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!

You still haven't explained:
What do you have to do to accommodate people drinking?
What do you need to do which constitutes 'pussyfooting' around?
What is your response to the vast majority of people on here who manage to drink water but don't drink bottled water?

Just repeating the same thing isn't achieving anything because nothing you say makes any sense.

You didn't answer my earlier post Charis. I can't stand the smell of coffee or stale coffee most adults stink of. Since being pregnant it got worse and sometimes I actually vomit at a particularly strong coffee smell.

Should I be able to demand everyone stop drinking it simply because I think it's disgusting? Or should I just not drink it myself and make the effort to not sniff it, accepting that in a public place people can drink what they want?

"What is your response to the vast majority of people on here who manage to drink water but don't drink bottled water?"

Fascinating, isn't it? Nobody drinks bottled water- but 2.5 million litres of it were sold in the UK last year! I wonder where it all went?

And only 25% of the bottles are recycled........

I've just come back on here to see what's happening, quite surprised it's still active....who know drinking water could be so contentious.

I cannot believe that drinking water is being compared to using crutches unnecessarily. What does that even mean? Of course most people don't need crutches but everybody needs water, it s a basic fact of life.

Most people who have said that they drink a lot also state that they drink glasses of the stuff and don't buy the overly expensive bottled stuff. I drink water regularly through the day and can't remember the last time I paid for bottled water.

Advised to drink water before having a blood test? No, I don't think so. And lowering blood pressure by drinking water? Again, no. We take pills for this. In fact the most commonly used pills to lower blood pressure are those which make you wee more (diuretics).

Bertrand - I drink bottled water (but do reuse and recycle) and have never claimed not to.

FWIW I drink bottled water because

When I'm in the car or on the train I like to have the option of having a drink.
When I'm in the office I like to have the option of having a drink
The water pressure in the fountains at work is so low that you can't fill a cup from it.

I fill a up about 4 bottles per day and drink them through the day, if I run out or forget one I buy another. I don't buy it because it's superior water but because it tastes nicer than sugary or sweet drinks and I can't get water from anywhere else.

I also buy bottled sparkling water (value not mineral) to have with nice cordial (because it stops me drinking a bottle of wine every night)

If you don't drink water or bottled water, fair enough - but why be scathing about people who do?

I drink bottled water occasionally if I'm out and I want a drink. I don't understand why drinking water from a plastic bottle is inherently worse than drinking coke from a plastic bottle when coke uses 1.2 litres of water for every litre of coke produced (in a country with water shortages). I drink black coffee. A latte has a carbon footprint about 15x that of a black coffee but nobody bitches at latte drinkers. In fact nobody whines about people who drink anything apart from water, even though plenty of other beverages are available for 'suckling' from plastic bottles.

Advised to drink water before having a blood test? No, I don't think so.

Argy, er, yes. Every time I have gone to donate blood they have asked how much I have drunk throughout the day. And afterwards they encourage you to have a drink. When having blood tests I have been tutted at by nurses if I haven't remembered to drink enough in the preceding hours as it v makes your blood much harder to draw!

You are told to drink a lot before and after blood donation. If you have crap veins like my sil then you may be told to drink before a blood test.

I don't think anyone has claimed that bp is lowered by drinking water (I have RTFT)

Water is different because it is completely unnecessary to buy it in bottles. Yes, all bottled drinks are unnecessary, obviously, but if you buy coke or something at least you are buying something that you can't get any other way. The bottled water thing is a completely artificial fabricated market, and the companies concerned are rubbing their hands in glee. While the 25% of bottles that are recycled aren't actually made into other bottles, and the other 75% take 450 years to biodegrade.

"Argy, er, yes. Every time I have gone to donate blood they have asked how much I have drunk throughout the day"

I don't think I've every been asked that. And I always have a cup of tea afterwards!

Bertrand, if I am in a place with no access to drinking water from a tap and I want a drink, should I choose something I don't like because of your principles?

I hope you don't leave your manky used tea bags lying around......now that's something I hate. At work there is a colleague who constantly leaves used tea bags in the sink which stains the sink and looks grim. There I feel better now

"Bertrand, if I am in a place with no access to drinking water from a tap and I want a drink, should I choose something I don't like because of your principles?"

No, of course not. Out of interest, where are you?

So if I'm standing on a train station or in a park and I'm thirsty I should buy coke from instead of water, even though I don't like it and want water, or I should stay thirty until I get home while the coke sucklers suckle away?
I'm not going to do that. If I want a drink I shouldn't be less deserving of one because my preference is water. You can make tea/coffee at home and drink it from a reusable cup but the water haters on here are all saying that tea and coffee is fine.

Every time I think I have heard it all, something new crops up.

Anger and outrage at other people drinking water and/or daring to need the toilet. Referring to other people's toilet requirements as being selfish and disrupting the lives of others. Mind blowing.

If you angry posters could just give us a wee set of rules as to the maximum fluid intake per day, when we are allowed to drink it, in what amounts, and when we are allowed to use the toilet, I'm sure that would be terribly helpful to us all.

I find it strangely hard to believe that these angry posters live their entire lives, in every aspect, putting everyone else's needs before their own, simply on the grounds that it is 'good manners'. I'm all for showing good manners (saying please and thank you, letting someone else have a seat on the train if they need it more, not pushing in front of people in queues etc, you know the everyday things that make life easier for all of us), but that doesn't extend to not doing perfectly normal things (such as having a sip of water if your mouth feels dry) on the offchance that someone in the vicinity might think it inappropriate.

Are you saying that the 18 billion bottles of water sold in the UK are all bought by people unexpectedly thirsty on railway stations? Have you looked at the drinks section of a supermarket recently?

I'm not a constant water drinker btw, in fact I was referred to a continence clinic for those pesky after childbirth problems that afflict so many women of my age and was advised that I wasn't drinking anywhere near enough fluid for optimum kidney and bladder function.

I also have been advised by several different medical professionals to drink plenty before having blood tests taken/donating blood. When I was in hospital once and they were struggling to get blood out for a blood test, they gave me a jug of water and told me to drink it, then came back later and took the blood easily. I have no idea about how it all works, but I took their advice and it seemed to work.

Are you saying that the 18 billion bottles of water sold in the UK are all bought by people unexpectedly thirsty on railway stations?

No , I'm saying it's twattishness of the highest order to make snarky remarks about how 'fascinating' it is that nobody admits to ever drinking bottled water, even though they do, or to say that people should drink other things when out and about because you can get water out of the tap at home. but it's totes fine to drink other things out of bottles.

Why wasn't it made clear that this was a rant at the buying of water in plastic bottles ?
I am totally against it and still drink plenty of water.

I think in the main its a complete waste of money and polluting the planet which is why I fill a water bottle that I purchased years ago and never buy plastic bottles .
I still drink plenty of water ,tap water.
I really don't like plasticky water and I am a bit suspicious about all the chemicals which leach from the plastic when its been sat there for months on a shelf.
I dont like fizzy drinks and take a flask on a day out.< advertisers dream-not>

I often have to take bloods and if someone has poor venous access, they would be asked to have plenty to drink first.

Still trying to perfect my passive aggressive drinking of water - can anyone tell me when Im drinking water what I really mean ?

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No hmm, I'm saying it's twattishness of the highest order to make snarky remarks about how 'fascinating' it is that nobody admits to ever drinking bottled water, even though they do, or to say that people should drink other things when out and about because you can get water out of the tap at home. but it's totes fine to drink other things out of bottles."

Really? Well, I think it's twattishness of the highest order to be in denial about the impact our suddenly acquired bottled water habit is having on the environment. To be in denial about the way we have been conned and manipulated into that habit by big business. To be in denial about the pseudo science involved. And to worry about being "dehydrated" when you mean a bit thirsty when over 600 million people in the world have no access to safe water.

And no, it's not "totes fine" drink other things out of bottles.

We are not all idiots who have been conned.
I get horrible Utis if I don't drink enough.
Its simple way for me to ensure I don't get them.
It involves filling a bottle from the tap and drinking about a litre per day.( plus coffee and green tea)
Simple, effective and avoids the need for constant antibiotics.

Ive always though the water industry has jumped on the medical advice that has been around for years(been a HCP for years) and exaggerated it for their own ends.

Im far more concerned about the soft drinks industry- 300 litres of water used in the production of one 500ml bottle of cola ,not to mention the effects on the endocrine system of constantly consuming sugar/sweeteners.

By all means lets discuss these issues - calling people "sucklers" and sneering at anyone who drinks more than you do is not the way to go about it.