Do you pee in the pool? (Page 3)

I'd never heard of bodags, is this definition adequate?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bodag

I didn't mean I pee along side the pool... I pee in the toilet, BEFORE I get to the pool area. Nothing too gross about that!?!?!

Don't take my name in vain... Whizzing in the pool and all....

That's why there's so much CHLORINE BLEACH in the pool it eats right through your swimsuit!!!!

Damn, just as I was thinking that the thread could not get more gross.....

Incidentally, it's more common in diving but there is a physiological reaction called immersion dieresis, in which whatever bodily function that tells you your bladder is empty is shut down, making you have to pee (that was a totally non medical description and subject to gussying up by an MD type).  So, those of you that do can maybe claim you can't help it?  Or maybe get an ADA exemption?

Chris

Finster, I'm at school and the secure-filter won't allow me to access the urbandictionary site. HOWEVER, a bodag is simply a dingleberry.

It is really nasty when people pee in the pool.... I am a lifeguard and I asked my pool director what to do if someone pees in the pool. He says "there is no pee protical, ignore it" .


All of you pool pee'ers stay out of my pool!

Jamie

It is really nasty when people pee in the pool.... I am a lifeguard and I asked my pool director what to do if someone pees in the pool. He says "there is no pee protical, ignore it" .


All of you pool pee'ers stay out of my pool!

Jamie

I wonder if dogs pee in the pool when they get a chance?

The new swimmer diapers don't hold any liquid in them, so if a baby pees in the pool, it goes right through the diaper. Don't know if any of you swim where there are parent - infant classes, but FYI.


ETA - if pee really disolves in chlorinated water, does there have to be a certain amount of chlorine? I only ask because when I was 5 I got impatego from swimming in a girls pool and her whole family just peed in it all the time.

Edited by NomadicDawn 2005-03-24 8:49 PM

I'm never getting in a pool again!!!!

Thanks for pointing that out chucky...I think I may have to give up my pool training!

I guess you feel strongly about not peeing in the pool. I hope you never swim in the open water...river, lake, ocean...you have no idea!

You guys should give Autumn her props, she added unlucky #13. breast milk

Yes. I find that it helps me stay focused and prevents boredom. Uh-oh. Hold on.
Oops. I thought you asked "Do you SEE in the pool?"
Pee? No, never!
But I must confess that once I did break wind while swimming.
;-)

luckily, the pool i go to has a kiddy pool and a lap pool. i'm sure my 18 month old pees when she's swimming. the lap pool is open for open swims, but its mostly older kids. some of them may pee in the pool. but hopefully not too many ADULTS are peeing in the pool. i think its naive to think there isn't anything nasty in the water, as chunky noted...its just the idea that someone who should know better would still do it. kids are just that, kids. even my oldest knows to get out of the kiddy pool to use the bathroom - and she's not even 4!

Edited by autumn 2005-03-25 8:23 AM

Funny story from last summer-well, at least a few here will find this amusing, the rest will likely shun me for the rest of my life but I can take it.

I friend had a pool party one day and one of my buddies and I got in and started playing a sort of drinking game. We were averaging about one beer every 15min each. Eventually one clever party-goer realized that the two of has had consumed a combined 20+ beers over 3 hours and had never left the water...you do the math

Let's start a new thread on that one!

I'm seriously thinking of switching to duathlons now...

I posted this before in the "why to take showers before entering the pool" post and thought I'd copy and paste it here:

First the facts:

The amount of water for an Olympic pool can range from 400k-1million gallons of water. (So we will take the avg. and call our hypothetical pool a 700k-gallon pool)

The average person pee's about 1.2 cups each time they go.

(This is were I can't remember the actual data we gathered so I'll error on the large side) 1000 people pee 1.2 cups of pee in our 700k gallon pool a day.


Using some calculators found on the web I was able to calculate that given this scenario you would probably test the water at .0075ppm (parts per MILLION) of pee in the swimming pool.

This is good news not only because 1000 people peeing in a pool even in a week is a high estimate but because it would take 133 times more people (or 133,000 people) to pee in the pool before you would even start to notice an increase in the saltiness of the pool water...EWWWWWWW YUCK!!!!!!

All things put aside, you know when your swimming your putting every part of every other persons body in your mouth...WOMEN are "open" with bodily fluids always being extracted into the pool...MEN are not to be discounted from that either. Point is, if you are so disgusted with the thought of merely PEE being in the pool your swimming in, then maybe you ought to consider swimming in the shower for practice.

This is not a matter of respect or common courtesy. If it was people would be asked to leave when they did it...spend 10 min as a lifeguard or a swim coach watching from above and you can tell who's doing it and how often...I've never heard of any Masters class kicking somebody out for peeing and you know those coach's see it.

This doesn't give you an excuse not to relieve yourself before you enter the pool...if you can avoid it, try to. NOBODY should be using the pool as his or her personal bathroom…as if you’re running from the locker room to get into the pool to pee.

Peter La Fleur: Yeah, uh, Patches... are you sure this is completely necessary?
Patches O'Houlihan: Necessary? Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine?
Peter La Fleur: Probably not.
Patches O'Houlihan: No, but I do it anyway because it's sterile and I like the taste.
Peter La Fleur: ...Okay.

I pee all in the pool and like it. The chemicals kill it all and not to metion the amount of chlorine kills it all.