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[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I was a kid my parents took me to a pool where the bottom was a huge mosaic of a killer whale. Fuck no. I think that pool gave birth to my hate of water.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That would've terrified me

[-] techt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

What the actual heck, I have the exact same childhood NOPE memory of a pool with an orca mosaic. You're the first one to validate that, none of my family remembers! I think I might have almost drowned in there too.

[-] Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

The shark looks like it needs it's snoot booped :3

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

It's fine, the chlorine will take him out 😉

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Polydextrous@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We’re gonna need a bigger pool

[-] ninjakitty7@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

I mean I can’t prove that there ISN’T a shark just out of my sight at all times.

[-] gumdropbunnies@lib.lgbt 13 points 1 year ago

I haven't set foot in a public pool since I learned that chlorine doesn't have a smell, and that public pool "chlorine" smell is actually chloramines - made from the chlorine in the pool reacting with ammonia in urine.

Avoiding the shark is just an added bonus

[-] solstice@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Who told you chlorine doesn't smell? I hit my pool with a few gallons every few weeks and it definitely smells strongly.

[-] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

😂 I love all the lore around pool pee. Which one of your buddies told you this? This is right up there with the don't pee in this pool - there is a chemical tracer that will turn it pink myth.

Get out there and sniff some chlorine brother! It indeed has a smell! With or without the pee.

[-] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago

if you sniff a jug of chlorine, sure you'll smell it but diluted in a pool to 3-5ppm you shouldn't be able to smell it unless it's reacting with contaminants, not necessarily urine, but not not necessarily urine. If it has a strong odor from far away either the pool has way more than say 10 ppm chlorine or is reacting with stuff or both. The good news is the chlorine is doing its job and you're probably fine. probably.

[-] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

This is not at all a reliable indicator of pool urine content. Do public pools contain urine? Yep. Does a smellier pool mean more urine? Nope.

[-] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for reiterating what I said I guess...

[-] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Just keeping the cycle alive hommie. You reiterated what I said. Ie. That is a complete bullshit myth.

[-] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

Well, you have all the information in the world at your fingertips but here:

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/swimming/swimmers/rwi/chemical-irritants.html

I guess that myth is pretty easy to explain.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Blåhaj only attacks transphobes, so it shouldn't be a problem

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I will take it over 40 screaming kids.

[-] Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

This phantasmal creature can be slain just like the rest.

Get into a well spaced octagon with some VERY trustworthy individuals. If everyone turns their back at the same time at equal distance, the sharks will amalgamate at the center. They will all split apart when they try to eat you, killing the creature(s) once and for all.

This is the only way and DO NOT TRY WITH OTHER SHAPES DO NOT ADD DIMENSIONS TO THE RITUAL

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago
[-] someguy@lemmyland.com 8 points 1 year ago

Looks like a Bruce

[-] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I'm always more worried there is a frothy floating child turd right behind me. Maybe my imagination is crippled.

[-] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

frothy floating child turd

what a colorful way to describe a child, they sure don't understand personal space though.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

no glass or greased watermelons in the water

Couldn't be any public pool I've gone to

[-] radix@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

... Greased watermelons? Do I want to know?

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You never played greased watermelon as a kid in the public pool? You grease up a water Melon and throw it in the water and all the kids go crazy trying to grab it but it just keeps slipping away. Some of my fondest childhood moments were spent playing greased watermelon

[-] Enigma@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago
[-] oldGregg@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

They're quoting always sunny in Philadelphia but yeah its a real thing

[-] Enigma@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Ah okay, it’s on my watchlist.

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Greased watermelon games or Always Sunny?

[-] Enigma@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Por que no los dos?

[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I tried, but they wouldn't let us into the nice pool, despite how hot a day it was, because they thought we were trash. We tried to make our own pool from an abandoned one, but instead we got trapped inside it

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I remember the watermelons growing up, but never any glass fortunately.

It was the bullies you had to worry about tbh

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I still have this thought as a grown person

[-] Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.tf 4 points 1 year ago

I had nightmares like this, unable to get out of the water with the shark around the corner

[-] onionbaggage@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago

Glass Shark! Glass Shark! Glass Shark he love da fat kid.

[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That's not quite Blahaj, but Blahaj doesn't seem scary

I had the same thing as a kid but with a jellyfish instead of shark

[-] Illegal_Prime@dmv.social 1 points 1 year ago

Me too. The thought of a shark never really crossed my mind, ever. But the jellyfish absolutely did.

Sometimes, it still does.

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