Posted on 03/01/2017 7:27:22 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Do you want to know how much pee you're swimming in? A scientist at the University of Alberta has some answers for you. (Those who wish to remain blissfully ignorant, keep scrolling.)
So, do you still want to know how much pee is in a pool? Well, assuming you’re swimming in a standard eight-lane, 25 yard pool, which holds approximately 220,000 gallons of water, you’re also swimming in about 20 gallons of urine. Your best friend’s backyard pool, which likely measures around 20 feet long by 40 feet wide at about five feet deep, probably contains “only” two gallons of pee. In either case, this translates to approximately 1/100th of 1% of the pool’s total volume. Peanuts, right? Well, it turns out it’s not that simple.
(Excerpt) Read more at swimswam.com ...
When I was a Security guard at a resort condo there were many times that I could not get people to exit the hot tubs at closing time until I started rushing in and saying loudly that the pollution alarm had just gone off and that meant that someone had peed in the hot tub water. It got arguments and accusations started among the guests but they all got out of the hot tub quickly. I never said that it was the normal condition of the hot tubs that there was “pollution” in the water.
Being a Neanderthal, I howled with glee.............
I don’t swim in your toilet.
Don’t pee in my pool.
Yeah....I stopped swimming in public pools years ago for this very reason. Grossed me out. And, it’s not just pee in there either. YUK!!!
RTFA!
Chlorine may kill off the bacteria, but "when urine and chlorine bond in their objectionable union a whole host of unsavory compounds known as disinfection byproducts are born" ...
Yellow Journalism
My BiL was a dentist. He had a large group of friends over for a cookout and pool party. He, jokingly, made everyone take a tablet when they arrived.
They were dental disclosing tablets used to show areas missed by cleaning treatments.
They also turned the urine red when someone peed in the pool.
Friends have a pool - and a sign:
Please don't pee in our pool and we won't swim in your toilet.
99% of ocean is fish pee LOL
People drop a Baby Ruth bar into pools, looks like number two.
That is one thing we didn’t want when we moved last year. We wanted a one story house, three car garage, and no pool. I didn’t even have our builder put in a Jacuzzi. But our son lived in an apartment with a salt water pool and that was refreshing. Not refreshing enough to make us want one. Just not a water person.
lol
“A question that was asked fifty years ago...
Why is it OK to pee in a pool if you are already in the pool, but not OK if you stand on the edge and pee into the pool?”
ANSWERED, by LBJ a few years later!
“It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
Lyndon B. Johnson To FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971)
they should invent a chemical that changes urine color to like black or purple so the Pee’er can be outted!! kinda like an octopuses ink!!
We got spoiled living by my sister...she has a great pool, clean and everyone in the family knows do NOT pee in the pool. Now when we go to hotels we’re completely grossed out by the pools.
About once a year Uncle Sam would line us up, everyone gets a tablet and must CHEW it up.
A team of ‘trained’ inspectors would check for the dreaded plaque.
Always a few would swallow the tablet, so they could impress their buddies, with technicolor pee!
“DON’T EAT THAT! IT’S NOT A CANDY BAR!”
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