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Measure your bladder capacity

11:33 / 23.01.05

It being a slow sunday, thought I'd juice things up a bit. Have you ever wonderd how much your bladder can hold? Well, I've been intregued for ages at how my partner drinks tiny amounts and needs to wee constantly, while I gulp down pints of water and hardly go at all. So, decided to do a little experiment, measuring jug in hand. And my bladder can comfortably hold nearly a pint.......amazing!! Anyone else up for it??

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11:36 / 23.01.05

Your partner may be a mouse.

11:54 / 23.01.05

You know, shrews don't drink at all - they get all the moisture they need through their food.

12:15 / 23.01.05

I can easily drink a 2litre of pepsi.

12:52 / 23.01.05

Mine can hold nearly a...um, excuse me...

*runs*

13:40 / 23.01.05

ahh, but keggars, can your bladder hold two litres of pepsi all at once?

15:35 / 23.01.05

Yes. Yes he can. 2L of Pepsi, two coffees, one tea, and half a bottle of wine. Then he excused himself for a while.

16:06 / 23.01.05

Oh it all seems big and clever 'lets all measure our bladder capacity' and then someone takes it too far and everyone ends up covered with piss and other assorted ex-bladder parts...

19:19 / 23.01.05

Do you promise?

19:43 / 23.01.05

I had the pleasure of pissing in a bottle once, thus finding out that my bladder can, very uncomfortably, little over half a litre. Whether it can hold more than that, I am not really interested in finding out.

20:09 / 23.01.05

Yeah. During a plumbing fiasco I found that one and a third Potnoodle pots were horrifically easy to "juice up".

20:11 / 23.01.05

To be fair, though, I did obey the Water Fill Level at all times.

09:52 / 24.01.05

I'm sure I've filled a two-litre Pepsi Max bottle in the past.

08:29 / 25.01.05

So modern maenad, how do you know it's your bladder and not your other assorted innards holding this volume of liquid? You're asking Keggers about his 2 litre Pepsi challenge, and I'm asking you!

Apparently, the more you go the more you need to and going when you don't need to causes you to go more. This can have serious knock on effects especially for women as it can lead to incontenence in later life. I've noticed old men needing to go a lot just for a small amount, and find myself needing to get up at least once in the night to go (sometimes 2 or 3 times if after a night on the lash).

There's the whole thing with being stoned too. Have you ever noticed that when you pee when your stoned it seems to last forever. Maybe it's because you don't notice you're bladder needs emptying so readily or maybe it just seem that you're peeing for ages when you're not.

Hmm - one of life's great mysteries.

08:49 / 25.01.05

Jub - you see, its was exactly that kind of pondering that lead to the whole sorry enterprise in the first place. I suspect I have too much time on my hands.....As I mentioned it all started with my amazement at how little my partner drinks and how much he goes. I, on the other hand, would appear to have elephantine insides (and christ I hope its my bladder holding the yellow stuff). I tried to get him to measure his urine output, but he declared that I was disgusting and would have nothing to do with my attempt at scientific endeavour. Hence the invitation to all on Barbelith to, you know, compare sizes (and I'm talking about how much you wee in one go, not through the course of the day). And yes, I too have heard that its bad to go too often. Have also read that, contrary to popular opinion, its bad for women to try and exercise their pelvic floor muscles by stopping mid flow. Wow, who'd have thought there would be so much to say on urine - and we haven't even touched on the subject of drinking it yet (No!). On the stoned point, I'm afraid its been too long, can't remember.....

08:56 / 25.01.05

I always seem to take in more than I put out. i can go five or so pints without feeling the need (got up to seven with Guiness) but just seem to piss a little longer than usual.

14:12 / 25.01.05

"So modern maenad, how do you know it's your bladder and not your other assorted innards holding this volume of liquid?"

True, I think the only way to tell would be to measure on the way out as opposed to the way in. Your body would absorb a certain amount of liquid. May depend on what the liquid is, as well. I'm being serious, I'm not just taking the piss out of your bladder. Heh, I had to . Come on.

18:49 / 26.01.05

all I know is that at the start of the evening I can comfortably sink three pints before I need to go (sometimes the better part of the fourth too).

But once i've "broken the seal" (Rogers Profransaus) it drops to every pint. Pint and a half if I'm in the middle of an interesting conversation.

19:05 / 26.01.05

The breaking of the seal is an odd phenomena. I've always wondered why it happens is it psychological or is there an actual biological reason for it?

20:30 / 26.01.05

I will theorize:

When you start the evening you have a certain capacity in your body for absorbing liquids, thus you can drink 3 pints before going.
However, once you've, as you say, broken the seal, your body has used up most of it's capacity to store excess liquid, and so, you can only drink a pint before going again.

08:42 / 27.01.05

Pants Payroll - I think the only way to tell would be to measure on the way way out as opposed to the way in.

That's what I'm talking about (evidently incoherently!!). How much does your bladder hold? - determined through weeing into a measuring recepticle......!! Go on, have a go, you know you want to...

06:09 / 30.05.05

My bladder can hold a pint. I'm surprised, because I'm one of those people who needs to pee frequently, or at least I thought I was.

"Oh it all seems big and clever 'lets all measure our bladder capacity' and then someone takes it too far and everyone ends up covered with piss and other assorted ex-bladder parts..."

Yeah, as I was reading this thread I was thinking, "I hope no one waits too long and ends up like Tycho Brahe, the astronomer whose bladder exploded." Of course, to really end up like Tycho Brahe, you'd have to have your bladder explode, and then have someone poison you with mercury.

06:21 / 30.05.05

An astronomer killed by mercury? I don't think he saw that coming!

I'll get me coat.