Anybody use public swimming pools?

[Dtunes]

Oh for the record I do think urine in the pool is gross and I do not pee in pools. I think as long as it's limited to some kids and the occasional jerk it's not a big deal. There is no defense for peeing in the pool, especially since just about every public pool has a bathroom close by. I grew up in a city so I'm more used to public everything.

 

[Seasoned Oak]

Thank you Dtunes for mentioning that urine is sterile. Unless you have a urinary tract infection, your urine is free of bacteria. It does, however, contain various toxins that I would want to drink. Our public pool is one of our favorite places to be in the summer. I don't usually think about the gross factor unless I see kids sucking in a lot of water. I enjoy the clear, chlorinated pool water much more than lake or ocean water.

DIdnt you mean that you would NOT want to drink?

 

[Seasoned Oak]

THe only place i swim in public is the state park lake .all natural mountain stream water,the fish dont bother me.

 

[Seasoned Oak]

Its not so much the urine but the obese people with all the open sores on their body that gives public pools the off limits for me. It not a pool but a cess-pool. No thanks. Too much DNA .

 

[Mrs. Krabappel]

 

[webbie]

THe only place i swim in public is the state park lake .all natural mountain stream water,the fish dont bother me.

That was what I thought in WV - until I visited some people up the hollow and went out to their outhouse. It was suspended in the air and your bodily whatever went right down into a little gully/stream...that then went into the bigger stream, then to the bigger one, etc.

 

[firebroad]

Sometimes it is not the bodily fluids, its the bodies!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/30/massachusetts-dead-body-public-pool_n_888266.html

HOLY SMOKES!

 

[ISeeDeadBTUs]

Ok, so none of this is Hearth related anyway, so . . .I'm curious . . .

What is it about 'obese people' in a pool that is worse than, say, anorexic people? Do obese people generally have open sores, whereas the rest of us do not?

 

[Seasoned Oak]

That was what I thought in WV - until I visited some people up the hollow and went out to their outhouse. It was suspended in the air and your bodily whatever went right down into a little gully/stream...that then went into the bigger stream, then to the bigger one, etc.

State park lake,no private homes allowed, right to the top of the mountain. When i was a kid we swam in the mountain lakes near our homes,most have a small % of sulfer content from old coal mine operations. Best disinfectant yet, no smell, no obvious harmful effects,and if you had a cut it seemed to heal much faster. Much better than chlorine as it dont evaporate.

 

[Seasoned Oak]

Ok, so none of this is Hearth related anyway, so . . .I'm curious . . .

What is it about 'obese people' in a pool that is worse than, say, anorexic people? Do obese people generally have open sores, whereas the rest of us do not?

Side effects of diabetes and other weight related conditions causing the body to develop a whole range of rashes,shingles ,bed sores, bruising and in general do not heal at normal rates. And Dont forget chaffing. Public hot tubs are worse, equiv to bathing in a urinal. IMO

 

[Lousyweather]

Did ya ever see a wad of chit floating by as you swim in a public pool?
I did...
The chit wigs me out more then the pee...and other various bodily fluids.

yep....swimming in the Hot Springs at Thermopolis, WY, a was unlucky enough to have to watch the ole brown submarine float by as well....got right out, havent been in a nother public pool since them...oh...was 1985, btw.

 

[Jack Straw]

We swam at a local falls one day, went back the next day and there were several snakes swimming around...we never swam there again!

 

[Seasoned Oak]

We swam at a local falls one day, went back the next day and there were several snakes swimming around...we never swam there again!

Id rather swim with snakes than in a public pool.

 

[begreen]

This thread reminds me of the last scenes in The Magic Christian. Everybody in the pool! (Sorry for the audio cutout, keep watching anyway.)

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