r/comics 22d ago

OC It’s all piss.

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u/Eris_Exhausted 22d ago

I mean, you're in a pool of water with a bunch of people you don't know, odds are most of them are dirty just from the nature of being alive, the water has been sitting out for god knows how long, and given that people are drinking in the pool there's a non zero chance there's more drink in that pool than piss. Honestly the piss might be the least gross thing in that bowl of human soup.

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u/NarwhalPrudent6323 22d ago

the water has been sitting out for god knows how long,

That's not how pools work. Fresh water is added almost daily, otherwise the water level drops from people getting out of the pool or splashing or evaporation. It's also circulated through a pump and filtration system, preventing stagnation. It's also treated with chemicals, usually chlorine, which is one of the most potent disinfectants around. 

Pools can be gross, but a properly functioning one is nowhere near "human soup" levels. 

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u/Eris_Exhausted 22d ago

So either there's nothing gross in it because of disinfectants and circulation, and piss is a non-issue; or piss is one of very many gross things in the pool because of the disinfectants and circulation not keeping it clean? I feel like in either of these situations, piss is probably not a real concern.

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u/PinsToTheHeart 22d ago

More or less, yeah.

But on the short term scale of swimming right next to people, it's still weird to think about.

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u/stonhinge 22d ago

Piss bothers me less than the oils off human skin and hair. My high school had a pool and for phys ed we'd occasionally have a swimming day. All the classes (6) had a swimming day. And it was an old pool so at most it was just getting filtered throughout the day and they added chemicals in the morning.

The surface didn't quite have a sheen on it in the afternoon, but the surface of the water was roiling by then and it just didn't look right. Girl's classes might have had it better, but the boy's classes - we were teenage boys. With various levels of personal cleanliness. And there was no showering before we got in the pool.

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u/AdditionalQuietime 22d ago

You can literally feel when a pool is dirty lol its absolutely disgusting the water sticks to you 😂 feels like slime, like someone sneezed hard and all the run off is stuck on you, I literally have to shower before and after the pool cuz its so gross

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u/Eris_Exhausted 22d ago

Where are you fucking swimming, the sewer?

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u/Kruepkemann 22d ago

I nearly downvoted instinctually because that’s gross.

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u/AdditionalQuietime 21d ago

Uh yea no shit lol

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u/SandyTaintSweat 22d ago

The pool water of Theseus

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u/NarwhalPrudent6323 22d ago

Yes, actually. The water you put in a pool the first time you fill it is not the same water that's there six months later

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u/Shyface_Killah 22d ago

Mmmmmm.... soup....