To think this is disgusting?

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Adult male takes a shower over the bath with the plug in. Gets out and tops the water up to make a bath for the children.

Aibu - yes you're being unreasonable as this saves water.

No - it's disgusting to have your children bathing in their dad's shower water.

Nb: at least four public hairs were spotted floating around in the water.

Yes, I would do it that way too Sepoctnov, but to be honest I'd probably just have a shower

Because people who swim in the swimming pool tend to have showers before and after using them.

Not anywhere I've seen

They do where I live.

Do people use public swimming pools to bathe themselves?

I wouldn't have done it when my two were little as I wouldn't want to get in dirty water so wouldn't expect them to.
I wouldn't expect it of my granddaughter either. She gets a freshly drawn bath of lovely bubbly water whenever she likes at our house

Where do you go swimming that there are either no showers, or no one uses them? :/

It’s true there will always be some people who shower before using a public swimming pool or hot tub & some who don’t.

It’s not something that is monitored which must be a concern for people worried about stray pubes etc which seems to be a surprisingly large number of you.

There are showers, people don't use them before getting in the pool.

I think it's disgusting. Even when I used to shower most days at the Gym I would turn off the water when I soaped / scrubbed up and then rinsed off.

I would always shower before getting into the Pool and used a swim cap; obviously, the latter doesn't keep your hair dry but that's not the point - it's to stop your hair clogging up the inlets / outlets or shedding on others. Chlorine is activated by dirt and make-up - I used to see loads of people with full face of make up happily paddling away with hair untied let alone with a swim cap.

Absolutely not, that’s grim.

Where do you go swimming that there are either no showers, or no one uses them

I’m in Australia and that’s never been a thing anywhere I’ve gone swimming. Maybe some places have it but in the several decades I’ve gone to swimming pools I’ve never once seen it, or anyone taking a shower beforehand. Whether in a chlorinated swimming pool or ocean, I go in with my hair well coated with conditioner, protects it from the chlorine and salt. I always put a good layer of conditioner on my kids hair before they got in for swimming lessons and as adults, some still do it, some don’t when they swim recreationally. Swimming pools are heavily chlorinated to deal with people’s manky bodies, that’s the point, or they wouldn’t be chlorinated. Ditto with filtration to get rid of skin flakes and what not.

When my kids were little and did swim lessons, while not a frequent event, on the rare occasion there would be a chocolate log (keeping in mind babies from 6mths had classes and I guess swim nappies sometimes failed with poonamies, or toddlers in swimmers who are toilet training. All they did was get everyone to clear away from the area, got a net, done. If a log, that was the end of it, they said the pre-existing chlorine level was designed to take care of that. If a poonamie nappy blow out, the’s just add some (I’m guessing liquid chlorine?) to the spot, wait 5mins and then back to normal. None of this a big deal.

Not to bathe themselves no, but surely these hazards will also apply in a public pool? Perhaps I'm missing something here.

Do you think so? I notice people standing under the shower for a short time in their swimming costume, not having a thorough intimate wash. But maybe this is different in different places and different types of pool. I mentioned it because the disgust some posters were expressing is so strong, and I would think that it would also apply sharing water in a public place.

It's rank 🤮

You don't swim to get clean. You wash after swimming.

Yes, I think you are. People use a bath to clean themselves (not me, personally - yuck) but people swim for fitness and enjoyment and most shower off, with soap and clean water, the things that everyone knows swimming pools contain but would rather not think about.

Sorry but I think it’s disgusting. I know people did it years ago but no need for it now.

I bath with my kids, but that seems ok because it’s shared water, someone else’s already used water seems gross even if I’d happily get in the bath with them 😂

The days of looking forward to going in after a parent because it was deeper water in the bath! Soap, hot water, towel scrub, pretty clean after. Our ypung DC will often go in bath after me, DH only has showers.

My DH will often run a bath for himself, a hot one, have a soak and a wash and get out, he’s never more than 10 minutes. Our youngest DS usually gets in afterwards unless DH has shaved and a fresh one is drawn or he gets a shower. Older DS usually showers. I have my own baths and always shaving so don’t share my bath water and wouldn’t share theirs. Unless the person going in first is absolutely filthy then I don’t see how this is an issue. The male folk of the house don’t mind. I prefer showers to baths anyway as sitting in my own shavings whilst my conditioner is working can be minging.

So the children bathe in his arse and cock water.. a big NO

It's fine!
Get over yourself!

I was going to write yucks. But thinking about it it's not much different from me bathing with my child, I don't usually scrub myself properly and end up having a shower after but when she tells me to get it I do and we play before I scrub her. Personally I wouldn't shower and let them use the water maybe the other way round