A pool has nasty smelly chlorine and someone probably peed in it. The ocean is pleasant to sit next to but I don't like the salt and there are weird creatures like crabs. Also, if I were to sit next to it someone from Greenpeace would assume I'd been beached and drag me into the water, and then someone else would harpoon me.

But if I had to choose one for sitting by, I’d choose Lake.

Pool for swimming in.

Oceans are beautiful but they can be violent.

Lake:

Sure looks different. Thank you, Diamond-Dog

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Later I took lessons in a pool. I like the pool better, same as you.

would never swim in it. Pool for me.

It was Lake Milton, a small lake in NE OH. We took our boat out there one time.

Lake to sit by. Lakes are contaminated with E Coli, pollution, toxic algae, wastewater and nasty parasites just to name a few issues.


I've never visited an ocean and have no desire to. The same impaired issues as a lake but on a much larger scale. Also, once a person enters an ocean, they are now on the bottom of the food chain.

Happy surfing!

all the nasties in the bottom.

Doesn't that look inviting?

nuclear reactor! Come on in, deb! The water is fine!

if I caused any con-fusion!

Clear as glass and refreshingly cool. Like swimming in a jewel.

One of the only really great things about Florida.

It was about 30 minutes from my house so I got to spend lots of time there. As a teen, me and a friend would go there to start working on our tans when it wasn't quite warm enough for the beach.

I have to be able to see the bottom whether I am sitting or swimming. We have an above ground pool in out backyard and I am usually the only one swimming in it so I don't worry about pee.

Also the Atlantic Ocean beaches.

Pools smell funny. It’s the chlorine.

It's not chlorine we smell. It's chloramines, caused by urine (and sweat) combining with chlorine.

Just How Much Pee Is In That Pool?

You know that sharp odor of chlorine from the swimming pool you can recall from earliest childhood? It turns out it's not just chlorine, but a potent brew of chemicals that form when chlorine meets sweat, body oils, and urine.

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The scientists calculated that one 220,000-gallon, commercial-size swimming pool contained almost 20 gallons of urine. In a residential pool (20-by-40-foot, five-feet deep), that would translate to about two gallons of pee. It's only about one-hundredth of a percent, but any urine in a swimming pool can be a health concern for some people, not to mention that smell that never quite goes away.

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Apart from being gross, that's also a potential health hazard. Chlorine reacts with urine to form a host of potentially toxic compounds called disinfection byproducts. These can include anything from the chloramines that give well-used pools the aforementioned odor, to cyanogen chloride, which is classified as a chemical warfare agent. There are also nitrosamines, which can cause cancer. There's not enough evidence to say whether the nitrosamine levels in pools increase cancer risk, Blatchley says, but one study in Spain did find more bladder cancers in some long-term swimmers.

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The simplest solution: Just don't pee in the pool. And tell all your friends not to do it, either. "I view it like secondhand smoke," Blatchley says. "It's disrespectful and potentially dangerous."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/01/517785902/just-how-much-pee-is-in-that-pool

We like to walk on the water (Lake Michigan - in the winter, of course). In the summer no one goes there anymore. It gets too crowded. (hat tip to Yogi).

We are just waiting for Lake Superior to warm up a bit now (39 degrees is a bit too cold even for a Minnesotan).

The ocean is pretty hard to beat too - especially when we have to cut holes in the ice in MN to swim.

the Cape. No matter how hot it was, the water was always cold. Any beach we went to was cold and for me , unswimmable.I couple of years ago we went down to the Bahamas. Oh it was so warm and a lovely shade of blue. I did swim there.

I used to like sitting by my pool. But I filled the pool in a few years ago, then last year I dug it up again, now we have a large koi pond with a waterfall. Very relaxing place to sit. My wife calls it her zen spot.

No street lights on Chappy so you have a beautiful night time sky.

When I was a young man I would occasionally be sent to my aunt's house for a week (I think my mother needed a break from me - I don't think my brothers got sent away for a week!). She had an outdoor aboveground pool which was in retrospect quite small. When my aunt ordered me to go in the pool, there was no argument, I did what I was told... and I got really, really nasty sunburn. I still remember how much it hurt, and this was over half a century ago.

Then when I was a freshman in high school I had to take a semester of swimming; everyone did. One of my classmates held me under the water, laughing like a madman. He was of course (very properly) suspended, which made me even more unpopular.

I do not like swimming. No thank you.

In a hot spring. Eating a club sandwich and fries. And a coke with crushed ice.

An hour north of Ottawa in Quebec.