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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!

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ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 16/08/2015 18:46

oh this thread is not to be anywhere near children, ever

SquirrelledAway · 16/08/2015 18:46

I don't think you mean "pure", I think you mean "non-saline". It applies to any fresh or brackish water. Salt water inhaled into the lungs is not absorbed into the bloodstream.

MiscellaneousAssortment · 16/08/2015 18:49

That's a massive leap in interpretation Charis though as its not what SallySparrow said.

And attempting to devalue a posters contribution by randomly diverting onto the topic of drowning in the bath is a bit odd.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 18:49

Salt water inhaled into the lungs is not absorbed into the bloodstream. yes it is, and is still dangerous, but less so, it is the purity of water that makes it lethal, its high water potential.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 18:50

the higher the water potential, the more dangerous it is to living cells, pure water has the highest water potential of all.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 16/08/2015 18:51

You know, I don't think Charis wants to answer my question - because it would involve her admitting that she is not omniscient, and does not know better than treaclesoda what was said in treaclesoda's medical appointments.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 18:52

That's a massive leap in interpretation Charis though as its not what SallySparrow said

it is what she said. Completely leaving aside her other scientific misunderstandings, she said that drowning people don't absorb water into their blood.

I didn't cause that diversion, she did.

but I'm glad she did, as there was a chance to put her right.

MiscellaneousAssortment · 16/08/2015 18:55

Ah but the hedgehogs would have eaten the acorns had you not stolen their dinky little boots, so it is you that caused my reportable offense [argument master stroke! Blames others for own words]

GrumpyOldBiddy2 · 16/08/2015 18:57

And this
The poster was under the impression that she would save her children from drowning if she emptied water out of their lungs.

is how you interpreted that.

You see the issue?

SquirrelledAway · 16/08/2015 18:58

No it's not: salt water is usually more than 3% NaCl, water is drawn from the blood into the lung tissue and produces severe pulmonary oedema and hypernaetremia. Simultaneously, salts from the water pass into the blood stream, leading to a rapid haemoconcentration, increased strain on the heart and a fall in blood pressure. Death occurs from hypoxaemia.

Unless you know something BMJ does not?

"Purity" is a meaningless term. Are you sure you're a science teacher?

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 18:59

GOB, exactly, that is what she said,

ArgyMargy · 16/08/2015 18:59

But the kidney stones 'n things surely only kick in at 2% dehydration as per your post? Thirsty is 1% so as I said before no consequences from being thirsty.

As you were.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 19:02

"Purity" is a meaningless term. Are you sure you're a science teacher?

of course purity isn't meaningless, it has a very specific scientific meaning. I'm sure you know that. Again, I really don't believe you are as silly as you are pretending to be!

And of course salt water can be dangerous to living cells as well, I said so, but the onset is slower, and you have more warning. It doesn't kill blood cells instantly, the way pure water does,

treaclesoda · 16/08/2015 19:08

Where was the post about her emptying water out of her children's lungs? I can't find one and I'm completely confused. I only saw the one where she referred to drowning.

Whatthefucknameisntalreadytake · 16/08/2015 19:08

If I'm going to have any psychological addiction I can think of worse ones to have than water!
Some people seem to be psychologically addicted to be ridiculous twats on the Internet but each it their own.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 16/08/2015 19:11

you mean unicorns, surely Confused

GrumpyOldBiddy2 · 16/08/2015 19:12

When? Have re read the last three pages and can't see that anywhere but I will happily stand corrected if you can point it out.

noeffingidea · 16/08/2015 19:16

Charis is talking about secondary drowning. She is correct in that respect, it does happen.
I think we've finally established that drinking water is a good thing. It's just that charis thinks that drinking it out of 'sucky bottles' is a bad thing. Oh well. Never mind.

MiscellaneousAssortment · 16/08/2015 19:18

Where did the idea of children come from? And where was the mention of strategies of saving from drowning? And where was it said that by removing water from the lungs by some unspecified mechanism was a life restoring action?

That's an awful lot of 'interpretation' from a small paragraph of text which didn't mention any of that.

If you wanted to start a new topic then that would make sense, but it's stretched credibility when you put all those words and ideas into another posters mouth and then use that mass of added meaning to discredit the poster concerned. You can't expect people to be persuaded into believing you are right above all others by using those flawed strategies.

But you have done a great job of diverting people from other issues on the thread such as the magical ability to appear in other peoples medical appointments, and quite why you are so personally inconvenienced and harried by other people's drinking habits.

MiscellaneousAssortment · 16/08/2015 19:21

Ooh ooh Zing, unicorns are pure :) Only virgins in a full moon are able to stroke them I believe.

Smugly joins up thinking

noeffingidea · 16/08/2015 19:30

You know, I've never drunk water from a 'sucky bottle' before but now I know it pisses people like Charis off I'm going to make a point of doing it in public. I might even make loud slurping sounds and squeeze the bottle to make crinkling sounds.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 19:36

I have listed the ways the sucky sucky baby bottle habit inconveniences me. It is a constant source of noise, time wasting and mess. It is also a dirty, germ spreading habit and environmentally damaging. It cuts into productivity massively. And there is no need or reason for any of this, it is just a totally artificially induced faddy dependency.

yes it is bloody annoying for many of us, But I don't think it will last long. Just until the pendulum swings the other way again, or the court cases start.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 19:37

You know, I've never drunk water from a 'sucky bottle' before but now I know it pisses people like Charis off I'm going to make a point of doing it in public. I might even make loud slurping sounds and squeeze the bottle to make crinkling sounds.

and yet people up thread were claiming that it isn't passive aggressive! Of course it is.

Charis1 · 16/08/2015 19:39

That's an awful lot of 'interpretation' from a small paragraph of text which didn't mention any of that.

I don't care how you "interpreted" it, to me it showed a quite terrifying level of dangerous ignorance which I am happy I was able to correct.

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/08/2015 19:40

I suggest you visit HR tomorrow and tell them of the aggression you're suffering under the water drinkers.

I'm sure they'll be interested.