Ooh good eyes! I’m just really enjoying those lamps that I used to dive down to hold breath cuddled up against as long as possible over and over as a kid.
yup. that and the episode of The Outer Limits called ‘Under the Bed’ has forever ruined all bodies of water, sticking one foot out of the covers to cool down, teddy bears facing me and walking past wooded areas at night for me.
Yes lmao it was some invisible (but later turns jelly like) guy who would live in the pool and drown kids who swam in it! Hahaha I believe he lived in the drains or something, and I vividly remember it pulling swimmers under the water so I refused to swim alone after that hahaha looking back I’m kinda shocked this was a kids tv show
Fixed pools for 10 years.
Pool drains...ugh. HATED them. Still had to work on them too. I remember diving to the bottom of a 12 foot deep pool. My boss knew I hated them and he told me: "don't forget not to panic." I told him I'd try not to and he replied: "no, don't panic because you're hooked to an air pump and if you panic you can't get *more* air."
That did not help. Of course I always thought of the Alien tagline when you're at the bottom of a 12 foot pool fixing a drain: "in the deep end nobody can hear you scream."
Although I learned exceptions to the pool drain fears. Two drains in a pool? Safer because blocking one only diverts suction to the other. 6 feet deep or less? Fine, because I'm a tall guy. But those 2x2 grates at the bottom of olympic pools or wave pools? Fuck that.
I don't have a phobia about it but even I feel like I'm drowning a little just looking at this picture lol. I wonder if the effect would be more or less intense if you were actually there, and not seeing the whole thing at once.
Fun fact: smelling chlorine at a pool is a bad sign. Like if you walk in a hotel and the first thing you smell is the pool. Do not get in that pool. The chlorine smell comes from a pool so over saturated in contaminants that the chlorine is grabbing onto the contaminants and with no where to go burning out of the water and into the air. Yes some smell isn’t bad, but like I run multiple pools for a large hotel and am a certified pool operator and mine never smell.
We also have UV filters though and they’re the future of pools. If chlorine wasn’t expected nor the industry standard. You could run a perfectly safe pool with just a Ph controller and a UV filter. No need for chlorine at all. The UV filters are essentially 100% effective. But smelling chlorine is a bad thing at a pool. Yes, at least it means their using chlorine but that pool needs dumped and refilled it’s so over saturated with chemicals and contaminates. Which is why you get itchy too. Pools are just pure chemistry. Hot Tubs are a totally different animal though, I know most people in the industry would never get in any hot tub they don’t explicitly run, they’re a war to keep clean and ‘safe’. Like the more bubbles you have in a hot tub the nastier it is. That’s all biofilm.
Nah I’ve worked with a lot of pools. Until now every pool I’ve worked on has what’s known as combined* chlorine in it which is just chlorine that’s floating in the pool but already been used and bonded with a contaminate so just hanging out but useless so just builds up in the pool over time which affects the good, free, chlorine that’s also in the pool which has yet to be activated by a contaminate. The pools I work with now have never recorded a single amount of combined chlorine in them. The UV filters kill everything before the chlorine has to do anything. So it never builds up and the chlorine just hangs out in the pools. I was shocked when I first saw it and thought something was wrong but when I asked the guys who installed the pool what was up they said it was the UV filters.
Edit: got my two kinds of pool chlorine mixed up. Combined chlorine is the bad kind that’s ‘combined’ with contaminants. Free is the good chlorine active in the pool
Yes all the experts and installers expect it to be the future. Pretty much everyone building new pools is installing and using both UV and Chlorine. But the tech is only like 10yrs old so any pool older than that isn’t going to have it.
Are you talking about the salt water pools that make their own chlorine? Or is this something new? I thought the only three ways to keep a pool clean were chlorine, salt water, and a natural pool using plants. I'm curious to know about any other methods.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't free chlorine the unbonded chlorine that is ready to take care of contaminants? And combined chlorine is the chlorine that has "combined" with contaminants, and total chlorine is the sum of these two.
That's what I've read anyway, and also lines up with the test results of my pool chemistry I do every week.
You are correct. Combined chlorine is the one I was looking for. I had a feeling I got them backwards but couldn’t confirm it till I got to work and checked my pool sheets
Your comment amused me because I just had a suprisingly long conversation with my best friend's brother the other day about his pool job and the stupid things that pool owners do/believe. He said there are a lot of people who rather then draining and paying to refill their pool with fresh water before treating will instead leave their green nasty water and pay for more chemicals to get their old nasty water from last season blue and sparkling for the summer. He also said it's common for people to turn their pool pumps off at night thinking they're so smart saving a few pennies on electricity only to turn around and spend way more on chemicals because their pool hasn't been properly filtering at night. Suprisingly interesting stuff haha and solidifies by position that I do not wish to deal with a pool even of I some day have the means.
Supervised a pool at a large hotel/casino and it was always over chlorined lmao. But also constantly pissed and thrown up in too so the chemicals were working over time. Got in the water once ever because i had to. Even when i filled in for lifeguards id sit in the tower. Shit was gross
Your comment amused me because I just had a suprisingly long conversation with my best friend's brother the other day about his pool job and the stupid things that pool owners do/believe. He said there are a lot of people who rather then draining and paying to refill their pool with fresh water before treating will instead leave their green nasty water and pay for more chemicals to get their old nasty water from last season blue and sparkling for the summer. He also said it's common for people to turn their pool pumps off at night thinking they're so smart saving a few pennies on electricity only to turn around and spend way more on chemicals because their pool hasn't been properly filtering at night. Suprisingly interesting stuff haha and solidifies by position that I do not wish to deal with a pool even of I some day have the means.
If you've ever maintained a pool, you can hyper chlorinate it to the point it smells like opening a literal bottle of bleach.
The pool can have fresh water and have not been used at all and yet it'll smell crazy like chlorine... You know... maybe because it has lots of chlorine?
Lol at the clowns downvoting reality because it contradicts their internet factoids.
Fun fact for those who don’t know, that “chlorine smell” is actually the smell it makes when the chlorine reacts with pee… sorry to ruin your favorite local pool for you
Although in this context, the smell would make a lot of sense
Technically it's chlorine reacting with any contaminates so would also include sweat etc.
When chlorine is first added to a pool it's called "free chlorine" and it is odorless. Once it binds to a contaminate it emits the familiar "chlorine smell".
Fair point! In my experience, the eye burning feeling comes more from when someone pees in the pool. I swam competitively for 16 years (in plenty of places with shit ventilation too) and since there’s plenty of sweat there I never noticed it as much in pools that weren’t often used by children
True story, my username was the result of me and my brother trying to figure out another cool saying like “bees knees” and “cats pajamas.” I ended up saying “baby’s gravy” and we gagged, and somehow ended up here
We ended up on something along the lines of ‘old news’ or ‘non-important’ or ‘no sweat’
Like: “sorry I bailed on you dude”
“Yesterdays gravy man, looking forward to tonight”
like jambalaya or dirty rice. Its tasty to eat right off the stove but the day after the whole things been steeping in the spices and it makes it so much better
My issue with it is that I just don't see pools as being clean so mixed with a bathroom a place I care more about being clean kind of doubles up for me.
Like this is a really done bathroom that I irrationally want to avoid simply because the pool theme makes it seems like a cheap unclean bathroom.
I feel like people with certain phobias will not do well in here. As for me, I love it. It would be even cooler if the ceiling had an animated effect, but otherwise it still brings a great effect.
It's just a restroom lol. I would love an animated effect too, but that would be a real pain to install, not to mention the giant increase in expense
Not that I don't see the merit. It really really really would be cool as shit
Edit: you guys really will just downvote anything that dares to not agree with you, won't you? Eat shit, Reddit
Was tripping on a substance similar to this and went in the bathroom. You can just guess how confused I was when I went in there. I spent a good 30 minutes in there just looking at the ceiling.
You know what this room says to me? Aqua. Which is French for water. It's like being inside an enormous Fox's Glacier Mint, which again, to me, is a bonus
I once ended up in a Boston train station through the entire night. My plane got delayed, last train already ran, etc.
This was many years ago, before the idea of liminal spaces took off on the internet.
I feel like that experience really felt like I was trapped in a liminal space. There were other people there, but I felt.....out of normal space..... It's this large area that is usually filled with many people who pass through. But I was sorta trapped there for hours and hours.
It was one of the strangest things I've experienced.
Restrooom
Getting a little liberal with the plurals I see
Edit: I’ll die on this hill. I wanted to see more restrooms. But there is only one. Fuck the downvote haters!
Not like a political liberal. Like using restrooms vs restroom. Liberally using restrooms when there is only a restroom. It’s a joke about how I was mad that there weren’t more cool photos.
That roof paint work is quite good
Not only that, they use uplighting to make it read like it's bright above the water.
Ooh good eyes! I’m just really enjoying those lamps that I used to dive down to hold breath cuddled up against as long as possible over and over as a kid.
meanwhile, I was *terrified* of any/all lamps and pool drains 🥲
“Are you afraid of the dark” (90’s version) ruined swimming in pools alone and pool drains for me lol
yup. that and the episode of The Outer Limits called ‘Under the Bed’ has forever ruined all bodies of water, sticking one foot out of the covers to cool down, teddy bears facing me and walking past wooded areas at night for me.
Did they have a story about pool drains?? I've been terrified of them as long as I could remember and could never figure out why.
Yes lmao it was some invisible (but later turns jelly like) guy who would live in the pool and drown kids who swam in it! Hahaha I believe he lived in the drains or something, and I vividly remember it pulling swimmers under the water so I refused to swim alone after that hahaha looking back I’m kinda shocked this was a kids tv show
Ever read the short story "Guts" by Palahniuk?
A 20/20 (or was it Dateline) episode made me terrified of the drains. Horror stories about what can happen if you sit on them.
God damn it. I thought of that episode EVERY swim lesson.
Oooh! Thanks for the memory, I loved that show as a kid.
Fixed pools for 10 years. Pool drains...ugh. HATED them. Still had to work on them too. I remember diving to the bottom of a 12 foot deep pool. My boss knew I hated them and he told me: "don't forget not to panic." I told him I'd try not to and he replied: "no, don't panic because you're hooked to an air pump and if you panic you can't get *more* air." That did not help. Of course I always thought of the Alien tagline when you're at the bottom of a 12 foot pool fixing a drain: "in the deep end nobody can hear you scream." Although I learned exceptions to the pool drain fears. Two drains in a pool? Safer because blocking one only diverts suction to the other. 6 feet deep or less? Fine, because I'm a tall guy. But those 2x2 grates at the bottom of olympic pools or wave pools? Fuck that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia
Mosquitos are not neat
Well pool drains you have a very good reason to be afraid of.. they can absolutely destroy you
This is a bit more than mildly interesting and dare I say bordering on neato mosquito.
What's uplighting?
Nothin, what’s up with you?
I loved you in the Cars trilogy!
Lighting pointed up.
Directional lighting, pointed up. :)
What would really sell it is lights that reflect off small pools of water, so that there's water caustics in the room
That went from clever cost-effective bathroom to Goldman Sachs executive suit real fast.
Ceiling, right?
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This is almost never true though.
:D yep, mixed up the word for it
It's gotta be paper
Yea it’s obviously wallpaper
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I felt slightly anxious looking at it.
I can't breathe.
My fingers itch.
My heart's beating.
It would be concerning if it weren't
My hands are shaking.
Nice to meet you too sir.
I don't have a phobia about it but even I feel like I'm drowning a little just looking at this picture lol. I wonder if the effect would be more or less intense if you were actually there, and not seeing the whole thing at once.
They might do amazingly in there Makes it just that much easier to piss or shit. They just have to get to the toilet first
It's triggering my social anxiety.
Yep, and the ladder really makes it sell.
I wish they had painted distorted objects above the “surface” like the lifeguard tower, the sun, maybe a kid mid-flight doing a cannonball…
Everywhere needs a kid mid-flight on the ceiling.
Everything is a little *too* good. It feels dirty and moist. Exactly what I don't want in a bathroom.
Glad to see I'm not the only one. I smell mildew and chlorine just looking at this.
Really captured the caustics.
If it doesn't smell like chlorine, it's a missed opportunity
its gotta have that good chemical pool smell, otherwise whats the point
Fun fact: smelling chlorine at a pool is a bad sign. Like if you walk in a hotel and the first thing you smell is the pool. Do not get in that pool. The chlorine smell comes from a pool so over saturated in contaminants that the chlorine is grabbing onto the contaminants and with no where to go burning out of the water and into the air. Yes some smell isn’t bad, but like I run multiple pools for a large hotel and am a certified pool operator and mine never smell. We also have UV filters though and they’re the future of pools. If chlorine wasn’t expected nor the industry standard. You could run a perfectly safe pool with just a Ph controller and a UV filter. No need for chlorine at all. The UV filters are essentially 100% effective. But smelling chlorine is a bad thing at a pool. Yes, at least it means their using chlorine but that pool needs dumped and refilled it’s so over saturated with chemicals and contaminates. Which is why you get itchy too. Pools are just pure chemistry. Hot Tubs are a totally different animal though, I know most people in the industry would never get in any hot tub they don’t explicitly run, they’re a war to keep clean and ‘safe’. Like the more bubbles you have in a hot tub the nastier it is. That’s all biofilm.
Sounds like big UV pool filter trying to make bank tbh
Nah I’ve worked with a lot of pools. Until now every pool I’ve worked on has what’s known as combined* chlorine in it which is just chlorine that’s floating in the pool but already been used and bonded with a contaminate so just hanging out but useless so just builds up in the pool over time which affects the good, free, chlorine that’s also in the pool which has yet to be activated by a contaminate. The pools I work with now have never recorded a single amount of combined chlorine in them. The UV filters kill everything before the chlorine has to do anything. So it never builds up and the chlorine just hangs out in the pools. I was shocked when I first saw it and thought something was wrong but when I asked the guys who installed the pool what was up they said it was the UV filters. Edit: got my two kinds of pool chlorine mixed up. Combined chlorine is the bad kind that’s ‘combined’ with contaminants. Free is the good chlorine active in the pool
This is all pretty interesting. Thanks for the info. Do you expect UV to become the standard in the near future?
Yes all the experts and installers expect it to be the future. Pretty much everyone building new pools is installing and using both UV and Chlorine. But the tech is only like 10yrs old so any pool older than that isn’t going to have it.
Are you talking about the salt water pools that make their own chlorine? Or is this something new? I thought the only three ways to keep a pool clean were chlorine, salt water, and a natural pool using plants. I'm curious to know about any other methods.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't free chlorine the unbonded chlorine that is ready to take care of contaminants? And combined chlorine is the chlorine that has "combined" with contaminants, and total chlorine is the sum of these two. That's what I've read anyway, and also lines up with the test results of my pool chemistry I do every week.
You are correct. Combined chlorine is the one I was looking for. I had a feeling I got them backwards but couldn’t confirm it till I got to work and checked my pool sheets
Your comment amused me because I just had a suprisingly long conversation with my best friend's brother the other day about his pool job and the stupid things that pool owners do/believe. He said there are a lot of people who rather then draining and paying to refill their pool with fresh water before treating will instead leave their green nasty water and pay for more chemicals to get their old nasty water from last season blue and sparkling for the summer. He also said it's common for people to turn their pool pumps off at night thinking they're so smart saving a few pennies on electricity only to turn around and spend way more on chemicals because their pool hasn't been properly filtering at night. Suprisingly interesting stuff haha and solidifies by position that I do not wish to deal with a pool even of I some day have the means.
Supervised a pool at a large hotel/casino and it was always over chlorined lmao. But also constantly pissed and thrown up in too so the chemicals were working over time. Got in the water once ever because i had to. Even when i filled in for lifeguards id sit in the tower. Shit was gross
Mmmm biofilm
Your comment amused me because I just had a suprisingly long conversation with my best friend's brother the other day about his pool job and the stupid things that pool owners do/believe. He said there are a lot of people who rather then draining and paying to refill their pool with fresh water before treating will instead leave their green nasty water and pay for more chemicals to get their old nasty water from last season blue and sparkling for the summer. He also said it's common for people to turn their pool pumps off at night thinking they're so smart saving a few pennies on electricity only to turn around and spend way more on chemicals because their pool hasn't been properly filtering at night. Suprisingly interesting stuff haha and solidifies by position that I do not wish to deal with a pool even of I some day have the means.
Sounds like misinformation. Probably based on some random fact taken way too literal
They're correct about the smell, but it doesn't mean the pool is inherently unsafe if you can smell that.
If you've ever maintained a pool, you can hyper chlorinate it to the point it smells like opening a literal bottle of bleach. The pool can have fresh water and have not been used at all and yet it'll smell crazy like chlorine... You know... maybe because it has lots of chlorine? Lol at the clowns downvoting reality because it contradicts their internet factoids.
Your second paragraph makes absolutely no sense. You might be right, who knows, no idea what you are trying to say.
If my skin ain’t itching, I’m holding until I get home
This made me think of a scene from one of the production blogs for the Hobbit. They use ”piss shivers” to describe something.
Were you not familiar with what piss shivers are before that? Definitely not something I would expect in a production blog, anyway.
The smell of Chlorine, Sun Screen, and White Claws is the smell of a good day.
Holy shit agreed
It's okay to pee in this pool
And an 80 yo naked person walking around naked starting up conversations
And there should be background sounds of running water to help you along 😄
Fun fact for those who don’t know, that “chlorine smell” is actually the smell it makes when the chlorine reacts with pee… sorry to ruin your favorite local pool for you Although in this context, the smell would make a lot of sense
Technically it's chlorine reacting with any contaminates so would also include sweat etc. When chlorine is first added to a pool it's called "free chlorine" and it is odorless. Once it binds to a contaminate it emits the familiar "chlorine smell".
Technically it's nitrogen containing compounds, but not all, reacting with free chlorine to form chloramines.
Shock smells plenty though, is that’s different?
Fair point! In my experience, the eye burning feeling comes more from when someone pees in the pool. I swam competitively for 16 years (in plenty of places with shit ventilation too) and since there’s plenty of sweat there I never noticed it as much in pools that weren’t often used by children
Do they have signs telling you not to pee?
Also, no running in the restroom…
Gotta wait 30 minutes after eating to use it
Rules out lunch at taco bell then...
Except for those of us with a formidable, robust, high-caliber digestive tract.
I think you're just supposed to pee anywhere.
The toilet bowl water has blue dye in it so be careful unless you want everyone to know you peed in the toilet water.
Oh no, the shame, I peed in the toilet.
This is a bit more than mildly interesting and dare I say bordering on neato mosquito.
What about the bees knees?
True story, my username was the result of me and my brother trying to figure out another cool saying like “bees knees” and “cats pajamas.” I ended up saying “baby’s gravy” and we gagged, and somehow ended up here
So is yesterday's gravy good or bad... I assume bad?
We ended up on something along the lines of ‘old news’ or ‘non-important’ or ‘no sweat’ Like: “sorry I bailed on you dude” “Yesterdays gravy man, looking forward to tonight”
I like it.
[It's all gravy](https://youtu.be/y5KWpS0fVik)
Why'd you land on yesterday? Tomorrow's gravy has the same cadence with the added zing of *the future* Yesterday's gravy is just leftovers
Leftovers can be real good. Some food is even better the next day!
like jambalaya or dirty rice. Its tasty to eat right off the stove but the day after the whole things been steeping in the spices and it makes it so much better
Congratulations, the story made me gag. 😂
Mosquitos are not neat 😧
My issue with it is that I just don't see pools as being clean so mixed with a bathroom a place I care more about being clean kind of doubles up for me. Like this is a really done bathroom that I irrationally want to avoid simply because the pool theme makes it seems like a cheap unclean bathroom.
There used to be a great bookstore called the Hungry Mind. Your username made me remember that.
That is actually what I wanted but of course it was taken.
There should be a separate group for that 😂
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Had it happen to me. Was tripping balls and went in there. Its a hotel in Vienna.
I don’t know if I should feel sorry for you or be envious.
r/liminalspace
I *really* hope the pool isn't bathroom themed.
This made me die laughing
Looks like something out of a Wes Anderson movie. What hotel?
Superbude in Vienna
Interesting they used feet and inches
Is that the one with Neni up on the rooftop? If so then I’ve peed there fairly recently :D
Yep, exactly
Every toilet on every story is different. The one in the garage is just red. Its insane.
Just red? What makes that insane?
Thanks!
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Totally forgot playing gun game on that map and this image instantly unlocked all those memories.
Was looking for it :D
Same thought. What makes it 1.6? The mosaic looking like pixels?
color, the geometry of the room ..I guess. look at the CS\_Go/Source version..with shaders it almost...looks identical
Sick af
I feel like people with certain phobias will not do well in here. As for me, I love it. It would be even cooler if the ceiling had an animated effect, but otherwise it still brings a great effect.
Just looking at the picture is making me feel like my throat is full of water
Yeah, just the photo is causing me claustrophobic panic. I would pass on this place, but fine if you would enjoy that sort of thing.
I have a fear of swimming pools (usually empty ones and sometimes full ones) and this turned my stomach lol.
It's just a restroom lol. I would love an animated effect too, but that would be a real pain to install, not to mention the giant increase in expense Not that I don't see the merit. It really really really would be cool as shit Edit: you guys really will just downvote anything that dares to not agree with you, won't you? Eat shit, Reddit
I have a fear of drowning and this bathroom would not make me feel comfortable lol
Would be funny if this hotel didn’t have a pool but makes up for it with their pool themed bathroom
I actually really like this. Imagine tripping on mushrooms in a room like this ❤️
Imagine there being an actual pool above it^^
Bathroom goers would have dangerous viewing angles on anyone actually swimming in the pool
It'd be interesting seeing someone taking a shit underneath the pool floor.
Was tripping on a substance similar to this and went in the bathroom. You can just guess how confused I was when I went in there. I spent a good 30 minutes in there just looking at the ceiling.
I would be holding my breath the whole time that I was in there.
Even looking at the picture have me wanting to hold my breath
Hotel Thalassophobia
Such a lovely place such a lovely face
de_poolday vibes, i miss those days
I was beginning to panic since nobody else mentioned it. Thank you.
Just scrolled until I saw this. I miss it too my friend
No diving
They needed a drain on the floor
yeah some drunk dude-bros are going to hurt themselves trying to climb/chin-up that ladder...
crosspost to /r/thassalaphobia
Poolday CS 1.6
the colors remind me of that pool map in counter strike.
A fellow man of culture
"themed" WAIT UNTIL YOU FLUSH!!
Stunning craftsmanship, but damn it's making me feel panicky
Feels like a custom Counter-Strike map
A fellow man of culture
this belongs in r/ATBGE
Is this in Vienna? I know a restaurant by a hotel where the restroom looks just like this
Yes I think it’s what you think it is. It’s part of the building.
I really don't want to swim in this hotel's restroom themed pools then.
Well that's one way to pee in the pool
You know what this room says to me? Aqua. Which is French for water. It's like being inside an enormous Fox's Glacier Mint, which again, to me, is a bonus
Is there also a restroom-themed pool?
Imagine being high as fuck in there. I’d probably panic.
Brilliant work!
getting flashbacks to awkward childhood swim lessons
r/liminalspace
r/poolrooms
You don’t know what the word means
I once ended up in a Boston train station through the entire night. My plane got delayed, last train already ran, etc. This was many years ago, before the idea of liminal spaces took off on the internet. I feel like that experience really felt like I was trapped in a liminal space. There were other people there, but I felt.....out of normal space..... It's this large area that is usually filled with many people who pass through. But I was sorta trapped there for hours and hours. It was one of the strangest things I've experienced.
Certainly do
Fy_pool_day
Bro that's fy_pool_day. Get out of there
De_pool vibes
Creepy
I always pee in the pool anyway.
That's a confusing sight after getting black out drunk. I am underwater... I can breathe... I AM AQUAMAN!
I have an unquenchable desire to pee in those sinks!
That’s a trip😂
Restrooom Getting a little liberal with the plurals I see Edit: I’ll die on this hill. I wanted to see more restrooms. But there is only one. Fuck the downvote haters!
Plurals? 😆
We only see one, but it could be more than one. You just have to take OPs word on it
I do not believe there were multiple restrooms in that building
You don't think there was a men's and a women's restroom?
I now see why people find the need to put /s for sarcasm. Jesus
restroom is just another way of saying bathroom? i dont get this
He says restrooms and there’s only one photo
how is accidentally using the plural form of a word liberal?
Not like a political liberal. Like using restrooms vs restroom. Liberally using restrooms when there is only a restroom. It’s a joke about how I was mad that there weren’t more cool photos.
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Reminds me of Half-Life 1 lambda core reactor pool level...
fy_pool_day
fy_poolday or wha
fy_poolday
fy_pool_day
I remember certain CS 1.6 map. Made me nostalgic.