Comment by dataflow
10 hours ago
> So dumb to see office workers sipping all day on their gallon water bottles, while outside the workers in the sun on the construction site taking the occasional sip.
Dumb? People can't just drink their darn water as much as they please without getting judged now? What's your point?
I think it is more a comment about the insane size some of those beverage containers grew to over the years.
Some of them do indeed look like you could take a bath in them.
Then again, maybe their colleagues are using those as stealth biceps curl weights and are actually secret gym rats trapped at a desk.
It is still weird to see the health fad/moral panic/potomania in the US, about "drinking enough water". This is a borderline mania, that doesn't exist in other countries- including ones with hot climates.
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a60249105/how-much-water-t...
https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/do-americans-drink-mo...
https://www.delicious.com.au/drinks/article/why-we-so-obsess...
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/waterlogged-america-d...
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/08/drinking-...
https://archive.ph/Y0W7e
No, you are not "chronically dehydrated". The rest of the world isn't, and you wouldn't be either if you drank "only" two liters a day instead of a full gallon.
This is one more symptom of that "freethinking" country that falls for every con.
My theory is that the water obsession, protein obsession, "micro-exercise" fads like weighted vests and a lot of other similar trends are primarily just all about appetite control and "hacking" weight loss.
We had an office worker who became obsessed about dehydrating, undoubtedly after watching too much social media. She carried the bottle everywhere.
She arrived at work one day in a state of panic because her water bottle spilt in the car and she was terrified of becoming dehydrated during her 15 minute commute.
And no, there wasn't anything medically wrong with her.
> And no, there wasn't anything medically wrong with her.
Do you mean physically? The behavior surely sounds compulsive...
not the OP but: it's fairly obvious that those office workers force themselves, so you can't say "as much as they please", otherwise they d stop 3 liters earlier. So yes, you will be judged.
It looks pretty dumb.
Why are you monitoring your colleagues’ water intake?
because he s in front of me and i have eyes ?
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I drink water throughout the day and I most certainly don’t force myself. The fuck are you talking about?!
I'm sure he also goes to strangers in bars who don't order manly drinks and informs them they are not heterosexuals.