death valley here, are we, or anywhere else remotely like it.

We should not drink at work? As in, not drink for eight hours? Not have a gulp of water to wash down lunch?

That's not normal!

There's certainly a strong argument to be had about the bottled water industry and the environmental impact it has but to rage like a loon (and you are raging like a loon) about people choosing to drink tap water is just ridiculous.

Have you BEEN to death valley!?

"Its completely normal not to drink at work"
So on a 12 hour shift I shouldn't drink, neither should my colleagues ?

Don't be silly, there at times I think people just like arguing !

Argy do what you like ,its up to you.
I used to drink only when thirsty and was tired all the time.
I feel better for it so I will continue.

Squirrel - Death Valley is very hot. Most people underestimate the amount of water you need to drink there. So yes they will overemphasise it.

Charis so what is your opinion on people drinking tea and coffee at work, should that also be banned?

Charis

I am (shock horror) of the generation in which it was common to have a bottle of water at school. I don't recall it causing any disruption - you quietly had a sip if you were thirsty, if you forgot to bring a bottle in then that was your lookout. Does your school expect teachers to provide bottles, or do your students knock their water over every single day? I'm finding it hard to envisage the level of disruption you seem to be experiencing.

Chairs it doesn't inconvenience anyone. Do you get this impatient when people breathe in conversations?!

Maybe it sounds ridiculous to you Squoosh, but not as ridiculous as the pseudo suckling itself, and it wouldn't be necessary to "rage against it like a loon" if this pathetic, irritating, unhealthy, obsessive, obstructive behaviour wasn't happening.

Drink what you want, when you want.

Just don't repeat rubbish about needing to drink 2 litres a day, or that being thirsty is a sign you are already dehydrated. I find it depressing that so many people still believe lots of pseudo science.

Chairs it doesn't inconvenience anyone that is just obtuse, it inconveniences people constantly, hence the thread.

I think you need to lie down in a darkened room Charis if this bothers you so much.

Its interesting all the ragers are those who don't drink much

So what is your opinion on people drinking tea and coffee at work, should that also be banned?

All that time wasted boiling water etc.

Chairs no it doesn't all this thread shows is how pathetic some people are that they get wound up by other people drinking.

tea and coffee is far more hydrating, generally far less intrusive, and a lot lot cleaner and more hygenic. Keeping water in bottles is dirty, as well as messy.