The problem of peeing in pools …

[snopes]

I am standing by the US Embassy pool in Delhi. They are about to put in a special dye that colours urine in the water. I am with two other teachers, big Betty from Yorkshire and Mrs. Singh. Betty is an excellent swimmer, normally it is she who happily goes in to the pool with the kids, while we watch from the sidelines but today is different. “I can’t,” she says, “I leak”.

“Oh” we say, looking at her solid form. “No, I’m serious if any of the kids make me laugh the dye will surround me, you’ll have to go in”.

[...]

In the changing rooms, I remind the kids to be extra careful, go to the
loo before we swim. They nod knowingly, I don't want to be the one who has
to blow the whistle to empty the pool, which would involve a lecture from
the attendants and closure for a day as the water is emptied and changed.
Our hour session goes without incident; relieved I herd everyone back to
the showers. They all look disappointed. It was only when I was waiting to
get changed that I overheard one of them. "Well, so much for that dye. I
mean we all peed and nothing happened." Later I asked, the Head of
Chemistry, why the water hadn't reacted. He just laughed, "Don't you know?
It's a myth, there is no such chemical; it's just something they say every
so often to frighten the kids." I must have been swimming in pure piss. I
remembered how the kids had laughed when one had jumped on me and I'd come
up spluttering: sea v pool, no contest.

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[Silas Sparkhammer]

"sea v pool, no contest."

Hm... Maybe...but I've never seen floating clumps of human feces in a swimming pool, and I have at the beach.

Silas (people are the stinkiest of all the animals)

[Base Ten]

Originally Posted by Silas Sparkhammer

"sea v pool, no contest."

Hm... Maybe...but I've never seen floating clumps of human feces in a swimming pool, and I have at the beach.

Silas (people are the stinkiest of all the animals)

And how did you know that it was human?

"sea v pool, no contest."

Where does he think all the fishes pee?

[Beachlife!]

I don't drink water 'cause fish have sex in it...

[Cervus]

Originally Posted by Base Ten

And how did you know that it was human?

That reminds me of the last time I took my dog to the beach. He had so much fun swimming, he didn't bother to come back to the sand to poop. He just crouched and pooped in the ocean. I had a poop bag, but I was fully clothed and the turd was too far away from me so I waited for it to wash ashore. It didn't and eventually we had to go home. I felt really horrible about leaving it.

But I did laugh as he was pooping in the ocean, because he just looked so funny with the waves splashing all around him. :o

[We'veBeenHad]

She really believed that if someone peed in the pool they'd have to close it for the day and refill it? Oh boy.

[Silas Sparkhammer]

Originally Posted by Base Ten

And how did you know that it was human?

Oh, thank you for that straight line!

Ahem....

Wait for it...

By a process of elimination

Silas

[Malruhn]

bastage...

[Beldaran]

Originally Posted by Silas Sparkhammer

"sea v pool, no contest."

Hm... Maybe...but I've never seen floating clumps of human feces in a swimming pool, and I have at the beach.

Silas (people are the stinkiest of all the animals)

Go work at a pool for a while. When I was a lifeguard, it happened probably once a week in the busy summer months. And no, we didn't drain the pool for that either. The only thing that got the pool drained was broken glass, and despite the ban on all glass products in the pool area, that happened once a summer anyway, usually over 4th of July weekend when someone snuck in a glass diving mask.

Also, close the pool for only one day? Not likely. When we closed the pool for glass or the yearly cleaning, it took several hours to drain, several more to clean and several more to fill back up, so that's probably all in one day if you're good. However, since we filled the pools with the fastest method available, fire hoses straight from the hydrant, we were filling them with COLD, not so clean water. It took two more days just to heat the water up to where people would want to swim in it.

Just my experience, YMMV and all that.

Also, when dealing with cranky Public Works guys who apparently don't want to be turning on the hydrants to fill the pool, when the water comes out of the hose and starts filling said pool, do not complain that he's using the cold green water and you thought you ordered the warm blue water. They don't find it funny for whatever reason.

Originally Posted by Beachlife!

I don't drink water 'cause fish have sex in it...

Not exactly as W.C. Fields said it, but close enough. Don't want to move this discussion to NFBSK.