Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 10:00     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When I am in trainings or meetings at work, I'm almost always the only one without one, lol. I'm older than most of the people I work with, I'm Gen X and they are mostly Millenial and Gen Z, and I do wonder if that has anything to do with it.


Yes, there is. We are smarter than you.


Unlikely.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 09:58     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When I am in trainings or meetings at work, I'm almost always the only one without one, lol. I'm older than most of the people I work with, I'm Gen X and they are mostly Millenial and Gen Z, and I do wonder if that has anything to do with it.


This is OP (millennial) and I notice almost all Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z carry these bottles around. Boomers never seem to. Anecdotally, my boomer relatives drink water sparingly - with meals, maybe a glass here and there, but not sucking down water like they just walked a hundred miles across the Sahara.


Why the hell do you care what they do? You're such a busy body loser.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 09:56     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Anonymous wrote:It seems overdone with the water bottles now. I agree. They are everywhere and people leave them, kick them over, and knock them down. Are people cleaning them thoroughly? And, they are constantly buying new ones and getting them as gifts.


Not only are people not cleaning them thoroughly — those pricy filtered soft spout water fountains they re-fill them at are usually infected with mold, bacteria and old filters.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 09:54     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Millennial and Gen Z women have been programmed to not have babies and to instead lug around a 10 pound water jug 24/7/365 for years on end. Insanity.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 09:51     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Anonymous wrote:When I am in trainings or meetings at work, I'm almost always the only one without one, lol. I'm older than most of the people I work with, I'm Gen X and they are mostly Millenial and Gen Z, and I do wonder if that has anything to do with it.


They are brainless sheep propagandized by Wall Street created social media trends. These water bottle companies are all owned by hedge funds. If you think any of this viral water bottle crap is organic you’re an idiot.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 09:46     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Anonymous wrote:When I am in trainings or meetings at work, I'm almost always the only one without one, lol. I'm older than most of the people I work with, I'm Gen X and they are mostly Millenial and Gen Z, and I do wonder if that has anything to do with it.


This is OP (millennial) and I notice almost all Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z carry these bottles around. Boomers never seem to. Anecdotally, my boomer relatives drink water sparingly - with meals, maybe a glass here and there, but not sucking down water like they just walked a hundred miles across the Sahara.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 09:33     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Anonymous wrote:It always amuses me when I'm in a meeting and grown people are constantly sipping from the nozzles of their adult sippy cups. I can promise you - you will NEVER see the CEO or a top industry Palmer Lucky wont do it. You dont see them on the senate floor or in any board meeting.


That's because interns or staff bring water for them whenever needed, they aren't worried about bringing their own water bottles like us peasants.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 09:27     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Anonymous wrote:When I am in trainings or meetings at work, I'm almost always the only one without one, lol. I'm older than most of the people I work with, I'm Gen X and they are mostly Millenial and Gen Z, and I do wonder if that has anything to do with it.


Yes, there is. We are smarter than you.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 09:26     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
I drink about 10 glasses of water per month. No health problems. No meds. Plenty of energy. Work out 5x per week. Still have a job. Do all my own yard work. 70 years old.

And stay the F off my lawn.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 09:11     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
When I am in trainings or meetings at work, I'm almost always the only one without one, lol. I'm older than most of the people I work with, I'm Gen X and they are mostly Millenial and Gen Z, and I do wonder if that has anything to do with it.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 09:10     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I can remember in the 80s having high school sports practice in the hot sun after school. Nobody had a water bottle. Coach would bring a cooler filled with water and at break we’d lift it and take turns drinking from the spout. You’d get about five seconds to drink when it was your turn. And most of us had barely drunk all day, maybe a milk at lunch and a few gulps at a water fountain during school. Were we measurably less healthy or more dehydrated? We all felt fine.


I was just telling someone about this! The giant communal cooler! I can’t remember a single player having a personal water bottle. practices, games we all just used the giant jug.


People also smoked everywhere, didn't always wear seatbelts, biked without helmets...We all felt fine.



I remember having an assembly at school sometime in high school when a guy came to talk to us about how important helmet use was. He had sustained a traumatic brain injury from a bike accident that wearing a helmet would have more than likely prevented. It scared the hell out of me. When I was young I almost never saw helmets, now I can’t remember a time seeing someone riding without one.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 08:50     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I can remember in the 80s having high school sports practice in the hot sun after school. Nobody had a water bottle. Coach would bring a cooler filled with water and at break we’d lift it and take turns drinking from the spout. You’d get about five seconds to drink when it was your turn. And most of us had barely drunk all day, maybe a milk at lunch and a few gulps at a water fountain during school. Were we measurably less healthy or more dehydrated? We all felt fine.


I was just telling someone about this! The giant communal cooler! I can’t remember a single player having a personal water bottle. practices, games we all just used the giant jug.


People also smoked everywhere, didn't always wear seatbelts, biked without helmets...We all felt fine.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 08:48     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Anonymous wrote:I think the "forming an intense/reactionary opinion on everything" culture has gone too far.


THIS. Op and her supporters are losers. Mind your business.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 08:47     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
Anonymous wrote:It always amuses me when I'm in a meeting and grown people are constantly sipping from the nozzles of their adult sippy cups. I can promise you - you will NEVER see the CEO or a top industry Palmer Lucky wont do it. You dont see them on the senate floor or in any board meeting.


Since the Senate is completely dysfunctional and useless and most CEOs today are POS who completely F up their companies and then exit with their golden parachutes while their poor workers go look for new jobs...I'm totally cool with sipping on my "adult sippy cup".

You have basically just explained that a-holes don't drink water from water bottles. Cool. Cool.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2026 08:44     Subject: Water-drinking culture is out of control
The need to buy the latest cool bottle is worthy of criticism but taking water to a meeting is not.