Hmm. In retrospect that post perhaps should have gone in a pit thread (I still haven’t quite got what level of hostility is appropriate in each forum). If it wasn’t appropriate here, I apologise, and any Mods feel free to delete it.
The point still stands though.
Your point is well made Kitarak. I avoid this trouble by never getting in the pool.
Recent conversation at the ocean:
Mrs. KVS: I’m taking the girls have to go to the bathroom.
Me: Why? Do they have to pee?
Mrs. KVS: Yes.
Me: Um . . . there’s a whole big ocean right there. [keep in mind the bathroom was two blocks down the boardwalk]
Mrs. KVS: Why would they pee in the ocean?
Me: Well, it’s good enough for the fish . . .
kitarak- “There are actually other pople using the pool, and I don’t think they much appreciate your peeing in the pool.”
They probably wouldn’t if they knew about it, but I don’t tell anyone, so they don’t know. And in this case, what you don’t know can’t hurt you- urine is STERILE.
And by your same ‘dilution’ argument, a person couldn’t pass gas in the Empire State Building, because anything that increases the concentration of unpleasant substances is bad, no matter how little it actually contributes.
I will admit to peeing in lakes, but I wonder, in retrospect, if that’s really such a good idea. After all, many lakes around here are a significant part of their cities’ water supplies. I could very well have peed in a lake and then drank it later.
Thank goodness for chlorination, that’s all I have to say! 
To start: I do not pee in pools. But for those of you who pee freely in the ocean, take this to heart. According to some researchers sharks can detect and attracted to the smell of urine in the water, just as with blood and sewage. Here’s a site on how to avoid a shark attack, and another interview on the topic of urine attracting sharks here:
That settles it, I’m stocking my pool with sharks.
Looks for the related thread called “Do you shit in the pool?”
Best line of the day award!! Bravo!!
I think it would depend whether I was expecting a floater or a sinker.
So why don’t you take a bath in it?
I ran across an article yesterday that shows that there is actually a valid reason not to pee in the pool (unlike the ‘reasons’ listed above)-
"*Last year, British researchers published a study finding an increase in asthma risk among lifeguards working at indoor pools. The researchers identified the chemical trichloramine as the potential cause of this occupational risk.
Trichloramine is produced when chlorine reacts with polluting proteins from swimmers’ bodies, such as sweat and urine.*”
I guess I’m going to have to start using the restroom now.
Surreal
You just go right ahead and pee in your pool if you want to. Never mind what all these people say. Hell, I’ll even come over and pee in your pool. [sub]From the edge.[/sub] Don’t even think of coming within a urine-stream of my pool.
I do, occasionally. But if I had my own pool I probably wouldn’t.
The solution to pollution is dilution.
I’m a pee’r.
Hint to female pool-goers … take a tip from lifeguards. You can quickly accomplish your peeing mission without removing the entire wet, clammy suit. Just hover, and pull your suit to the side. Fast and easy. You’ll never be tempted to pollute the waters again.
~Ellen, who never pees in the pool.
I look at it this way: It’s all a matter of degree… a few drops of tinkle in 18,000 gallons of chlorine-laced water? Big deal.
There’s five kids in my pool today, and I’m sure there have been zero bathroom trips since they went in (would have to call the wife to find out). Do I worry? Nope.
I figure that if anyone wants to get grossed out about pool contaminants, they should be more concerned with the three dead chipmunks and one plump dead rabbit I fished out a couple of weeks ago.
And does anyone consider that the pool water itself knows no boundaries? The water that is wetting your face could have been in close proximity to someone’s buttcrack moments before.
I try not to think about this kind of thing too much (yuk).
This is disgusting, I had no idea adults peed in pools. You don’t pee on the sidewalk in public do you? Do you walk through the mall and just pee when the urge hits you?
Yeck.
I would have to agree with Surreal and dont really mind the pool (or think about it) if someone goes in it. Urine is sterile. The reason you dont bathe in it is that it has ammonia and can be harsh on the skin (but so is chlorine). Its very good for athletes foot tho. It kills the fungus effectively. Anyone who has seen that great episode of friends knows its good for jelly fish stings as well. Anyone willing to go into a pool full of kids should understand the what they are getting into. Anyone who goes into the ocean and lake have an equal hazard (if not more). I dont mind the thought of pee in the ppool so long as its clear, clean and chlorinated. Just be sure to take a good shower afterwards or at the very least a long rinse.
Now…minor7flat5’s comment about the close proximity to someones buttcrack. THAT bothered me! :eek:
oh BTW being an adult, i try not to pee in private pools or small community ones. But if its a big public pool or a water park with dozens of kids, my 3 fluid ounces is not gonna register in any meter. I may go out of sheer laziness to find a public bathroom facility which btw may be teeming with fungus and other bacteria that bare footed people inadvertantly take back into the pool. I try not to open my mouth underwater either.
Wow. This is disgusting. I suppose it’s just my programmed mores and stuff talking, but sheesh. I had no idea that adults peed in the pool willingly.
I haven’t peed in the pool at all that I can remember, though I’m sure I must have done it a few times as a really little kid. I have peed in the ocean, but since the other option was peeing on the boat, I took it to be the lesser of two evils.
It’s not so much the overall contamination that bothers me; it’s the fact that urine takes a little bit to fully dilute. I mean, if you pee in the poll, it doesn’t instantaneously disperse over the entire pool; it’s concentrated. Basically, it is, at least for a little bit, a concentrated area of urine. I don’t really find that idea very comforting, no matter how “sterile” urine is.