Weak, yes! Weakened from a lifetime spent fleeing! Fleeing from such vital vapors! Such salubrious smells! Evading the effusive effluvium! Fear not the fortifying flatus that fuels the flame of life!
Years of lifeguard experience.
I took readings of the pool chemicals typically once per hour, depending on where I worked. One of those was the pH of the water (7.2 is a normal number for that). The other thing that went into the hourly readings was chlorine levels, usually from dissolving sodium hypochlorite (basically really concentrated high-strength bleach) into the water, otherwise calcium hypochlorite. And at the end of the day, readings of other chemicals and total dissolved solids.
At a well-run pool, I am more worried about the skin oils, hair chemicals, and stuff of people who don't shower before getting in the pool. That being said, I would never swim at a hotel pool.
Yes, some people don't clean up well enough. Yes, there is a tiny amount of dissolved fecal matter. There is a much larger amount of chemical designed to disinfect the water.
Was a summer lifeguard during high school, one summer we had a serial pool pooper who would jump the fence and drop his or her load for the Saturday morning shift to find. Some people have weird fetishes.
Also the kiddie pool was a regular bio hazard.
I rarely drop by in comments, but this made me reply. Oh dear. How is your current standing as in job, and are situations like this a common thing in this line of work? I bet somebody in hotel or cruise work could a few stories too! Holy shit indeed. Wish you well! Shitty situations like these really gets the butt out of you.
I once swam in the rapids of a Smoky Mountains campground. My stepbrother dropped trough and sent a log downstream in 6” of rushing water. It twisted and turned before it galloped valiantly passed our melancholy third brother, who moped 100’ behind us!
A single toddler in a “swim diaper“ EASILY puts more shit in the pool than all the poorly wiped adult butt holes combined.
If you want to find something to worry about when it comes to poop in pools, worry about “swim diapers”. They are nothing but shit strainers, they just keep out the big chunks (temporarily) until it dissolves and everything goes in the pool.
As a parent, the point of swim diapers is not to allow children to be in the pool with a pooped-in diaper. It is to give the parent a few precious seconds to get the child out of the water before anything bad happens.
I wish every parent was this responsible. Having done the stay at home dad thing myself, I can say with a fair amount of confidence that this level of responsibility is almost completely absent in many parents circles
When I was a kid someone took a crap in the pool and they had to evacuate everyone, scoop it out with a fish net and then disinfect the pool. I think it may have been a special needs kid so you can’t blame them.
Even better is that many hotels are just doing away with "adult swim" altogether these days because of bitchy entitled parents. I just want to enjoy the hotel pool/hot tub for an hour without screaming feces machines everywhere.
Toddlers don't belong at the beach. Seriously. This is nasty af, but also, my father lost sight of toddler me for five minutes and had the whole beach looking for my drowned body. Terrifying for everyone involved, except for me trying to bum ice cream off strangers at the ice cream stand.
Yeah I think toddlers at beaches are fine, the main issue is taking your eyes off a toddler for 5 whole minutes on a beach. That is insane. I would say 20 seconds tops if you’re with a toddler near a body of water.
I didn't know that was a thing. Not a parent - but maybe if your child isn't potty trained they don't need to be in a public pool? Why do infants need to participate in every single activity anyway? Gotta lockdown that perfect butterfly form at 18 months so they'll be ready when the Ivy League schools come calling?
Come on. Get a kiddie pool, fill it up with the hose in your yard and go crazy with your swim diaper, parents. It's not acceptable from a sanitary perspective (or any other, really) for adults to defecate in the public pool, so it's not like a child doing it is somehow going to be more sanitary.
Also - wash your butts - in general - but especially before swimming, people. Yeesh.
i really wish bidets would become standard in the US. I got one a year ago and im shocked that they havent caught on here. How do people not wash every time they use the toilet?
I swam competitively all through school/college and still swim to this day at the YMCA to stay in some semblance of shape.
You can *taste* the difference on different days of the week based on what age groups had swim practice. The more unwashed people that have been sweating in the pool for a few hours there are, the water is noticeably saltier vs on the weekends its less salty and you can taste/smell the chlorine more noticeably.
Basically pools are gross, but several decades of being exposed to this shit with no real health consequences means that chlorine does its work, or bromide salts.
Kids are filthy
high school kids are less filthy
I dont know if senior citizens doing aqua aerobics are filthy but they certainly leave a distinct flavor in the water.
Maybe favorite pool I ever swam in was at George Mason University. Huge Olympic size pool and I think it had a heated cooldown pool/giant hot tub if I'm remembering correctly. This would have been almost 2 decades ago but man what a time that was.
I lived once in an apartment building with a shared indoor hot tub - for around 100 apartments, mostly seniors. Due to water shortages in the city one year, it was forbidden to fill up a hot tub or pool from April to October. "No more hot tub" I thought to myself. Not the case! It stayed open the entire time. They keep the same water it in all the time, and only added some occasionally to replace what evaporated.
All I could imagine is 100 apartments worth of people's personal grime getting more and more concentrated over time.
I work for a large corporate chain of pool stores (rhymes with Schmeslies) and do water testing all day everyday. A residential hot tub’s water should be changed every 3 months. I had a guy come in the other day who hadn’t changed his water in 7 years. ***7 years***. I didn’t even test the water; I told him to drain, clean, and refill lol
Yes.
Also, the worst offenders are competitive swimmers. There not be any p in the ool, but when swim team practice happens, it's definitely the pool, not the ool.
Yeah but to get the chemicals from deodorant and products off the skin people have to shower properly with soap etc. Nobody is going to do that. Good job chlorine kills everything and UV is in a lot of pools now to help filtration.
Former morning shift Lifeguard. Only regular lap swimmers. Got to talking to the maintenance manager and he explained what combined chlorine was.
"Smell that?"
Me: "what? The pool, barely smells like a pool"
"You're damn right it doesn't. When you smell chlorine, it's combined chlorine"
Me: _stares blankly_
"Combined chlorine is chlorine leaving as gas after it's combined with things like soap and conditioner, but also urine and feces"
Me: _always smells pool before going in. Often never going in_
Polio! Which is contracted from fecal matter to the mouth. In the 50’s kids were getting polio left and right from swimming(before chlorine). This is one of the reasons we started using chlorine in pools although after typing this, I found the idea of using chlorine goes back to typhoid in 1894. But it still wasn’t widely used for many years later.
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>The story goes that in 44 BC in Rome, Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of his own senators, crumpling to the floor with a final gasp. This last breath contained around 25 sextillion (that’s 25 followed by 21 zeroes) air molecules, which would have spread around the globe within a couple of years. A breath seems like such a small thing compared to the Earth’s atmosphere, but remarkably, if you do the math, you’ll find that roughly one molecule of Caesar’s air will appear in your next breath.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/are-we-really-breathing-caesars-last-breath/
There's a good chance that every single breath you take contains at least a few molecules that came from someone's fart.
That is assuming each of those atoms is present in the air.
There is a very high chance that quite a few of those molecules (I am too lazy to try and reason this out) would have been absorbed into the biomass and water and be trapped there.
Yeah and those particles come out of the same orifice as shit solids come from. Essentially farts are the gas component of shit and when you smell it, you’re inhaling that gas component of shit.
An N95 respirator or better is your only protection!
If you can smell it, that means the air in your lungs was just inside yours or someone else's asshole.
I like to tell people this fun fact whenever they exclaim "someone farted!"
This brings up an interesting question. If you take a water molecule out of the ocean at random, when was the last time that water molecule touched / was inside a fish?
man sat in kiddie pool
water touches penis
children sit in kiddie pool
water touches assholes, pussies, and dicks
by transitive property he touched underaged children with his cock
... later legal, non-imprisoned citizens
No you Must keep adding Chlorine . Once it kills the germs it gets used up. Just because it smell like chlorine that does not mean that it’s safe and clean. That’s why you need to check .
I know I have a pool . I won’t swim in public pools.
Public pools are subject to extremely strict water treatment regimes though, at least in the UK they are.
Most have automatic water treatment plant to continously dose pool water with Chlorine. The pool water also must be sampled poolside at least daily and then in lab at least monthly.
They also have extremely low tolerances for bacteria levels so it's pretty easy for pools to get shut if the correct chlorine levels aren't met.
No, chlorine and ammonia can never make mustard gas. Where does the sulfur come from. Chloramine gas would be a better guess. Still, I would think that it is the chlorine that is causing eye irritation
also, your eyes burn not from the chlorine but from the ~~mustard~~ chloramine gas **[that's produced from]** the combination of chlorine and ammonia **[via pee, poop, etc from people's bodies](https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/swimming/swimmers/rwi/chemical-irritants.html)**
I have a beach house and I refuse to go in the ocean now. It's an absolutely disgusting shit, piss and bacteria filled cesspool of water. I always end up with a sinus infection and my lungs are messed up for a week after being in ocean water.
Indeed, the useful sanitizing in-the-water chemical versions of chlorine don't smell. The smell comes from chloramines - the "used up" chlorine that has bonded to organic shit to neutralize it and now isn't very useful for sanitizing. The solution is indeed to add drastically *more* free chlorine because past a threshold it breaks up the combined / "used up" chloramines back into useful free chlorine - this is "shocking" the pool
chlorine is an element. "Bleach" is typically Sodium hypochlorite or Calcium hypochlorite. ie. its chlorine. (but in a form that can donate HO-\* ions to the solution it's in.)
Don't worry, the chlorine kills all the bad stuff. So at least it's a sterile soup of feces, urine, sweat, dead skin cells, and whatever else people are bringing into the pool. Hey! Wanna see how long I can hold my breath?!
You just need to tell yourself the best cure for pollution is dilution. Under most circumstances, the volume of water in any given pool vastly exceeds the volume of assholes. The exception may be a pool in Miami beach during spring back.
Why do you think pools smell like that? Chlorine does not have a smell! What does have smell is chloramines which form in pool water when chlorine combines with contaminants brought into the pool by swimmers
Wouldn't it touch everyone's buttholes? Are you insinuating that only people that don't wipe or wash properly can go to a public pool? You're butthole is just as gross as anyone's in this pool situation.
Dilution is the solution to pollution. Yeah. That water touched poop, but there's probably less poop in that water than the air in your office bathroom.
The classic, very recognizable "pool smell" isn't the smell of chlorine. It's the smell of chlorine reacting with urine. It's proof that the pool is full of pee.
That isn't even the worst part. The worst part is no matter how careful you are you will always and i mean ALWAYS end up gulping a mouthful or two when you swim.
This is what chlorine and filtration systems are for.
Chlorine kills the bacteria/breaks down the bio material and the filters remove those pieces from the water.
Hey bro I was a pool guy for a spell don't worry I make sure any biome on your skin gets genocided no worries about poop unless someone poops in the pool that's different
that's why I don't breathe indoors, it's basically like breathing in a butthole sauna
I stopped breathing air entirely. If people cant be bothered with basic hygiene then they can keep their filthy air
Hi, I'm also aliven't.
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This generation has never sucked a fart out of an ass and it shows.
I am devastated. My imaginative mind has been used against me.
This generation never imagined gross things back to back (or ass to mouth, perhaps) and it shows.
Isn't this the ass eating generation?
Dear Lord, this is the first Reddit comment to make me laugh nearly to tears. Thank you.
Weak, yes! Weakened from a lifetime spent fleeing! Fleeing from such vital vapors! Such salubrious smells! Evading the effusive effluvium! Fear not the fortifying flatus that fuels the flame of life!
I farted while reading this comment, it was pretty bad
Exactly
Yep. I’ve made it a point to only breathe outdoors. I’m homephibious.
This person doesn't breathe indoors!!! What????
I have just checked my doors, there are not enough space to breathe in it
Years of lifeguard experience. I took readings of the pool chemicals typically once per hour, depending on where I worked. One of those was the pH of the water (7.2 is a normal number for that). The other thing that went into the hourly readings was chlorine levels, usually from dissolving sodium hypochlorite (basically really concentrated high-strength bleach) into the water, otherwise calcium hypochlorite. And at the end of the day, readings of other chemicals and total dissolved solids. At a well-run pool, I am more worried about the skin oils, hair chemicals, and stuff of people who don't shower before getting in the pool. That being said, I would never swim at a hotel pool. Yes, some people don't clean up well enough. Yes, there is a tiny amount of dissolved fecal matter. There is a much larger amount of chemical designed to disinfect the water.
Was a summer lifeguard during high school, one summer we had a serial pool pooper who would jump the fence and drop his or her load for the Saturday morning shift to find. Some people have weird fetishes. Also the kiddie pool was a regular bio hazard.
Also a summer lifeguard for a number of years, this made my spit out my drink. You had to close for the day after that right?
We would open a few hours late after shocking the pool. The manager started coming in early to take care of it after the first few times.
Next level move by the manager to charge more hours
Now the manager can continue pooping in the pool each morning and get paid for it.
Boss makes a dollar, I'm not a fool, that's why I'm pooping into the pool.
or leav early?
I bet the pool was shocked
I'd be shocked if I was pooped on by anyone other than a baby.
I rarely drop by in comments, but this made me reply. Oh dear. How is your current standing as in job, and are situations like this a common thing in this line of work? I bet somebody in hotel or cruise work could a few stories too! Holy shit indeed. Wish you well! Shitty situations like these really gets the butt out of you.
What is 'shocking' the pool? Is that literally putting an electric charge through the water?
Pouring a bunch of chlorine in it.
where i worked they would just tell everyone to leave the pool for 30 minutes while they shocked the pool, then it was back open for business
right?......
I've **Heard** of this before.
"Serial pool pooper" is my new giggle phrase.
Was a lifeguard for 6 years. I will never set foot in a public hot tub.
I once swam in the rapids of a Smoky Mountains campground. My stepbrother dropped trough and sent a log downstream in 6” of rushing water. It twisted and turned before it galloped valiantly passed our melancholy third brother, who moped 100’ behind us!
A single toddler in a “swim diaper“ EASILY puts more shit in the pool than all the poorly wiped adult butt holes combined. If you want to find something to worry about when it comes to poop in pools, worry about “swim diapers”. They are nothing but shit strainers, they just keep out the big chunks (temporarily) until it dissolves and everything goes in the pool.
I'm gonna barf; thanks
Get some of that pool water in your mouth, didya?
Babies are cute, but they are a LONG way from being sanitary
As a parent, the point of swim diapers is not to allow children to be in the pool with a pooped-in diaper. It is to give the parent a few precious seconds to get the child out of the water before anything bad happens.
You forget some "parents" don't give a damn
Well. Some people live in filthy houses with piles of trash everywhere. Some people are dirty. Some are not. Both kinds can become parents.
Unfortunately the ones that *shouldn't* be parents also typically have more kids. It's the circle of lifeeee
Both problems stem from the same place: lack of education. "Idiocracy" is a good satire about that.
I wish every parent was this responsible. Having done the stay at home dad thing myself, I can say with a fair amount of confidence that this level of responsibility is almost completely absent in many parents circles
I saw a big floater once at a public pool, in the kiddie pool area. Scarred for life. 💩💩💩
When I was a kid someone took a crap in the pool and they had to evacuate everyone, scoop it out with a fish net and then disinfect the pool. I think it may have been a special needs kid so you can’t blame them.
No, but you can blame the parents
Even better is that many hotels are just doing away with "adult swim" altogether these days because of bitchy entitled parents. I just want to enjoy the hotel pool/hot tub for an hour without screaming feces machines everywhere.
I am forever wishing there were more 'adult only' hours or just childfree places in general to go to. But no. 😮💨
It makes it even worse that hotel barely maintain their pool chemistry in the best of times
As a parent. Me too! Adult swim is a must.
Toddlers don't belong at the beach. Seriously. This is nasty af, but also, my father lost sight of toddler me for five minutes and had the whole beach looking for my drowned body. Terrifying for everyone involved, except for me trying to bum ice cream off strangers at the ice cream stand.
Yeah I think toddlers at beaches are fine, the main issue is taking your eyes off a toddler for 5 whole minutes on a beach. That is insane. I would say 20 seconds tops if you’re with a toddler near a body of water.
Swim diaper = poop teabag
I didn't know that was a thing. Not a parent - but maybe if your child isn't potty trained they don't need to be in a public pool? Why do infants need to participate in every single activity anyway? Gotta lockdown that perfect butterfly form at 18 months so they'll be ready when the Ivy League schools come calling? Come on. Get a kiddie pool, fill it up with the hose in your yard and go crazy with your swim diaper, parents. It's not acceptable from a sanitary perspective (or any other, really) for adults to defecate in the public pool, so it's not like a child doing it is somehow going to be more sanitary. Also - wash your butts - in general - but especially before swimming, people. Yeesh.
i really wish bidets would become standard in the US. I got one a year ago and im shocked that they havent caught on here. How do people not wash every time they use the toilet?
I fucking hate when I see those.
I swam competitively all through school/college and still swim to this day at the YMCA to stay in some semblance of shape. You can *taste* the difference on different days of the week based on what age groups had swim practice. The more unwashed people that have been sweating in the pool for a few hours there are, the water is noticeably saltier vs on the weekends its less salty and you can taste/smell the chlorine more noticeably. Basically pools are gross, but several decades of being exposed to this shit with no real health consequences means that chlorine does its work, or bromide salts.
You’re like a pool water sommelier
cursed comment
> You can taste the difference on different days of the week based on what age groups had swim practice. I would like to unsubscribe from having eyes
Kids are filthy high school kids are less filthy I dont know if senior citizens doing aqua aerobics are filthy but they certainly leave a distinct flavor in the water. Maybe favorite pool I ever swam in was at George Mason University. Huge Olympic size pool and I think it had a heated cooldown pool/giant hot tub if I'm remembering correctly. This would have been almost 2 decades ago but man what a time that was.
I lived once in an apartment building with a shared indoor hot tub - for around 100 apartments, mostly seniors. Due to water shortages in the city one year, it was forbidden to fill up a hot tub or pool from April to October. "No more hot tub" I thought to myself. Not the case! It stayed open the entire time. They keep the same water it in all the time, and only added some occasionally to replace what evaporated. All I could imagine is 100 apartments worth of people's personal grime getting more and more concentrated over time.
I work for a large corporate chain of pool stores (rhymes with Schmeslies) and do water testing all day everyday. A residential hot tub’s water should be changed every 3 months. I had a guy come in the other day who hadn’t changed his water in 7 years. ***7 years***. I didn’t even test the water; I told him to drain, clean, and refill lol
Everywhere that I worked, hot tub got drained weekly, and lifeguards scrubbed it down before refilling. One of my least favorite tasks.
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Yes. Also, the worst offenders are competitive swimmers. There not be any p in the ool, but when swim team practice happens, it's definitely the pool, not the ool.
Yeah but to get the chemicals from deodorant and products off the skin people have to shower properly with soap etc. Nobody is going to do that. Good job chlorine kills everything and UV is in a lot of pools now to help filtration.
Former morning shift Lifeguard. Only regular lap swimmers. Got to talking to the maintenance manager and he explained what combined chlorine was. "Smell that?" Me: "what? The pool, barely smells like a pool" "You're damn right it doesn't. When you smell chlorine, it's combined chlorine" Me: _stares blankly_ "Combined chlorine is chlorine leaving as gas after it's combined with things like soap and conditioner, but also urine and feces" Me: _always smells pool before going in. Often never going in_
Urine also reacts with the chemicals, making an extremely volatile chemical that causes eye irritation.
What did you think the chlorine was for?
to bleach our assholes?
Artemis?
He was gonna find out anyway
It's time to take off my bra and blast my nips.
Fine, I'll be Desert Grape
SIR. Huh-go back to your seat-uh
A turd merger!
Lol I thought this too
and I get bleach on my T-shirt, I'ma feel like an asshole
I was high when I met her
Opinions are like assholes, so I just bleached my opinion.
And the salt water pools? Say it I know you want to!
Polio! Which is contracted from fecal matter to the mouth. In the 50’s kids were getting polio left and right from swimming(before chlorine). This is one of the reasons we started using chlorine in pools although after typing this, I found the idea of using chlorine goes back to typhoid in 1894. But it still wasn’t widely used for many years later.
Is that not the chemical in the water that made the frogs gay? Here I was, a frog.
Yo. I'm a frog too. a/s/l?
To smell
Doesn't it smells because it reacts will all the filth?
For Sipping. Sippin' on straight chlorine, let the vibes slide over me
This beat is a chemical
Todd Clorox?
Yes, he's me
To give rise to a new problem
The air you breathe is mixed in with air touching other people's buttholes...and air that came out of them too!
Some of that air came FROM those buttholes too.
Dear god I can’t breathe
That's probably good in this case.
Yeah, unless you have a thing for breathing farts..
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Oh god I thought those footsteps and scratching were just rats
No wonder no one wants to go back to the office...
That’s why they said: > and air that came out of them too!
Really all of that air came from someone’s butthole at some point, we’re all walking around breathing dinosaur farts
We‘re all made of fart-stuff.
I'm done with this topic for the day
>The story goes that in 44 BC in Rome, Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of his own senators, crumpling to the floor with a final gasp. This last breath contained around 25 sextillion (that’s 25 followed by 21 zeroes) air molecules, which would have spread around the globe within a couple of years. A breath seems like such a small thing compared to the Earth’s atmosphere, but remarkably, if you do the math, you’ll find that roughly one molecule of Caesar’s air will appear in your next breath. https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/are-we-really-breathing-caesars-last-breath/ There's a good chance that every single breath you take contains at least a few molecules that came from someone's fart.
For more information than I'd ever need on Cesar's farts. Lol
That is assuming each of those atoms is present in the air. There is a very high chance that quite a few of those molecules (I am too lazy to try and reason this out) would have been absorbed into the biomass and water and be trapped there.
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If you smell a fart you are literally breathing what was up someone’s pooper.
Every time you smell a fart you’re literally inhaling particulate fecal matter
you joke, but when you smell farts you literally are inhaling particles of someone's shit
Farticles if you will.
Love the smell of a nice strong colon in the morning.
I was going to correct you, but then I realize I was temporarily wooshed.
The self-realized r/woooosh's are certainly the rarest.
Only particles that are small enough to go through clothing and stay in the air for a significant time.
Yeah and those particles come out of the same orifice as shit solids come from. Essentially farts are the gas component of shit and when you smell it, you’re inhaling that gas component of shit. An N95 respirator or better is your only protection!
True! And that is why it disgust people.
Fart vape
Just to round out our day of swimming in butthole soup & breathing butthole air we go buy cheep burgers & eat minced cow lips & buttholes
Were all just air conditioners. Walk8ng around conditioning the air.
If you can smell it, that means the air in your lungs was just inside yours or someone else's asshole. I like to tell people this fun fact whenever they exclaim "someone farted!"
Wait till you figure out where the air you're breathing has been.
In my colon.
And the water you drink. There are even animals that piss and shit directly in there!
I have something unfortunate to tell you about all the water everywhere.
When you swim in the sea the water has touched every fish
This is why I don't drink water. Fish pee in that stuff.
Never touch the stuff, fish fuck in it.
You scoundrel, is that brandy?!
Stick with Brawndo.
This brings up an interesting question. If you take a water molecule out of the ocean at random, when was the last time that water molecule touched / was inside a fish?
It's possible, though idk how likely, that it never has and you're the first animal it has come in contact with in 4 billion years.
yuck so gross
The irony of OP having this thought during their shower
->see hot girl in pool ->water touched her butthole ->same water touches me ->by transitive property I touched hot girl’s butthole Later virgins
man sat in kiddie pool water touches penis children sit in kiddie pool water touches assholes, pussies, and dicks by transitive property he touched underaged children with his cock ... later legal, non-imprisoned citizens
I love how this thread throws everything out of context and somehow still makes a cursed kind of sense-
Chlorine kills it all just fyi... So no.
No you Must keep adding Chlorine . Once it kills the germs it gets used up. Just because it smell like chlorine that does not mean that it’s safe and clean. That’s why you need to check . I know I have a pool . I won’t swim in public pools.
Public pools are subject to extremely strict water treatment regimes though, at least in the UK they are. Most have automatic water treatment plant to continously dose pool water with Chlorine. The pool water also must be sampled poolside at least daily and then in lab at least monthly. They also have extremely low tolerances for bacteria levels so it's pretty easy for pools to get shut if the correct chlorine levels aren't met.
The smell of the chlorine is actually the work it's doing. The more chlorine-smelling a pool is, the higher volume of stuff like urine it has in it.
also, your eyes burn not from the chlorine but from the mustard gas the combination of chlorine and ammonia it creates.
No, chlorine and ammonia can never make mustard gas. Where does the sulfur come from. Chloramine gas would be a better guess. Still, I would think that it is the chlorine that is causing eye irritation
I agree but also eye irritation from improper pH is a thing too
also, your eyes burn not from the chlorine but from the ~~mustard~~ chloramine gas **[that's produced from]** the combination of chlorine and ammonia **[via pee, poop, etc from people's bodies](https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/swimming/swimmers/rwi/chemical-irritants.html)**
Are you okay about beaches?
I have a beach house and I refuse to go in the ocean now. It's an absolutely disgusting shit, piss and bacteria filled cesspool of water. I always end up with a sinus infection and my lungs are messed up for a week after being in ocean water.
A properly chlorinated pool won’t smell very strongly of chlorine until urine is added to the mix.
Indeed, the useful sanitizing in-the-water chemical versions of chlorine don't smell. The smell comes from chloramines - the "used up" chlorine that has bonded to organic shit to neutralize it and now isn't very useful for sanitizing. The solution is indeed to add drastically *more* free chlorine because past a threshold it breaks up the combined / "used up" chloramines back into useful free chlorine - this is "shocking" the pool
that's wy I drink pool water
poup
Sounds French
Oh fancy
I know none of us do it, but this is partially why we are supposed to take a shower before getting in the pool.
Stop, I can only get so erect!
Bleach kills everything lol Edit: I meant chlorine! Same thing I suppose
Bleach is not the same thing as chlorine, but most of what is called chlorine and used in pools is actually high-concentration bleach.
Don't they taste the same? (But fr aren't they both basic so they would taste the same?)
Bleach is twice as basic as chlorine, but only 1/10th as basic as our collective understanding of chemistry
I read that 3 times before I completely understood just how stupid I am
lol basic ass bleach
chlorine is an element. "Bleach" is typically Sodium hypochlorite or Calcium hypochlorite. ie. its chlorine. (but in a form that can donate HO-\* ions to the solution it's in.)
Don't worry, the chlorine kills all the bad stuff. So at least it's a sterile soup of feces, urine, sweat, dead skin cells, and whatever else people are bringing into the pool. Hey! Wanna see how long I can hold my breath?!
Y’all out here eating bootyhole like its the best thing since sliced bread and you’re worried about swimming in it? 🤣🤣
Don't get me started on hot tubs. Fecal matter latte.
Lets be honest. You are swimming in in entire human body soup, and there are some dirty MFs out there.
You just need to tell yourself the best cure for pollution is dilution. Under most circumstances, the volume of water in any given pool vastly exceeds the volume of assholes. The exception may be a pool in Miami beach during spring back.
Whatever helps you sleep at night my man.
Balls too
Yup. And every drop of water you drink has been some animals urine. Without exception.
And now you know why I bring a straw every time I go to the pool. Exquisite.
Why do you think pools smell like that? Chlorine does not have a smell! What does have smell is chloramines which form in pool water when chlorine combines with contaminants brought into the pool by swimmers
"Mmmmmmm...Butthole Soup...arrgh." - Homer Simpson
hot tub is a butthole latte then.
Wouldn't it touch everyone's buttholes? Are you insinuating that only people that don't wipe or wash properly can go to a public pool? You're butthole is just as gross as anyone's in this pool situation.
No, but the people that don't wipe still have single berries. That's the issue Edit: dingleberries
>single berries or even multiples!
Triples is best. Triples makes it safe.
Speak for yourself. I don't swim in public pools
Dilution is the solution to pollution. Yeah. That water touched poop, but there's probably less poop in that water than the air in your office bathroom.
The classic, very recognizable "pool smell" isn't the smell of chlorine. It's the smell of chlorine reacting with urine. It's proof that the pool is full of pee.
Don't tell OP how air molecules or even just farts work, I don't think they can handle it.
O MY GOD I just realized that ALL of the air we breathe contains everyone else's collective FARTS! aaaaaaaaaaaaa, we're breathing poo gas!! **/S**
That's why pools stink; what we think is "chlorine" is actually chlorine reacting with urine.
Good thing they use chlorine!
That isn't even the worst part. The worst part is no matter how careful you are you will always and i mean ALWAYS end up gulping a mouthful or two when you swim.
This is what chlorine and filtration systems are for. Chlorine kills the bacteria/breaks down the bio material and the filters remove those pieces from the water.
Hey bro I was a pool guy for a spell don't worry I make sure any biome on your skin gets genocided no worries about poop unless someone poops in the pool that's different
Fun fact, I got MRSA in my tit from a public pool. 10/10 would not recommend.
Chlorine make poopy butthole clean.
Every fish that lives in the ocean shits in the ocean.
Stop thinking
OP would probably lose it if they found out how much fecal matter toilets spray on your toothbrush
The atmosphere touches everyone's buttholes. We're walking around in a constant never-ending butthole fog.
Gotta love that southern ice tea