58% of public pools infected with poop

[DAPUNISHER]

This is most likely the case. When I was a kid in the 70s in NYC the public pools reeked of chlorine. My eyes used to burn after a few hours of swimming. I never got sick. fast forward 30 years later, I take my 18yr old son swimming in the same pool I went to, I smell no chlorine, I assumed they are using a new chemical, bam, he gets a really bad ear infection. I havent gone to a pool since. Public or private. I just go to the beach and let mother nature and her sea salt kill shit.

From my link about the CDC study

And don't trust your nose.

"Many people think that when a pool smells of chlorine, that means that it's clean," said Mary Ostrowski, director of the Chlorine Issues at the American Chemistry Council, a trade organization. "But that smell is actually chloramines, a substance that results from a mix of chlorine and bacteria, urine and sweat."

So that strong chemical smell actually signifies that the pool's water is exceptionally dirty and should have its chlorine and pH levels tested and adjusted, Ostrowski told Life's Little Mysteries. A perfectly healthy pool would be odorless, and if chloramines levels have reached a point where they can be smelled, the pool water may act as an irritant to a swimmer's eyes, skin and nose.

Harmful germs such as Giardia, E. coli and cryptosporidium (crypto) parasites can spread in public pools that have insufficient chlorine and too-low pH levels. Symptoms of all three illnesses include diarrhea, weight loss, nausea, vomiting, dehydration and stomach cramps.

 

[Red Storm]

Ug, lakes are the worse. Its just a large bathtub that doesnt get filtered.

We have a lake an hour away from us that's so clean (no motor powered boats of any kind allowed in it) you could drink the water.

Public pools are far and away the worst and it's not even close.

 

[Slew Foot]

yup. fat american rednecks take a shit in pools, news at 11

 

[DAPUNISHER]

We have a lake an hour away from us that's so clean (no motor powered boats of any kind allowed in it) you could drink the water.

Public pools are far and away the worst and it's not even close.

I came into this thread with full knowledge that local public pools had been closed over health concerns. I cannot understand why anyone would defend them? Or be surprised that many of them are poorly maintained for various reasons.

 

[Red Storm]

I came into this thread with full knowledge that local public pools had been closed over health concerns. I cannot understand why anyone would defend them? Or be surprised that many of them are poorly maintained for various reasons.

Yes, I was responding to someone who said lakes are the worst, implying that public pools aren't.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Yes, I was responding to someone who said lakes are the worst, implying that public pools aren't.

I knew that. I did a terrible job of conveying that I was following your remarks, not questioning them.

 

[CZroe]

LOL at the OP's usage of "infected."

 

[Ice_Dragon]

George Carlin:
"Let me tell you a true story about immunization ok. When I was a little boy in New York city in the nineteen-forties, we swam in the Hudson river. And it was filled with raw sewage! OK? We swam in raw sewage, you know, to cool off. And at that time the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids died from polio every year. But you know something? In my neighborhood no one ever got polio. No one! EVER! You know why? Cause WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE! It strengthened our immune system, the polio never had a prayer. We were tempered in raw ***t!"

DAMNIT! You beat me to it. Quoted for truth.

 

[Acanthus]

We have a lake an hour away from us that's so clean (no motor powered boats of any kind allowed in it) you could drink the water.

Public pools are far and away the worst and it's not even close.

Are you familiar with how water gets into lakes?

Runoff.

Do animals and germs live on the ground? Where do they go to take a dump? The pool?

 

[Ricochet]

No surprise there. I have a hard time believing defecating a pool is a normal thing though. More likely prairie doggers.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

ATOT: Irrational Fears Division, ON THE WAY!

 

[Red Storm]

Are you familiar with how water gets into lakes?

Runoff.

Do animals and germs live on the ground? Where do they go to take a dump? The pool?

And I'm sure you also know that lakes are gigantic compared to pools. Public pools are disgusting not just because of chemicals and the other people who swim in them, but because it's a very large number of people in a very small container of water.

 

[Squisher]

Dirt! It's made out of dead people!

 

[iRONic]

This is disgusting. What is wrong with people and not cleaning themselves? I guess this is what happens when people use soft toilet paper.

Also, who goes swimming with diarrhea?

Pool issues aside; you're obsessed with shit. Your threads are usually about shit or some other hygeine issue.

Get some professional help.

 

[silverpig]

I can also be sure that they are many, many times larger than a public pool with ample amounts of water and space per swimmer. Plus I'd wager that you get more disgusting people in public pools than you do in natural bodies of water.

Yeah but you ain't gonna run into a whale turd in the local pool.

 

[Red Storm]

Yeah but you ain't gonna run into a whale turd in the local pool.

I dunno I've seen a lot of people at public pools who are pretty darn close to whale classification.

 

[KaOTiK]

Also, who goes swimming with diarrhea?

I like to pretend I am a squid!

 

[polarmystery]

How is this any different from India?

 

[rudder]

How is this any different from India?

no dead people floating around.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I'm thinking there's a 42% margin of error with survey. It's hard to believe that there are any public pools not infected with poop.

 

[Druidx]

Wow, no one has brought up caddyshack yet?


Dooky!!!!

 

[Pantoot]

I like to pretend I am a squid!

:biggrin::thumbsup:

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Wow, no one has brought up caddyshack yet?


Dooky!!!!

Its not poop, its a Baby Ruth

 

[Druidx]

Part of the problem is the chlorine level for swimming pools is set arbitrarily low. 1-3ppm is the standard, which is silly when you consider 4ppm is okay for drinking water.
I had an inground pool installed in my last house. I always kept the chlorine around 5ppm and would let people swim after shocking when the level fell below 10ppm. I never had anyone complain about their eyes burning because I also kept the PH high. Contrary to what most people think, low PH is the common cause of eye irritation not chlorine. Which unfortunately also make the low chlorine problem worse because low PH results in the chlorine being less effective.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Lulz! I pitty the foo that had to establish that!

"Bend over. This won't hurt, I am just going to use this cotton swab to collect some -- ahem -- material."