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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!

OP posts:

Tenieht · 16/08/2015 12:39

Personally I don't drink more than is necessary. If you exercise and you need to drink to replace lost fluid that's obviously sensible and keeping fit is a normal thing to do. But just quaffing water without any biological need is simply crazy. Many people drink just because they feel like it without any real need. Surely everyone can we that is hugely wasteful.

longestlurkerever · 16/08/2015 12:48

I find this thread a bit upsetting and I think I have put my finger on why. I actually don't drink much water (caffeine is my psychological crutch) but I am sure I do plenty of other things that could be considered annoying if someone is of that frame of mind. I thought the majority of people were tolerant of others though. I think tolerance is an underrated quality and at least as important as consideration. At risk of the same hyperbolic extrapolation others have been guilty of, this excessive concern with other people's habits that have at best minimal impact on one's own life strikes me as coming from the same impulse as homophones and religious persecution. it really is none of your business.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 12:50

So obviously tea and coffee are relevant to the thread.

tea and coffee are not such a dirty habit as suckling on a bottle. They are healthier, they are not so environmentally damaging, they are not so noisy, they are spilt less, people don't demand constant access to them, they are not carried round all day, they have proper nutritional value ( Ie the DO aid hydration, which water doesn't) etc etc etc

whether they can be seen as a psychological crutch or not, well maybe that could be argued.

but the differences are, they are not so constantly all pervasive, they are often a shared, sociable activity, and they are part of normal food and drink, and daily structure, not the same as the constant suckling which is basically for individual oral stimulation rather than fulfilling any nutritional or social function.

Water drank in this way, ie from a cup, during a break, maybe socially, maybe hot, finished off and cleared away, that is not really such a problem. There are people in our office who would just ask for a cup of water during a tea break.

It is the sucky bottles that drive people round the bend.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 12:52

it really is none of your business

it impinges on my life on a daily basis, it is a constant source of lack of productivity in every area I am engaged with, it is damaging my environment,

It is very much my business.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 12:53

What about drinking water to keep headaches at bay? To prevent UTIs? To stop lightheadedness?

its not going to do any of these things.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 12:54

more bottled water industry myths. Can't you see you have been well and truly had?

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 12:57

I've been trying to think where I know the username Charis from - Charis, are you the person who thinks that smoking in pregnancy is not as bad for the baby as people would have us believe?

Are you?

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 12:58

Tea and coffee are spilt less? Not as many people demand access to them?

You truly are bonkers!

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 16/08/2015 13:00

Charis

I think I need youbto be my personal adviser. whatever you advise I'll do the direct opposite and I'll be just fine and it will satisfy my needs to be a rebel

deal?

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 13:06

Tea and coffee are spilt less? Not as many people demand access to them?

yes, that's right. How many people do you know who demand to have a bottle of tea or coffee within arms reach all day every day so they can suckle and drip all the time?

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 13:08

I work in an office where there is constantly a pot of coffee on the go. Constantly.

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 13:09

And as for water being more likely to spill than water that's been turned into tea or coffee! Can't you see how stupid that sounds?

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 13:10

Get out on the street. There are just as many people with a Starbucks/Costa/Artisan whatsit coffee cup in hand as there are people with bottles of water.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 13:14

Can't you see how stupid that sounds? So what? The truth often does sound stupid to people who have been brain washed, or who have dependancies.

There are just as many people with a Starbucks/Costa/Artisan whatsit coffee cup in hand as there are people with bottles of water

Quick count at the bus stop out side my window, 11 people, 4 water bottles in evidence, 0 ( that is ZERO) coffee cups.

Everyone in the queue and on the bus will have to put up with the noisy suckling,/ dripping/ litter etc.

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 13:16

Your hysteria is half amusing, half alarming. So you're honestly saying that water is more likely to spill than tea?

Think carefully.

hackmum · 16/08/2015 13:17

Charis1: "they DO aid hydration, which water doesn't"

Charis, are you seriously suggesting that water doesn't aid hydration?

Do you know what "hydration" means?

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 13:18

And I'll be taking a trip down my local high street shortly, I'll be sure to report back with my beverage receptacle findings.

Tenieht · 16/08/2015 13:20

I hardly think that saying that people drinking water from water bottles is irritating, wasteful and unnecessary some of the time is equivalent to religious persecution or homophobia.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 13:22

here we go again, I've lost count of the times I've said this......

really hackmum water does not "hydrate" because "hydrate" starts with "hydra" any more than all catastrophes are cause by cats!

So you're honestly saying that water is more likely to spill than tea? - no, I'm saying something put into a bottle and luggeds around all day, and constantly suckled at, and placed on different surfaces, and moved around SPILLS AND DRIPS EVERYWHERE - and it doesn't always seem to be the sucklers themselves who end up mopping it up,

My colleague who make a cup of tea, sit and drink it and finish, they don't actually leave a trail of tea drops behind them all day, over everything.

treaclesoda · 16/08/2015 13:22

It's not the bottled water industry that told me that drinking more water would help with lightheadedness, UTIs, and headaches. It was hospital consultants, specialist continence nurses, and GPs, loads of them in total, who have told me and various family members at various times.

And in all cases, the advice has helped.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 16/08/2015 13:22

mitzy

please do a tally chart

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 13:23

Do you know what "hydration" means? - clearly you don't! You've just swallowed the industry hype hook line and sinker!

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 13:24

I may even do a pie chart Zing!

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 13:25

drinking more water - I think you'll find they just said drinking more, or drinking more fluid. tea/coffee/ squash, etc is better for you.

treaclesoda · 16/08/2015 13:25

My mum was telling me that water quenched thirst way back before there WAS a huge bottled water industry. How can advice that pre-dates the bottled water industry be a result of having fallen hook line and sinker for marketing?

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