Why do some folks have to schlepp those big Nalgene bottles everywhere?

[Squatch]

Staff meetings, cubicles, etc. Wherever they go, so go their bottles.

You're sitting there in a meeting, trying to pay attention, when out comes this:



Look, dickwad, this isn't an expedition to Everest. You can leave the camping gear at home.

[StaggerLee]

1. I had a smaller bottle that wasn't so intrusive

But I left it at the bar a week ago.

:cry:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. There might not be another source of water for 2, maybe even 3 cubicles!!

Good god man, how do you expect someone to last that long!!??

[Squatch]

3. If they break out one of these, I might say something:

[no name no slogan]

4. You've never been to one of my meetings

They're a combination of a summit shot, having your wisdom teeth removed (sans anesthesia), and a Dubya State of the Union Address. Not for the fainthearted.

[Misunderestimator]

5. I prefer this myself

[DS1]

6. That's because you're just another fucking amateur. I carry my dowsing

sticks everywhere I go

[Misunderestimator]

12. Well, I used to carry this around... but it got kinda heavy.

[XemaSab]

67. That's the ticket

Last summer I was working on a project that required a LOT of walking in the HOT HOT sun, and I'd have a GIANT camelback plus two nalgenes, and every day I'd run out of water. :(

[Theres-a]

7. HAHAHAHA!

:spray:

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Because they think it makes them look hip, and they also think

that by carrying around stuff made for hiking that they are outdoorsy people, and they can claim that they get a lot of exercise because, look, I have a nalgene bottle, and that's the same as hiking.

[LostinVA]

9. To go you one better...

I have a colleague who takes this GIGANTIC one to every meeting we have. The meetings usually last about an hour. Guess how many times he drinks from his Big Ass Nalgene (BAN)? An average of THREE TIMES. Yes, I have averaged this. The meetings are boring. I count his sips.

[swag]

10. Because those Nalgenes are their Bah-Bahs.

Weaned too early, those people were.

[Left Is Write]

11. When I went to meetings...

I brought coffee.

[Gormy Cuss]

13. They're being environmental conscious and conspicuous.

The less enlightened would bring in those standard issue water-in-a-throwaway bottle. The unenlightened would bring water from the tap and drink it from a foam cup.

Office water politics: it's so entertaining. :donut:

[nutsnberries]

31. i'm Less Enlightened Plus

you wouldn't be able to tell from your casual observation, but

i REFILL throwaway bottles.
use them for a day or two, then recycle.

(edited for word!)

[Gormy Cuss]

47. Ah, half way to enlightenment

I was kidding, except about the office politics part. I remember people discussing brown baggers vs. cafeteria eaters vs. out-to-lunchers. It just cracks me up that people care about these minutiae at work.
:donut:

[nutsnberries]

50. what about the permanently

out-to-lunchers?

those people suck. :)

[Sugar Smack]

52. Hey, we're just having some light-hearted fun.

You know? ;-)

[Gormy Cuss]

64. Oh darn!

Here I thought we were breaking the lounge etiquette and having a flamewar.;-)

[Sugar Smack]

66. This is the funniest thread I've been in

in a long time. Mine was a "bad copycat" that outlived the original.

:D :rofl: Love it! Bottled water/flame fest

[Name removed]

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[grace0418]

15. Because I'm supposed to drink more than 64 oz of water to help

with a medical condition and having a clean, unbreakable, environmentally friendly bottle with me at all times helps me do that?

But gee, thanks for assuming that I'm a dickwad who thinks I'm going on an expedition. What the hell skin is it off your nose anyway? Does the bottle make a loud noise? Does it get in the way of seeing your powerpoint presentation? What's wrong with your concentration abilities if someone's water bottle can distract your attention away at a meeting?

[Squatch]

16. What, you can't use a cup or a glass?

Just have to have the damned bottle to carry around 32 ounces of water wherever you may roam.

[TimeChaser]

17. Cups and glasses spill easier

[Squatch]

18. Well, maybe one of these will help

This guy is demonstrating the proper use of a glass

[grace0418]

20. Tell that to the "dickwads" who bring glasses of water to my

presentations then proceed to spill them on the mock-up I spent three hours making. Me? I'll be enjoying my bottled water, thanks.

[Left Is Write]

28. I'm really baffled as to why it makes any difference to you whatsoever

what anyone drinks their water out of.

[grace0418]

30. He never has an answer for that as many times as I've asked.

He just keeps implying that I must be some clumsy, wilderness wannabe.

[Squatch]

36. .

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Nothing but love for you, baby. You and your huge bottle of water. lol

[jpgray]

19. So they can drink water

Or disguise their grain alcohol addiction.

[Taverner]

21. South Beach, Atkins, Carb Busters, Weight Watchers

All the major diets require you to drink at least 64 oz of water a day....

[Left Is Write]

29. Diet, nothing. Common sense says to stay hydrated.

:P

[Pacifist Patriot]

62. Diets? Your body requires you to drink that much. Did you know....

an estimated 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated? If you get the afternoon drowsies it's more likely to be dehydration than lack of proper sleep or a "sugar crash." It's a leading cause of chronic low grade headaches. Unfortunately, thirst is not the first symptom of dehydration. Fatigue and headache are.

[imperialismispasse]

22. Nalgene bottles don't smell inside the way plastic water bottles do

[Patiod]

53. Nice avatar, Imperial

Reminds me that we haven't re-upped our partial-season tickets yet

[imperialismispasse]

55. Pitchers and catchers!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

[Patiod]

56. GalleryGod is going to Clearwater shortly

He's been tormenting me with images of Chase, Jimmy, Ryan and Pat (he knows they're my favorites)

[imperialismispasse]

57. I like Chase Utley

He's got heart and he's a great hitter. Which means they'll probably trade him.

No I'm not bitter. :D

[Squatch]

58. S'cuse me...unless you include "Nalgene" in your responses

I'm going to have to ask you to leave. :evilgrin:

[imperialismispasse]

59. Woops sorry

Ha ha got caught in a little non flame war action. We'll just be over here...

[pitohui]

23. because they don't got enough carcinogens in yr tap water?

isn't nalgene supposed to be v. v. bad and only worth the risk for survival situations?

[grace0418]

26. I thought that was the plastic used in regular water bottles like Evian

and Dasani that was really bad. I thought Nalgene was better. But I could be wrong.

[pitohui]

60. natural home magazine says you're wrong

they recommended against nalgene

if you're gonna drink it, it should be in a glass container

i don't know if natural home is online but here's an online quote--

Nalgene Lexan (polycarbonate) bottles, used in the recreation / outdoor containers were recently found to leech bisphenol, which research has shown has an adverse effect on prostate development, tumors, breast tissue development, sperm count and enlargement of fat cells in the body. Scientists have warned against allowing any polycarbonate plastics near your food or water and stated the devastating effects of these chemicals posed the biggest risk to babies during early development.

[grace0418]

61. Interesting. Thanks for the info.

Well, I don't think a glass container would be a good idea for me, I guess I'll just have to deal or find something else.

[eyesroll]

24. I just wonder when we began to think we all needed water all the time.

I'm not talking about people with medical conditions here.

I'm talking about the need to have a water bottle with you EVERYWHERE. In the bathroom. On a car ride to the McDonald's a mile away. At a funeral.

It doesn't bug me at a work meeting, though -- I bring coffee to those, so I'm not one to judge.

[nutsnberries]

25. Squatch, I think I know why you're having trouble staying focused,

you're dehydrated. ;)


Nah, who am I to make assumptions?... maybe you bring a glass of water with you.
nevermind.

[Sugar Smack]

27. You have a low threshold, don't you, Squatch! ; )

That's OK, so do I! :rofl:

[Squatch]

32. Crap, I go away for lunch and 1/2 of the replies are gone.

What did I miss?

[Sugar Smack]

33. AMAZING. You and some other people turned a thread about

water into one of the biggest flame fests I've ever seen! A thread about bottled water!!!



:applause:

[Squatch]

34. Dammit. Any highlights?

[Sugar Smack]

38. Well, you were there for part of it

and then *BOOM* everything just EXPLODED!!!!!!

like this----> :nuke:

[Sugar Smack]

39. And I thought water was for putting out fires,

not causing them. ;-)

[ProfessorGAC]

35. That'll Teach You To Eat!

Now you've missed everything for something as unimportant as eating! Actually, Squatch i didn't see the thread until now and it looks like everything is here to me! But, i'm late to the game.
The Professor

[democracyindanger]

37. Ha! You think that's water in there?

Boy have you been missing out.

[Jara sang]

40. They are nearly idestructable

Take one full of water, toss up as high as you can over a parking lot, it will come down and bounce around, not breaking.

[Squatch]

41. Just don't do it around Dick Cheney

Pull!

[Sugar Smack]

44. OH,JINX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You owe me a coke!!!!:D

[Sugar Smack]

42. Would it survive a hunting trip with Cheney?

:D

[Squatch]

43. Beat you to it!

[KFC]

45. Why the fuck do they have a scale on the side?

Are you supposed to drink precisely 3 oz every 5 minutes? Annoying.

[Shakespeare]

46. George Carlin once made an excellent point...

...RE everybody walking around with water bottles: "When did we, as a nation, become collectively dehydrated?"

[nutsnberries]

51. people like my parents- rarely drink anything...

a little coffee, a little oj - that's it.

they're in their early 80s and they seem to think
"drinking is for sissies"

to me, that's more WTF than anything! but, whatever...
they're still doing ok, even if they are a little shrively.

love ya mom, love ya dad! :loveya:

[Patiod]

54. Maybe I'm just old

I remember when you were allowed to walk down the city streets without your phone in one hand, and either a big water or a big Starbucks cup in the other.

I remember when people heads did NOT have wires coming out of them, either. (My SO thinks that pretty soon babies will all have a permanent phone embedded in our heads at birth, sort of like Borgs)

[Pacifist Patriot]

65. I have no idea when, but the majority of Americans ARE

consistently dehydrated. Despite all the water bottles around, apparently not enough people are actually drinking from them regularly.

[yellowcanine]

48. They come in real handy if you need to whiz and can't find a bathroom.

Just duck into a closet or stairwell and let her fly! (Drink the water first if there is any doubt about holding capacity. This may require some higher math regarding volume of a cylinder, etc.)

[no name no slogan]

49. Mine came with its own Sherpa, so no, I don't carry one

[Pacifist Patriot]

63. Just a guess, but...

to stay properly hydrated? I don't bother with my own personal sherpa-tank but I do generally have water around. Especially if I'm going to be stuck in some dumb meeting. Gives me something to do with my hands instead of choking the crap out of the idiot who just uttered the stupidest idea on the planet. And with my mouth instead of telling the guy he's an idiot. ;)

Urge to asphyxiate? Hydrate!

[graywarrior]

68. Try sitting next to someone at an AA meeting and listening to

the gulping of water followed by the sound of suction when they take the bottle out of their mouth. I know I'm a total freak but that makes me want to 1)Slug down a beer or 2)Slap the shit out of them.

[izzybeans]

69. I remember it becoming a fad in college. Clip it to the North Face

bag and trek down the side walk to your Political theory class. Next hop on Mountain Bike and ride down the street listening to some Rusted Root. I guess those folks have graduated. Maybe afterwards we can hit the microbrewery for an organic brew or two. Then when done we can fill up your bottle and ride home, listening to
Dave Mathews.

Dude did you borrow my cargo shorts? No but I so totally picked up a vintage t from goodwill. It says Bob's trucking on it. Cool? Cool.