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!

I drink about 4 litres of water a day. I do train twice a day and am very active. That said, i could go for half an hour without a drink.

Personally I just don't want to. I always have water with me and don't really give 2 fucks if my water bottle offends anyone else.

I also don't use the term thirsty....because if the more modern definition. My group of friends are quite childish

Surely that stuff about it being too late by the time you're thirsty is a load of rubbish. We're meant to pay attention to our bodies telling us whether we're hungry or full in order to eat a healthy amount, but with drinks we need to guzzle down litres and litres just in case of what exactly?

By the way, the dehydrated thing has been pissing me off for 15 years now since I had a flat mate who had apparently never heard the word thirsty before.

I use an insulated cup in the office, it keeps my coffee hit for 3 hours rather than 15 minutes and I actually get time to drink it.

What is the new meaning of the word thirsty?? I'm intrigued!

I am oldfashioned - I get thirsty. Sometimes I get parched (I have a bit of a blocked up nose most of the time, so I mouth breath, which makes my mouth very dry - hence parched).

However, in light of this thread, I am considering reverting to a phrase I used to use, when I was thirsty - 'I'm spitting feathers'.

I think grown adults should be able to choose their own fluid intake. It's no one else's business.

If you look up thread Helenahandbag provides a link to the Urban Dictionary which explains the new/slang definition of thirsty.
I quite like it and I shall be dropping it into conversation at my earliest convenience ????

What is the new definition of thirsty? I can't access the Urban Dictionary definition at work.

If you believe the standard medical advice, we don't drink nearly as much water in a day as we should.

I'm slim and I snack constantly as my stomach prefers "little and often" - I feel sick if I eat a large meal.

Not sure why this bothers people so much. If you keep yourself healthy, as far as I'm concerned it's nobody else's business how much I eat or drink or when.

Well I have fucking heard it all now. People upset and offended by people taking a drink of water, or keeping their hot drinks hot instead of chucking half finished cups of coffee away. And needing a wee? Inhuman bastards! How very dare they?

YABU in so much as thirst is a late stage of dehydration, so if someone is feeling thirsty then they are dehydrated so describing themselves as such is true.

YANB quite so U about constant drinking, although it's not something that bothers me. It is perfectly possible to remain hydrated by having a drink every 2-3 hours or so rather than constant sipping.

I'm not sure how condemnation of nany-state-ism sits with what appears to be excessive and angry monitoring of other people's drinking and toileting habits. Could we all just give a bit less of a shit about the perfectly harmless things that other people do? (Realises that this could result in tumbleweed throughout IABU if it actually worked!).

Why would this bother anyone? I'm always drinking water or soft drinks, I don't like being thirsty and I feel better when I do it. Sorry if that offends anyone?

My problem is that if I am not thirsty I just wouldn't fancy a drink of water. I work in a cold, air conditioned office. The drinking water available is freezing cold, and I am too cold to want a cold drink

Good job I like tea

But when you're thirsty you ARE dehydrated.
Why the hell would this bother anyone?

your skin is also dehydrated or sometimes is - I think that's a beauty ploy to sell us hydrating moisture.

all this bollocks about water too - I drink lots of tea every day - yes tea, it hydrates me just fine.

@tooextra....according to the Urban Dictionary it means thirsty can now mean 'too eager/keen, verging on desperarate'
So for example a girl might say to her friend 'That guy is texting me non stop...I'm SO not interested....he's just so thirsty!'

(Sorry, have completely missed the point of the thread but at the same time am happy to have learnt something new today)

Super tea is a diuretic...not the best for hydration.

'By the time you're thirsty you're already dehydrated' is a myth which was invented by the bottled water and sports drink industries.

Apart from in extreme conditions/circumstances, drinking 'to thirst' is the healthiest, and safest, thing to do. See e.g. www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/dehydration-myths_n_3498380.html

but apparently I was told it can hydrate you

www.nhs.uk/news/2011/03March/Pages/tea-compared-to-water-for-hydration.aspx

I quite often get through entire work days to realise that I haven't had a single drop of anything liquid.

I did it yesterday. Then went to play sport. Not good.

Super tea is a diuretic...not the best for hydration.

You take in more water from tea than you lose through its diuretic effects though, so unless you are drinking super-caffeinated tea, a cup of tea will have a hydrating effect.

You are not dehydrated when you feel thirsty. There are so many myths around about fluid intake. Read Ben Goldacre on this.

I am amazed when going out for a short walk of an hour on a normal day, how everyone else has to take bottles of water with them, and have frequent drinks.

When you are thirsty you drink, when you are hungry you eat.

YANBU and I'm also now desperate for a drink! Ohhhhhh the dehydration! I might not make it to the vending machine for a diet coke I'm so dehydrated....joke