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post #1 of 38
7/21/08 at 1:24pm
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I know there was a similar thread before the relaunch, so here it is again.

M wife decided that our family needed a membership to the YMCA, which is fine although I don't see using it enough to justfy 60.00/month. I don't mind using the gym equipment from time to time.

My problem comes when my wife decides that the family should go swimming together.

Swimming.

In a communal pool.

Cthulhu help me, but it takes all of my mental concentration not to become sick when I am swimming in the stew of dozens of bodies. I have to actively will myself NOT to think of the urine or the water passing over asses, vaginas, and testicles. If water ends up touching my lips bile rises into the back of my throat.

Is this a normal reaction, or is it a sign that I really put too much thought into such things?
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post #2 of 38
7/21/08 at 1:27pm
Do you carry hand sanitizer around everywhere with you? Because if pool water bothers you, you should see the shit you're touching just in the course of an average day.
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post #3 of 38
7/21/08 at 1:28pm
The air you're breathing right now has rubbed up against someone's genitals at one point or another.
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post #4 of 38
7/21/08 at 1:29pm
I avoid water all together because it is evil. I never use more than what I can survive while laying in it. I avoid pools in the same way fanboys avoid honest criticism.
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post #5 of 38
7/21/08 at 1:31pm
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Originally Posted by Minsky View Post
The air you're breathing right now has rubbed up against someone's genitals at one point or another.
That made me laugh out loud. I refuse to use the abbreviation of that.
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post #6 of 38
7/21/08 at 1:34pm
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Originally Posted by Krish-0 View Post
Do you carry hand sanitizer around everywhere with you? Because if pool water bothers you, you should see the shit you're touching just in the course of an average day.
Actually, I do. Another thing that bothers me, when I'm eating at a restaurant I start thinking about the cleanliness of the kitchen staff, how many mouths have been on the glasses and flatware.

I get especially disgusted when I notice those fine toothmarks that forks tend to collect on the tines.
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post #7 of 38
7/21/08 at 1:34pm
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Originally Posted by Dan Baker View Post
I avoid pools in the same way fanboys avoid honest criticism.
Annnnnnnnnnnd sigged.
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post #8 of 38
7/21/08 at 1:41pm
I think I'm minorly OCD. I have an issue when I see things that are...how do I explain it...unbalanced. For example, if there is a clothes basket, and there's a pair of pants where one leg of the pants is hanging outside the basket, but the rest is inside, I feel compelled to make sure everything is in the basket.

I also have a compulsory desire to make sure my shoestrings are both equi-distance from the knot in the middle. I will re-tie my shoelaces over and over again sometimes to establish the balance.
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post #9 of 38
7/21/08 at 1:46pm
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post #10 of 38
7/21/08 at 1:59pm
Looks perfectly hygenic to me...

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post #11 of 38
7/21/08 at 2:00pm
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Originally Posted by Minsky View Post
The air you're breathing right now has rubbed up against someone's genitals at one point or another.
You know what that means, don't you? LUNG SCRUBBIN' !
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post #12 of 38
7/21/08 at 2:18pm
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Originally Posted by C.Swicegood View Post
Actually, I do. Another thing that bothers me, when I'm eating at a restaurant I start thinking about the cleanliness of the kitchen staff, how many mouths have been on the glasses and flatware.

I get especially disgusted when I notice those fine toothmarks that forks tend to collect on the tines.

You DO know how many times these pixels have been viewed, right?
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post #13 of 38
7/21/08 at 2:28pm
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Originally Posted by C.Swicegood View Post
I have to actively will myself NOT to think of the urine or the water passing over asses, vaginas, and testicles. If water ends up touching my lips bile rises into the back of my throat.
That's why they have enough chemical in the pool to kill small animals.

Relax, it's not like you are swimming in the sewer.
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post #14 of 38
7/21/08 at 2:31pm
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post

Relax, it's not like you are swimming in the sewer.

Yet.


One day, the chemicals will fail. Then, the shit particles and streams of piss will creep up your nose and down your throat.
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post #15 of 38
7/21/08 at 2:32pm
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Originally Posted by Graham View Post
Looks perfectly hygenic to me...
Add how many heads you see and divide by ten. And you'll get a good idea of how many people are peeing in that pool.

(I'm not sure the statistics, but 1 out of 10 is probably conservative)
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post #16 of 38
7/21/08 at 2:32pm
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post #17 of 38
7/21/08 at 2:34pm
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
That's why they have enough chemical in the pool to kill small animals.

Relax, it's not like you are swimming in the sewer.
....Or the Great Lakes (how anyone could have fun in Lake Erie is beyond my comprehension)

And logically, I know that. Logically I know there is more bacteria when I am swimming in the ocean, but that doesn't bother me as much because I can imagine that the dissipation and water to all other microbes ratio is a lot higher.
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post #18 of 38
7/21/08 at 2:38pm
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Add how many heads you see and divide by ten. And you'll get a good idea of how many people are peeing in that pool.

(I'm not sure the statistics, but 1 out of 10 is probably conservative)
I take exception to that!!

It's at least three times that number.
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post #19 of 38
7/21/08 at 2:39pm
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Quote:
Orginally posted by Carl Spackler

"Found it!"
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post #20 of 38
7/21/08 at 3:06pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feZeOnEzs98
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post #21 of 38
7/21/08 at 3:31pm
Lifegaurd Peeing In Pool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MstsOhlb1Ig
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post #22 of 38
7/21/08 at 3:38pm
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
That's why they have enough chemical in the pool to kill small animals.

Relax, it's not like you are swimming in the sewer.
Or, the woman's version of it - if the chemicals are strong enough to ruin my haircolor, I'm not worried about the germs.
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post #23 of 38
7/21/08 at 3:40pm
Getting off the topic of people taking a power-dump in the local swimming pool...

My OCD is that I can't stop counting things, stairs especially. If I'm ascending/descending a flight of stairs and I can end on an even number, I'm happy. If it's odd, it throws me off for a few minutes. I need help.
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post #24 of 38
7/21/08 at 3:40pm
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Originally Posted by LisaNY View Post
Or, the woman's version of it - if the chemicals are strong enough to ruin my haircolor, I'm not worried about the germs.
Is it wrong I read that in a Fran Drescher voice?
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post #25 of 38
7/21/08 at 3:50pm
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Is it wrong I read that in a Fran Drescher voice?
No, honey, it's fine. I do live in Queens, and although I don't sound anything like that, it's no biggie.
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post #26 of 38
7/21/08 at 3:52pm
Worse, she's from Staten Island!!! *Cues dramatic music and lightening flash*
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post #27 of 38
7/21/08 at 3:57pm
My Honda Accord's speaker system has a dial for volume. On the digital readout, the volume can go from 00 to 30. I have very specific rules about what number I set it to. 15 is usually about as high as I go. Half of 30. Feels even. Now if 15 is a little too loud, I go down. 14? No. 13? No. 12 is the number. If there was a 2.5, I'd do it. But there isn't, so I round down. 11? Be serious... If 12 is too much, I go down to 10. Then 8. But rarely. Not 7. Then 5. But after that, it gets too quiet.

The friends who know this about me, like to mess with my volume.
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post #28 of 38
7/21/08 at 4:11pm
In videogames for some reason I hate ending up with less than a full clip if I start running out of ammo. So let's say the clip size is 30 and I have for the sake of argument 193 bullets left I'll shoot those extra 13 into a wall or something just so I can end up with an even multiple.
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post #29 of 38
7/21/08 at 4:36pm
Actually, I believe Lisa is a Jersey Girl, born and bred. Staten Island girls wish they could be Jersey girls.
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post #30 of 38
7/21/08 at 4:42pm
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Originally Posted by Doc Happenin View Post
Actually, I believe Lisa is a Jersey Girl, born and bred. Staten Island girls wish they could be Jersey girls.
QFT from a wise, wise man. I was born and raised in NJ, moved to Brooklyn for a few years, then off to Queens - which is the way most jet-setting Eurotrash does it.
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post #31 of 38
7/21/08 at 4:52pm
I tend to reload a clip even if I use just one bullet. It's gotta be full!!!
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post #32 of 38
7/21/08 at 5:01pm
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Originally Posted by Doc Happenin View Post
Actually, I believe Lisa is a Jersey Girl, born and bred. Staten Island girls wish they could be Jersey girls.
The ladies from Long Island like to say otherwise
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post #33 of 38
7/21/08 at 5:08pm
I make sure that all my posts contain an even number of words, and I make silly adjustments to the sentences to make sure that they come out even homunculus.
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post #34 of 38
7/21/08 at 5:17pm
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Originally Posted by Jakespeare View Post
In videogames for some reason I hate ending up with less than a full clip if I start running out of ammo. So let's say the clip size is 30 and I have for the sake of argument 193 bullets left I'll shoot those extra 13 into a wall or something just so I can end up with an even multiple.
Way to break cover.

Remind me to never coop with you.
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post #35 of 38
7/21/08 at 5:19pm
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
Add how many heads you see and divide by ten. And you'll get a good idea of how many people are peeing in that pool.

(I'm not sure the statistics, but 1 out of 10 is probably conservative)
Someone should tell all those people they emptied the pool for maintenance last night.
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post #36 of 38
7/21/08 at 6:35pm
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Originally Posted by mcnooj82 View Post
My Honda Accord's speaker system has a dial for volume. On the digital readout, the volume can go from 00 to 30. I have very specific rules about what number I set it to. 15 is usually about as high as I go. Half of 30. Feels even. Now if 15 is a little too loud, I go down. 14? No. 13? No. 12 is the number. If there was a 2.5, I'd do it. But there isn't, so I round down. 11? Be serious... If 12 is too much, I go down to 10. Then 8. But rarely. Not 7. Then 5. But after that, it gets too quiet.

The friends who know this about me, like to mess with my volume.
I stick to even numbers. I have issues with odd numbers on the volume.
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post #37 of 38
7/21/08 at 11:51pm
I compulsively add the digits of strings of numbers (license plates, mile markers, route #'s, and oooh! my favorite is when I'm stopped close behind a truck with all the gross & tare weight figures at a long traffic light or in a really slow moving traffic jam). With effort, I can stop this (or at least push it to the back of my mind to the point that I don't really realize I'm doing it), but for awhile, I couldn't tear my eyes from these numbers. I was starting to get concerned. But I can add faster than a motherfucker now, from all the practice.

Edited to add: Tzudonimh's Wii #'s digits add up to 75. MAKE IT STOP!!!
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post #38 of 38
7/21/08 at 11:56pm
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Originally Posted by C.Swicegood View Post
I have to actively will myself NOT to think of the urine or the water passing over asses, vaginas, and testicles. If water ends up touching my lips bile rises into the back of my throat.

Is this a normal reaction, or is it a sign that I really put too much thought into such things?
Well, I have a sudden urge to hit the pool now.
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