Have you ever peed in a pool and are you aware of the consequences of your actions?

Where did you get this info?

I thought the pool smell and irritated eyes is from the chlorine itself. Can you back up these claims?

from one of the edutainment shows on german television called “galileo”

I have, yes, peed in pools – it’s not my usual practice, but it has happened

I have never peed in pools, and mostly don’t go to pools now because of the fact that people pee in them and I don’t like swimming any more (independent of first reason).

Yes, as I child I urinated in the family pool quite often. It was much easier than getting out, drying off and going in the house. I do not however, urinate in pools as a grown-up, I also discourage my children from doing so.

Name me one kid who never peed in a pool.

here is another source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTB/is_21_41/ai_94160701/

http://swimming-pool-designs.com/swimming-pool-chlorine-101/

Hurm. I just did some quick google-foo and discovered that some sources blame the smell on chloramines, which can be caused by body oils, lotions, spit, and yeah, pee.

I peed in the pool when I was a kid. Not something I do anymore. Hooray for bladder control and manners. :)

I heard that recently as well, not the irritated eyes part, but that urine mixed with pool water is bad.
I’m sure my son pees in the pool, and I remember wishing I could still do it but that movie/show where the pee turned purple in the water traumatized me into thinking everyone would see. lol

Not every kid has ever been in a pool.

I have been wondering about this very thing because I recently joined the Y. There is a sign by the pool that says if your kid is not toilet trained, he or she must wear rubber pants. What I am wondering about is the older folks with, ah, occasional troubles. What are they supposed to wear, and does it work? (If it’s something water-tight, wouldn’t they be a balloon butt? If it isn’t, what good does it do?)

no. chlorine kills bacteria. it doesn’t have anything to do with the pee except kill bacteria. I grew up peeing in pools. When we were kids we used to float a candy bar (like caravelle in the us) and watch the action. it was hilarious

It’s always best to pee into the pool from the high-dive.

@Jeruba I’ve seen that too, over here at the 92nd Street Y in NYC. A true dilemma.

And yes, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that every kid that has ever been in a pool has pee pee’d.

As an adult, no. I tend to not go pee pee in the pool.

ps: the same show featured a doctor who revealed that fresh urine does not smell or taste as extreme as popular pinion suggests. He also injects patient’s urine into patients to comabt pain. He even regularly drinks a bit of his own urine to strengthen his immune system

@ragingloli ewww really? I’ve known some people who do that (drink their urine) and it makes no sense to me. Isn’t peeing the body’s way of getting rid of liquid stuff it doesn’t need or want? Crazy how some people will let a person do things to them just because they have a medical degree.

I never have to my knowledge.

@Likeradar
urine is sterile and non toxic, which means it is not dangerous to your health, unlike poo. On the contrary, it is full of valuable minerals.

@Jeruba The two YMCA’s I go to require little ones to wear swim diapers, http://www.littleswimmers.com/na/index.asp they basically don’t swell up when in contact with liquid. So, I assume when my son pees in them, it gets into the pool. I don’t know why they don’t insist on rubber swimsuits.

….so you’re not suppose to pee in the pool?
But it makes it all so nice and warm…

@derekpaperscissors
so is peeing in your bed.
but you don’t do that, right?

@casheroo – they are generally trying to prevent the poo in the pool – and yes, would prefer no pee in the pool; however, they know a baby, toddler or preschooler might not be able to express the need to go. When a child (or adult) poos in a pool, many health departments require the pool to be closed, possibly drained and cleaned. Then refilled and retreated and it can open, again. The little swimmers stop the poo, not the pee.

I go to the local pool every tuesday just to pee into it.

Sometimes it’s hard to get to the bathroom

I did as a kid, the only consequence I can remember was relief, as long as nobody saw.

@SeventhSense That looks like fun. I won’t lie.

@Grisaille
Sure until that fat guy next to you let’s loose with a bladder buster. And who knows maybe it’ll set off a chain reaction. Before you know it there’s Cleveland Steamers floating around at it’s a mad dash to the exit. Old ladies gettin’ trampled. Kids drowning. Speedos around the ankles in the melee….the horror..

Being hygienic by nature, I stand on the edge of the pool and lower my trunks before urinating in a swimming pool. The consequence is that I feel relief.

@SeventhSense Fuck yeah. That’s a good time in my book.

@ragingloli I don’t know where you are getting your information, but drinking your own urine has no serious benefits, and just because it isn’t toxic, that doesn’t mean it is good for you. If you want to know the truth about urine therapy, go here and read what science has to say about it. Make it a point to read all the way to the bottom.

@casheroo I was just thinking about the “pee see” episode of “Pete and Pete” I think it was the other day. :D

Sorry, but urine is, in fact, not really healthy to drink. Small amounts of your own, dilute urine is probably ok (but gross). Howver, if you are dehydrated, one of the things that your body does is produce an extremely concentrated urine (in an attempt to retain as much water as possible). Drinking urine that has a higher osmolality than your body’s is very dangerous, as the body then has to re-eliminate the extra salts and minerals it just went to great effort to eliminate in the first place. Urine is waste, plain and simple. There really is no reason to go green (or yellow).

@casheroo Found that episode!

I am ashamed that the first thing I thought of was that episode of Friends where Monica got stung by a jellyfish and Joey peed on her leg to alleviate the pain.

I’m going to go crawl inside a closet and never come out.

i peed in the pool as kid….i pee in teh ocean as an adult…well if its good enough for fish its good enuff for me

Its the chlorine that makes the smell and the stinging of your eyes .
Some pools have or still do use a chemical in the water to change when someone pees this could be a myth tho and drinking some urine is okay lots of people do it and they aint dead .

I saw a sign at a pool a long time ago: We don’t swim in your toilet, so please don’t pee in our pool!