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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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Scoobydoo8 · 21/08/2015 07:29

The first thing they did when I came in was shake my hand and then give me a bottle of water in case I needed a drink

Surely due to the anxious cough syndrome when people are put on the spot (eg last winner of apprentice). Not dehydration. Also gives candidate something to fiddle with.

treaclesoda · 21/08/2015 09:06

Scooby , exactly! And that's what made me inwardly laugh because I thought of this thread and the horror that Charis feels at 'suckling' and the 'emotional crutch' of drinking water.

CheeseToastie123 · 21/08/2015 12:09

I am applauding. This thread has been a shining example of internet chat. Sterling work, everyone. Some truly courageous sanity, some truly scary insanity. Everyone deserves a pat on the back.

ppeatfruit · 22/08/2015 08:41

Thanks Cheese that's a first for me Grin (I hope I'm not in the insane camp though Grin)

MiscellaneousAssortment · 22/08/2015 15:10

It's a travesty that this thread was sacrificed to the hullabaloo of recent days, it got starved of attention just when it was peaking in the bizarro craziness stakes. Sniff sniff, damn Jeffrey, reaches for bottle - water bottle natch.,,

DurhamDurham · 22/08/2015 16:37

I hope it's a plastic 'sucky' bottle.......

MiscellaneousAssortment · 23/08/2015 23:15

Slurp sucky sucky slurp sucky sucky, crinkle crinkle crunkle of the plastic, and ooh look, I spilled it everywhere!

Hang on (wails), I lost my boooootttttlllle... AIBU to steal my babies milk bottle and dummy instead? (Oh, too far? Grin)

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