To think that most people pee in the pool, on holiday? Do you?

[Blondiebeachbabe]

Just back from a hot holiday. Hotel had a lovely big pool, with a swim up bar serving all manner of cocktails, wine, beer etc. People would be in the pool for hours drinking, chatting etc. Surely everyone is actually peeing in the pool? And do you?

It’s family mostly using it. I highly doubt they’d be so rude as to pee in the pool. Toilets are near the pool and it’s expensive to maintain and clean the pool anyway.

How long do you think it takes to drain and refill a pool? They are not doing this between guests 🤣

Yeah... you've been had if they've told you that 🤣

Yeah yeah. You know precisely what I meant! For many people, a pool is a central part of a hot holiday abroad (better?) and I’ve literally never met anyone in real life who is too squeamish to get in a pool.

This sort of summed up how this thread is going:

My trip to SE Asia last month was very adventurous

It’s hilarious! It literally doesn’t matter what the topic is, MNetters will find a way to shoe-horn in how much better they are than the hoi polloi.

It’s not enough to say, no I don’t pee in the pool (which I don’t!); you have to be dramatically shocked to the core that it would even occur to people to do this, despite everyone actually knowing that young kids do it and despite everyone having seen those signs about not peeing in the pool at least once in their life. And, more than that, you have to work in the fact that you would never even go on the type of holiday where a pool was a central feature.

It’s so funny 😂

It's why the chlorine is so high at water parks etc! I can't imagine doing it, I grew up being told about the green cloud that would appear in the water 😆

Do you know what draining a pool and refilling it entails?

I have drained and refilled my own pool once in 20 years. And that was only because it was completely relined.

50 000L of water has to go somewhere. (this is average, could be more). So it either goes into a bladder to be reused later, or it goes into waste.

Never mind the process of getting the water out. You need a special pump for that.

And then what about the cost of all the chemicals that are in the water, y'know, keeping it clean, which is what they do. You are pumping out chemically treated water to have to replace all the chemicals again. And they are not cheap.
So even if you reused the water from the bladder and pumped it back in, it is still the same water.
Or you arrange to get 50 000L of new water from elsewhere. So either your tap or you get in a water company that bring their truck full of water.

So if they told you they are doing that prior to each guest, I am sorry but you have been taken for a mug.

Certainly not.
And I'm actually surprised at the ratio of people who think YANBU.

What kind of selfish entitled person would do that?

You do realise 'swim diapers' are there just to catch the poo, they do not absorb wee!

Erm - no. I’m a toilet trained adult who is capable of walking a few minutes to an actual toilet.

Yuk.

I really hope people aren’t pissing in pools & if you are, you’re a dirty get.

I think a lot of people do in certain types of pool. I honestly didn't even when I was drunk in AIs in Mexico I got out and went to the loo because it's manky. But plenty of people seemed to never ever leave the swim up bar area. And there is no way you're on your 6th cocktail and not needing to pee.

Only since having a baby did I realise that babies are free flow pissing in the pool too I never thought about that before.

So pools with a swim up bar or lots of babies are probably full of pee! Leisure centre, regular pool in a older family resort with min alcohol probably not

No I don't, we all get out to use the toilets.

um, I really would not do that in a public pool with a lot of other people. I think it's really not on. You shouldn't do that. They would be getting your p in their mouths. It's not nice.

I almost never go on the sort of holidays where there's a pool really, and on the occasions when I have, I haven't spent a huge amount of time around it, but I'm pleased to report that on my forays into pools I have not pissed in them 😂

I also think parents who would be annoyed if an adult pissed in the pool, but then tell their children it's OK to do it as if they believe that their toddler's piss is somehow less unhygienic than that of an adult, are arseholes. All that said - I'm obviously aware that any pool will have been pissed in at some point, and it's not something I actually worry about. That's what the chlorine's for and the volume of water in a pool is huge so everything's diluted.

Perfectly fine to pee in the sea, I'd have thought. I don't think I've ever done it, but to be honest I don't think I've actually swum in the sea for well over 10 years so the dilemma hasn't arisen.

Can't believe you missed the opportunity to call this thread 'To pee or not to pee?'

Both are gross to me - it's waste - why do it at all if you aren't an animal. If you can wee then you may as well poo like a filthy animal.

No I'm not arguing I am just saying to me BOTH are wrong. Both shouldn't be done in either place. Use a bathroom.

You should also poo so we can see how some people haven't evolved - both are vile.

Sea, yes. Pool, no.

Someone warned me years ago that some pools put chemicals in that react with urine to form a vivid colour. Probably just an urban legend but I've never risked it incase I'm nonchalantly sipping on a cocktail and the atmosphere suddenly goes frosty as everyone looks in disgust as the cloud of blue coloured dye expands out from my shorts.

I worked on a sailing boat some years back.

The vessels dump their waste tanks in the ocean. There are usually two tanks, and on our vessel certain toilets were for certain uses. There were decisions and planning to be made before entering the toilet 😀

Tank 1 for was pee only and could be dumped quite near to docking or shore.
Tank 2 was for poo which should be dumped (pun not intended) out of a certain distance off shore.

Of course there were times when the tanks were full and were forgotten to be dumped. If the water was clear, and the tanks were dumped, you had 100% full sighting of the fish eating all the crap. Yip, sad but true. Not only are you swimming in dilute poo water, but you eat fish that very well may have eaten the poo.

I can only imagine what container ships are cruise liners are pumping out, as ours was a tiny vessel in comparison.

And in any dock where yachts/motoryachts are moored, have a look and see how many people from the boats swim there. I will go with none.

I love that about MN - the faux shock and bewilderment about very mundane things.

Considering some MN posters pride themselves on how educated, sophisticated and widely travelled they are, it's hilarious that they have conniptions about people only washing their towels twice a week or not showering twice a day.

My favourite was a poster who posted that she'd seen her in-laws put butter on their crackers before cheese and oh my days, had never even heard of such a practice and had to ask MN if they'd ever experienced it.

Cue the "I've eaten cheese in 11 different countries around the world and NEVER seen anyone do this" posts 🤣

I cannot edit my post for some reason so should just add re the container ships, they do seem to pump into waste tanks.

Smaller vessels though, have a choice for either.

I have in the past. I'm sorry but everyone has but will deny it

Yeah OK. Totally the same.

I think you're a little bit obsessed with people shitting themselves in bodies of water. Are you the poo troll? 💩