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!

OP absolutely brilliant! Just that really. Too right.

SDTG

or was it "water is not real and thirst is not natural"?
might as well have been!

zing!

I am sure I have read that by the time you feel thirsty you are actually already dehydrated.....

haven't read all the thread, apologies if already said.

Recently went for a bladder ultrasound. Couldn't get through the full amount instructed to drink first, apologised to person doing it and she said, no problem, your bladder is full. She said we have to advise people to drink so much because otherwise you'd be amazed at the amount of people who come in here where the water doesn't make it to the bladder as they have been walking around dehydrated and the blood takes it up. This may not be true but it is what she told me....

My parents are in their 70s drink copious amounts of tea and don't leave the house without a bottle of water.

I just hope Charis isn't seeking a job as the spokesperson for WaterAid

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I am sure I have read that by the time you feel thirsty you are actually already dehydrated....."

Yes, you have read that. It's bollocks...

Treaclesoda - has Charis explained yet how she knows, soooo much better than you, what was said to you, at your hospital appointments? Or even apologised for suggesting you don't know what was said to you?

Are we holding our breaths for her to do so? Didn't think so!

Also it's so bad for our environment. Even if you recycle, do you REALLY think all of our plastic is responsibly recycled? No way. It's dumped in China. We are addicted to plastic. I refuse to drink bottled water on those grounds alone. I am not perfect and do not always practice what I preach, but I try damn hard. I will take oestrogen and cocaine traces in my tap water any day.

I donate plasma every 2 weeks. I have to tell them every time how much fluid I have had to drink beforehand, and then stay and 'rehydrate' afterwards.

OP and Charis, do NOT EVER go to a blood bank. There are people rehydrating all over the damn place.

In fact, this thread is making me thirsty.

Water is not natural and thirst is not real - statements like this are why I hope you aren't a teacher, Charis!

I am a science teacher.

No, pure water is not natural, it is manmade.

Thirst is imaginary stoic

OP and Charis, do NOT EVER go to a blood bank. There are people rehydrating all over the damn place.

not with water. You can request it , but it is frowned upon, for good reasons

Thirst is imaginary stoic the constant, insatiable thirst that leads to this habit of carrying a water bottle around and suckling at it all day certainly is.

Yes, with water charis. I will tell them they're doing it wrong.

I was a nurse, and breaks were not just a luxury - when you have been on your feet for hours, doing work that is hard physically, mentally and emotionally, a break is a necessity. Sadly it is one that many nurses do not get. This does not usually impact on patient care (because nurses make sure it doesn't) but does contribute to increased stress in the job, and difficulty in retaining trained staff.

I am not saying breaks are bad, the actually contribute to productivity and welfare. I am just saying they are not always available, and a normal healthy adult can easily work for the day without a drink if they have to, if it isn't too hot.

It's pretty much always too hot in a modern office though. They always seem to set the air conditioning to 'furnace'.

Yes, with water charis. I will tell them they're doing it wrong. report them.

I don't believe you, but if it is true, report them.

I have drunk pure water from a spring on the hillside near where I grew up. The spring was natural, the water was natural, and it was pure (according to the scientists who tested it).

And even water that has been treated is far closer to nature than cola or irnbru or other fizzy drinks fullof chemicals!

Chris

i think you are hallucinating from dehydration. I have never accused anyone before, so here it is for the first time: you are lying. you are not a science teacher. you are delusional

Believe me. And we don't even need to request it. It's just...right there. For us to fill our cup with and drink.

Yes. I will absolutely get right on to that.

the constant, insatiable thirst that leads to this habit of carrying a water bottle around and suckling at it all day certainly is.

It's not thirst. It's a dry mouth. They should breathe with their mouths shut, or stop talking for long enough to let their salivary glands do their stuff