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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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IfNotNowThenWhen · 13/08/2015 15:00

Ooh I agree with you about the volume in cinemas ppfruit
Especially the volume of the sound effects. And all the actors mumble. So you will straining to hear the dialogue, which is just a massively amplified mumble mumble mumble then someone strikes a match and it's so loud it blows your ears off.
And it's never dark enough. Maybe that's why people didn't used to go to the loo during a film in the olden days? It was pitch dark not like now.

awoke · 13/08/2015 15:01

Yanbu, OP. I was talking about something similar on the theatre thread earlier (adults drinking from bottles unable to wait until the interval)

ProvisionallyAnxious · 13/08/2015 15:01

Of course you can cope without drinking for a couple of hours. But, when it harms absolutely no-one for you to drink more regularly, why not? I know that I feel badly at the end of the day if I haven't drunk enough over the course of the day, and I'd just personally rather drink a third of a bottle once every half hour or hour or so than down two glasses at lunchtime. I don't see that as a weakness!

Feline9 · 13/08/2015 15:02

queeltie it may fuel overeating in YOU don't apply that to others. I can't stand meals for example, doesn't mean meals are inherently bad.

ProvisionallyAnxious · 13/08/2015 15:02

Queeltie, we're not talking about over-eating. You can be one of those awful people who carries a water bottle around without snacking all of the time!

BlackBetty · 13/08/2015 15:05

Agree!

achieve6 · 13/08/2015 15:05

I don't understand the constant eating but I do also notice that if I sit through a film or long meeting without drinking, the next day I'll get a stitch if running. Annoying.

noeffingidea · 13/08/2015 15:09

Snacking and drinking water are 2 different things. If you feel thirsty then you should drink.
Drinking water isn't a new thing. People used to use drinking fountains or take water out with them in a beaker or flask.
As for moaning at people using the toilet in the cinema, let's hope that no one has a bladder problem, eh? Obviously they should just wear tenas to suit some people.

Queeltie · 13/08/2015 15:11

I do have a bladder problem, I rarely have to use the toilet in the 90 minutes of an average film. If your bladder muscles are so weak that you can't, you should tackle it, as it will only get worse as you get older.

Feline9 · 13/08/2015 15:13

Queeltie it's not for you to tell people how to deal with any issues they may have.

Queeltie · 13/08/2015 15:18

Bladder problems tend to get worse in adults as they get older. It is important to tackle them as soon as you can.

ProvisionallyAnxious · 13/08/2015 15:19

Modern feature films apparently average around 2 hours in length. Then if like me you're not daring enough to turn up 20 minutes after the advertised start time and thus have to sit through the 30 minutes of ads at the start, you're looking at 180 minutes of film. Sometimes it's just a matter of not wanting to be squirming in your seat wishing the film would end for the last half an hour! People who go to the loo during films have paid for a ticket just the same - why should they be uncomfortable for half the film to avoid potentially distracting others for a few seconds?

Feline9 · 13/08/2015 15:22

Queeltie again enough with the health trolling it's not for you to tell others how to deal with their issues.

Also people can't piss on demand.

noeffingidea · 13/08/2015 15:22

Are you medically trained Queeltie?
Perhaps they should just remove all the toilets from cinemas, just so that no one is tempted to use them.

Queeltie · 13/08/2015 15:22

So if you go to the toilet at the start of the film, you really can't wait to go to the toilet until the end, without squirming uncomfortably in your seat?

Feline9 · 13/08/2015 15:23

Queeltie that's assuming you need it at the beginning, anyway sometimes that happens, so what? If you can't concentrate because someone politely walks to the loo maybe you should focus on the issues you obviously have with attention span

Queeltie · 13/08/2015 15:25

I haven't said I can't focus. Please don't put words in my mouth.
I am of the generation that goes to the toilet at the start of anything I will have to sit through, to empty my bladder, even if I don't feel I "need" to.

noeffingidea · 13/08/2015 15:26

What generation is that then, Queeltie?

Feline9 · 13/08/2015 15:27

Queeltie that doesn't mean you won't need it later...

You clearly can't if someone walking to the loo ruins your experience

ProvisionallyAnxious · 13/08/2015 15:28

Just looked it up and apparently between 6-8 times a day is not excessive. So even if you only go six times a day and you're up from, say, 7pm-11pm then you'll go roughly once every three hours.

I don't usually need to go to the loo during a film but I definitely have gone out during longer films. And yes, I think it's pretty uncomfortable to feel you need to go but to not go - is that so controversial?

ProvisionallyAnxious · 13/08/2015 15:30

If we're throwing around unqualified medical advice here I'm pretty sure that going when you don't need to (just like holding it in when you do) is not ideal - that, indeed, it leads to increased bladder sensitivity and a more regular desire to urinate...!

Queeltie · 13/08/2015 15:30

I haven't said it ruins my experience, that was another poster.

I am just genuinely amazed if lots of people can't sit for 2 hours without going to the toilet. And I am wondering why that is. Are younger people's bladders weaker these days?

I am in my 50's.

And I don't want to go to the toilet at the cinema because it ruins my experience. I want to see all of the film.

Feline9 · 13/08/2015 15:31

Queeltie it's not that they can't, more that people don't feel the need to make themselves uncomfortable and not not use the toilet

Queeltie · 13/08/2015 15:32

Provisionally - I have had medical advice around my continence issues. Going to the toilet before you see a film, unless you are going to the cinema four times every day, will have no impact on your bladder

ProvisionallyAnxious · 13/08/2015 15:33

Well, then you sit through the film without going! But why should someone else, for whom missing three minutes of a film is preferable to having their legs crossed for the last half hour, not quietly and unobtrusively slip out in order not to ruin their experience?