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Before modern life, we had plenty of opportunity to urinate well before it became a serious problem.

If we were intelligently designed, after all, I think God would call holding it for hours a "user error" and mark it "won't fix".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death

Now I have something to be paranoid about and will be going the bathroom as much as possible.

Alcohol is a double-whammy because it induces a degree of transient paresis, allowing the inebriated to hold it longer than they should. Just don't fight the urge and you'll be fine.

You should do that in any case. Putting it off is not good for your prostate.

You died. A burst bladder is quite fatal.

There are lots of epic fails by evolution, is more about quantity than quality so to speak.

An extreme outlier is hardly an 'epic fail'.