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

884 replies

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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longestlurkerever · 16/08/2015 13:27

I didn't say it was equivalent. it's just that the ridiculous lack of tolerance for others, and behaviour that might be different to your own, is upsetting because it is a reminder that there are people out there who want to control others' behaviour just because they happen not to like it. it's not an attractive trait.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 13:27

I may even do a pie chart Zing! What can you say? didn't you do GCSE maths?

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 16/08/2015 13:27

hmmmm pie

apple pie?

treaclesoda · 16/08/2015 13:28

I think you'll find that I was at my hospital appointment and they said water. But thanks for putting me right, even though you weren't there Grin

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 13:29

Poor Charis, lashing out and getting herself all het up.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 13:31

My mum was telling me that water quenched thirst nothing wrong with drinking water as such, in moderation ( obviously dangerous in excess) plenty wrong with carrying it around with you in a bottle and suckling at it constantly.

treaclesoda, you would be surprised how many people in their imaginations add "water" to the simple instruction "drink" - the effect of advertising.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 16/08/2015 13:34

Charis

It is clear as bottled water that your cognitive functions have been negatively effected by severe dehydration, you are also showing signs of memory loss.
do yourself a favour and drink some water, you might even start making sense.
it will be refreshing

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 13:34

Poor Charis, lashing out and getting herself all het up. not het up at all, really enjoying myself. This issue causes so many people to grit their teeth so constantly throughout the day, it feels really good to actually have a time and place to tell it like it is.

The OP mentioned wanting to shoot the sucklers, didn't she! I don't feel that bad, I certainly want them to see their pathetic behaviour for the dity, needy, demanding, passive aggressive psychological dependency that it is, and STOP!

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 13:36

If just one or two more people say they are re-evaluating this behaviour, that would make my week!

treaclesoda · 16/08/2015 13:37

Ah, so now I'm delusional as well.

But even if I did imagine that I was told to drink more water (I didn't though, what with having had a discussion with the doctor about it) when actually it was more fluid, what does it matter if water is my choice of fluid? What is so awful about choosing the one you like the best if that happens to be water? Confused

As it happens, when I worked in an office, by far the most constant sippers were my colleagues who were addicted to Diet Coke. That truly must be the most addictive liquid on earth.

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 13:38

I know that's what you want, you've made it abundantly clear with all the ravings.

But it's not going to happen so I such you find a way to make peace with it. Otherwise your blood pressure will be negatively impacted.

ps. Would someone please explain to me how drinking water is a 'passive aggressive' act? Still waiting for that one to be explained.

Tenieht · 16/08/2015 13:39

Many of the problems we have a society stem from this have it all, have it now mentality which many posters have displayed on the thread. If only they could use some more self control and less of their indulgent selves the world would be a much better place.

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 13:39

Exactly, what makes having a mug of coffee or a glass of squash so preferable in your eyes to a glass of water?

longestlurkerever · 16/08/2015 13:40

mitzy, apparently it's because by putting a bottle of water on your desk you are staking a claim to your territory in a passive aggressive manner. or something.

Tenieht · 16/08/2015 13:41

Taking water bottles to meetings and plonking them down on the table can be a passive aggressive act, it is a marking of territory and saying to the room "my body's needs are more important than yours".

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 16/08/2015 13:42

How in the name of fuck is it indulgent to have a drink when you are thirsty?

HungryHorace · 16/08/2015 13:42

As opposed to having a drink at the desk which has been assigned to you. Bonkers.

Roomba · 16/08/2015 13:43

... and don't start me on grown men and women drinking from those thermal/camping cups in the office...

In my previous workplace, all drinks at our desks were suddenly banned, under threat of disciplinary action, unless we used company issued camping style lidded cups. They were hideous, made everything taste of plastic, the hole was designed to ensure you burned your mouth every time you sipped and everyone complained loudly to no avail.

Then people moaned that because they refused to use the cups, they were now becoming 'severely dehydrated' as they had to wait an hour between drinks in the tearoom (where normal mugs could be used freely).

HungryHorace · 16/08/2015 13:43

But people takes cups of tea and coffee into meetings too. Is placing those on the table passive aggressive also? After all, they have also taken a drink to the meeting.

treaclesoda · 16/08/2015 13:44

Nearly every meeting I ever attended at work provided tea, coffee and water to participants. Why is it more aggressive to set a bottle of water in front of you than a cup of tea? Confused

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 13:44

How in the name of fuck is it indulgent to have a drink when you are thirsty

because the "thirst" isn't real. it is a construct of the advertising of the bottled water industry.

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 13:45

Taking water bottles to meetings and plonking them down on the table can be a passive aggressive act, it is a marking of territory and saying to the room "my body's needs are more important than yours".

WTF?

Maybe if they pissed around their chair it could described as a territorial act. Bur placing a drink on a table?

You have major issues.

longestlurkerever · 16/08/2015 13:46

What ten really wants is for people to use the cinema as some sort of endurance training programme, to ignore their thirst and battle through the pressure on their bladder to improve their moral fibre. Going fir a wee is a sign of weakness. Shock Shock

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 16/08/2015 13:48

I think the passive aggressivity is just an extension of what bodies of water is doing lands.
70 percent coverage versus 30 percent?
come on! that is borderline ACTIVE AGRESSIVE!!
wake up people !

Grin
Charis1 · 16/08/2015 13:49

I call it passive aggressive because of the demands people make to meet or accommodate their entirely imaginary "need"

There is a time and place for drinking, it isn't constant. The requirement to have a sucky bottle to hand throughout the day is comparable to a toddler with a bottle or dummy, or to an adult chain smoker. it's all about oral stimulation