You’d be hard-pressed to even be able to detect the amount of pee in your own pool from a few kids without some very expensive lab procedures and equipment, and sorry people, it ain’t gonna hurt ya… it just ain’t. The only real reason people don’t like it has to do with the “Ick” factor. That’s fine for you and your pool personally, but it’s not the kind of will one should try to impose on others (and expect to be taken seriously over).
One other thing… in public pools one of the big reasons the chlorine concentrations are so high is because they expect people to pee in the water. They add enough chlorine to deal with it as well as “other” things that people may deposit in the water. They add so much chlorine that even with all the skin, sweat, pee, spit, oil, and God-knows-what-else the water is still safe to drink - they have to since they know people will be accidently swallowing the stuff. I’d be much more worried if I were submerged in raw water (aka lake/sea water)… that’s likely to have parasites and or pathogens floating around in it, along with all the other dead rotting things that are found in aquatic ecosystems.
Since I’m on a roll here, I’ll bet that if you cut your own pee say 1:10 with tap water, you could feed it to people and they’d have no clue. I’m also willing to bet you could whizz in your own bathwater, and not have any human being on the planet be able to tell with just their eyes/noses even right after you got out of the water. It’s just diluted too much.
Good gravy, what’s the big deal? Urine is essentially sterile – and essentially a cleaning agent – ammonia. Roman Emperor Vespasian charged cleaners for the urine they used to take for “free” out of the public urinals to use as a cleaning agent.
Pee is “clean,” just stinky, and in a pool (as mentioned above), too dilute to overpower chorine stink-wise.
Bowel products, however, are another thing. Beyond the obvious stench and grossness of the solid product, it can filled with tons of bacteria.
Nope. Not in anyone’s pool, public or back-yard. As has been pointed out recently in other threads, various ocean-dwelling animals deposit TONS of bodily waste per day into the ocean.
It’s called the beautiful cycle of life, people. Fear of Great White Shark attacks aside, I will admit here that I have been known to pee in the ocean. **IT’S THE FREAKIN’ OCEAN ! **.
You want ick factor? Try swimming down around Wildwood, New Jersey when there are bits of bloodborne-pathogen covered medical syringes washing up on the shoreline. Talk about yer ick factor !!!
I have constantly peed in public swimming pools in the past, citing the sterility of urine, the strong concentrations of chlorine, et al. and convenience as an excuse.
Now that I realize how many other people engage in such free elimination, I will strongly consider refraining from this practice, as well as avoiding public swimming pools in general. Yuck.
By the way, I’m sorry to report that, based on my observations of unattended children during one summer day of yore, brown-eyed mullets do not float like they do in the movies.
Usually I try nt to pee in the pool but sometimes tehre isn’t a choice.
Most motel pools don’t have a ladies room by the pool. In that case I pee in the pool.
If I’m at the beach on the river I always go out in the river to pee. Sometimes I go in the river just to pee in it.
How about finding empty medicine capsules, filling them with food coloring and gluing them to inside of a victim’s swim suit?
Put up a sign warning of a new chemical in the water - you know, the urine detector…
I have a pool, and frequent a pool forum. It ran a pic of a pool it said was a public pool in China (yeah, the Red one - lord, I miss the name) - the water was a very dark brown and the people were packed as tightly as an elevator in a high-rise at rush hour.
Urine and feces.
Incredible, but the place was not noted for either pranks or racism, so the potential for them running a known Photoshop is nil, but there was no source given for the shot.
