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Gosh this is not gonna go well with the public. I know several kids who just can't hold pee in the pool. They'll just let it out. Also its not like the toilets
by deepGem 8y ago
Gosh this is not gonna go well with the public. I know several kids who just can't hold pee in the pool. They'll just let it out. Also its not like the toilets are right there. You often have to get out of the pool, walk like 100 yards or down a flight of stairs. It's a PITA. Even Michael Phelps once said in an interview that very rarely competitive swimmers get out of the pool to pee.
- gambiting 8y agoI'm constantly shocked and disgusted that people actually pee in pools and that it's not some joke someone made up somewhere.
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- Varcht 8y agoYou could try to convince yourself of the therapeutic benefits of urine, might be better for your psyche in the long run. Sort of like, spit in fast food builds antibodies.
- sbov 8y agoSometimes kids even poop in the pool. Happened at a pool we went to last week.
- illumin8 8y agoI would never swim in a pool like this. Every pool I've been to required toddlers to wear special swim diapers to prevent exactly this scenario. There are some really nasty diseases that can spread through human waste, and I would not want to come in contact with them.
- tsmarsh 8y agoParent of two kids that have used swim diapers. I would be very surprised if those diapers were even 10% effective. Out of the pool they're basically 0% effective. And yes, I've read the instructions, and spoken to the folks who run the pool. Mostly I think they're just there to keep the poop in long enough to get the kid out of the pool.
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- dotancohen 8y agoThat is exactly what the swim diapers are for! Are you suggesting that perhaps some people think it is all right to leave their kid in the pool with a swim diaper full of excrement?
- sbov 8y agoSure, but it's not always obvious when a kid wearing a swim diaper poops. And they don't always tell you. Especially if they know it means they have to get out of the pool to change the diaper.
- sandos 8y agoSwim diapers basically keep the _turds_ stationary. Water will still chew away at it and disperse poop everywhere, so its basically run out of the water when an "accident" happens. Still better than solid poop floating around I guess, but also, potentially, really nasty.
- cbsks 8y agoPoop can still leak out of swim diapers. After going to swim lessons with my daughter and a dozen other 6-month-olds at the local YMCA, I understand why it is so heavily chlorinated.
- olyjohn 8y agoI got a staff infection from the pool at our apartment when I was in middle school. Looking back, that apartment complex was a real dump.
- cortesoft 8y agoDark secret - swim diapers don't hold everything in.
- luckydata 8y agoAnd this is a dead giveaway you're not a parent, or have never dealt with swim diapers :) Swim diapers are designed to simply make sure the poop and the kid are in the same general area and that it's easy to remove them from the water as a self contained unit. It will still absolutely contaminate the water in some way, there's no escaping it.
- unwind 8y agoOr, rather, there is a lot escaping it. :)
- HarryHirsch 8y agoI wish they would ban swim diapers altogether. You never know what's in there, there probably is something, if the parents see the necessity. Just ban child and parent for a month if they can't hold it and spoil the pool for everyone.
- spookthesunset 8y agoSo how exactly do you propose telling a 1 or 2 year old not to poop in a pool?
- HarryHirsch 8y agoChildren who do not have proper bowel control yet are out of place in the public pool. Why should people have to put up with someone else's faeces? It's not hygienic.
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- rhacker 8y agoI agree with you, but more importantly, I think I'm done with pools after reading the comments today.
- spookthesunset 8y agoYou’ve been swimming in pools your entire life. Somehow you are still alive. Maybe it is way less of a deal than it actually seems.
- rhacker 8y agoWhen I grew up they always had a separate pool for babies.
- afcwebdesign 8y agopotty training!
- alistairSH 8y agoSure, but the pool is supposed to be closed for a while for clean-up.
- cmurf 8y agoWhen the sign says "shower before entering the pool" they aren't just talking about sweat. They mean "clean your butthole, you are a filthy primate". If your butthole isn't clean before you enter the pool, you're pooping in the pool.
- mturmon 8y agoUrine and feces are completely different from a bacterial point of view, so this is a completely different level of contamination. At a kiddie pool I visited sometimes, this happened and they drained the whole thing. Maybe there is a chlorine regime that can be applied when/if this happens to a larger pool.
- pfranz 8y agoThis is likely not a widespread policy (or if it is, I doubt it's followed), but I'm pretty sure at a pool I worked at if there was feces they would evacuate the pool for 20m. 20m was chosen because that's how long the pump system would circulate all of the water 1x or 3x.
- nck4222 8y agoI mean, what about all the other body fluids/debris that are in pools? Saliva, sweat, earwax, belly button lint, bird shit, insects, band-aids, small animal carcasses that get trapped in the filters but are removed before the pool opens? There's no avoiding other peoples/animals grossness, frankly whether your in a pool or just out and about. Urine may be gross, but it's sterile, and at least for me, there are grosser things in pools.
- mbrameld 8y agoYour comment appears to suggest you would find it not unpleasant to swim in a pool entirely filled with urine. Or do you acknowledge the fact that a lower concentration of bodily fluids in a swimming pool is more attractive as a swimmer?
- nck4222 8y agoI'm saying that singling out urine as the thing to be grossed out about in a pool, while understandable in a vacuum, is in reality one of the least problematic things in a pool, or in your daily environment in general. So you shouldn't let the thought of potential urine in a pool stop you from enjoying pools, because if that's your threshold, you're going to have to drastically modify your daily habits to avoid things that are more dangerous/gross you encounter during every day tasks. Everyone has their "this grosses me out" quirks. I just find it beneficial to do a reality check on them, to make sure that there's actually a reason to be grossed out by it, instead of letting an unfounded fear affect my decision making. And the reason I find this important is because I have plenty of those quirks myself. >Your comment appears to suggest you would find it not unpleasant to swim in a pool entirely filled with urine. I really hope someday I don't have to explicitly say things like "Just because I'm capable of swimming in a pool that might have some urine in it, doesn't mean I'm OK with swimming in a pool comprised solely of urine."
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- phyzome 8y agoJust wait until you find out what's in the ocean.
- yesenadam 8y agoI heard somewhere an interview with a water polo player who said he'd never known a player to get out of the pool to pee.
- olyjohn 8y agoUmm... that's why you pee before you get in the pool. 100 yards isn't that much to ask to avoid swimming around in your own, and other's piss. Those kids will be swimming around for hours exerting way more energy than the walk to the bathroom. FFS. This is why I don't swim in pools.
- ygjb 8y agoUh, I hate to break it to you, but unless you swim in a dead body of water, there are worse things than human urine and feces in the water...
- snazz 8y agoWhere I live, plenty more people are infected from bacteria in goose poop in lakes than from human waste in swimming pools.
- 00N8 8y agoconversely, it seems like unless there are dead bodies in the water, human waste would be the worst likely contaminant. or am I missing something?
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoThere's certainly the dead bodies/waste products of fish in natural water, and there's no chlorine to sterilize them.
- sehugg 8y agoIf you've ever been to a resort with a wet bar, you might see people drinking for several hours without getting out of the pool. One can draw conclusions.
- michaelmrose 8y agoIf said kids can't avoid peeing in the pool they shouldn't be in the pool or should be wearing diapers to avoid pissing all over fellow patrons. The restrooms are rarely convenient in big box stores or the mall they are often a fair hike away but you don't see little Johnny hiking up his leg to pee on his fellow shoppers.
- craigds 8y agoNo diaper can hold pee in while in a pool. Pool diapers only hold poo, and even then only some of it.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Pool diapers only hold poo, and even then only some of it. Quite a lot, actually, but not all. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15216564/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15216564/ “Swim diapers of all three brands exhibited an approximately equal fine-solids retention capability of about 98 to 99 percent over 30 minutes of water immersion activity. Conventional disposable diapers invariably fell down or came apart during the experiments, resulting in very limited solids retention. This study indicates that commercially available swim diapers represent a vast improvement in reducing the potential for fecal material release in public pool facilities, but that some release will still generally occur with these products.”
- pfranz 8y agoI wonder how well they work in the real world? I had trouble finding a properly fitting swim diaper for my son. They seemed to require a fairly tight fit around the abdomen and legs (which vary greatly across children and as the grow). Because it's only a handful of times during the summer and most places only carried 1 or 2 styles, I can see the few people who got them might not have the right size or wear it properly.
- michaelmrose 8y agoIf your kid for any reason including swim diapers sucking can't keep from shitting up the pool your kid just has to wait until this isn't true to swim doesn't seem like a hard choice.
- calebegg 8y agoI was curious, so here's a source for the Michael Phelps tidbit: https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/08/06/breaking-news-from-michael-phelps-everybody-pees-in-the-pool/ https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/08/06/breaking-news-fro...
- Zimahl 8y agoMichael Phelps was fucking with whomever was interviewing him. I was a competitive swimmer and it's almost impossible to need to go pee while working out in a pool. Not only are you getting dehydrated by sweating profusely, you are getting dehydrated via osmosis.
- imh 8y agoI doubt Phelps was fucking with the interviewer. I was also a competitive swimmer and my experience matches what Phelps said.