Drinking water

[davy watts]

Everyone bangs on about drinking loads of water being good for you but whenever I do I just keep p*ssing it out all day long. What's all about?

[Brendan]

That?s why it?s good for you. It stops you from sitting still for long periods of time.

[Ted Max]

Once, long ago, when a man felt thirsty he could, all by himself and quite unaided and unprompted by lifestyle magazines, daytime TV presenters, and that smug git in the office who goes to the gym at lunchtimes, walk to the tap and pour himself a glass of water.

This, combined with a cup or two of tea, perhaps a juice in the morning, and something passable but inexpensive with his meal, was enough to get him through the day.

But now he must sit, Evian bottle constantly present, swigging every few minutes lest the feared and mighty dehydration monster attacks him and shrivels his dermis, dries his eyes to spent husks, and allows millions of toxins unchecked access to his pancreatic lining (or something).

Swig swig. Swig. Mummy. Another swig.

[Asset]

by the time you're thirsty it's too late - apparently

[Ted Max]

Yes, you must never ever feel less than wobblingly full of water, otherwise your ears droop and your liver starts to cry.

[bigbadwolf]

Can I just say how well presented I thought Ted's lament was. Bottled water is becoming far too fashionable these days. So much so, that now even infants are complaining to mum and dad that they don't get a dose of Pelegrino on the taxpayers ticket like the brats in the rest of the E.U do.

Has anyone seen the recent ad featuring low clalorie water. What's next? Are Volvic going to re-package earth, wind and fire?

[Brendan]

Bollocks. If you drink 14 bottles of magic volcano water a day it makes you play softball. I saw it on the telly.

What this country needs are more people who will stand up and say, ?Yes, I want to play softball.?

[davy watts]

They used to say Tea didn't count but I recently read that drinking tea now does count.

[bigbadwolf]

Do you quench your dogs thirst with sparkling middle class Evian after it's had a lug on your pipe Brendan, and has it got to the stage where it turn it's snout up at old fashioned tap water?

[Brendan]

My dog drinks nothing but single malt scotch and the blood of his prey.

[bigbadwolf]

I thought that was you in the EDT last night Brendan. Was the dog buying?

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[flapjackdavey]

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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What's next? Are Volvic going to re-package earth, wind and fire?

oh I hope so !

Dance Boogie Wonderland Dance Dance Dance ... etc .

[woofmarkthedog]

I love "Peckham Spring" myself.

Though pushed to buy bottled I have preferences as some do taste diff & even more so if in glass. ( oh gawd here we go )

W**F

[Asset]

Bottled water is the bane of the planet man. Nowt wrong with the stuff from the taps. At least we are lucky enough to have a water supply.

Where my mum lives in the Borders there is no water supply and her water is run-off from the hills into a tank and thence to the hoose. Yon hills are covered in sheep dontcha know. She recently had her water tested by the environmental health people and it failed on the presence of Ecoli bacteria, and that's with a filtration system. Yum!

[computedshorty]

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[legalbeagle]

I can tell from this thread that none of you have had kidney stones. I know someone who has and believe me after that kind of pain you'd spend the rest of your life sipping almost any available liquid for fear they return. I'll just leave you male cynics with one thought. If kidney stones can't be broken up with a lazer beam (and many can't) then they have to be smashed up "by hand" during surgery, and there's only one way in........

[sophiesofa]

Leaglebeagle I have kidney stones and had kidney surgery and I tell no lie I drink a minimum of 3 litres of water a day, more in the summer mainly due to fear of more kindey issues! As a result I have spent many an hour searching for toilets when out and about so can sympathise with comutedshorty.

99% of it comes from a tap - far cheaper and nearly as yummy.

[SteveT]

I have suffered with occasional pain from kidney stones since my twenties, it's like a disease, always with you and you do anything necessary to prevent another attack.

I gave up booze and did not miss it one bit, as it was booze which incited it with the dehydration. I drink lots of water and not much milk other than for cereals, because of the calcium which forms the stones. Whitebait is not recommended either because of the tiny bones, but I still indulge sometimes as it's sooo delicious.

My favourite water for taste is Buxton by a streak. When I go to the swimming pool and people have a bottle at the end of the length to sip, I find that idiotic, as no-one I ever knew became dehydrated whilst swimming.

I use tap water and fill bottles which are kept chilled in the fridge and it is like a different drink, I rarely drink it straight out of the tap unless it's in the heart of winter. Thames water tastes good though like sophiesofa says.

To stop the constant P***ing add some elderflower cordial, it doesn't pass through your system quite so quick Davy Watts.

[legalbeagle]

Luckily for me I haven't had kidney stones but they do say it is the closest to understanding childbirth a man can get - and the cure is to shove a surgical impliment up your willy!! Keep drinking the water folks!!

[HonaloochieB]

Alcohol is rubbish, it's water only for me from now on.

[Ted Max]

Obviously, you know, always read the label, and pregnant women, children and people with kidney stones please speak to your pharmacist, but in general you can trace the decline of this nation to the moment when adults decided that walking around attached to the teat all day was acceptable.

A faint miasma of dehydration is good for the humours. It keeps sweating to a minimum and discourages unmanly thoughts in a woman.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Bugger that. I used to dream of being shot putt champion.

[ruffers]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6846641.ece

First water fountain for years opens in Hyde Park

[SteveT]

Peckhamgatecrasher wrote:- Bugger that. I used to dream of being shot putt champion.

An interesting dream that PGC, but of course you would need to change your name to PGCovski, as they always seem to be bearing Russian names, those shot putters.

[Muley]

PGC, were you raised on Scott's porage oats, and did you develop 'feelings' for the beefy, kilted shot-putting bloke pictured on the box when you were but a wee impressionable lass?