Also, what they say about water intake is true.. and I'm struggling with that myself. I can not choke down multiple litres of water throughout the day and I have neither the time nor patience to be in the bathroom every 20 minutes. I haven't had any headaches as can happen with dehydration but my skin is definitely parched.
It reminds me of all this '5 a day' nonsense. Designed as a marketing campaing by the supermarkets to sell us more underripe, overpriced, watery fruit. I wouldnt be surprised if this 'drink at least a dustbin full of fresh clean water' thing and end up going to the loo every 5 minutes' is designed to sell bottled water...

Rather poetic, come to think of it.
Although I have more the accent of 80's South London because that was my time... people speak al kinds of weird accents in London now. I always find it great that ways of speaking that people like myself consider quite 'gritty' the Yanks find quite fascinating.
At my last job, there were loads of South African people, and they couldn't understand what I was saying lol.... mind you, one of them thought that mince pies contained real mince meat and pronounced mushy peas 'mooshy peas' so it takes all sorts I guess. Lovely people, by the way, before any SA's get offended by that. It was just an amusing culture difference.