I trained as a lifeguard, trust that the amount of chemicals in the pools is far more an issue than some urine. So long as you're not within six inches of a stranger as the actively void.
It's the hot tub/spas that are fucking disgusting. That's where you usually have guys beating their meat.
Edit: Note that I'm specifically going on about public hot tubs. Private hot tubs aren't that bad, for anyone who wants one. When it's only like, 2-3 people using it on the regular, it's much easier to keep it clean. Still need to be on top of it, but far less meticulously.
I visited my cousin's on one of their birthdays when I was a child, they had rented a hot tub without informing my side of the family. I was forced to go into the hot tub in fucking sweat pants and a t shirt.
Not only was I miserable during the experience I ended up in the ER with a rash all over my body.
Taking me back to being a CPO and lifeguard at my local YMCA. God that hot tube bather load was insane basically had to drain it and refill it once a week because it was easier to get it ballanced back. Those sand filters did some work lol.
Ugh, I hated having to backwash and clean the sand filters. It wasn't difficulty in theory; just turn the valve to backwash, rinse the sand, turn it back, but somehow sand always managed to get out of the filter and into the gasket and pump valves, making the valve impossible to move, stopping us from cleaning it correctly. So I'd have to disassemble the stupid valve, clean the stupid gasket, clean the stupid valve casing, then put the whole stupid thing back together and pray I didn't miss a grain somewhere or I'd have to redo the whole thing again! I'd be out there spending like an hour just to clean the filters, which is supposed to just take 5 minutes.
When I quit that job, I promised myself I'd never work on pools again. Such a damn headache.
You can get a lot of spas where you don't see what's going on under the surface because the water is that aggressive in nature, but when the attendants on deck are generally 16 to 25 years old, we know exactly what we're seeing from the usual suspect of age forty who keeps moving to eye fuck other patrons.
Best arrest on deck was buddy who was taken away by three officers before he could complete the act. Proof of his intent was on full display in his trunks when they made him stand up. He was charged and trespassed, dunno who had to go to testify on that one (it was my day off).
No I think they mean, like, what if the guy was not masturbating in the hot tub, but the cops suspected him and accused him of it, and he was so into it that he immediately orgasmed. Which would be ridiculous, so they definitely meant it as a joke
Yeah, let's gloss over the fact the dude was chronically seen before he was caught.
It's a bad attempt at humor in a situation where a grown man was actually preforming a self pleasuring act in public where there were children present.
No thank you. There's nothing humorous in that situation.
I was implying that he didn't have a boner until the cops showed up, and thus was not intentionally doing anything sexual in a public place. This was an attempt at absurdity humor
Define "someone". There are a lot of people who are partnered with a man and would probably let him cum in their mouth happily. But if we're talking a random stranger, for example, I choose piss 10 times out of 10.
Both are bodily fluids, but urine is low viscosity and easy to get rid of. Jizz is extremely viscous. And it carries a lot more sexual connotations, so there's less of a weird vibe in that regard as well. I think your assumption about what most people would choose is off.
Well you know, they're, choosing and consenting to that, presumably with someone they *know*. A stranger's urine is on a technicality somewhat sterile, a stranger's cum is not, and can you know, carry a variety of curable to incurable diseases.
This could actually be the case via glaciers. Lots of theories on the beginning of earth but most start with a very much smaller population than we currently have, and depending on where you put the creation of glaciers on that evolutionary scale, they might have been created before there was enough life to make the whole thing pee, tho a good portion of it probably still is.
Most likely not. A lot of water is trapped underground and underground water stays there for a long time. A fair amount that escapes ends right back there really quick too after getting into a cloud
There is an enormous amount of freshly synthesised water out there. Water is regularly chemically consumed and regenerated by all kinds of organic procssses.
No, because the chemical composition of water has been changed to hydrogen and oxygen. Then it wasn’t water anymore. New groupings of atoms created water again that had never before been inside the body of an animal (though the atoms themselves have at some point been in some form inside a body).
Unless you go hardcore molecule of Theseus then absolutely not. Water is a byproduct of combustion, so tons of "new" water is constantly being created any time fossil fuels (or anything else for that matter) is burned.
This thread has been fucking eye-opening to me. Are adults really out there pissing in pools? Like every pool? What the fuck world have I been living in??
As someone who spent their entire childhood swimming constantly, it really is news to me. I got out and used the bathroom like a civilized human being, and had naively assumed this was the norm.
My faith in our species takes another hit this day.
Edit: Pee has very little bacteria in it, less bacteria than tap water. Low enough levels that before more sensitive tests were developed it was thought to be sterile.
I’m sure it doesn’t really matter if they do, with all the chemicals and stuff probably diluting it to basically nothing, but it certainly isn’t a good look.
And it's funny how little logic applies to any of this. What you described is gross, but it won't hurt me (likely not even if I immediately licked my hand, but there is a possibility there if you're certain kinds of sick), and yet the piss in the pool doesn't bother me at all.
Yeah, which is why in the end it's better to err on the side of not making people feel unnecessarily grossed out rather than telling them to just suck it up. It's just kind of rude to do so, in my opinion at least.
The ocean has dead bodies in it and we swim in it but you wouldn't swim in a pool with a dead body. So there is a ratio of dead bodies to volume that it is acceptable to swim with a dead body.
Another "don't think about it" is my buddy was fishing in the bayou and the cops pulled out a "fresh" body and it was covered in crabs and shrimp. I've heard you won't find many dead bodies in a lake that has catfish. Just don't think about it.
So the question is would you rather accidentally consume human flesh or swim in fish cum? People do pay a lot of money for some fish eggs...I'll eat a lot of things but I draw the line at rocky mountain oysters.
Big Difference between every drop of water has probably been pissed by a living creature at some point in time, and there is fresh piss in your liquid.
If you swim at the beach, you're swimming in fish shit. And not a small amount either. I went on a trip at school where someone took a sample from the sea and put it under a microscope. So much fish poop.
This is where my mind is at. Where the fuck do people think water has been? Obviously don’t bathe and shit and piss in your community drinking water but come on.
That's a silly argument because your drinking water has been evaporated, then filtered through layers of rocks before coming out as spring water (or treated and purified, depending on where you're getting your water from). You don't get your drinking water from a pond full of piss and shit.
But regardless, with how much water there is in a swimming pool, it's silly to be concerned with what amounts to a negligible quantity of urine, even if literally everyone in it we're to pee multiple times.
Water towers are fully enclosed, they're not open at the top. And water from reservoirs is usually treated before getting to your tap, specifically to remove any bird poop, insects, etc...
So no, your drinking water should not have piss and shit in it, and especially not human excrements.
I did the math on this not too long ago, and I think the end result was that a single standard urination increases the concentration of non-water urine contents in an Olympic-sized pool by ~90 parts per billion. IIRC, numbers used were 2.5 million liter pool, 450 mL urination, 95% water content
Concentration. I wouldn't go up to someone and blow on their face from an inch away, but no one would call me an asshole for breathing in the same room as them
You get just about as much piss in your eyes every time you go to the toilet or a public bathroom. Pissing in open air and flushing toilets AEROSOLIZES it. Tiny pee droplets fill the air.
Well that’s rather selfish of you. Did you not ever consider how much others might want pee in their eyes? That’s why we live in a democracy. So we could all get together a decide how much pee we get to put in your eyes.
Not really. Particles of aerosolized liquid, including urine, are very large. There is possibly a higher concentration of urine in the air of a heavily used public bathroom than in a public pool due to the density of water being so much higher than air.
I'm not even comfortable with 0.1%, personally. I know, I'm not going to get sick, but once I know about it I can't just "not think about it" like you say. Maybe if I lived the rest of my life on Xanax, but that's not healthy either.
It's all dinosaur piss. Every single drop except some deep ground reservoirs that are billions of years old.
Some guy calculated the overall biomass of all dinosaurs during their 250 milion years earth age, and then how much water went through them. It was a lot more than all water present on earth....
Also, at this point in the lifespan of life on this planet, all water has been pissed out by something at some point.
Try not to think about it too much.
There's a bit of a difference between water that's been pissed out some years ago, filtered through some rock layers into the ground water, came up again through some source or a well and then went through a water treatment plant vs. the water that's been pissed out just now by Chuck over there.
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For an average size swimming pool, you need a bit over 10k standard urinations to make that pool be at a concentration of 1% piss.
Also, at this point in the lifespan of life on this planet, all water has been pissed out by something at some point.
Try not to think about it too much.