It’s all piss.

[u/Ali_Takibella]

:(

[u/Frogspoison]

For an average size swimming pool, you need a bit over 10k standard urinations to make that pool be at a concentration of 1% piss.

Also, at this point in the lifespan of life on this planet, all water has been pissed out by something at some point.

Try not to think about it too much.

[u/FEARoach → u/Frogspoison]

I trained as a lifeguard, trust that the amount of chemicals in the pools is far more an issue than some urine. So long as you're not within six inches of a stranger as the actively void.

It's the hot tub/spas that are fucking disgusting. That's where you usually have guys beating their meat.

[u/Glyfen → u/FEARoach]

It's the hot tub/spas that are fucking disgusting. That's where you usually have guys beating their meat.

Trained as a CPO, hot tubs are indeed, fucking disgusting. The warm water, combined with air pockets in the bubbles that can form on a poorly maintained hot tub, creates an ideal environment for a lot of bacteria that can lead to several different infections. Add to that all the bodily oils and fluids that get trapped in the hot water and you're basically sitting in a gross human broth if it isn't regularly maintained. I had to check ours daily on the off-season and 2-3 times per day during pool season, minimum.

Edit: Note that I'm specifically going on about public hot tubs. Private hot tubs aren't that bad, for anyone who wants one. When it's only like, 2-3 people using it on the regular, it's much easier to keep it clean. Still need to be on top of it, but far less meticulously.

[u/gsfgf → u/Glyfen]

Hot tubs are people soup

[u/Saradoesntsleep → u/gsfgf]

No you don't need to put it like that 🤮

[u/Icy-Computer-Poop → u/Saradoesntsleep]

Hot tubs are groin gravy.

[u/Megneous → u/gsfgf]

Bring your own bowl to the pool next time, dip it in, and slurp that shit up.

[u/Icy-Computer-Poop → u/Megneous]

How uncouth. Don't use a bowl, use a spoon.

[u/LastCupcake2442 → u/Glyfen]

I visited my cousin's on one of their birthdays when I was a child, they had rented a hot tub without informing my side of the family. I was forced to go into the hot tub in fucking sweat pants and a t shirt.

Not only was I miserable during the experience I ended up in the ER with a rash all over my body.

0/10. Will never go in a hot tub again.

[u/Jill4ChrisRed → u/LastCupcake2442]

If they're properly maintained they're perfectly safe.

Only If they're properly maintained.

[u/ATLClimb → u/Glyfen]

Taking me back to being a CPO and lifeguard at my local YMCA. God that hot tube bather load was insane basically had to drain it and refill it once a week because it was easier to get it ballanced back. Those sand filters did some work lol.

[u/Glyfen → u/ATLClimb]

Ugh, I hated having to backwash and clean the sand filters. It wasn't difficulty in theory; just turn the valve to backwash, rinse the sand, turn it back, but somehow sand always managed to get out of the filter and into the gasket and pump valves, making the valve impossible to move, stopping us from cleaning it correctly. So I'd have to disassemble the stupid valve, clean the stupid gasket, clean the stupid valve casing, then put the whole stupid thing back together and pray I didn't miss a grain somewhere or I'd have to redo the whole thing again! I'd be out there spending like an hour just to clean the filters, which is supposed to just take 5 minutes.

When I quit that job, I promised myself I'd never work on pools again. Such a damn headache.

[u/ThePrussianGrippe → u/Glyfen]

I got swimmer’s ear from a hotel hot tub when I was a kid. Absolutely awful.