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

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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.

We can all do a good line in anecdotal evidence I'm sure

same as you maddie, i took a flask my first day of work, just in case

I have a reusable water bottle I fill from the tap at home.

I have a resuable travel cup. I sometimes fill from where my meeting is. I sometimes buy a coffee to go in.

No issue with single use plastics.

I’m amused that taking a flask of drink is ok though whereas other people who drink out and about are beyond hope.

Oh, it was lighthearted random whinging at strangers? Oh in that case ...

protesting too much i think

I was in tesco this morning and saw three different people with Costa or Starbucks cups. Really can you not wait till you get home?

Unfortunately I don't have a Starbucks or cost a in my kitchen.

How can anyone get so worked up about people having a drunk of water or coffee on the go? Who gives a shot what other people are doing if it's not affecting you!

OP's username doesn't check out.

I purchased a dark pink Smash water bottle from Sainsbury's a while back (same shape as a Chilly's bottle, made from stainless steel as well) and it's been a truly marvellous purchase. Keeps my water nice and cold, which is what I like.

YANBU. This is not the Sahara. Continual slurping looks infantile and ill-disciplined. Of course I'm not saying that no-one should ever drink water on the go from a bottle, when they are really thirsty; but it has become habitual- something to fidget with. It particularly irritates me that no-one seems to be able to get through half a theatre performance without fiddling with a water bottle. Have a drink before it starts, then at the interval, then at the end: that should be sufficient. Plastic bottles are a scourge

And all this defensiveness! When I was at school my teachers didn't have water on their desks at all times to swig from. They waited until break time, went to the staff room and had a tea break. Same at lunchtime.

When I was at school, teachers had blackboards and chalk. We had two computers for the entire middle school. You had to have permission from the head to switch from school dinners to packed lunches. The school didn’t have its own website or email parents with information.

None of these things are true for schools now. Why should teachers not be allowed a simple bottle of water if they want one?

Drinking water is a trend now?

Goodness, there's some stupid shit posted on this forum these days.

"The lady doth protest too much" is what you say when you think someone is protesting their innocence so vehemently that they must be guilty. What are we meant to be guilty of?

Drinking water? 😂

Oh do sod off.

Wow, you are a sensitive soul. This is about people drinking from cups. Yet it riled you enough to say that?

OP, you do have a point but MN is full of on-the-go coffee drinkers who get defensive when other people ridicule the practice for various valid reasons and get frustrated at the litter and waste issue. But because the slurpers LIKE and WANT to do it, you’re being judgmental and unreasonable. Therr are lots of things that I like and want to do all the time but don’t because it’s bad for me, the environment or my pocket. But tell a coffee slurper that if they like coffee maybe they should be trying to encourage Britain to emulate European cafe culture and stop for 15 mins for a coffee in an actual cup, rather than the American “must have it NOW” culture.

Problem is you’ve got a generation of slurping kids so the problem is only going to get worse. At the school where I work the HT has bought EVERYONE (kids and staff) a plastic re-usable waterbottke (the “sports” kind, invented for SPORT ) They cause no end of trouble. The kids squirt water at each other, causing fights, slips on floors and problems for the cleaners, constantly slurp in class (a second or two at a time, multiple times throughout lessons) knock them over on the desks, let them leak in their bag and wreck library books and text books, are late to class because they’re refilling them at water coolers. Claim they need the toilet every half an hour because they’ve been drinking more. They leave them lying around school so they can’t be identified and a box of them is piling up in lost property. They will end up in the bin and on a tip somewhere. They are a total NIGHTMARE.

And I think back to my own childhood where you had glass jugs of tap water on the dining tables along with glass tumblers and wonder where the hell it all went wrong and society became so infantile with their hydration wants.

As a pp said, you don't tend to see older people carting water bottles around with them

the elderly are often dehydrated. Their kidneys do not function as well as they used to so the thirst reflex gets less efficient as you get older. The fact they don't carry bottles is not a point in your favour.

Drinking water is a trend now?

Did you read the title?
I believe the OP is referring to carrying a bottle or cup everywhere you go.

And yes, it absolutely is some kind of trend.

Slurper here

Agree, it is a trend,
Assuming you are older than 20, when you were a child, did you all carry around bottles of water?
it is only a recent phenomenon

that is crazy curlyhaired

Is it hot where you live right now? Only ...

"A bad temper is one surprising sign that you need a glass of water. If you are feeling grumpy - you might need to reach for a bottle of H2O"
www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/764422/signs-of-dehydration-water

Did you read the title?

Yes, I read the title. And I think the OP is being fucking ridiculous. Referring to something as innocuous as drinking water as a trend, ill-disciplined, infantile (etc) is also fucking ridiculous.

This is hilarious how angry this is making some people! How very definisive!

Has anyone seen the supermarkets recently and how many different types, shapes, sizes and themes of drinking bottles and cups there are now? More still, they change monthly to bring out different types, shapes and sizes.
It make anger you greatly (and wow, it really does, doesn't it?!) but whether you like it or not, the whole cup and bottle obsession is very on trend.

I agree with you, OP. leaving aside those people with a medical condition, I believe most people who rush around with cups of expensive coffee, or slurping water from a bottle are doing it to fit in with an image they've been sold, it's all part of fashion. The aggressive defence on here from some would tend to back this up, it's almost like you've touched a raw nerve.

Wow, you are a sensitive soul. This is about people drinking from cups. Yet it riled you enough to say that?

She said ‘sod off’. She didn’t threaten to murder the OP in her bed.

CurlyhairedAssassin speaks the truth.
I'm amused at the idea that a water bottle on their desk helps pupils' concentration.
The pupils who do concentrate seem to manage to have drinks at breaks and outside school instead of faffing about opening the bottle, taking a sip and putting the top on again, and repeat, and then needing out to the toilet during the lesson. Just another way for those so inclined to disrupt the lesson while claiming it's necessary for their health.

Has anyone seen the supermarkets recently and how many different types, shapes, sizes and themes of drinking bottles and cups there are now?

Yep. Isn’t that great? Especially when we should all be moving away from single use plastic, it’s encouraging that it’s easy and cheap to get reusable bottles.