To say something to people who go from sauna to pool and vice versa without showering

[DyslexicScientist]

A few people do this in my leisure center. I think its beyond grim, there are cold showers and the pool is not designed to be a cool plunge pool. Its not even cold.

Would you say something to these grim and unhygienic people?

We should be like Iceland, compulsory naked showering before getting in, with large diagrams clarifying exactly which bits to wash thoroughly! Seriously this means that they don't need to chlorinate their pools and they are much nicer to swim in.

Wow! ExConstance is not exaggerating.

that is utterly bizarre

bookmarking so i can drag up this thread when we get the annual summer holiday posts about forrin pools and dh's and ds's being expected to wear speedos. Wailing about how they cant, they won't, and it'll ruin the holiday if they cant swim. And why should they buy them for one week, when they have perfectly good swim shorts (having probably bought themselves 3 new bikini's).

:)

Chlorine is effective. Nobody who swims in a public pool in the UK is dying or suffering with major infections. People swim regularly and they are fine.

There is a weird MN obsession about things being grim when they are really not. It is tedious, this competitive desire to find things grim which are nothing of the sort.

This thread is the same as the ones about toilet brushes. Yes you can analyse anything to within an inch of its life and end up doing nothing, for fear of what might happen to you.

I swim 3 to 4 times a week. I haven't yet caught anything ghastly,I do wear flipflop everywhere but apart than that, I just get on with it and the main thing I keep my fitness.

And I do have a loilet brush, and the world hasn't come crashing down!

Someone explain this loo brush thing I've seen references to it before but what exactly is it? People don't like loo brushes? Or what

Ah yes Tny, that wonderful verucca soup, delight of everyone's childhood.

My orange flipflops do the job! On the odd occasion I have forgotten them, it does feel urgh and slimy underfoot

Zorah would you believe it there is a thread going at the moment giving detailed instructing about how a toilet brush should be used!

It's just a longstanding tradition that tbs are gross esp if used without ample flushing bleaching military operation life is too short!

m.livescience.com/37122-how-chlorine-kills-pool-germs.html

"In a sign of how these preswim showers are not being taken like they should, a recent study by the CDC found genetic material from E. coli, which typically resides in the human gut and feces, in 58 percent of the public pools they tested during the summer of 2012. 'People are not taking preswim showers and fecal material is washing off their rear ends,' Hlavsa said."

Dirty bastards who don't wipe properly are the reason for the shower need

Exactly half of Mumsnet have a toilet brush next to their toilet and claim it is the most hygienic way to clean the toilet. Exactly half of Mumsnet think toilet brushes are disgusting, and harbour germs so don't have them.

Neither side can understand the other's viewpoint. Same with standing/sitting to wipe your bum, washing vulva with soap, washing towels with underwear, keeping your front door locked/unlocked.

Washing towels with underwear is bad?

Why? What's the rationale?

Daisy that's so weird! What do people clean their toilets with?!

I only swim when travelling and staying in a hotel with a pool. I always have a proper shower in my room before I go to the pool, with soap. But I stand under the shower by the pool for a few seconds so that people think I'm clean.

I don't shower before going into the sauna after a swim.

I think the point is there is a MN technique for using toilet brushes, rather than not using them at all, zorah. Detailed step by step instructions. You'd have to stand there with your mobile in one hand, tb in the other, to get it right.

Hence my suggestion that life's too short.

Daisy no, it goes further than that. Lots of Mumsnetters refuse to even have a toilet brush!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1795358-to-think-not-having-a-toilet-brush-is-weird

Sorry to derail thread!

forrin pools and dh's and ds's being expected to wear speedos. Wailing about how they cant, they won't, and it'll ruin the holiday if they cant swim.

I can totally believe that!

Who'd of thought wanting better hygiene would be so controversial, that wasn't even my aibu it was a given. Never assume anything on MN.

neeps that's stupid toilet brushed are gross but sticking your hand in the loo is fine

Horton- while i agree with your post, i think wetting yourself under a cold pool shower, while wearing a swimming costume, makes bugger all difference to the cleanliness of your arse crack.

If people actually showered properly vefore swimming, naked and with soap, it would make a difference. Otherwise i cant get worked up about people not "showering".

Our local pool did have a bacterial issue last year. The source was communal areas like changing rooms and showers where there was no chlorine. The pool was safe :)

I've nearly read the whole toilet thread, what is with the germ phobia?! Lids on toothbrushes??? Ffs

wetting yourself under a cold pool shower, while wearing a swimming costume, makes bugger all difference to the cleanliness of your arse crack

A most eloquent description! And so true, as I watch people wetting their shoulders with about a thimbleful of water I do question, why bother?

OMG neeps, it gets worse doesn't it!

I would rather mix with the germs and build a stronger immune system...There are too many hysterical wuss types in the world today.
With all the disinfecting and demanding of antibiotics that goes on, the squeaky clean will all kill themselves off at a young age if they carry on the way they do.

I loved the wonderfully detailed Icelandic signs. Definitely cleaner when the cossie comes off.

I can't get worked up about sweat in a pool though, but then I am the owner of 3 toilet brushes