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"Approximately 58 per cent of Canadians admitted to peeing in the pool at least once in a recent survey of 9,500 people conducted by Travelocity." Never looking

"Approximately 58 per cent of Canadians admitted to peeing in the pool at least once in a recent survey of 9,500 people conducted by Travelocity." Never looking a Canadians the same ever again.

nabla9 8y ago
Finland had a serial pooper scare last year. Serial pooper takes fourth dump in Oulu's Raksila swimming hall pool https://metropolitan.fi/entry/serial-pooper-takes-fourth-dump-in-oulu-s-raksila-swimming-hall-pool https://metropolitan.fi/entry/serial-pooper-takes-fourth-dum...
- ptaipale 8y ago
  I went to check if he was caught... and found out that there was another serial pooper in Haapavesi this January. (Ilta-Sanomat January 11). I'm convinced also very many of terrorism crimes are simply copycats who want to see headlines.
- hyperbovine 8y ago
  A shall-remain-nameless friend worked summers as a lifeguard at the local YMCA as a teenager. Lifeguarding is a stressful, hot, long, low-paying job. Enthusiasm can wane, especially at the end of summer. As a favor to her fellow co-workers, said friend went ahead and shat the pool on her last day, mandating a 24-hr public health closure of the facility, and thus gifting everyone a free day off.
sizzzzlerz 8y ago
And Canadians are supposed to be the polite ones.
- teekert 8y ago
  OMG.
braythwayt 8y ago
To paraphrase a HaHaOnlySerious joke about diving: "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have peed in a pool. And those who lie about it."
- mc32 8y ago
  Everyone as a kid who has gone into a pool is probably right, but I doubt all adults who’ve been in a pool have done so.
  - braythwayt 8y ago
    A HaHaOnlySerious joke is not meant to represent absolute truth, but to be truthful enough to provoke reflection on the subject. In this case, I am suggesting that if you survey some large group of Canadians, and 58% admit to peeing in a pool, there is also some non-trivial number of Canadians surveyed who have peed in a pool, but will not admit it to you. Maybe not 42%, but also maybe not 2%.
  - diminoten 8y ago
    I didn't know a single person on the swim team in high school who didn't pee in the pool. Now they're not exactly "adults" technically, but neither are they children.
- djsumdog 8y ago
  I've never peed in a pool, or a shower for that matter. I have a hand-washing based obsessive compulsive disorder, which I'm sure is part of it.
  - mywrathacademia 8y ago
    Have you ever been discriminated against because of your hand-washing compulsion?
  - Fnoord 8y ago
    > I've never peed in a pool Yet there's this huge market for incontinence pads, and elder swim, too. Do you think incontinence magically stops when you're in a swimming pool? Don't you think the times you swam you had trace amounts of pee leaving your body?
jeletonskelly 8y ago
an the other 42% lied
lawnchair_larry 8y ago
This blows my mind. I’ve never considered doing this in a pool at any age and can’t believe anyone else would either. Yet half of the population apparently has, and they think everyone else does it too.
- Retra 8y ago
  Just wait until you hear what's in the ocean!
- bluedino 8y ago
  we had a swim-up bar at our resort and plenty of alcoholic drinks were consumed over the course of a day, and not many bathroom breaks were taken
  - jfrankamp 8y ago
    "I" statements. :-) reminds me of "Mistakes were made!"
- s4vi0r 8y ago
  What's the harm in it? The amount of urine is negligible in relation to the water, and unless you're sick with a UTI or something urine is sterile anyways. I don't get it the other way around - why do people freak out about it? I don't care one way or the other whatever or not people piss in the pool next to me - its like somebody splashing you with water in the middle of a rainstorm.
  - r3dk1ng 8y ago
    > urine is sterile orly? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957746/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957746/
    - GalacticDomin8r 8y ago
      It's still pretty much the most sterile thing that comes off or out of a human. If you really want your pool to be clean, you should make it avoid skin contact.
sneak 8y ago
The linked statistic asked “pool or ocean”. Peeing in the ocean is fine. When they quoted the statistic they shortened it to just pool; a misleading quote at best.
rconti 8y ago
42% of Canadians are liars? or just don't visit the pool often?
- bregma 8y ago
  The pool is frozen solid for half the year. You can pee on it if you want but it just sits there in a frozen yellow puddle on top until the spring thaw. It can be pretty incriminating. Also it tends to dribble down your snowmobile pants and onto your mukluks.
chooseaname 8y ago
What? Everyone knows you're supposed to pee while standing under the shower before you get into the pool.
factcheck86 8y ago
Actually, this is a completely incorrect statement in the article. If you follow the link they show in the article, it brings you to an article about a survey that TravelZoo did and the question is: "Have you ever taken a tinkle in the ocean or a pool?" The OCEAN or the pool. This completely changes the question and so the 58% regarding 'peeing in a pool' is wrong (it could easily be that 99% of those people peed in the ocean and not a pool, which is very different). Plus it shows that 64% of Americans said "yes" to that question, so the American number is higher. This is what happens when articles just haphazardly brush over actual statistics and completely distort their meaning...
- factcheck86 8y ago
  Plus the CBC doesn't even get the source name right - it's TravelZoo not Travelocity... This is some shabby work. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/64-of-americans-pee-in-po_n_7598626 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/64-of-americans-pee-in-po_n_7...

"Approximately 58 per cent of Canadians admitted to peeing in the pool at least once in a recent survey of 9,500 people conducted by Travelocity." Never looking a Canadians the same ever again.

nabla9 8y ago

Finland had a serial pooper scare last year. Serial pooper takes fourth dump in Oulu's Raksila swimming hall pool https://metropolitan.fi/entry/serial-pooper-takes-fourth-dump-in-oulu-s-raksila-swimming-hall-pool https://metropolitan.fi/entry/serial-pooper-takes-fourth-dum...

ptaipale 8y ago
I went to check if he was caught... and found out that there was another serial pooper in Haapavesi this January. (Ilta-Sanomat January 11). I'm convinced also very many of terrorism crimes are simply copycats who want to see headlines.
hyperbovine 8y ago
A shall-remain-nameless friend worked summers as a lifeguard at the local YMCA as a teenager. Lifeguarding is a stressful, hot, long, low-paying job. Enthusiasm can wane, especially at the end of summer. As a favor to her fellow co-workers, said friend went ahead and shat the pool on her last day, mandating a 24-hr public health closure of the facility, and thus gifting everyone a free day off.

sizzzzlerz 8y ago

And Canadians are supposed to be the polite ones.

teekert 8y ago
OMG.

braythwayt 8y ago

To paraphrase a HaHaOnlySerious joke about diving: "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have peed in a pool. And those who lie about it."

mc32 8y ago
Everyone as a kid who has gone into a pool is probably right, but I doubt all adults who’ve been in a pool have done so.
- braythwayt 8y ago
  A HaHaOnlySerious joke is not meant to represent absolute truth, but to be truthful enough to provoke reflection on the subject. In this case, I am suggesting that if you survey some large group of Canadians, and 58% admit to peeing in a pool, there is also some non-trivial number of Canadians surveyed who have peed in a pool, but will not admit it to you. Maybe not 42%, but also maybe not 2%.
- diminoten 8y ago
  I didn't know a single person on the swim team in high school who didn't pee in the pool. Now they're not exactly "adults" technically, but neither are they children.
djsumdog 8y ago
I've never peed in a pool, or a shower for that matter. I have a hand-washing based obsessive compulsive disorder, which I'm sure is part of it.
- mywrathacademia 8y ago
  Have you ever been discriminated against because of your hand-washing compulsion?
- Fnoord 8y ago
  > I've never peed in a pool Yet there's this huge market for incontinence pads, and elder swim, too. Do you think incontinence magically stops when you're in a swimming pool? Don't you think the times you swam you had trace amounts of pee leaving your body?

jeletonskelly 8y ago

an the other 42% lied

lawnchair_larry 8y ago

This blows my mind. I’ve never considered doing this in a pool at any age and can’t believe anyone else would either. Yet half of the population apparently has, and they think everyone else does it too.

Retra 8y ago
Just wait until you hear what's in the ocean!
bluedino 8y ago
we had a swim-up bar at our resort and plenty of alcoholic drinks were consumed over the course of a day, and not many bathroom breaks were taken
- jfrankamp 8y ago
  "I" statements. :-) reminds me of "Mistakes were made!"
s4vi0r 8y ago
What's the harm in it? The amount of urine is negligible in relation to the water, and unless you're sick with a UTI or something urine is sterile anyways. I don't get it the other way around - why do people freak out about it? I don't care one way or the other whatever or not people piss in the pool next to me - its like somebody splashing you with water in the middle of a rainstorm.
- r3dk1ng 8y ago
  > urine is sterile orly? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957746/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957746/
  - GalacticDomin8r 8y ago
    It's still pretty much the most sterile thing that comes off or out of a human. If you really want your pool to be clean, you should make it avoid skin contact.

sneak 8y ago

The linked statistic asked “pool or ocean”. Peeing in the ocean is fine. When they quoted the statistic they shortened it to just pool; a misleading quote at best.

rconti 8y ago

42% of Canadians are liars? or just don't visit the pool often?

bregma 8y ago
The pool is frozen solid for half the year. You can pee on it if you want but it just sits there in a frozen yellow puddle on top until the spring thaw. It can be pretty incriminating. Also it tends to dribble down your snowmobile pants and onto your mukluks.

chooseaname 8y ago

What? Everyone knows you're supposed to pee while standing under the shower before you get into the pool.

factcheck86 8y ago

Actually, this is a completely incorrect statement in the article. If you follow the link they show in the article, it brings you to an article about a survey that TravelZoo did and the question is: "Have you ever taken a tinkle in the ocean or a pool?" The OCEAN or the pool. This completely changes the question and so the 58% regarding 'peeing in a pool' is wrong (it could easily be that 99% of those people peed in the ocean and not a pool, which is very different). Plus it shows that 64% of Americans said "yes" to that question, so the American number is higher. This is what happens when articles just haphazardly brush over actual statistics and completely distort their meaning...

factcheck86 8y ago
Plus the CBC doesn't even get the source name right - it's TravelZoo not Travelocity... This is some shabby work. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/64-of-americans-pee-in-po_n_7598626 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/64-of-americans-pee-in-po_n_7...