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!

*because the "thirst" isn't real"

well, equally pain isn't real. it's just information, innit?

Christ, you'd probably describe someone borrowing your stapler without asking as an act of war.

Going fir a wee is a sign of weakness it's certainly a sign of a physical or psychological issue if you can't go the length of a film without, unless you are under 5.

Mitzy

watch Office Space!

Charis are you the stapler guy from Office Space?

So what if water spills or drips from time to time? Do you go blind if you see a bit of water outside a container? Is your flesh going to sizzle and melt if a drop happens to fall on you? I don't get it.

Charis you have some seriously weird issues about this

well, equally pain isn't real. it's just information, innit? as is real, genuine thirst, as opposed to the faddy, imaginary adult suckler thirst, which is just down to suggestion and compliance with advertisers

like the Wicked Witch of the West!

If people only drank when they were genuinely thirsty it would solve a lot of issues.

Charis you have some seriously weird issues about this its not weird to be fed up with this ridiculous behaviour impinging on me every day.

lunch break, but I'll be back

you are so much fun Charis
I know you are just pulling our legs, practising for your next debate championship

Stop calling people sucklers

So what if water spills or drips from time to time? Do you go blind if you see a bit of water outside a container? I'd be ok with mopping up other peoples dribbles and drips occasionally, even repairing damage caused, if it was occasional, and if there had been any need for the water to have been there in the first place,

There are actually work places were it is illegal to bring or drink water, and guess what, those employees aren't suffering from dehydration, headaches, light headedness, or any of the other purely psychosomatic symptoms mentioned on here.

In my etire life I have only known two individuals with medical reasons for requiring water near them, and they couldn't work in these places and had alternative arrangements made.

But meanwhile, every year we have to deal with self righteous, ill informed, indignant parents who try to insist their precious little snow flake cannot possibly sit through a science lesson, without a water bottle, pointing out that every child in the country does upsets them greatly, because once they understand it isn't required in one lesson, it becomes obvious it isn't required in any lesson.

I cannot believe this thread is still going.

It only impinges on you because you're a control freak who can't stand people behaving in a different way to you I have several times listed the ways it impinges on me and other people. It must cost the country millions in loss of productivity, it impinges on almost every workplace, I should think.

It's all about oral stimulation

Maybe, but I think you might be stuck in the 'anal' stage of development.

Nope. There is far more labour loss involved with people going to the kitchen to boil kettles and brew pots of tea and coffee than there is with someone drinking water. Do try and be rational.

The environmental cost of all this excess water drinking is horrific too. Shame on those who cannot see beyond their own personal self gratification.

Shame you're so paranoid that you think someone drinking water at a meeting is being aggressive towards you.

Nope. There is far more labour loss involved with people going to the kitchen to boil kettles and brew pots of tea and coffee than there is with someone drinking water

no, its less.

Have you ever considered working from home? I think it would be better for your wellbeing.

Shame you're so paranoid that you think someone drinking water at a meeting is being aggressive towards you.

it isn't paranoid, if someone else is imposing their own psychological dependency on you.

Have you ever considered working from home? I think it would be better for your wellbeing. run out of answers have you?