I never used to go around with a water bottle, let alone, grab a cup of coffee

[LittleBookofCalm]

every time I went out.
what is it with people having to be constantly Slurping!

the world cannot cope with all the rubbish this causes.

Good to keep sipping - not enough people do it. So many problems from dehydration. And the coffee is a treat during the mundane shop :-)

@Lalliella

No one's judging you, no one cares how much water you drink or where you drink it. Just use a re-usable bottle

Have my first ever

Lalliella,

You get a free pass no problem.

Why is it consumerism and waste if people are re-using their bottles and cups? Odd post.

i have my own water bottle i take out with me

coffee all the time no

I have students attending 1 hour tutorials with me at University. They come loaded with their disposable coffee cups, their styrofoam take-away boxes and their disposable water bottles. We never teach over lunch (1pm-2pm).

After 4 separate tutorials, my bin is half full of their discarded wrappings, bottles and cups, and my room smells.

Why? Must they constantly snack, guzzle and slurp?

kennycat
But I love my camelback!
Although to be fair it only gets used during endurance exercise.

I don't think the OP is saying people should never drink coffee or water, more that they don't get the need to always have something to drink to go. (Dare I say it it's a bit like parents who turn up on the school run with a multitude of snacks because the 20 minute trip home or a half hour supermarket trip is tantamount to their child dying of starvation. Sure some will have after school clubs etc but most is probably the filter down of snack related marketing and spin).
Everything on moderation is totally reasonable. I do think there is an increased culture of can't wait for a meal, must have snacks available, can't wait for a drink, must have a bottle of water every 5 seconds. must have a coffee to go etc, but as you can't tell by looking at someone it's not something worth troubling myself with individual actions.

Thankfully, nature has a handy way of telling you if you’re drinking enough (assuming you don’t spend every day running marathons): the colour of your pee. And if you’re drinking every few minutes and still have yellow pee (and don’t already have a diagnosis), then it’s a doctor you need, not yet more swigging.

Incidentally, the obsession with “glasses of water” (why does it have to be a glass? And how big is a “glass” anyway?) gets particularly concerning when it’s HCPs who should know better. When I’d just had DD and was EBF DD, I said casually to the visiting MW/HV that it meant I was drinking loads more tea (reasonably dilute). Cue a haughty, “ I don’t think that’s a very good idea “, whereupon she lectured me about how it should be “X glasses of pure water”. Like that was going to happen - since unless I’m doing vigorous exercise, I’ve never much liked plain water. Thankfully being old & cynical my bullshit filter (but also my not seeing the point in arguing with her over it) was fully engaged - but this kind of pseudoscience really doesn’t help.

Wow you are so superior. Please tell us mere mortals how to live without hydration?

Katvic why don't you ban food and drinks in the lecture rooms. They don''t eat in class at school.

I don’t know what the issue is with people wanting to eat or drink on the go? If it’s waste and rubbish you are worried about then i get it!

I have to always have water with me & i used my reusable chilli bottle.

Also, i have a young child and find sometimes you have to eat and drink on the go!

Goggle4
Personally I have no issue of people eating and drinking on the go. I do it myself at times.
I do personally find the culture of endless eating, snacking, drinking to be a tad annoying and part of this culture of 'busy'.

I don't spend ages judging individuals, but do have my own feelings about the culture.

being old & cynical my bullshit filter (but also my not seeing the point in arguing with her over it) was fully engaged - but this kind of pseudoscience really doesn’t help

We might get on Sprogletsmuvva.

But 20 years ago no one felt the need to eat and drink every second of the day; so why do they now? No one died of dehydration then! And why is eveyone so defensive 😂

"I have students attending 1 hour tutorials with me at University. They come loaded with their disposable coffee cups, their styrofoam take-away boxes and their disposable water bottles. We never teach over lunch (1pm-2pm).

After 4 separate tutorials, my bin is half full of their discarded wrappings, bottles and cups, and my room smells.

Why? Must they constantly snack, guzzle and slurp?"

Why? Why must you can't you just say eating and drinking?

Why? Why can't you just tell them they're not allowed to bring food or drink in?

Why? Must they constantly snack, guzzle and slurp?

You mean eat and drink?

You mean, “eating”? Such a weird and emotive choice of words to imply there’s good eating (home cooked low cal meals at the dining table in your own home) and bad eating (basically everything else). So strange how frequently people attach moral judgements to food

So true shredded. You can always tell exactly where people are coming from in these food or drink related threads by their choice of verb: it’s always guzzling, slurping, troughing, filling their faces, noshing etc., never just ‘eating’.

Why does it bother you if I choose (and can afford) to spent £3.15 on a Starbucks?

I like coffee from a coffee shop, I'd rather have it in my hand and browse a shop than sit inside essentially doing nothing. Either that, or I'm running between offices.

Shredded,

I was working full time and sponsored by employer for a night degree, that was a fourteen hour day, but I was younger then!

Never remember having a bottle of water with me. I do remember the lovely grub in the Uni restaurant though!

One thing that has changed is the disappearance of refreshments in client offices and meetings. I remember turning up to a meeting at a public sector client office, a bit surprised to see my colleague with her Starbucks coffee in hand (a few years ago) . It was a four hour meeting and we weren't offered so much as a cup of tap water never mind a biscuit. Since then I've had no shame in going prepared.

I'm not bothered by people buying takeaway coffees or carrying bottles of takeaway water.

I don't understand why people do this on a regular basis unless they are regularly away from a reliable and clean supply of water do this but each to their own.

I get a bit cross with people who stand in front of me at the water dispenser every morning filling their 2ltr bottles ot water from the dispenser on the basis of some bit of pseudoscience they've read in women's magazines about the clarity of their skin or the colour of their wee.

Particularly if they can't be bothered to shift their arses throughout the day.

It's fucking garbage you stupid cows. Kidneys work. If they don't, you're fucked

Anyway, I am soothed since I was given this for nothing that I fill with tap water from home and drink until they've gone away.

globalwakecup.com/p/wakecup-bamboo-water-bottle