Random Rants ΟΔ: broken record

[Timsup2nothin]

Jesus how come nobody I know even drinks close to this much? Everyone I work with and am friends with comments on my water consumption. I'll end up drinking like 6-8 bottles today. Do I secretly live among people who no longer need water?

The vast, vast, majority of people do not hydrate at a healthy level, or anywhere even close to it. You do you, and if they have something to say about it just piss on them.

 

[Lexicus]

Jesus how come nobody I know even drinks close to this much? Everyone I work with and am friends with comments on my water consumption. I'll end up drinking like 6-8 bottles today. Do I secretly live among people who no longer need water?

I'm 6 ft 3 in and weigh around 200 pounds, and I drink at least as much water as you described. I try to drink close to 100 oz (8 12 oz cups) while at work, and aim pee maybe four or five times a day, again, just while at work. I drink maybe another 20 or 30 oz outside work and pee maybe 2 or 3 more times.

If I'm going on a hike or something I will drink up to 5 liters of water in a day (change to metric because that's typically consumed out of bottles that give metric measurements rather than cups that give oz measurements).

The vast, vast, majority of people do not hydrate at a healthy level, or anywhere even close to it. You do you, and if they have something to say about it just piss on them.

This is what I learned from my years as a swimmer. Our coach would tell us he wanted us drinking enough water that we peed "20 times a day" and with clear pee every time. I think 20 times a day was an exaggeration, but if I don't drink enough water I will really feel like crap at the end of the day.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Oh I end up peeing like 8-10 times at work. Maybe I drink more than I think? I have no idea. My world view has been shattered. My pee is definitely clear though. Crystal clear. Mmmmm.

 

[Takhisis]

Option B, buy a test unit and some strips and check your blood sugar.

Nah, because it would be any number of other things and there could also be the coincidence that GEFM has high water consumption/excretion and also high blood sugar for different causes. Just make SURE you mention it when you go to have a checkup.

 

[Lexicus]

Oh I end up peeing like 8-10 times at work. Maybe I drink more than I think? I have no idea. My world view has been shattered. My pee is definitely clear though. Crystal clear. Mmmmm.

I might be underestimating my peeing. I kind of want to keep a log now.

edit: of both water consumption and peeing

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Nah, because it would be any number of other things and there could also be the coincidence that GEFM has high water consumption/excretion and also high blood sugar for different causes. Just make SURE you mention it when you go to have a checkup.

This seems to be based on the assumption that the test unit will show that his blood sugar is high. I'm assuming that it would be normal and he could then put the whole diabetes thing to rest without waiting for his next checkup. Since my next checkup is never I tend to think along those lines.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I see my doctor about once every 5 years because going any more frequently is a fate worse than dying from some uncaught illness in between.

 

[Takhisis]

Please put your (future?) wife on the phone.

 

[Synobun]

Please put your (future?) wife on the phone.

Amerika, mijn vriend.

 

[Takhisis]

GEFM mentioned something about proposals and so on. Given how much women complain about what men do in the loo, it'd be better if we got GEFM to cut down on his visits to that one place where married men can enjoy peace and solitude. That way he'll really be able to appreciate it.

 

[Synobun]

GEFM mentioned something about proposals and so on. Given how much women complain about what men do in the loo, it'd be better if we got GEFM to cut down on his visits to that one place where married men can enjoy peace and solitude. That way he'll really be able to appreciate it.

Yeah, but you can pay for Netflix for over a year for the cost of visiting the doctor once.

 

[Takhisis]

What the- oh right, he lives in the U.S. where bad food, internet connections and bad porn are cheap but healthcare and decent living you can be simply priced out of.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I thought internet connections in the US were cheap only if you were lucky enough to live in a place with more than one ISP?

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Plus peeing on each other is free!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I don't think they inform you if they deny your application to vote by mail here. It's 8 days before the "we need to have your ballot in our hands" deadline for mailed votes and I still don't have anything. Guess I'm not voting? Pretty cool how they can just arbitrarily deny your ability to vote.

How did you actually do the application? Did you have to phone someone? Send an email?

Who is actually in charge of organizing the election there? Here it's the job of the City Clerk, and by this point I would be insisting VERY INSISTENTLY that this be dealt with.

They cannot legally deny you your right to vote. Is there a candidate you want to vote for? The way I handled the situation in 2015 when the <unprintable> Returning Officer pulled her "it's too inconvenient to bother sending a team over to your home" garbage was to contact the candidate I planned to vote for and he put one of his team on to help me. That person went to the Returning Officer and told her flat-out that it was unacceptable to deny me my right to vote. In short, I found an advocate to help speak for me. I persisted, wouldn't take "no" or any other crap for an answer, and she sent a team over so I could vote.

It's a bit depressing that I may have to go through this twice next year. But actually the provincial election wasn't a problem. Once I pointed out that the other levels of government allow in-home special ballots for disabled people, they had no problem about looking up the procedure and arranging it.

The federal election has been a nightmare on two occasions. The first time I flat-out asked, "Are you trying to deny me my right to vote?" and got a mealy-mouthed answer. So I ended up calling back the next day, going over the first EC worker's head, and got the ballot arranged. The first worker ended up getting fired.

You are a Canadian citizen who is over legal age, resident in the municipality where you intend to vote, you presumably have whatever ID they require, so they cannot deny you.

Be persistent. This is one of the most basic rights you have as a citizen.

 

[Synobun]

Minutes are expensive. I'd rather keep them for doctors.

Applications are done online through their website.

 

[JohannaK]

Doesn't really matter. The EU was a significant, but not really competitive economic unit when it included the entire UK. Reducing that to Scotland leaves them almost as far below significance as they are without them. And the thing that really made the EU significant in the world was the projection of the 'unity is possible' image. That could have been the foundation for the kind of world spanning coalition building that could actually threaten the US. Now they are just a collection of podunk states crying over lost glories, and asking why everyone pays attention to every little thing that goes on in the US but doesn't care what color panties Angela Merkle favors.

What the hell is the matter with Americans and their obsession with finding threats literally everywhere? And I mean, literally everywhere. Both amongst rivals, enemies, neutrals, friends, allies, and even fellow US citizens. The US war is not a civil war but an absurd one, one against reality first and foremost, and against the whole world insofar as it merely exists.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

What the hell is the matter with Americans and their obsession with finding threats literally everywhere? And I mean, literally everywhere. Both amongst rivals, enemies, neutrals, friends, allies, and even fellow US citizens. The US war is not a civil war but an absurd one, one against reality first and foremost, and against the whole world insofar as it merely exists.

I'm not finding any threats, no matter how hard I look. That's the problem. The UN exists to provide a rein on rogue states through other than violent means, and it works to a fair extent. But it can't work to rein in the US, because it would really take a world wide united effort. So the US has the capability to run completely amok, and as of right now it apparently has the inclination. That's a problem to be taken seriously.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Minutes are expensive. I'd rather keep them for doctors.

Applications are done online through their website.

So there are some advantages to having a landline. Doesn't the website have some kind of "contact us" if you're having problems or need to ask a question?

 

[Takhisis]

Plus peeing on each other is free!

Hey, diabetes mellitus is called exactly that because its sufferers' urine tastes sweet.

What the hell is the matter with Americans and their obsession with finding threats literally everywhere? And I mean, literally everywhere. Both amongst rivals, enemies, neutrals, friends, allies, and even fellow US citizens. The US war is not a civil war but an absurd one, one against reality first and foremost, and against the whole world insofar as it merely exists.

They don't speak Greek.
They have at least one major war every decade.
Their symbol is an eagle.
They call themselves a republic but they actually have elected monarchs and their legislative assemblies function like a court.
Their domains stretch from sea to sea.
They antagonise the Persians.
They think they defeated the Germans.

Let's face it, the U.S. are warmongering barbarians i.e. Romans.