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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2019 13:07:22 GMT
From Snopes.com:
"No matter what your parents might have told you, no magical chemical exists that when added to a swimming pool will reveal the presence of urine in the water by producing a brightly-colored cloud"
And:
"Those in the pool supply business are routinely confronted with requests for the “urine-indicator dye” (as the mythical substance has come to be known). The belief in such a chemical spans many countries, as does the juvenile certainty particular pools are spiked with it."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2019 13:41:58 GMT
Further to this, there are two types of chlorine in a pool.
1) Free chlorine, the added sanitizer, which is essentially odorless when properly concentrated in pool water.
2) Combined chlorine, which is free chlorine after it kills bacteria, and it gives off that chlorine smell.
Therefore, if you can smell chlorine in a pool, it is a dirty pool that requires a "burnout".
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Post by pfif on Jun 21, 2019 17:31:42 GMT
There's an odd relationship between chlorinated pools and radio waves I don't quite understand. I'm guessing the effect is pretty subtle.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2019 4:49:45 GMT
I like that there is the option these days to have a salt based compound in pools vs chlorine. Interesting about the smell of chlorine means it's killing bacteria. I can smell chlorine when I run the kitchen taps in my house and definiteiy when I run a bath. Think I'm sensitive to its smell and wish this level of chemicals wasn't so necessary.
So no blue dye. Good to know. Kidding! If you think about it, would only need a one shot deal with each public pool because it would only take once for anyone to never do it again.
Editing to add a thought that puzzles me on this subject of 'dirty' pool water. Urine is sterile when it comes out of the body, so it's not from urine that the bacteria originates, is it?
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Post by igorfrankensteen on Jul 21, 2019 17:10:57 GMT
I've heard so many stories about urine, they all fall into the category of myth, in my mind.
After all, the main ones include both that human urine is sterile, AND that it naturally kills athletes foot fungus. Seems a little contradictory to me there. I don't know. And since sometimes there is a strong odor to urine and sometimes not, that means that it is conveying other things out of the body, and who knows what that might be.
I've seen as many challenges to claims about it, as positive assertions.
My own funny cat side story: I had one cat who decided that the ideal place to take a dump, or a leak, was in the DRYER. I had to be fanatic about keeping the door shut, even when I was in the process of emptying it, for fear he'd jump in and leave a gift. Several times, I didn't realize until after the horrifying scent of baked cat urine began filling the house, that he'd managed to sneak in again. I could only guess what his thinking was.
I had to train myself to pee in the shower. As with a lot of funny human behaviors, I didn't even hear about it until rather late in my life, and found it a mite confusing. I can only think of one possible objection, and that is that whereas there is a water trap built into toilets and most sinks, not all shower drains have a trap built in, so there's a chance of sewer-type gasses coming back to "haunt" you. About the only thing I do about that, is to be sure to run the shower long enough after the fact, to wash any detris down.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2019 19:14:27 GMT
^^^I came to the 'joy of peeing in the shower' late in life as well. In fact, just after reading this thread and deciding to investigate the activity. I don't pee in the shower every time I take one, but get a little thrill when I 'do'<<<hahahaha
Can't imagine a cat doing its business in my clothes dryer. EEEUUUU
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