Not showering before swimming
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What bothers me a lot is adult swimming sessions full of middle aged / older women who I swear must apply perfume before going “out” to the pool.
I’m particularly sensitive to some perfumes & usually these creature leave a plume behind them floating on surfaces. If I’m swimming face in water & surfacing to breathe I taste it!!!
(I have learned that splashing usually keeps them at a distance as they inevitably want to keep their hair dry)
I’m particularly sensitive to some perfumes & usually these creature leave a plume behind them floating on surfaces. If I’m swimming face in water & surfacing to breathe I taste it!!!
(I have learned that splashing usually keeps them at a distance as they inevitably want to keep their hair dry)
AndyAudi said:
What bothers me a lot is adult swimming sessions full of middle aged / older women who I swear must apply perfume before going “out” to the pool.
I’m particularly sensitive to some perfumes & usually these creature leave a plume behind them floating on surfaces. If I’m swimming face in water & surfacing to breathe I taste it!!!
(I have learned that splashing usually keeps them at a distance as they inevitably want to keep their hair dry)
God yes. I used to swim regularly at the same time. Like Clockwork 20 mins in to my swim this woman arrived. She must have been in her late fifties, to be fair had a good bod. But she clearly had dolled her self up to come for a swim including bathing in some horrible old lady perfume. She would swim 3 lanes away but you could smell and taste it, was grim. I’m particularly sensitive to some perfumes & usually these creature leave a plume behind them floating on surfaces. If I’m swimming face in water & surfacing to breathe I taste it!!!
(I have learned that splashing usually keeps them at a distance as they inevitably want to keep their hair dry)
craig1912 said:
JQ said:
That’s why in Scandinavia you are expected to shower completely naked and wash your whole body with shower gel.
It is considered against cultural norms to not do the above and would likely result in someone having a words with you if you just walked straight to the pool without a wash.
Same in Iceland’s, they even have diagrams to tell you which bits to wash! To be fair they don’t have chlorinated water so it makes sense.It is considered against cultural norms to not do the above and would likely result in someone having a words with you if you just walked straight to the pool without a wash.
Watcher of the skies said:
Doesn't worry me as much as all the dirty sods that don't wash their hands after using toilets.
I've also been shocked to see men in public toilets having a piss without washing their hands before pissing and then leaving the toilets without washing their cocks! This means that even if they started the day with a clean cock it's now infested with all sorts from their hands.
Must be lots of blokes walking around with dirty and germ infested knobs.
Although slightly grim, I can get past this. I honestly doubt a splash of water on the skin without the use of soap and/or shampoo would do much anyway.
But what really grips me and the dirty buggers who leave the sauna, drenched with sweat and use the main pool as a plunge pool to cool off. Now that is absolutely disgusting and people of that manner, should be put through a meat grinder.
But what really grips me and the dirty buggers who leave the sauna, drenched with sweat and use the main pool as a plunge pool to cool off. Now that is absolutely disgusting and people of that manner, should be put through a meat grinder.
I'm quite germaphobic, especially around toilet stuff, I won't use a public loo unless it's an emergency fundamentally and a few other weird issues I live fairly contently with.
But the swimming pool thing I have never understood. Ive historically spent a fair bit of my life abroad, mainly in France and they are absolutely rabid on swimming pool hygiene, shower before hand and stupid budgie smugglers all in the quest for hygiene. Yet they use chlorine and their pools are still full of plasters, grit, clumps of hair etc. in other words no different to the UK. I'm fairly sure a decent percentage of patrons in both countries pee in the pool, what positive effect does banning shorts and insisting on a shower really have? The idea of a proper full naked wash makes sense especially in untreated water, that will clean someone but a drizzle of freezing water isn't going to make any difference other than maybe remove a bit of dust. I just assumed they were sadists tbh.
To go a bit left field what makes France particularly strange on this subject of hygiene is that they pride themselves on perfumes and pool hygiene and are generally very civilised people. Till you visit toilets. I've never known a race struggle to get poo and pee down a pot quite like the french. It is not unusual to see it on the floor of course, but how does it get on the walls and ceiling? This isn't accidental this is some sort of strange mental illness that seems to be a national pastime.
Oh and I think it's a bit weird to make a special effort to wash your feet separately in the shower unless they are actually dirty (walked barefoot outside etc.) but also think arse wash after toilet is completely normal.
But the swimming pool thing I have never understood. Ive historically spent a fair bit of my life abroad, mainly in France and they are absolutely rabid on swimming pool hygiene, shower before hand and stupid budgie smugglers all in the quest for hygiene. Yet they use chlorine and their pools are still full of plasters, grit, clumps of hair etc. in other words no different to the UK. I'm fairly sure a decent percentage of patrons in both countries pee in the pool, what positive effect does banning shorts and insisting on a shower really have? The idea of a proper full naked wash makes sense especially in untreated water, that will clean someone but a drizzle of freezing water isn't going to make any difference other than maybe remove a bit of dust. I just assumed they were sadists tbh.
To go a bit left field what makes France particularly strange on this subject of hygiene is that they pride themselves on perfumes and pool hygiene and are generally very civilised people. Till you visit toilets. I've never known a race struggle to get poo and pee down a pot quite like the french. It is not unusual to see it on the floor of course, but how does it get on the walls and ceiling? This isn't accidental this is some sort of strange mental illness that seems to be a national pastime.
Oh and I think it's a bit weird to make a special effort to wash your feet separately in the shower unless they are actually dirty (walked barefoot outside etc.) but also think arse wash after toilet is completely normal.
welshjon81 said:
Although slightly grim, I can get past this. I honestly doubt a splash of water on the skin without the use of soap and/or shampoo would do much anyway.
But what really grips me and the dirty buggers who leave the sauna, drenched with sweat and use the main pool as a plunge pool to cool off. Now that is absolutely disgusting and people of that manner, should be put through a meat grinder.
I can understand the sweat from the Sauna but even then we are talking about a few mil in a hundred thousand litres of chlorinated water...."the solution to pollution is dilution."But what really grips me and the dirty buggers who leave the sauna, drenched with sweat and use the main pool as a plunge pool to cool off. Now that is absolutely disgusting and people of that manner, should be put through a meat grinder.
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