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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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Cotto · 14/08/2015 13:07

Zing

Right Im off to hike walk to the shop Grin

CaptainHolt · 14/08/2015 13:07

Personally I never drink during the working day apart from a coffee first thing and a cup of tea mid afternoon.

So you never drink during the working day, apart from the two drinks that you drink?

No drinks = never
Two drinks = drinks

HTH

SquirrelledAway · 14/08/2015 13:10

Caucasians have a 1:8 chance of developing kidney stones by the age of 70, according to the BAUS. Poor fluid intake combined with a low roughage / high protein diet is one of the risk factors.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 14/08/2015 13:12

yeah Cotto off you trotWink

WeAllHaveWings · 14/08/2015 13:16

bottle suckers at work drive me nuts, all the squeezing/loud cracking of plastic bottles and sucking noises as they drink and the air returns to the bottle, what's wrong with a nice quiet glass/cup!

bottles are great if you are out and about/mobile, but no need for them sitting at a desk in an open office.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 14/08/2015 13:24

Wings

now that aspect of noisess I totally despise as well.
DS1 does exactly that, crunching the empty bottle after he's finished drives me nuts.Angry

ProvisionallyAnxious · 14/08/2015 13:37

I think there's a certain irony that the people who are saying that water drinking is the doom of Western civilization as we know it, are also the ones whose main arguments seem to be that people won't die from not drinking water.

I think the pro-water "sucklers" (Hmm) on this thread have mainly just said that it's generally more pleasant to not feel thirst than to feel thirsty, and that they see no problem drinking reasonably regularly when, really, it involves nobody apart from them and their drinking receptacle.

ProvisionallyAnxious · 14/08/2015 13:38

Rabbit

To be fair, babies are also smaller all round. By your argument, there's no need for adults to eat larger meals than toddlers, because toddlers get by just fine with their small portions!

Tenieht · 14/08/2015 13:42

Being thirsty for an hour or two never hurt anyone. When constant suckling on a water bottle inconveniences others, it should be stopped.

squoosh · 14/08/2015 13:44

How does it inconvenience you exactly?

Feline9 · 14/08/2015 13:46

It doesn't inconvenience anyone. "I don't like it" isn't sufficient reason to stop someone doing something

ProvisionallyAnxious · 14/08/2015 13:47

Tenieht

There have been plenty of people on this thread saying that if they don't drink enough water throughout the day, then they feel headachey / fuzzy at the end of it. They don't die or suffer massively, but it does have adverse effects. Why should your bizarre fixation on water bottles inconvenience them?

ProvisionallyAnxious · 14/08/2015 13:48

"I don't like it" isn't sufficient reason to stop someone doing something

This.

Tenieht · 14/08/2015 13:51

It inconveniences me as it is disruptive, makes an annoying noise, people are constantly suckling and wasting their time with their crutch. It also makes people use the toilet more often, which wastes time at work and in leisure activities when people are constantly micturating.

CallMeExhausted · 14/08/2015 13:52

Yesterday, I was thirsty. I didn't get a chance to get some water before my doctor's appointment, and by the time it was done and I was heading back to the bus, I was cutting the clock close.

When I got home, I was parched.

I got a cup, filled it with tap water and drank it. Then I was neither thirsty nor parched any more.

However, in all of this, apparently I forgot to hydrate.

Will I be OK? Should I call a professional?

I am almost half a century old - have I been doing it wrong this whole time?

Someone please help! Am I going to make it?!!?

hope I don't need to say this, but the above silliness is an example of sarcasm. Apparently MN doesn't have the Sarcastica font enabled, and there are some used who are sarcasm impaired

Feline9 · 14/08/2015 13:54

How is it disruptive?

It doesn't have to be noisy, and is no more noisy than other activities.

How does wasting their time bother YOU?

Same with toilet. "They use the toilet too much and it annoys me" just reeks of entitlement

aoife24 · 14/08/2015 13:54

The 'If you're thirsty you're dehydrated' message comes from the bottled water industry. You are no more dehydrated if thirsty, in normal terms, than you are heading for malnutrition if you feel hungry. They're simply prompts from your body to top up on liquid and energy.
The 2 litres a day thing is also from the bottled water industry. Most of the water we consume come from food, and drinking water, juice pop, coffee and tea all counts to our liquid consumption. Yes, yes, yes, caffeine is diuretic but not in the quantities most of us consume it.

I do wish people would apply critical thinking to things that suddenly become almost mantras. Who is telling me this all of a sudden and why?
And don't get me started on the baloney that is the detox industry. If your body can't do that for itself, my word, you are in serious trouble.

squoosh · 14/08/2015 13:57

Tenieht do you have the same bonkers rage towards tea and coffee drinkers?

Do you think their drinking is also 'passive aggressive'?

squoosh · 14/08/2015 14:00

'hope I don't need to say this, but the above silliness is an example of sarcasm. Apparently MN doesn't have the Sarcastica font enabled, and there are some used who are sarcasm impaired'

Why score it out? Why not just leave it as it is?

ProvisionallyAnxious · 14/08/2015 14:00

CallMeExhausted

No, you're fine. But, on the other hand, let's say I was also going to the doctor's, and because I tend to keep a bottle of water in my handbag I had one to hand. I took a few mouthfuls whilst I was waiting for the doctor. In so doing, I think I caused one fellow patient to have a heart attack at my disgraceful, antisocial behaviour, singlehandedly destroyed the environment, and apparently engaged in just the kind of morally lax behaviour that means Britain is no longer a world power or even a civilized country. Sarcastica font.

That is basically how this thread has been going. Pro-water posters are not, I think, saying it is horrifying and awful to not drink for a few hours, just saying there is no problem with drinking when they fancy it and are able to do so.

Tenieht

This thread is making me drink more and more as I test fro myself some of the things you're saying. I just opened my water bottle and the only, very faint noise, was from the twisting of the lid. The sound of people around me typing is louder.

Also, remind me to turn down any form of drink at all next time I meet a friend for coffee / beer in case my needing to the loo midway through causes them to disown me as a friend for wasting two minutes time micturating. Grin

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 14/08/2015 14:04

Tenieth

admit it, you want people to use the toilets less frequently because you clean loos for a living and just want the riff-raff to stay out of your way so they don't mess up the carefully folded triangle tips on the bog rolls.
is that it?Wink

RabbitSaysWoof · 14/08/2015 14:05

Babies are smaller yes. But they have smaller stomachs which can hold less. Most people could drink and eat more in one go than a baby yet are convinced they are going to come to harm if they wait just as long in between.
BTW I actually don't think about someone drinking at their desk like it offends me personally, but I do just query the suggestion that constant stuffing and slurping is a necessary, I think it's entirely optional for most people with no medical conditions.

squoosh · 14/08/2015 14:05

What if these toilet going time wasters aren't even peeing, what it they're..............opening their bowels....taking a big fat dump!

Rude, roughage consuming, bastards.

CallMeExhausted · 14/08/2015 14:06

Interesting side note... my DD has minor kidney issues (have improved a lot over the last 3 years). She currently sees her kidney doc twice a year and I asked about drinking on her last visit.

She used to receive all her nutrition and fluids through an IV catheter that went directly into the large vein above her heart, so we knew she was getting "enough". Her kidney issues were secondary to the reason for her need for IV nutrition.

As her condition has improved over the last 3 years, she has been weaned off the IV, and receives a portion of her nutrition via gastrostomy, and a portion orally.

So, when I asked her kidney doc about water, and whether we should be encouraging her to drink more, he said "if her urine doesn't look like tea or smell so strong that you can't enter the room, leave her".

That spoke volumes - and interestingly enough, this summer she has started drinking a bit more. As she learns to recognize thirst, she responds accordingly.

I, on the other hand, drink like a fish. Probably 2-3 litres of water on a hot or busy day. Not because I "must", just because I like water. Better than 2-3 litres of vodka.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 14/08/2015 14:07

or change their tampons squoosh
health freaks!