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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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MackerelOfFact · 12/08/2015 16:53

I have a 1 litre Camelback slurpy bottle thing on my desk that I refill around three times a day.

I don't really care that you care. And don't quite understand why you do care. Your argument that 'people survive without' is ridiculous. People survive at work without toilets, chairs, computers, all sorts of things that I have access to at work. Of all the things in the modern world that people really can't survive without, water is not one of them.

FanOfHermione · 12/08/2015 16:54

Good point Queeltie

FanOfHermione · 12/08/2015 16:57

Well people will care when actually it does impact on them (eg getting up to go to the loo at the cinema, can't cope wo a drink during a meeting etc etc).

It does impact when you see peope eating people all day long. Because yes it's not for them but it also makes ME want to eat more too (plus the breaks etc etc).

There has been a thread yesterday(?) about how in France/Europe people don't snack all day long. If they can do it, why can't we? If they don't need to go to the loo during a 2 hour film, why can't we? If they don't have to drink so often, why can't we???
Why is it that we all seem to need that drink/snack/trip to the loo?

Feline9 · 12/08/2015 17:01

How does someone getting up to the loo affect you? If your attention span can't withstand someone quietly getting up that's your issue. Same with "seeing them eat makes me want to eat". I'll ask again why someone drinking in a meeting affects you?

People are different about food. I'm more of a grazer than an eater. I can't stand big meals and prefer to pick at smaller things. Couldn't give a shit what other countries do, my eating doesn't affect anyone else and anyone who's offended by my drinking/eating/using the toilet vs quite frankly suck a dick.

Feline9 · 12/08/2015 17:01

Can not vs

ComfySensibleShoes · 12/08/2015 17:03

YABU to be so uptight about this!!

I rarely notice how often other people eat/drink/wee. I'm surprised to hear that anyone can actually be irritated by other people's liquid intake.

I'm one of the people you have so much hatred for - I always take a drink of water out with me, I drink a lot of water because a) I love water and it's pretty much my only drink, and b) shock horror - I get thirsty. Oh, and I have been known to say to DP 'I feel really dehydrated, have you seen my water anywhere?'. I feel lost when I don't have a bottle of water to hand!

I also snack frequently, or eat small meals regularly, as my body prefers small regular meals throughout the day rather than 3 hefty portions and nothing in between.

Of course, all that regular water-drinking and eating means I need to go to the toilet frequently too! Oh boy, you must truly deeply HATE me.

goodasitgets · 12/08/2015 17:03

I use an insulated cup because normal cups aren't allowed in my office. I do drink maybe 3 or 4l water a day but I answer around 150 phone calls and it makes your mouth/throat pretty dry especially with air con!

avocadotoast · 12/08/2015 17:08

Sweet jesus why are people such dicks about people needing the toilet?!

I don't see how getting up to go to the toilet plays to "instant gratification culture". FanOfHermione, I might go to the toilet before the film and need to go during as well. Why should I feel bad about fulfilling a bodily function? It's not like I actively choose to need to go at that moment. Good grief.

Charis1 · 12/08/2015 17:19

Its all very irritating and pointless in my opinion. Water won't hydrate you anyway, it just makes your pee more. Bottled water is a huge consumer con with devastating environmental effects.

ppeatfruit · 12/08/2015 17:26

Sorry what DOES hydrate you then? Fizzy drinks are more of a consumer con and are more environmentally disastrous. Charis! At least bottled water doesn't rot your teeth.

Tanaqui · 12/08/2015 17:29

Going to the loo in the cinema/ theatre IS rude- you get in people's eyeline, you make others on the row stand up or move sideways, and should only be done when really neccessary- go beforehand!

Feline9 · 12/08/2015 17:33

No it isn't rude, if you want to see the film alone pay for the whole cinema or wait till its on DVD. It's a public space, people eating/going to the toilet is perfectly okay

ppeatfruit · 12/08/2015 17:38

Despite my water intake I have trained myself to have a pee every 4 hours or so.

I'm upset about the volume control in cinemas I reckon they must have shares in deaf aid manufacturers. I avoid the places like the plague because I value my hearing.

trollkonor · 12/08/2015 17:40

Why would you notice or care about someones liquid intake.

I have water with me in the office because the air con dries out my throat, I have little sips occasionally. In the evening I will have a glass of water besides me, this annoys you why? We're all different, I work with someone who's only fluid intake for the entire day is 4 cups of coffee. She doesn't feel thirsty often, i dont get it but thats fine, we're different people.

I grew up in the 70s and went to the toilet before a film, then during the interval. Now there is no interval! So yes, peope will go during a film. I cant ever remember going to a film and most people not having food and drink. It was a treat to go, sweets were part of the treat.

People in Europe don't drink or go to the toilet when going to the cinema? Since when? During a German exchange in the 80s I was taken to the cinema and was given drink and sweets. Its highly likely that I went to the toilet. I went to the cinema in France a couple of years ago and people had food and drink and went to the toilet. In offices in Europe water and coffee is certainly served and consumed.

noeffingidea · 12/08/2015 17:50

I've heard it all now. People moaning about the amount of water other people drink. Unbelievable.
I'm just going to carry on drinking water whenever I feel thirsty. It's got absolutely fuck all to do with anyone else.

SoleBizzzz · 12/08/2015 17:54

Ooh my mouth is as dry as a sandman's flipflop.

FanOfHermione · 12/08/2015 18:00

Well sorry but it IS irrtating when the person nmext to you gets up walks in front of you (bith ways), or the one sitting right ion front of you gets up and blocks the view. How could you fail to notice that ?!?

Same for eating noisily (eg wrapping paper making noise and so on).

But actually I'm more at the level at which people are saying 'actually it's not rude'. Im sure that behaviour was seen as rude just a few years ago. You would never have never seen that happening before.
Are people getting less and less bothered by people around them that they just don't care?

FanOfHermione · 12/08/2015 18:02

Don't be so obtuse. No one has ever said you should never drink fgs!!!

What the OP is talking about is obsessive drinking so much so that you just can NOT be wo a drink/a snack/a loo nearby. Notb the same thing and you it.

Feline9 · 12/08/2015 18:04

They block your view for a very small amount of time. Like I said if you don't want any noise during a film, wait until it's out on DVD.

And I'd struggle to hear people moving wrappers over the noise of the cinema..

Going to the toilet in the cinema has never been seen as rude, people have always done it. Pissing yourself however, is another matter

Queeltie · 12/08/2015 18:18

Anything liquid hydrates you, including food with liquid in it including fruits, soup, and sauces.

MrsMook · 12/08/2015 19:46

Teenagers with water bottles drive me around the bend at work. The act of drinking water in a lesson isn't the problem, but the debates over what is/ isn't water, the peeling of labels, the scrunching around of empty disposable bottles, the over flowing bin or detritus left on the floor... It adds a whole new layer of irritating low level disruption. And yes, the requests for the loo that start up 10 minutes after break because they can't possibly last 50 minutes until lunch. Arrgghh!

Most healthy people without underlying health issues should be able to have some flexibility about when they drink and not need a continual drip feed.

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 13/08/2015 13:41

They block your view for a very small amount of time. Like I said if you don't want any noise during a film, wait until it's out on DVD.

Sums it up really, the we're becoming a nation of "fuck you, I'm alright" selfish Twunts whose needs require instant gratification or they'll explode, dehydrate or just squeak "don't you oppress me" if forced to wait.....

And if you think this lot are bad, wait until their kids start......

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 13/08/2015 13:43

If you can't sit in the cinema for 2 hours without "rehydrating" or having a pee you should really get it checked out, cos somfink ain't right!!

Tenieht · 13/08/2015 13:56

All this constant sucking on water bottles like babies is bonkers . You are NOT dehydrated if you are thirsty., you're just thirsty. It's really no harm to go for a few hours without a drink.

Feline9 · 13/08/2015 14:00

Know not sure how you can call anyone selfish when you're the one moaning about people using the toilet when they need a wee!

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