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!

Feline - So are they reacting to the slightest urge to pee? In which case that is an issue.

Queeltie they're reacting to whatever their personal level of discomfort is. Again it is not for you to decide!

Im an HCP who works 12 hour shifts.
Yes I drink water Tap with lemon slices in it so fucking what out of a water bottle because its hot and I am busy.
This makes me very thirsty.
Luckily for me I feel thirsty, my colleague who didn't ended up with renal failure as a result

I don't pee much though, Im like a camel in that respect

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

Make it one long row with only 1 exit so that there'll be a continual conga of the barely continent passing in front of each other - then they can wait for the fecking DVD to come out....

This is the most bizarre thread I have ever read on MN.

Why would anyone care how much water others drink, or stay thirsty on purpose to prove some point about how they have not given into capitalism?

Do they also refuse to wear a coat in winter on the basis it is childish to put a coat on for warmth and you could wait two hours until you went back in and satisfy your capitalist desire for warmth then!

LOL this thread.

That is all I have to contribute.

Oh and I ejoyed my sausage roll, cup of coffee and e-cig whils perusing it.

This kind of thread makes me feel sad. I guess it could be seen as a venting tongue in cheek thread, but I'm struggling to see it like that.

Remember when tolerance it celebrated? Even supposed to be a 'British value'?

I know there's been a lot of 'except if you've got a medical problem', but the trouble is, people shouldn't have to beg to be excluded from the vitriolic judgements by explaining why they're different from everybody else. And actually, as I don't wear a badge (or a yellow star) on my clothes, then people like me DO get caught up in this unkind intolerance.

Im sure I'll get slated for playing the disability card, but it's exactly this kind of nastiness that means I don't get to join in things that happen outside my house, because the staring, evils and the tuts really hurt.

I'm with you OP. When we got out anywhere with MIL the first thing she has to do is buy a cup of coffee and she would rather spend money in a cafe buying lunch rather than waiting for the twenty minutes it would take to get home and make a sandwich. Then she often says 'I haven't had enough to drink today' I'm always thinking of saying to her 'here's a glass and there's the tap'.

I was pondering this very subject in a meeting yesterday.

I was born in the 1960s, so while at school had a drink at breakfast, a cup of water at lunch and another drink with tea. Probably another one before bed.

At work at age 16 again you had a drink at breakfast, tea break mid morning and mid afternoon.

Now people come to meetings with their water bottle, which they slurp from every few minutes. Is it really necessary?

You do realise that people are weeing in the toilet, not snorting a line of coke? Seriously, it's not instant gratification, it's taking a leak.

And anyway, I thought cinema-going was supposed to be fun? Popcorn, cup of coffee, sweets. What's the problem with that anyway? It's a treat. Or have I got it wrong? Should I be repenting my sins and enduring a fast while I'm at the cinema?

I love a mug of coffee during the film, followed by salty popcorn . Damn right I'm gonna need to pee after that!

I wouldn't say 'I'm dehydrated' but I often feel hungry when I really need to drink water- which is why is I get hungry I always try drinking first. Many a time though I've not thought or felt thirsty but my piss has been dark and told me I'm needing water.

Why would you hold yourself in the cinema if you needed the loo?Surely those who know they are weak bladdered- like DH- would book aisle seats to slip off quietly anyway?

So many professionally offended on this thread. There's no need to sip water constantly or clutch bottles everywhere, or inconvenience others by going to the toilet whenever the fancy takes you. Made so cross by the entitled approach some seem to have on this. Keep your bodily functions to yourselves.

I wouldn't say 'professionally offended', I'd say 'baffled' by your assertion that drinking water is passive aggressive (!). That really takes the crazy biscuit.

And unless they're urinating next to you keeping their bodily functions to themselves is exactly what they're doing by visiting the toilet.

So stop acting as though someone drinking water and visiting the toilet is a personal insult to you. Are you normally this 'me, me me'?

I think I should have a medal or something, I worked a 12 hour shift today on an intensive care unit, I wasn't too busy but according to my step counter thingy walked 4k. Had nothing to drink before work, during work had a can of pop with lunch, another with dinner and had a cup of tea and a tiny cup of water (prob about 150ml at most). I peed before coming to work and after coming home. So if I can go 12 hours on a fluid intake of probably less than a litre and a fluid output of nothing then I'm guessing most healthy adults physically could sit through a meeting or a film without either dying of thirst or pissing themselves.

However, when I got home this evening I was bloody thirsty and my pee looked like lucozade so, although constant drinking and peeing isn't necessary, I wouldn't recommend my way either!

It does quite amuse me as an intensivist though, I'm so fixated on urine output in my patients, as if they are making wee they must have a good enough blood pressure to perfuse their kidneys which means the rest of their body also has a good blood supply, they must have enough fluid in their circulation to be peeing and they must have functioning kidneys. So I get very stressed if my patients are peeing less than 1ml per kg per hour. Whereas I frequently go 12 hours without peeing and don't worry about that at all!

Have been enjoying this thread. But I must ask why older ladies seem to gulp down water from their (ever-present) bottles like they've been shipwrecked for a week?

P.S. I'm not so young so not speaking from prejudice

Nice simple debunk of hydration myths from a nephrologist (kidney specialist)here

Of course there are some people for a variety of reasons who need to be more careful about drinking than others. My dd for example gets migraines if she doesn't drink enough. But that's mostly about ignoring that she's thirsty, plus we live in a pretty hot climate (in Canada, hence the link from a Canadian news site).

I think the film issue probably has more to do with the 'supersize' phenomenon. Large drinks can be sold for fairly stupid prices at the cinema. We feel that somehow we have better value for money (some pretty good studies on this) even though we are of course essentially being ripped off. Then when sitting through the ads and the movie we can very easily drink a fairly huge amount of sweet pop without really thinking about it, and of course need to pee.

I do think that many people have taken in the 'must drink more' messages that the bottled water industry have so advocated. It's incredibly successful marketing, especially considering that for most of us water is totally free. If we only drank water when we were actually thirsty and when water was available from the tap then there would be a lot of companies making a hell of a lot less money!

is it just Brits that piss you off OP or is your rage extended to forriners who perhaps don't know or care about the stiff upper lip non-sense?

you need to chill out OP
honestly, take it down a notch.
you should be grateful that other people's water-drinking and toilet habits are your biggest problem.

I was told at the incontinence clinic, that it is not good for your bladder to go to the toilet over frequently. Your bladder needs to stretch to help ensure good continence.

And going to the toilet when you don't need to at the cinema, and missing some of the film, makes no sense

That depends on what causes incontinence.
if it is stress incontinence sneezing, jumping, coughing, laughing, even shouting or being sick with a full bladder has very undesirable side effects.
I'm used to holding it in beyond resonable. but more often then not it doesn't end well and I regret not going earlier.
take my word for it, after several pregnancies I am still the master of my bladder.
but total slave to my pelvic floor

This thread has to be a windup, I agree with miscellaneous and probably most of the other posters on 9 pages.

OP you may choose to remain in total ignorance about the benefits of being hydrated, and decide to get yourself in a lather about the fact there are intelligent people out there who keep their fluid levels up, your choice.

The reason there are more people doing that is because "strangely enough" they know the health benefits of not waiting until they get thirsty. Being thirsty means you are already dehydrated.

I have low blood pressure and the most effective ways of dealing with it is to stay hydrated so that the body produces increased blood supply and better circulation of blood.

If I were you I would lose your closed minded attitude to fluid levels because the only person you are harming is yourself.

I expect all the people in the cinema are rushing to the loo with their urine chart to make absolutely certain their wee wee is straw coloured (good) and not orange coloured (not good) just to piss you off, OP

Pun intended.

ZingDrama - I AM talking about stress incontinence. The continence nurse said a common reaction to stress incontinence is to go to the toilet frequently. This can actually make the problem worse in the long run. Your bladder needs to be stretched.

DaisyChain - The health benefits of drinking water frequently are a myth. Read Ben Goldacre on the science.