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!

Oh and there's nothing wrong with me thanks, sorry I can't carefully time my pissing around your schedule

I don't understand what people are clutching their pearls at really.

Thirst is the physical sign of de-hydration. Just like being tired is the sign of needing sleep. What is so modern and "twatty" about that? Hunger is often the body mis-interpreting thirst as well, so if you drink more, you tend to eat less.

I'm not sure what the OP is pissed off about - people saying "I'm dehydrated" rather than "I'm thirsty" (which would probably get irritating) or the fact that some people drink loads and need to carry water with them. Some people need to drink more than others, why is that such a big deal? Especially if those people are doing regular sport or are very active.

I drink water near constantly. If I don't I just feel ill. I go nowhere without a bottle of water, but admittedly this has got worse since getting pregnant.

Then again, I drink constantly, and have had a water infection maybe....once in my entire life. One of my sisters only drinks when she is properly thirsty, and gets water infections multiple times throughout the year.

The point being made is that people shouldn't use their selfish need for instant gratification to impinge on others lives. You swilling gallons of water in the cinema and constantly going to the toilet ruins my film experience which I've paid for.

It's all bullshit put about by the bottled water industry to increase sales.

And it's bloody insulting to talk about healthy person in the developed world being "dehydrated".

Goodnessgtaciousgouda the need to drink water constantly sounds like a psychological affectation rather than a need. I work with someone like this and their water bottle is like a crutch , just like a baby's bottle.

Ten how does someone quietly going to the loo disturb you? Maybe you ought to get your attention span checked out. :)

Jesus christ, I can't remember the last time I saw such jumped up self righteousness.

Those people have paid just as much money as you, and if anything, they are the ones missing out, as they miss five minutes of the film having to go to the loo! If someone getting up and going to the loo "ruins" your film experience, then I pity you. Some of those people might be pregnant, or have bladder issues, or have just off of a disgustingly hot and sweaty tube journey, but they can't drink or go to the loo in case they "ruin" your cinematic experience? And best of all, THEY are the ones being selfish.

Classic.

Exactly goodness

water bottle is like a crutch , just like a baby's bottle. exactly

They are being selfish and should go to the toilet before the film , sit still and be quiet throughout the film unless it's an emergency, not get up willy nilly.

goodness, it sound like you have a psychological addiction to having a bottle with you.

Water isn't going to rehydrate you or prevent water infections.

Ten what if they didn't need it before? They've paid their money, they shouldn't have to sit through needing a wee. If you're so intolerant of others why not just wait until the film comes out on DVD?!

I think it is simply part of the instant gratification culture. The idea that we shouldn't feel thirsty or hungry without immediately gratifying it.

My but what Puritan values you must have, disapproving of someone being so weak as to give into their thirst. Luckily I'm not afflicted with Puritan values and am happily to swig away if the notion takes me.

Hell in a handcart, that's where I'm headed.

Yabu.

It's good for you to keep drinking throughout the day if you can. People probably were less healthy when they rarely drank water.

I can't see why people drinking water would be annoying.

My mum used to scoff at 'adult babies sucking on bottles'. Then she got cystitis on the day that she had to make an eight-hour coach journey. Bad scenes. Doc said it was a direct result of dehydration. she still doesn't drink enough water but she at least allows me to drink what I want without comment :-)

They should wait and be considerate of others. Most adults with an empty bladder should be able to last an hour or two. If not, they should be at the doctors getting checked out, or at home where they can rent DVDs and visit the toilet every 5 minutes if they need to.

I have no scientific qualifications but through experience I can state categorically through empirical investigation that if I sit down near anyone aged 11 or under they will instantly ask for a drink.

Some Googled research
scienceornot.net/2012/08/21/am-i-drinking-enough-water/

All of the PPs saying that carrying a water bottle around with you is somehow being babyish or part of instant gratification culture -- where and when do you drink water, and out of what? I carry a bottle around because it happens to be a pretty handy receptacle for water when I'm not in my own kitchen with a glass to drink out of.

I don't see how carrying and drinking water out of a bottle is any different from, say, carrying a thermos flask of coffee with you - it's just more convenient. Or is that also a psychological crutch?!

Ten so people who do have issues should never see a film lest they disturb your film? Piss off.

Regardless of whether they have issues or not, it is a public place, people have to be tolerant within reason. It is not unreasonable to use the toilet. Get over yourself, you're not that important

Also i agree with squoosh

visit the toilet every 5 minutes if they need to.

Needing to go to the loo once within what could be three hours (including trailers =/= once every five minutes.

I don't drink tea or coffee so I'm happy to balance things out by tutting disapproval at the caffeine addicts.

'Do you really need to start your day with a coffee?'
'Don't you worry you're addicted?'
'Don't you feel you waste a lot of time making teas and coffees?'

They'll love it.

Perhaps there should be a row at the back for the weak bladdered then we could all be happy.

Bloody hell, who gives a shit if someone else is having a drink or not? What possible impact can somebody else sipping water at work have on you?

I don't particularly care about other people and their hydration habits.

Unless they talk about it. I hate people talking about food and drink in any descriptive way. "Oooh, I'll just have a little slurp of my water", "I need a gulp of tea", "I've nibbled on picky bits for tea", "I've just picked at some crumbs for supper".

Now, those people make me irate.