# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157 "2026-01-29T18:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2181 "2026-07-02T23:40:46Z")
When I was a kid, our HOA ran a pool, and every year, their pool opening announcement included the warning that they added a disclosing chemical to the water and urine in the water would make it turn purple. Even at nine (or maybe I was ten), I was a skeptical empiricist, so I tested it, and released a full bladder into the pool. Bupkis. Liars. That whole summer, the pool became a giant toilet bowl, complete with diving board and lifeguards. I haven’t done it since then, though. Honest. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2182 "2026-07-03T00:59:54Z")
Former lifeguard and poil manager, here. _Everybody_ pees in the pool. Everybody ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2183 "2026-07-03T01:05:29Z")
I created the pool-peeing poll because I recently read that guys (don’t know about the girls) who do competitive swimming routinely pee in the pool. It is supposedly standard behavior, even talked about openly. I also read that some folks who patronize the swim-up pool bars that many resorts offer have no qualms about emptying their bladders from their barstool. Some sit there and drink all day without excusing themselves to visit the necessary room. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2184 "2026-07-03T01:12:06Z")
Doody! 🥔 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2185 "2026-07-03T01:20:45Z")
As long as you get the solids out, and the pool is chlorinated correctly, that won’t be a proble, either. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2186 "2026-07-03T01:23:15Z")
That would require competence and integrity from those charged with that responsibility, so my warning stands… ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2187 "2026-07-03T01:24:16Z")
I think a kid who’s somehow gotten to age four or nine physically with no human contact during those developmental stages would be a badly messed up human. And if they are getting human contact during those crucial ages, then if I’m going to have a child at all I’m not going to outsource all of it and expect the poor kid to be handed off to me as a stranger. Yes, sometimes in adoptive situations in the real world there’s no choice — but to deliberately plan it that way? That’s ugly. So while being able to outsource the pregnancy seems like a good idea — safer and easier for both mother and fetus/neonate — leaving the child in whatever limbo till age four or nine or even one seems like a very bad one. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2188 "2026-07-03T02:35:14Z")
[![](https://www.mypoolsigns.com/img/lg/S/welcome-funny-pool-sign-s-5608.png) ](https://www.mypoolsigns.com/img/lg/S/welcome-funny-pool-sign-s-5608.png) ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2189 "2026-07-03T04:51:50Z")
I’ve urinated while swimming in the ocean, but never in a pool. Even in the ocean, it was very difficult for me to do it. Somehow my body strongly objects to urinating while wearing a clothes, even a swimsuit. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2190 "2026-07-03T06:57:57Z")
I’m an active sleeper. I move around a lot in my sleep. I thrash my arms and legs in my sleep. And I talk in my sleep. So when my wife asks me about my dreams, I ask if I was thrashing or talking. Find out what _she_ knows, then tell her what is safe to tell her. Fortunately, I’m not a sleep-walker. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2191 "2026-07-03T09:17:36Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > Somehow my body strongly objects to urinating while wearing a clothes, even a swimsuit. This. I need to be able to whip it out and shoot the pee away from me and anything I’m wearing. But I’m not much of a pool person, so this particular question is rarely an issue for me anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2192 "2026-07-03T11:14:57Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > Somehow my body strongly objects to urinating while wearing a clothes… Long distance runners sometimes opt to pee themselves during their run. The one marathon I ran, I really, really had to pee around mile 11. I tried to make myself go, but I just couldn’t. I stopped and visited a porta-potty to relieve myself. I don’t think it was that I was wearing clothes that prevented my urinating, I think it was that I was moving. I cannot pee while running. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2193 "2026-07-03T11:32:16Z")
I never used to wash my clothes before wearing them the first time. My wife has very strong feelings about this so now I wash them before wearing them the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2194 "2026-07-03T12:29:18Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > [https://www.mypoolsigns.com/img/lg/S/welcome-funny-pool-sign-s-5608.png](https://www.mypoolsigns.com/img/lg/S/welcome-funny-pool-sign-s-5608.png) Yes. Yes, there is. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2195 "2026-07-03T12:47:53Z")
I voted that I would not tell my wife about the dream. However, I might tell her about it, but say it was her. My wife is not naturally jealous, but her previous husband was a cheater, and she has some residual trust issues that I wouldn’t want to trigger needlessly. (I have never cheated on her and never would, but she worries about it because of her history) I love old neon signs. We have one in our kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2196 "2026-07-03T14:23:03Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I love old neon signs. We have one in our kitchen. What does it say? I’m guessing “Eats”. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2197 "2026-07-03T14:23:44Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > What does it say? “Good Coffee” ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2198 "2026-07-03T14:49:41Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > “Good Coffee” Jumbo Shrimp Military Intelligence all of the above are in the same category! @Fear_Itself, your photo or a random intertubez grab? I like it if it’s yours. Yes, I lurves me some neon. I have a couple of pieces in my house & have shot a lot. Was even interested in doing a coffee table photo book of it back in days of film photography. Never did, though. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2199 "2026-07-03T16:01:44Z")
I made it on ChatGPT from this B&W pic I grabbed off Facebook: [![](https://i.ibb.co/VcS26F83/FB-IMG-1782994702755.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/VcS26F83/FB-IMG-1782994702755.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2200 "2026-07-03T17:03:16Z")
If you are looking for something interesting to do in Las Vegas I suggest going to the Neon Museum. It has a lot of the old signs from famous Vegas landmarks. The guided tour is worth it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157.md?page=111)