"Drink 8 glasses of water a day"
LIES! GOVERNMENT LIES! There's absolutely no need to drink 8 glasses of water a day. It's a pseudo-scientific 'fact' spread by Them so that the people of this country can't overthrow parliament because they are too busy peeing all the time. Don't do it sheeple! Put the glass down!

*adjusts tinfoil hat*
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 14:06, 11 replies)

...and
it numbs your brain with all that flouride in it too! THAT'S the *real* reason they want you to drink it!
(dchurch bah, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 14:08, closed)

*glances over shoulder*
*murmurs*

Don't start me on Brita water filters either.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 14:10, closed)

Just eat 5 pieces of meat a day instead.
I suggest sausages, kebab, steak, bacon and a few lamb chops.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 27 Aug 2009, 14:17, closed)

I drink 8 glasses of wine a day.
I don't care who overthrows parliament.
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 14:22, closed)

Shurely,
throws UP over parliament.
'Ello bgb,how's you?
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 27 Aug 2009, 14:26, closed)

This gets my click
Just for the word 'sheeple'

*pees in corner*
( snee held his breath since, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 14:37, closed)

It's not spread by the government
but it is untrue. The actual recommendation was that you were supposed to take in (say) 8 glasses of water a day IN TOTAL - including such things as the water in tea, coffee, soup etc - not have all those things and then drink lots of water on top of that.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 15:20, closed)

Un-tea?
On Tetley boxes it warns that tea only counts toward your fluid intake if you drink 1 cup at a time, spaced throughout the day.

I always find myself wondering how tea stops becoming fluid if you drink two cups...
(Potedeian, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:15, closed)

If you drank all of your fluids all at once
you'd piss most of it out and then gradually get dehydrated throughout the rest of the day.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Sun 30 Aug 2009, 0:38, closed)

I remember reading
not so long ago. That someone had gone looking for the original research for how much water we need to drink, and couldn't find /anything/ ie no studies showing that you should drink any particular amount of any particular fluid to remain hydrated.
However, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence; so you'd probably better keep drinking something each day.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 16:48, closed)

It's not even as if there's a standardised unit called a 'glass'.

(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Sun 30 Aug 2009, 0:37, closed)