This is incorrect. People with full bladders have a larger volume than people with empty bladders. The increased volume of liquid in the pool post-pee would be counterbalanced by a slightly smaller person.

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Rather_Unfortunate@reddit

No, they're just denser. A person with a full bladder might have slightly higher gas pressure in the intestines, but are unlikely to occupy a notably higher volume.

But yeah, you would need 2.5 thousand people all releasing a litre of urine to raise a standard 10x25 metre pool by a cm, so no chance of urine raising the level in or out.

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military_history@reddit

No they do not. People do not blow up like a balloon when their bladder is full.

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Yes you do. You get about 1% smaller when you pee. It's not noticeable in terms of your body volume, but it is definitely significant when you are comparing it to the volume of urine produced.

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Nipso@reddit

Fill a zip ziploc baggie with water and put it in a full pint glass.

Then open the baggie and see if the water level rises.

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military_history@reddit

It's not the same at all. People do not get larger when their bladder is full and smaller when it's empty. Surely this is obvious?

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TheRealRomanRoy@reddit

I feel like it would make more sense to have a ziplock full of air, and inside that, another ziplock full of water.

Then get the water from the inner bag into the pint and check the levels.

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Purple_Bumblebee6@reddit

Are people full of air? No. There's about 200 mL of gas in the intestines, and other than that it's mostly solids and liquids which don't compress.

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ThresholdSeven@reddit

I'm imagining a rotation of people getting in the pool, peeing, getting out, getting a drink, going back in the pool, peeing again, getting out and repeat until it's overflowing.

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mcchanical@reddit

Alternatively...imagine ten people in the pool and 2 people get in. Then rush hour hits and 50 people turn up and get in the pool. You now have a huge volume of water being displaced that needs to be replaced. When managing this constant outflow of water the effect of peeing is going to be negligible.

That definitely wasn't due to urine. Even a very small 10x10 metre pool would need a literal metric tonne (1 cubic metre) of piss to rise a centimetre.

But if you ever had to do pH testing there, you really would have seen the impact of people pissing in it, as I did when I was a lifeguard.

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keesh@reddit

archimedes says what

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gingeydrapey@reddit

Now I know why you're a lifeguard

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Rh-27@reddit

Water displacement? More bodies in the water, more displacement there is.

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dismantlemars@reddit

Ok, I want to know how many people need to piss in the pool to raise the level by a noticeable amount.

Lets assume an olympic sized pool, since it's a well-defined size.
Lets assume we only need to raise the level by 1cm, to help offset the olympic pool being larger than an average one.
The volume of urine we need to add is 50m x 25m x 1cm.
That gets us to 12.5 cubic metres - or 12,500 litres - of urine.
A full bladder is about 500ml in women, or 700ml in men. Lets assume 500ml for a mostly full average bladder.
12,500 / 0.5 = 25,000 bladderfuls of piss needed to raise the water level by 1cm.

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turkishhousefan@reddit

That science ain't sciencing.

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most common of which are sweat, body oils and yes, piss.

This is moving the goalposts, lol.

We started at "Chlorine smell is piss!!!!" and now we're at a whole list of shit.

To be clear, I never said anything about the properties of the chemicals used in a pool. All I said, is that even with new water and fresh chemicals the pool will smell like chlorine.

You know that chlorine smell pools get? That's made by the chlorine mixing with sweat or urine.

A pool with fresh water and just added chemicals won't smell.

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AlmostGhost77@reddit

That chlorine smell at public pools actually isn’t really chlorine.

It’s the smell of piss mixed with chlorine. You can literally test this yourself and see.

Get 2 buckets : put some chlorine and water in one, put lid on.

Piss in the other bucket, put some chlorine in it, put lid on.

Return 24 hours later and test your results.

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LavishnessSimilar@reddit

Did you pee through your shorts or pull them down?

Your answer will tell us if your gf was right about it being nasty

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draenog_@reddit

Genuinely dumbfounded that this seems to be a minority opinion on this subreddit, but I'll say it anyway:

I don't think pissing in the sea is normal, especially if it's busy with swimmers and there's a nearby bar with proper toilets. I think most people are likely to find it disgusting like your girlfriend.

The reason that people are so pissed off with water companies at the moment is them dumping raw sewage into our rivers and seas. …and yet multiple people here are apparently totally cool with it being done en mass by beachgoers because "the salty water makes it clean" or "there's so much water in the ocean that it immediately dilutes"? Ew. 💀

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veexdit@reddit

Raw sewage is a little different than a couple of people taking a piss. Raw sewage has had time to build us up and intensify. It also tends to have tampons, slimy bog roll deposits, and the obvious large amounts of turds not to mention a myriad of nasty chemicals and other toxic products mixed with it. A dozen people taking a piss 10 yards from one another over an hour or so still wouldn’t make a noticeable difference to any kind of water monitoring level.

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But if you pee in the ocean, congrats, now you have piss all over your swimwear. Totally not gross.

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Brovigil@reddit

Some of these comments sound a little like "Hunting is evil, I'll buy meat from the supermarket" logic.

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youaregodslover@reddit

Well put. And so many people live their lives that way. It's maddening!

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Rookie_42@reddit

It’s vile. I’m honestly shocked how many people are willing to use the sea as a toilet.

They’re basically admitting that they don’t care about swimming in piss, their own, their friends’, their family’s, and even strangers’.

I wonder if they’d all be comfortable if they were standing there in the water, and a stranger came up beside them, pissed and walked away. Would that be acceptable to these disgusting creatures?

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AbbreviationsSmart37@reddit

Have you ever been to a public pool?

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Rookie_42@reddit

Not the same thing. For multiple reasons.

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KingPing43@reddit

Going in the sea or the forest is the most natural thing in the world, it's what humans did for thousands of years before toilets were invented.

It's a tiny bit of urine in literally trillions of litres of salt water. Grow up.

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draenog_@reddit

Finding a bush to pee behind in a forest is a completely different situation to peeing in a body of water that other people around you are actively swimming in.

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plantsadnshit@reddit

Are you actually insane?

Have you ever bathed in a river? Or a lake.. or literally any place where a river goes into the ocean?

It's literally filled with animal piss, shit and dead animals.

Do you realize how big the ocean is? Taking a piss in a small beach area would be like 0.000000001% of the total amount of water.

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draenog_@reddit

Yeah, I have. You do your best not to drink it because of the risk of getting sick from drinking rat piss, or getting violently ill from bacteria from human faeces.

In my experience what you don't do is add to the problem by releasing a cloud of piss into your immediate surroundings.

Like, would you do that in the bath if you planned to immediately pull out the plug hole and take a shower???

"Oh, it doesn't matter that I'm currently surrounded by my own piss, it's only for a few seconds, it's about to diffuse away into a much bigger volume of water"

Gross, dude.

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Ok_Hand_3882@reddit

Google where boats 3+ miles off shore dump their sewage. What do you think military vessels do with their sewage? - Submarines are under ocean for months at a time, they have a holding tank, that they "blow out" constantly. That's 130 sailors sewage in one blow, you think a little urine in ocean is meaningful, they are blowing out EVERYTHING!

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Gliese581h@reddit

Everything around you is covered in feces molecules, so it would be okay if I just take a dump on your lunch, right?

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NoodleNeedles@reddit

There's, what, 7 billion humans on the planet now? What was the global population pre-toilet? How many people are on that beach with you? It's a question of scale.

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biscoffman@reddit

Completely agree. A few (or more) wees in the sea is not comparable to litres of raw sewage from cities and towns.

Yes, we know. But it scales the further away you get from where you piss. The nearer you are to people, the less water there is to dilute it. This is also not that deep.

Illbe10-7@reddit

This is an insanely dumb post. Do you know how many fish/whales/sharks piss and shit in the ocean? Not to mention die and bleed everywhere.

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Dalighieri1321@reddit

Hey now, we can disagree with each other without being rude. I grant that I'm dumb, but I don't think I'm insanely dumb!

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Few_Application_7312@reddit

Guess that makes the both of us redpill incels...

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drummergirl151@reddit

I tend to agree here too, a little surprised it's a minority opinion. If there's a proper toilet nearby, why not use it. I don't think this is a easy yes or no discussion point. I would at least not want to know if someone I knew took a pee in the sea. Unfortunately, you kinda can't unhear that.

My region's beaches have reports put out every so often over the past few years about the unhealthy levels of feces in the water. Maybe I've gotten older but I feel unsettled about it and it's changed my view on how humans should treat mother nature.

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Few_Application_7312@reddit

So, it's better to walk over to the bathroom, excrete your waste into purified potable water, which will then be dumped into an ocean anyways? Such a waste of resources, and making those resources is usually bad for the planet. Far more ethical to cut out the middle man, and needlessly wasted resources that damage the planet, to just discreetly pee in the ocean. OPs only "mistake" was advertising he did it...

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philzuppo@reddit

Peeing is not pooping.

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Arcane_76_Blue@reddit

Ahh yes, a public toilet

That's tea

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reddogisdumb@reddit

Did he take a shit in the sea? The problem with raw sewage is the shit. Straight urine is not going anything to harm the beach experience.

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gnitsuj@reddit

“Most people are likely to find it disgusting”

Zealousideal_Weird_3@reddit

We are talking about the sea. Not a bath tub 😂

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You've added a miniscule amount of piss to it. It is a (pissy) drop on the ocean

That is a cube of side 10^18 m, or 1,000,000,000,000,000 km. An equivalent sphere would have radius equal to cube root of 10^54 x 3 /(4pi), or 0.62 x 10^18m; 620,000,000,000,000 km.

But we’re wondering about molecules. Let’s work with ethanol. With a relative density of 0.8, our initial 1 mL weighs 0.8g, , and chemical formula CH_3 CH_2 OH, its molecular mass is 46 g mol^-1 so our 1 mL has 0.8/46 = 0.017 mol. This equates to 0.10 x10^23 = 10^22 molecules.

Go back to our original volume of 10^54 m^3; that means each molecule is held in a volume of 10^54/10^22 = 10^32 m^3.

This is a cube of side 4.6 x 10^10 m, or 46,000,000 km; a sphere of radius 288,000,000 km.

Mars’s orbit is 228million km, Jupiter is 778million km - so I probably assumed a bigger molecule. A typical bio molecule, say the steroid, cortisone, has a mass of 360; 8 times larger than ethanol, so you’d expect a sphere twice the radius to find a single molecule. And this is still small for a bio molecule. Digoxin, mass 780, would need a sphere of radius 2.7 times larger than ethanol.

You get my point though. The dilutions are insane!

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Substantial-Skill-76@reddit

Ok.

But it does work, whenever I've used it.

I've used homeopathy several times and it's worked probably 80% of time.

Why would doctors prescribe it if there was no benefit? Or are they doing it because the placebo is a high percentage?

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OldSkate@reddit

Doctors don't prescribe them.

If they do, believing they work, should be struck off.

I've given you two reasons why it seems to work but doesn't.

Let's say you're bitten by a highly venomous spider/snake or whatever. You have a choice.

You can take the antivenom or you can take the venom itself diluted way beyond Avrogado's Point (10²⁴).

Which are you going to choose?

Homeopathy defies Physics.

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Substantial-Skill-76@reddit

Bruh...... I've been prescribed them a few times. Not for a few years though, maybe 5 years.

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OldSkate@reddit

Fine. I've made a mistake (i spelled his name from memory; though you seemed to know to whom I was referring).

Okay, you are making the claim that it works. Prove it.

OkSyllabub3674@reddit

Instructions unclear...omw to er to now have this homeopathic stick removed and i still have a headcold...

🤒

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Old-Replacement420@reddit

Ohhhhh. Wooden STICK. That’s what I’ve been doing wrong.

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GrandAsOwt@reddit

I thought you had to bang the bottle onto a firm pad, like a book, but TIL I’ve been doing it wrong for years. So that must be why it hasn’t been working. Or something.

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realmofconfusion@reddit

It’s a miracle, take physics and bin it!
Water has memory and while it’s memory
of a long-lost drop of onion juice seems infinite
It somehow forgets all the poo it’s had in it!

Glum_Sprinkles_4468@reddit

Although, to be fair, I don't think poo would bother the sea since it grew up with it. Now some of modern shit, our micro plastics etc I'm with Tim....

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Mobile-Employee-9652@reddit

TBF "Storm" was so hot that men were supplicating to her nonsense and beauty...Until someone just went "Nah, not today sweetie-pie"

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AJT003@reddit

A pigeon hole started to form…

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realmofconfusion@reddit

…and is immediyfled with pigeon when she says her name is “Storm”

HermitBee@reddit

One molecule of piss in all the world's oceans is still pretty strong for homeopathy.

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cochlearist@reddit

It's not only still strong, but the strongest imaginable concoction on the planet!

We're all going to be drinking piss now thanks to OP.

Planet ruined!

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CORN___BREAD@reddit

Nah you can just piss in your glass of water every time to make the homeopathic mixture less strong.

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TeaKingMac@reddit

Homeopathy is literally the dumbest shit on earth. How could anyone think that diluting something would make it more strong?

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urGirllikesmytinypp@reddit

I’m unaware of this branch of the sciences. I’m going to go do some research

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OddHippo6972@reddit

There’s an episode of podcast Sawbones that digs into homeopathy. Highly recommend.

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TeaKingMac@reddit

the sciences

Would it be the oldest as well, going by monkey see, monkey do, i wonder how many people have peed throughout history. Like, I'm sure we're swimming in George Washington pee, Hitler pee, and Jesus pee in the ocean. Might have adam and Eve pee in there somewhere 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

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Wraxyth@reddit

I'm sure we're swimming in George Washington pee, Hitler pee, and Jesus pee in the ocean

EternalSkwerl@reddit

No it'd actually be pretty weak, it'd be a 45x concoction whereas most homeopathy won't really advertise unless being 50 or 100x

Fucking dipshit morons.

What a business model though.

It’s infuriating, but actually pulling it off and getting sales… what a hustle.

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Donkey_Ali@reddit

Just wave your willy over some water

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art_emisian@reddit

Like Noel Coward liked his martinis. "Wave the vermouth bottle in the direction of Rome"

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pineapplesaltwaffles@reddit

Or Churchill's martinis - “I would like to observe the vermouth from across the room while I drink my martini.”

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Dunk546@reddit

Exactly.

Correct. They want it straight from the tap 😅

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EngineersAnon@reddit

Did you hear about the homeopath who died of an overdose?

!Apparently, he forgot to take his pills...!<

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TortuousAugur@reddit

What about all those fish and whales pissing and shitting in the ocean?!? Fucking disgusting!

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gottalosethemall@reddit

Unrelated but a fun little fact: This is how holy water is treated. You take a drop of the original holy water. , add it to some Dasani. That Dasani is now 100% holy water. You dump that in a bucket of water from a garden hose. Holy water.

Double-Hard_Bastard@reddit

Unless you believe in useless, made-up bullshit then OP just created the biggest piss elixir possible.

I had 1.5L - 3L for about two weeks when recovering from multiple organ failure. Once my kidneys stopped nosediving, the volume dropped significantly despite still being on lasix ( .5L - 2L ).

Tacklestiffener@reddit

it's on average 40 litres at a time!

Blimey, I nearly pass out with one litre. What?

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wine-o-saur@reddit

Just drink it in small sips you'll be fine.

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LilKangarule@reddit

What I want to know is who measured, how it was done and why? 😂

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MissMizu@reddit

Thanks. That’s a fact I’m never going to forget. And my excuse for knowing this is pretty poor.

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MangoKakigori@reddit

You must have failed that quiz because it’s approximately 20litres

Sounds suspiciously like te type of thing a bot trying to pass as human would say to cover it's tracks..

Regular Chandler, that guy.

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glitterswirl@reddit

Or: they simply watched a nature documentary. Blue whales' testicles weigh a literal ton, and are so big they are kept inside of the body. Their penis looks like a giant worm that's (iirc) about 2 metres long.

Mysterious-Bee-3469@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

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Megalocerus@reddit

I think it was more whipping out the old faucet. It didn't sound like he was waist deep.

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Derric_the_Derp@reddit

Wait til you hear about trees.

And the fish doesn't jump out of the ocean to do their business either.

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OwOlogy_Expert@reddit

Have seen how much cum blue whales dump in the sea?

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that every breath we take is guaranteed to include molecules that were once breathed by Abraham Lincoln.

Where I think that goes terribly wrong is that he used the word 'molecules', not 'atoms'.

Aside from nuclear fission/fusion, atoms are pretty much permanent, so some of the same atoms are still likely floating around, yes.

But molecules can be -- and constantly are being -- destroyed and reformed into different molecules.

The CO2 that old Abe breathed out, for example, will have mostly been gathered up by plants and other photosynthesizers by now, broken up and turned into large organic molecules for the carbon (mostly sugars) and O2 as a waste product. Some of that may eventually be burned or consumed by animals and once again formed into CO2 ... but even then, those CO2 molecules absolutely are not the same ones Abe Lincoln breathed out.

Same goes for all the other molecules in the air he breathed. The most resilient (and most abundant) is probably the nitrogen N2 molecules ... but even those will eventually be broken up by nitrogen fixation processes in certain plants and fungi.

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McMurpington@reddit

Someone did the math to prove we breathe in Caesar’s last breath on each breath or something like that.

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tobotic@reddit

Yes, that's the version I've heard

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Nexustar@reddit

Mine was that we've all got a bit of Hitler in us.

T33FMEISTER@reddit

Oh no its that guy!

There is a lot worse than that in there.

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Think-Committee-4394@reddit

😂😂😂

The amount of bodily fluids produced by sea life, let alone the land run off of humans & animals is huge,

If she freaks about your little tinkle don’t tell her that

A male sperm whale produces about 20 litres of sperm every nutting 😳

Not just sperm whale semen. Most fish and corals just spurt their eggs and sperm into the water and hope they'll mix.

He was potty training, and tended to not say he needed to go until the pee was imminently about to leave his body. So rather than risk getting him out the bath and him peeing all over the floor, I told him "it's OK, just go in the bath". (I was going to rinse him off before he got out anyway.)

When I was little, my Mum couldn’t be bothered to take me to the loo when we were on the beach, so she told me to pee in the sea.

Apparently I went ankle-deep into the sea, dropped my trunks to the floor, ‘loosed the fire hose’ as you beautifully put it’ and happily peed in front of the entire beach.

So I’d say that ‘how’ OP peed in the sea is just as important as ‘how much’!

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Feisty-Cheetah-8078@reddit

Cruise ships will dump their entire bilge when they get off shore. GF is a pissant.

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Ok_Hand_3882@reddit

Every Boat on Planet that gets 3 miles into ocean has a dump system. Could you imagine the tank size needed to HOLD the waste of 6,000 people on Aircraft carriers that are deployed for months at a time? Holy Shit!

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Feisty-Cheetah-8078@reddit

If you're going to swim in the ocean, just don't think about it.

I'll a quote from Moana, "FISH PEE IN YOU‼️"

It's just pee

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seabutcher@reddit

There is already a lot more piss in the sea.

I'm imagining an alternate universe where as the Titanic went down, everyone onboard went to empty their bladders before sealing the ship's septic tank, in order to avoid polluting.

This is, of course, wholly unrealistic.

UnsnugHero@reddit

Yeah but Buffett has a wide quote about this …

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Ok_Buy_5019@reddit

You do know many sea life is missing and dedicating in the water right? 🤣😅

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drop your pants,

Location. Location. Location.

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Mind_Gone_Walkabout@reddit

You really pissed her off.

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evthrowawayverysad@reddit

Just don't stand on the edge of the wash and drop your pants, that's frowned upon, submerge to waist

As a frequent wetsuit wearer, you cannot fathom the power I feel standing ankle deep and letting the yellow warmth flow freely.

Hell, if you're up for it, you could probably get away with it on dry land.

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_daaam@reddit

There is a difference between peeing in the ocean near your friends and peeing into the ocean near your friends.

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bennx42@reddit

"It's the sea" was literally the first thing that popped into my head LOL

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Robbie-R@reddit

Just don't stand on the edge of the wash and drop your pants, that's frowned upon, submerge to waist.

There is a lot worse than that in there.

Haha, exactly! When you think about all the stuff already in the sea, a little extra doesn't hurt. 😅 But yeah, I’ll definitely make sure to keep it low-key, waist-deep only, no need to cause a scene! 😂

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SlightlyFarcical@reddit

There is a lot worse than that in there

Its where the fish pee as well!

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zaknafien1900@reddit

Also does her family know where the fookin sewer plant discharges probably into the damn sea

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Big-Finding2976@reddit

Do fishes do pisses?

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Fish pee AND poop in it...

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allcretansareliars@reddit

Where does she think all the fish piss?

In fact, according to WC Fields, they fuck in it as well.

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Scartes@reddit

“Submerge to waist” wins the internet for me today

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I'd say peeing in the sea is pretty normal tbf. Tf does she think fish and other see creatures do when they need to piss or sh*t? Flop onto land?

Tell her to calm tf down and get over herself dude 😂

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Good_News2@reddit

You can piss in the sea matey. Going to reddit for support on this is worrying. Tell your misses to grow up.

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Itchy_Flounder8870@reddit

Let me summarise for you - Your girlfriend sounds as annoying and as petty as the moderators. I would use this as a sign of things to come and run as fast as you can away from her.

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Real-Nectarine-2738@reddit

Your gf sucks.

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MeanManufacturer3798@reddit

Of course. And if it was a swimming pool then your girlfriend would obvs be right

Just give her some perspective.

Every creature that lives in the sea pees/defacates into it.

The Uk dumps raw sewage into the sea (occasionally...along with floodwater)

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runmemymo@reddit

Your GF just needs to relax

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Feisty_Shower_3360@reddit

Pissing in the sea isn't really a problem.

Coming back to the beach and telling people about it like a proud toddler is not very classy, though.

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sepaug-oct@reddit

I think you went wrong where you told her you’re doing that as a grown man. It’s good to be secretive about our childishness as men, especially to our women

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Old_Web8071@reddit

She's really going to be surprised when she finds out all animals on the ocean PEE IN IT, isn't she?

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West_Letter6709@reddit

Where do the sperm whales pee?

The rules I follow are: In the sea and need to pee? Pee away. On the sunbeds and need to pee? Go to the toilets. On the sunbeds and need to pee but also planning to go in the sea for a bit straight after you've been to the loo? Straight to the sea and piss there.

No idea why. It just seems a little odd to use the sea solely as a toilet. If you went into the sea up to your waist and then came straight back 30 seconds later, it's obvious what you've done. Everybody knows that everybody pees in the sea, but nobody wants to know when somebody else is peeing in the sea.

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Money-Way991@reddit

Yeah this needs some clarification from OP. Presumably he was at a bar that had perfectly good toilets as well? That's what it sounds like. Leaving his seat to go and pee in the ocean and come back immediately (soaking wet and maybe covered in piss) is completely unhinged.

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JEWCEY@reddit

The amount of disgusting in the ocean means your pee is probably one of the cleanest things in there. It would be more gross in a hot tub.

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CthulusPorkSword@reddit

I still piss in the bath

So I have a friend who went diving on a coral reef . Wax about 100 yards or so our and had an...accident; to the point where the water turned brown. Come to find out reef fish love that stuff. The group of tourists that were swimming that way may not have.

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Itsalwayssunnyinreas@reddit

i agree with you but it seems as if OP was at a beach bar having drinks

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Arcane_76_Blue@reddit

Do you often prefer to use bar toilets instead of taking a quick swim?

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DoobKiller@reddit

Ask her where she think the piss that goes into toilets ends up

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InYourAlaska@reddit

Been with my partner for nearly four years now

He’s been known to open the door if I’m taking a shit to talk to me about something.

Hopeful_Hamster21@reddit

You haven't lived until you've peed in your wetsuit.

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Important_Map5845@reddit

Where does she think her piss goes when she flushes the toilet

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yoroxid_@reddit

Is pretty disgusting to pee in the sea. Sea is so clean, all the fishes make pee and poo in a dedicated toilets, every boat collect oil and waste in dedicated container.

Lets' don't forget that some country (like UK) they completely treat and clean sewage before trow it in the sea.

Your original point was “piss is sterile; it contains no dirt” which I was saying can be wrong.

Your comment here “urine in a healthy physiologic state is sterile” is also incorrect. It’s been believed to be incorrect for quite some time but there is more recent research that disproves that using DNA sequencing. Google ‘urinary microbiome’ if you want to learn more. It’s also taught that it’s not sterile in the medical field, or was when I was studying several years ago.

When I imagine beach bathrooms, I imagine portable toilets, sloppy bathroom huts with grimy tile and ill-kept facilities, and long lines at some times of year

My surprise only last half a second, as suddenly 2 turds torpedoed to the surface, floating criminally in front of me.

I panicked and started batting them away, but they kept coming back to me like dirty boomerang.

Bad memories of watching Kevin and Perry Go Large as a child.

I thought this was going to turn into a horror story, where you wake up in the night put the light on, and there they both are, on the tile floor slowly making their way towards you. Phew, hate when that happens.

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bin_nur_kurz_kacken@reddit

There is a german song about that:

Knorkator - "Mich verfolgt meine eigene Scheiße"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E_0rkQIufu8&pp=ygUkbWljaCB2ZXJmb2xndCBtZWluZSBlaWdlbmUga25vcmthdG9y

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Kieron93@reddit

This tickled me fucking hell 🤣🤣

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haysu-christo@reddit

I wonder how you didn't go bat shit crazy!

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oddball3139@reddit

Hands down the best shit I have ever taken was in the ocean. Now, I’m not a monster. This specific beach was about two miles down from any access point, at a state park. It was about 8 AM, and the only person I could see was about a mile and a half to the south.

I had nowhere else to go, so I went out to the water, pulled down my swimsuit, and took a big ol dump. Came right out, floated to the surface, and I swam away. The water was cool, the sun was shining down, and I felt like a goddamn king.

10/10, would recommend to anyone.

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24KittenGold@reddit

You think you weren't caught. What if everyone noticed, but were too polite to say anything?

You're telling me, you go to the ocean, drag your stuff out to the beach, set it all up, drink a couple cold ones, sit there all day and when you have to pee you don't go down and get in the water?

Honestly or any human you've ever even called a friend. Everybody pees in the sea. If your buddy were in with you and had to pee, they'd probably warn you to stay back.

It's pretty much the most normal thing ever, but what I find super not normal is bringing up what somebodys parents would think about it. Now that is anti-normal.

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radiohead-nerd@reddit

Depends how nasty the toilets are at the beach my man.

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Clarknt67@reddit

In my head cannon girlfriend asked why his shorts were suddenly wet; he didn’t just announce it unprompted.

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BigMax@reddit

I’ve said that to a few people in lakes over the years.

“Hey, we all do it, but you aren’t supposed to ANNOUNCE it.”

McCreetus@reddit

Couldn’t be me, I went to the beach with a bunch of friends and I was the only one to get in the water. They were all watching me and I said “never had this many people watch me piss before”. Which was true. They all averted their eyes, how kind.

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chubby-ninja123@reddit

Depends, if you’re swimming and you swim away from people, fine.

She's an absolute idiot. However, don't dump her. That's even more idiotic.

Don't take relationship advice from Reddit. Half the people here are virgins and most of the rest haven't had a relationship that lasted longer than a pint of milk.

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escopaul@reddit

If only she knew the toilet at the bar in Corfu also eventually pees into the sea.

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NerdyDan@reddit

It’s not a big deal, but I only do this when there isn’t a washroom nearby

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Fluid-Butterfly1275@reddit

Government's been dumping waste in the sea for years. Your not going to make one bit of difference. Look up what's been happening. She's in for a shock.

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12B88M@reddit

There are billions of animals in the ocean. They all dump their bodily wastes in it and they have done so for millions of years.

Your small amount of urine is nothing to that.

I think she's over extending swimming pool rules. The sea is a salty bath of excrement and gametes from a gazillion creatures. A bit of piss is just a momentary warm spot and then it's insignificant.

I went to the beach with family during this last summer. Welsh coast, so not very warm, but my sister (37) and I (38) both wanted to say we'd been in the water. Gasping and shrieking with the cold we waded in until we were in deep enough to dunk up to our shoulders. We stayed there for a few seconds just to be brave... Then my sister said "I'm weeing!"... "Me too!" I rejoined, and we hooted with laughter before sploshing our way back onto the sand to dry off. Good times.

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GeekGamerG@reddit

How fitting that I saw this just hours later 🤣

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AutoModerator@reddit

Please do not submit facebook links to /r/AskUK

Hmmm 🤔

Freak spotted!

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Some male whales basically shoot gallons of jizz into the sea in the general direction of their female’s vagina while they’re swimming.

sonicated@reddit

It is supposed to happen. I'm not saying that's right but in many cases the whole system is designed for it to happen like that when it's overloaded.

But even we weren't dumping fucktons of untreated piss and shit into the sea a few swimmers relieving themselves here and there isn't going to have an impact on anything. A single fin whale can piss a tonne of water per day, and whale shit basically keeps the whole ecosystem running.

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bartlebyandbaggins@reddit

Not in the developed world we don’t. It’s treated.

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sonicated@reddit

We're currently in crisis:

"2023 figures from UK environmental regulators revealed untreated sewage was discharged into UK rivers and coastlines at the very least 584,001 times and that’s most likely a huge underestimation of the scale of the UK sewage scandal. "

Whales man. Can you imagine what they unleash?

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wtfboooom@reddit

tw: ai-gen

I'm totally doing this at the beach on Monday.

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audigex@reddit

Fish don’t piss

They do shit in the sea, but they don’t piss. They remove waste and toxins through their shit and potentially via their gills depending on exactly what the toxin is

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noccount@reddit

This had me thinking about the biggest fish that piss in the ocean and then googling whale shit...

Show your GF this OP and she won't be worrying so much about your tiny wee:

"Whales excrete plumes of liquid feces that are flocculent in nature, consisting of loose aggregations of particles.[2][4] These feces, often found floating on the sea surface after being excreted underwater before it dissociates, contain undigested hard objects such as squid beaks.[2][5] Fecal samples are characterized by color, odor, texture, and buoyancy, providing valuable information about the health and ecology of whales.[6] Flatulence has been recorded in whales.[5]"

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callmeeeow@reddit

This REALLY made me laugh

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labdweller@reddit

I would understand if the fish of Corfu wanted to go pee in OP’s house.

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Hamshamus@reddit

Too cold and wet for them

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MrGingerella@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

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IIMoZMaNII@reddit

Women just love to be offended at minor things.

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Rare_Effect_4826@reddit

The sea is 90% piss and whale spunk by now, that's why it's so salty.

When I take my kids to the beach, they don't go near the toilet for about 8 hours.

I get the idea of being grossed out by pee, especially at the beach where other swimmers are around you. I wouldn’t want to swim through someone else’s pee, who peed near me.

…but she’s gonna be real upset when she sees what a whale drops on the ocean

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leewoc@reddit

Wait til she realises all the animals that live in the sea and piss also piss in the sea!

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Content_Chest8215@reddit

Nah man, piss away. Where does she think sewers run too?

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UtopiaThief@reddit

Classic Reddit. Present a simple relationship disagreement and have all the angry loners instantly suggest a break up. Misery loves company

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GOATGamerProSticks@reddit

She's a prude, it's the primordial soup that everything on earth drains back into, some people have illogical hang ups.

It's not like you took a dump in the surf, now that is below the belt.

Now people that harvest gutter oil for cooking, that is pure filth in comparison 🤷🏼‍♂️.

All human industrial toxins, car tyre rubber drains down hill not to mention the actual floating detritus of all toilets known to man.

How do you quantify her disdain for what you did.

Besides you won't be able to taste it over the salt 🧂 mix anyway.

There she goes nose 👃🏼🤥 in the air, I can smell what you just did 😂🤣😭.

You know what's worse the parabens & rubbish in your sun cream killing the surf 🏖️🌅🌊🫧🏊🏼‍♂️🏄🏼‍♂️🚣🏼‍♂️🤽🏼‍♂️ life🧜🏻‍♀️ under the sea 🤿🩱🐢🐧🦭🦈🐬🐋🐳🐟🐠🐡🦐🦞🦀🦑🐙🪼🦪🪸🐚.

Priorities are all over the place 🙅🏼‍♂️ for hang ups 🤷🏼‍♂️.

Human psychology is a mangled mess on a great many existential things brother.

Just try to pick up as much trash 🗑️🚮 as you can when you exit the beach ⛱️, I'm sure that will clean up your karma some 🫠🥴😏 unless she will look down 👇🏼 on that a sentimentality as well.

RUN

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SingleManVibes76@reddit

Aha, so that's why the sea is salty!

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TardyMoments@reddit

Wait until she finds out about tap water, and what happens after a toilet flush!

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Charmeister5@reddit

It's a bit weird to enter the sea just to pee when I assume toilets are available, if you're already in the sea and need to go like sure

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Does she know things like die in there too

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New_Line4049@reddit

I'd say normal, as long as there's a little space around you and you're not huddled in a group. Announcing that that's what you just did however, is not normal.

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Arya148@reddit

Urine is sterile, providing your kidneys are working. Maybe she needs educating on that. Socially, it may not be acceptable but your urine will not cause any harm.

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Hivemind_alpha@reddit

Someone should tell gf that fish piss in the sea.

For bonus points, there's the W.C. Fields quote as to why he won't drink water...

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DutchOfBurdock@reddit

The sperm whale on average ejaculates 5 gallons of sperm. Less than a gallon of that makes it into its partner. You ever wondered why the sea is so salty?

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Alice_Da_Cat@reddit

Whilst it's very normal to wee in the sea I'm not sure id be announcing it to anyone 🤣🤣🤣

Did your girlfriend maybe now grow up around the sea a lot? As in lived in a city where there were no beaches or something, I can't understand the disgusted part, like everyone pees in the ocean surely 🤣🤣

OP don't even think about telling her if you pee in the shower! That's something you should definitely keep to yourself 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Acceptable_Tower_609@reddit

I hardly expect you to read this among the 4k+ comments here, but in Bulgaria we sum it up in this "joke":

The life guard approached a man and confronts him: -Dude, why did you pee in the sea?!! The man calmly responds: -Well, because everybody does it, duh. The guard: -Yeah, but not everybody does it from the pier!..

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Additional_Apple5837@reddit

Just make sure to remind her, that if she joins the "freely piss" club, NOT to do it in communal baths - Not because it's disgusting, but because there is a dye that will react with the piss.

Peeing in the sea is fine.

Going into the sea to pee when there are toilets available around the corner is just autistic.

WarApprehensive2580@reddit

I can tell if you're taking the piss

Neither will the OP's partner xD

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Admirable_Nature149@reddit

It’s weird but more appropriate.

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Kidtwist73@reddit

It's less about the contamination, it's more about the manners. It's not like you were actually swimming around, or even at the beach. You were in a nearby bar, and then walked across the road and pissed in the ocean. Why didn't you use the toilet in the place you were in/going to?

It's just... Not every place is your personal urinal.

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Due-Degree4125@reddit

The solution to pollution is dilution.

I pee all over the great outdoors. It’s a byproduct of playing outside. We’re animals.

Is this the hill you want to die on?

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Putrid-Language4178@reddit

Your a pig. She should dump your ass

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Anonsaffa@reddit

The way I see it. For everyone that does this, you're saving fresh flush water from being wasted.

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Odd_Mulberry1660@reddit

On occasion, when stuck I’ve even gone as far as a number two in the sea.

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pinniped1@reddit

If fish pee in it, I can pee in it.

It's full of fish and bird shit. You're fine.

Forget the ethics of the behavior in itself, that is not the relevant topic here, focus on what’s normal.

You thinking that you could share everything with the one you chose to marry is a false constructed assumption. YOU CANNOT SAY EVERYTHING to your wife. For example; admitting that you cheated is ok, a acknowledgement of the fault is a first step to redemption. Admitting you think her sister is cute is a bad mistake and opens a series of tough years to come.

Not like they can put a chemical in the sea to highlight it

That would be fun if they could

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BerossusZ@reddit

There is no way peeing in the sea does literally anything

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Ckn-bns-jns@reddit

I’ve seen pictures of beaches in Portugal filled with people in the water. Big difference if you are in a less populated area taking a wee than hundreds of other people doing the same in a small area.

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strolls@reddit

This rule makes sense in the Mediterranean because the Med has no tide, but it's ridiculous in Portugal.

If you piss in tidal waters then it's miles away within hours, not to mention the dilution.

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JustMMlurkingMM@reddit

Everyone pisses in the sea. That’s why it’s salty.

If she’s disgusted by this your wedding night is going to be a disaster.

And why would her parents her so excited about knowing where you pee? The whole family needs therapy.

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Longjumping_Art605@reddit

When I did it, people around me could smell it. I will never do it again.

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Illustrious-Pop-2727@reddit

Red flag. Next step is telling you not to piss when taking a shower.

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Nath4_n@reddit (OP)

I will be pissing on her leg to show her knows boss

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ToePsychological8709@reddit

I think almost everyone wees in the sea. It's full of blood and carcasses and fish poo and bird poo and human poo anyway. Your little wee isn't going to add much to it.

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archthechef@reddit

Where does she think whales pee? Where does their lose sperm go? Where is all the fish poop?

The ocean is basically a toilet...

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Mistress_m0rningstar@reddit

Haha she sounds uptight, or shy and pretending... You've got to have a piss in the sea, it's the law!

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Ysbrydion@reddit

Top tip. Don't actually talk about where you're going to / have been to pee out loud to someone you hope will find you attractive.

So he walked 5+ minutes just to pee there, then went out of his way to tell her about it? Sounds a little weird TBH

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Dependent_Working_38@reddit

Also, are you even married if you aren’t sending pics of your weird turds to each other? 🤣🤣

????? Yes??

I'm not saying pretending you don't.

I'm saying talking about it is grim. There are better topics of conversation to be had.

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quicheisrank@reddit

That's kind of wild if you're tetchy about someone saying they went for a piss after two years. How do you naturally have these conversations when it's actually about something serious without getting vexed lol. "hmm think I've got blood in my pee" "ew don't want to hear it keep it to yourself"

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Ysbrydion@reddit

Yeah but that's not what I said, is it?

Of course adults talk about medical concerns, or excuse themselves, or whatever. Maybe even a joke, assuming some level of wit.

I used to have a girlfriend who would go to the loo without closing the door. She would also often ask me something, or say something, if she was in the act, drawing me over to talk.

I found it quite refreshing that she wasn’t ashamed of a bodily function which everyone does. But I was never quite comfortable enough to leave the door open when I was doing a poo.

It's prob the most natural thing you can do. If you were living on an island shitting and pissing in the sea would be far better than doing on land.

Ever seen a whale come skipping out the sea, clutching its crotch and searching maniacally for the nearest bar?

Your tiny tinkle has nothing on those fellas urinal thunder hoses.

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lambonec@reddit

I wondered what that yellow stain was .

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not-quite-ready@reddit

Wait til she finds out where sewerage goes. She's going to have a bad day.

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SupaSpurs@reddit

Not sure why you would not just use the loo near the bar rather than walk off into the sea…but each to their own!

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PristineEconomics116@reddit

Was there a queue of fish outside the WC?

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TurbulentFee7995@reddit

Well, two things.

Is peeing in the sea normal, it probably is yes.
Is telling your gf that you peed in the sea normal? No it isn't.

Sasu-Jo@reddit

Fish, whales, sharks, sea turtles, dolphins, seals etc all pee in the ocean

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That_Touch5280@reddit

Where do the fish go?

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Dry_Art2064@reddit

She didn’t get angry when I went with her

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AteCakeButNotGuilty@reddit

No that is not normal. Even while at the beach a person with nothing majority wrong with them lile you who is a full grown adult would typically go looking for a bathroom or at least a port-a-potty. If your first through is to piss in the ocean and then when the girlfriend gets back is to brag about pissing in the ocean then i gotta ask: "is there something seriously wrong with you mentally."

Only a severely mentally disabled adult or a toddler would find that okay or funny enough to brag about it. The only other Guess is that you are intentionally trying to be like that in order to get your girlfriend to break up with you. If you are trying to get the girl to break up with you then you should just end it yourself like the adult you are. either way i don't blame your girlfriend for beings upset.

In terms of an adult peeing in the ocean let alone a pool is it's one thing if it's an true accident it's another thing to do it on purpose like you did and then brag about it. It's gross childish and honestly if you have to do that as a grown adult with a place nearby with a bathroom in it and there's nothing majority wrong with you then it comes off as attention seeking in one of the most pathetic ways. I have alot more to say on the matter, However i will end that here because i know what i said was more than enough to get the point across.

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KillerDr3w@reddit

Deep sea researchers do both 1 and 2 in the sea as normal protocol.

I'm loathed so share Joe Rogan, but here's a story about it: https://youtu.be/Zlch89wBzJY?si=xXKy9ViqrxBX-UkS

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JamJarre@reddit

You know the piss doesn't really disperse, right? It sort of floats around you and clings to you.

Consider separation

What about the shower?

Serious-Goose-8556@reddit

Define “near”

Within 10m no

But also I wouldn’t piss within 10m of someone

Everyone has peed in the sea at some point.

I mean if there was a toilet nearby and you chose the sea it’s a bit strange but otherwise I wouldn’t think twice about it.

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lavapig_love@reddit

Hi. I came here because this was crossposted in a few surfing subreddits.

It's alright to urinate in the ocean. Just don't be weird about it and go away from other people, at least 50 feet or so.

if you have to do more than that, please go even farther away.

Pissing in the sea is totally fine, a good given right some might say. Probably best just to tell her you’ve stopped and then surreptitiously let loose anytime you want.

DurhamOx@reddit

Wait until she sees you curl one off

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Odd-Huckleberry-2710@reddit

Having a swim with my friends and my best mate took a shit, i thought it was hilarious as we were swimming away from this floater...my friends wife not so much she swam back in and whouldn't get back in the sea.

It's normal to pee in the sea.

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URnevaGonnaGuess@reddit

Her anger is ridiculous when you consider all the fish and mammals that crap in the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers.

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1Redditbunny@reddit

I think it depends on the context of the situation. Its similar etiquette as peeing in a bush/garden - if you are at a friends house, you use their bathroom like a normal human, it's polite. You don't go and pee in their garden. Whereas, if you are camping, or driving along the motorway where there are no bathrooms nearby - it's obviously okay to pee in a Bush.

In short, if a bathroom is easily accessible it's considered rude not to use it. But if not, then it's socially acceptable.

But if you were already swimming and having a good time, and the closest bathrooms were quite a walk away, major hassle to get to - then it's fair game, peeing in the ocean is acceptable.

But, if you're sunbathing on the beach, and the bathrooms are 20m away.... there's no reason not to use them and pee in the sea instead.

Atleast as a woman that's my train of thought. Even if you don't agree, it may give you some insight of how your gf is thinking about it, depending on the context of the situation.

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DeniseVieiraNeves@reddit

That's disgusting. Pee in sea? Wtf.

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Midnite_Marky@reddit

I catamarans and dingies and windsurf, I have pissed in the sea 1000s times. I'm pretty sure all the toxic waste will kill off anything as meager as piss. However I don't tell everyone about it afterwards especially my gf. It's like the saying "do bears shit in the woods", "do humans piss in the sea", answer is yes to both 🌊✌️

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OmegaGenesisKasai@reddit

oh man, don't let her know how submarines dispose of waste

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Shamefulrpg@reddit

Objectively there is nothing bad going to come from taking a slash in the sea.

However this isn’t about that, it’s going to a deeper level of “values” and how she was brought up. When fundamental values get conflicted that’s when issues arise.

How to get around this is to listen to her, agree it must of been hard for her to hear due to her upbringing (and I mean really acknowledge it not in passing) and then rationalise it from your POV and explain how you were brought up and that nobody is objectively in the wrong here.

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AloneCan9661@reddit

I've taken a shit in the ocean and my buddy has done it more than once. If you're worried about a little pee or poo in the ocean I suggest you just don't go in there considering the amount of animals that live in the ocean. In fact, stop eating and stop breathing.

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shaunydub@reddit

After 2 years I would have hoped you know your gf enough to know this would be an issue.

You are absolutely not peeing. More correctly, you are annoying the oceans with your precious bodily fluids….

I have pee'd in the sea before, I do not see what is wrong with it.

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OfficerPickle1@reddit

There are two kinds of people:

1) People that piss in the ocean.

2) People that lie about not pissing in the ocean.

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TreatFriendly7477@reddit

Wait till she finds out what fish do in it, why do you think sea water tastes so salty?

Also it's normal, hell in an absolute emergency you could even poop (but I'm talking code brown emergency here).

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hummingbird7777777@reddit

Lol! A wee in the sea. That’s so cute! I love it. Whether it’s the sea or a lake, everybody does it. Your GF is a prude.

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Severe-Possible-@reddit

does she know animals live in the sea?

Does she swim in the sea? Does she know that she's swimming in water that has corpses and feces floating in it? What's her corpse/poop to water dilution tolerance?

Insideout_Ink_Demon@reddit

her parents would be disgusted

if you were inside a building that has a bathroom (like a bar, for example) and left the place that has a bathroom (like a bar, for example) to go pee outside - yeah that's gross and weird.

gratefulscape@reddit

Get out now, she’s a moron

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griff1971@reddit

Isn't it full of fish and whale piss AND shit anyway?

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colinthewizard@reddit

I think your girlfriend might be an idiot .

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Couldofbeenanemail@reddit

Show her sand fleas just so she never gets in the water again 😏

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Front-Wall-526@reddit

OP has your gf ever watched Moana?

Evacuation comp....

evacuation comp.... evac...evac...evac...evacuation....

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Kay_369@reddit

It’s the worlds biggest porta potty

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Difficult_Bit_1339@reddit

OP, here's a fact for your GF:

Others have already answered the question so I'm just going to take a moment to comment on the mental image this line put in my head

but my family have been peeing in the sea for years

Boxadorables@reddit

Nbd. Fish fuck in there bro

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ConsistentDrama3388@reddit

In my opinion it has nothing to do with the sea but more of you just pissed your pants, now if your wife wants some sexy time that's going to be on her mind. Sure you can say the water washed it away..... But are you even positive?

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Different-Click-9511@reddit

How many creatures are peeing and pooping in the sea? Does your tiny amount of pee even matter? No.

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barbieislovelyr@reddit

For-real its a normal occurrence- hell my grandpa would grab a bar of soap and go bath in the lake lol 😂 clearly didn’t scare him away from the water. Animals do the same thing xD

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-Kommissar@reddit

Pissing in the see is fine. But be aware that it can be dangerous, especially when you’re drunk and pee into deep walker (footbridge in harbour e.g.). The blood pressure loss in your head while pressing to pee in an intoxicated state can lead to a short fainting. This leads to falling into the water waking under water, not knowing were up/down is, or just hitting the head and being unconscious, which leads to drowning.

desrevermi@reddit

Bazillions of organisms do everything in the sea.

You’re in good company. Everything that has ever lived in the sea has peed in it, and everything that will live in the sea will continue to do so, in perpetuity.

Does she know other animals go number 1, 2, and 3 in the sea?

Swayzer666@reddit

I stand there and wonder if I actually did it or not cause it feels so different doing it in the water

But yes

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Richard-c-b@reddit

So that's why it's so salty!

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Awordofinterest@reddit

Chondrichthyes aka Cartilaginous fish (Sharks, Rays, Skates, sawfish and chimaeras) do copulate.

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Thingisby@reddit

Extra seasoning for the poachies.

purplemilkywayy@reddit

Wait you went into the sea to piss when you were not already in it? I assume you were at the bar with her? They don’t have a restroom?

It’s fine to pee in the ocean lol but like usually that’s when people are already in it… at least waist deep and don’t tell other people.

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Thegarz1963@reddit

Wait until she finds out about the thousands of sunken ships and submarines during WWII…and all those sailors that went down with their ships…

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Zealousideal_Equal_3@reddit

Uhhhh totally normal

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PlasticISMeaning@reddit

You're the sick mother fucker I was beside who peed!

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blueandyellowbee@reddit

The ocean is where every fish, turtle, whale , bird and crab in the ocean piss and shit. You a little drop in a big pool for piss and shit. Where do you think boats put it? Piss away. Piss away.

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Shemp_Stielhope@reddit

Wee don't always share what wee do in the sea.

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Because it’s nasty if you are surrounded with people around you swimming in the sea, like no respect for others and yourself. I have seen a video of a poop floating in the sea…

steasey@reddit

I go a little far out and piss.

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WTFaulknerinCA@reddit

I grew up surfing in wetsuits. It’s how we would warm ourselves up in the 50f water. You’re good.

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RevolutionaryCry7230@reddit

I live in a small island nation. We spend half the year swimming. We actually go in the water to pee, even if we are on the beach. The only thing we consider as impolite and disgusting is peeing while being near another person.

Maybe she is grossed out because you basically peed in your pants. 🤷‍♀️

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Known_Vermicelli_706@reddit

Why did you tell her that? Clam up goofy. 😜

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Able-Contribution601@reddit

Where does she think everything that lives in the sea pisses and shits?

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aka-Lazer@reddit

Grew up in Hawaii. Its perfectly fine to use the bathroom in the ocean if you aren't going to make it to one, or if there isn't one there period. Just be in it and away from others when you do it.

Whales poop and pee all day in the ocean. Is she mad at them too?

Growing up in Florida, we always just pissed in the ocean if we were at the beach. If you're water above waist, it's not weird.

Think your gf hasnt gone to the sea before.

Way to go, you ruined the sea.

Sea, more like the "pee" now

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CulturalDuty8471@reddit

Totally human.

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ScarlaeCaress@reddit

There are dead bodies in the sea

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Correct_Score1619@reddit

no your gf sounds like a terror

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DillionM@reddit

A blue whale can produce over 400 gallons (1,520 liters) of semen during a single mating act, but only about 10% of that semen reaches the female.

The estimated number of blue whales in the world is between 10,000 and 25,000.

That's 9,000,000 gallons per mating season that ends up in the sea. Inform her and her family of these facts and ask if a little pee really matters.

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MauiBoink@reddit

Does she know what fish do in the sea?

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Adventurous_War3611@reddit

Yea I understand her a lot. Every creature in the see all get out of the sea and politely go to a restroom. Don’t see why you can’t do the same. 🙄

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MyCatIsAFknIdiot@reddit

She should get over herself - daft twat.

Ready_Piglet_861@reddit

I think everyone pees in the sea. Peeing in a pool is nasty but the ocean is the ocean!

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amiin_ee@reddit

but my family have been peeing in the sea for years

Why is she controlling when you piss?

Lets say you're fighting in a war and you need to piss, should you go find a toilet because your GF finds it disgusting?

Legitimately your GF sounds mental, GTFO

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TastyRiceKernal@reddit

All the toxic chemicals dumped into the sea, all the garbage dumped into the sea, and your urine bothers her? Lol thats a bit silly of her know?

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Truestindeed@reddit

Your girlfriend is DUMB

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PositiveAtmosphere13@reddit

Don't you know you're contributing to global warming.

Never pee In sacred waters

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DarcDesires@reddit

I told her I went for a wee in the sea

COOKIESECRETSn80085@reddit

Are these the things people in the UK worry about?! Must be nice

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MangoRainbows@reddit

Wait until she learns about the aqua dump.

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Mysterious-Zebra382@reddit

Uhh dont do that.

Was shown a cursed informational video about parasites and a guy who went for a piss in the sea and a small fish immediately swam up his urethra.

The fish if your curious is the candiru. It's an incredibly rare occurrence but yknow.. get those shorts that have that white mesh stuff to prevent stuff getting through the openings.

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asdfgtttt@reddit

where do the whales go?

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Other-Cycle-5441@reddit

Bro honestly go hand yourself in at the nearest police station before it is too late… your family too..

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Liesmith424@reddit

Were you already at the bar, then left to to piss in the sea, instead of just using the bar's toilet? That's weird as fuck.

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Overpass_Dratini@reddit

Excuse me, but where does she think the fish pee? Do they come up on the beach and use tiny port-a-potties to do their business before going back in the water?

Kinda reminds me of that video where this guy is running to the ocean and taking off his shirt but stops. This lady is splashing her cooch through her swimsuit and he make a eugh face and lowers his shirt while walking away.

nada_accomplished@reddit

She's aware that the sea is filled with creatures pissing, shitting, bleeding, fucking, and rotting in the sea, yes??

Ridiculous. Wee away, good seaman

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GoldenMonkeyRedux@reddit

I'm still trying to figure out what her parents have to do with any of this.

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Electrical_Angle_701@reddit

It's perfectly fine to urinate into something as large as a sea.

Did you specifically walk into the sea from land instead of using a toilet? If so that's weird.

Were you already swimming or just got out? Normal I think everyone does that

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Ricky_Rollin@reddit

Does your gf understand that there’s shit and piss from the millions of aquatic lives that call the ocean home? It’s not like you pissed in her shower and left yellow drops everywhere. Sheesh

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Opening_One_7677@reddit

Did you do it in a way everyone could see it? Like standing feet-deep in the sea and then you took it out and peed? 😂

Hi, singular fish here,

Mr_SlippyFist1@reddit

She's dumb AF.

Btw op this is reddit and UK

Different answers irl, imo the sanitation part doesn’t matter but the civility and grossness does. Ain’t proper type thing. And even more gross if you do it through ur trunks

I use swimming pool rules tbh even if the sea is more dirty. Why make it even more dirty? I personally don’t want to be responsible for making a disgusting thing even more disgusting.

It’s like littering too, just cuz everyone else is littering in an area doesn’t make it right

Intelligent-Salt-362@reddit

I mean, fish f^[k in it, so…

In my case I have peed in it. Hell, when we are offshore fishing and the need hits I’ll jump overboard in 1000 feet of water and take a dump. The scary part is looking down into the abyss until the light fades and nothing can be seen. Needless to say I usually pinch it quick.

You peed the same place all the fish, whales and all other sea creatures pee.

She's insane

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EniNeutrino@reddit

Does your girlfriend also think that fish get out to use the loo?

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amelie_789@reddit

Tell her that the locals have been doing it for centuries. Totally normal.

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frazzledglispa@reddit

Piss in her face, then ask her if she thinks pissing in the ocean is so bad.

Peeing into the ocean? Fine.

Anyway, that's not the situation here either. Your gf's feeling of disgust is not wrong. Feelings are always valid, because we're human, and feelings just happen; to deny or dismiss them causes harm. But her judgement of you is not defensible. Unlike feelings, our words are a choice. Her beliefs don't get to dictate whether you pee in the ocean, and she shouldn't try to force that on you or shame you for doing something that's arguably the most natural thing ever. I suggest she get over it and, again, consider that the ocean is filled with shit and piss and sperm and rotting organic matter, because it's the ocean.

Don’t forget that Reddit is majority men and I can see this reflected in the comments

As a women, peeing in the sea is not the problem

The fact that you were out of the sea, 150 seconds walk away from a toilet as you said in this thread, but instead you chose to go and enter the sea, take a piss, come back out and then tell your girlfriend about this, is really odd

It’s uncivilised and strange behaviour

People don’t piss in the sea as a first choice, it’s only when they are in the sea already and they suddenly need to go

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Emergency-Dot-2555@reddit

I pee in the sea because I'm free. I'm in Florida. Been pissing in it for decades. I bet some of mine even made it over there by now.

Wait until she finds about whale poop.

Wait until she learns where dolphins piss

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Chance-Juggernaut743@reddit

but my family have been peeing in the sea for years

It's not very classy, is it?

I can understand if you are caught short and it's not really causing any trouble as a proverbial drop in the ocean, but it's nicer to use the facilities provided.

I think it’s a bit gross, but we do it.

There’s a difference though between being out of the water and having toilets available and deliberately choosing to walk into the ocean to effectively piss your pants in the water, and being already in the ocean and doing it.

The entire sea is filled with millions of gallons of pee, liquified dead animal remains, and all manner of other terrible contaminants. Your bit of pee is like adding a single grain of sand to a beach.

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Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat@reddit

"Fish pee in you! All day!"

Moana

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Likes2Phish@reddit

Normal af lol

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NatalieBostonRE@reddit

were there no bathrooms at the bar?

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Eww gross! That's where fish pee! /s

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LemonPesto415@reddit

I pee in the ocean.

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Flaky_Suggestion1082@reddit

I always do this 😂 Went on an all inclusive holiday to the Dominican Republic and the toilets were quite far away from the beach.

Yes it is normal for girlfriends to get mad

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43703@reddit

Dilution factor = vol of sea/vol of of piss

                      = (3.7* 10^18)/0.5 lit( young adult)
                      = 7.4 *10^18

AutoModerator@reddit

Please do not submit facebook links to /r/AskUK

But the pan was too wee so he pee’d in the sea,

But the sea was too wide so he pee’d in the tide,

And all the wee fishies swam up his backside!

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pogoli@reddit

Did you ask her to explain what was wrong with it?

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Serious-Steak-5626@reddit

Making a special trip into the ocean to use it as a toilet and then telling people about it is in poor taste. I’d even say that doing the same minus telling people about it is still in poor taste. The exception to this is if there are no available restrooms.

weareallmadherealice@reddit

I peed on the great divide up in the mountains. That means half my pee went to the Pacific Ocean and the other half went to the Gulf Coast! Same thing just quicker.

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l3ortron@reddit

Does she not realize that everything that lives in the ocean also pisses and shits in it?

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Infamous_Cranberry66@reddit

All the other mammals and fish defecate there, too!

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Kagenoshi27@reddit

JA'LOJA!

It is a yearly Mochlan ceremony. The Great Release. As you know, Mochlan only have to urinate once a year. It is a cleansing ritual!

msft111@reddit

Theres literally thousands of human corpses in the sea…💀💀

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Preposterous_punk@reddit

So you just stood up, walked into the sea, peed, then immediately walked back out? Were there people swimming all around you while you peed? Did you make eye contact with any of them while peeing? Did you tilt your head back and say "Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh" as you peed?

Many-Percentage9699@reddit

I grew up in Australia every day was at the beach and every day I pissed in the ocean even did the odd shit in times of emergency

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2AFellow@reddit

You said the quiet part out loud bro

Classic-File-7002@reddit

Ew. She made the situation rude, not you. She sounds rude.

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B1ackandnight@reddit

Wait til she learns about all the dead animals in there. Also all the shit. 🫢

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jjw865@reddit

I wonder where she believe your pee ends up when you go in the toilet.

Obviously waste management treats that water but I don't think it has all that much to do with urine.

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Independent-Sand8501@reddit

If she has a problem with your urine being in her seawater, just wait until she founds out how many corpses are in her seawater.

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Delmp@reddit

Break up with this idiot

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BigMax@reddit

You’re weird for telling her.

Do you always tell her?

“Hey honey, while you were shopping in that store, I used the public bathroom over there.”

“Hey, while you went out with friends tonight, I peed twice.”

As a 53 year old female who is speaking from experience, I once got mad at my ex husband for the same thing.

There are two types of people in this world: those that pee in the pool (or ocean) and those that lie about it.

Source: I’m a lifeguard

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Plane_Ad473@reddit

Tell your GF to grow up. It's not someone's hot tub or backyard pool. It's he goddamn ocean there are much worse things going on in there

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bobbie-rae69@reddit

This is common practice in Guam. The Chamorro people view it as disrespectful to pee in the sand or the forests, so they pee in the ocean.

It honestly makes sense- id rather step in the ocean where someone had pee'd than in the dirt or sand that someone just pee'd on.

Ocean: approaching zero pollution. Zero carbon used.

Land/toilet/etc: carbon footprint for infrastructure, limited land mass to pollute.

Ocean wins environmentally

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unclepaprika@reddit

Hey man, stay away from the sea, ut's mine! I pissed in it first!

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RW_McRae@reddit

Just wait until she finds out where the fish pee.

LOL it’s NORMAL, yes. You did nothing wrong.

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bellendhunter@reddit

her parents would be disgusted

Don’t take unnecessary journeys, and don’t swim in the sea.

Fish fuck in it and she's worried about your pee?

There's 2 types of people. Those who pee in the sea and then there are fucking liars...

i_play_withrocks@reddit

Show her the story from the US (New Jersey mostly and the east coat) when a pod of whales had a breeding frenzy off the coast and the beach was flooded with whale sperm. Thousands of gallons miss their mark outside of the body 👀

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JayGridley@reddit

Wait until she finds out about all the creatures in the sea and their various forms of Bio waste.

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sivartimus@reddit

I mean... the fish pee in it, too. I don't see the big deal. It's hundreds of millions of gallons worth of H²O and marine animal wee. A little bit of human isn't going to affect it.

HumanWagyu@reddit

Dude. She is whitebread plain. Don’t ever expect anything freaky or even remotely kink-oriented.

Wait till she finds out what fish do out there.

shudder

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Separate-End-1097@reddit

I personally find that disgusting but I know that people have normalized that.

The excuses people use for this could also be used for littering. Why does it matter if I throw my plastic bottle in the ocean if the ocean is already full of plastic and industrial waste? It’s more of a principle, common sense and overall good manners.

Hahahah this is great...

lol; I wonder if she ever goes in hot tubs?

1 whale pee is like you peeing a millions times. tell your girl to relax.

though, maybe its not something to brag about

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Gingerpyscho94@reddit

Salt water is highly potent, it’s accumulated with all sorts of bacteria and other life. Salt water has been used for all sorts. While peeing in the ocean isn’t something you boast about. It’s otherwise harmless. In any other situation we all suggest using a toilet, but if you have to go you have to go. Sometimes nature calls and all you do is let your body do its thing.

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ADisposableRedShirt@reddit

Just tell her that the solution to pollution is dilution!

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Dangerous_Ad_6101@reddit

Something isn't right with your girl. You are supposed to pee in the sea. It's the sea. It is nature's giant compost tea bucket.

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Colossal_Penis_Haver@reddit

That's, um, where we discharge the effluent from the sewage plants, too.

There’s two kinds of people in this world .

Those who wee in the sea.

Wait until your girlfriend finds out people also shit in the sea....

How would I know you may ask....

This is probably more a her thing.

She probably doesn’t like the idea that you peed on yourself to some extent.

I once had a Spanish teacher tell me that the “h in Spanish is silent like the P(ee) in the ocean.”

StressedEmu99@reddit

The ocean is filled with garbage, oil, blood, dead sea creatures, poo, etc. I think a wee bit of wee is alright. If you had peed in a pool, that'd be a different story, but in the ocean?

If I was already in the sea, that's okay.

Millions of animals shit in the sea every day.

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GS7k@reddit

The sea, a lake, a river, the bath tub, it’s all fair game if the water line hits your waist.

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angelsandbuttwaves@reddit

Bro, you could have pissed in the ocean for 48 hours straight and not made a damn difference.

Piss away.

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Shdfx1@reddit

The ocean is full of urine from all the life in there.

In a pool, there’s chlorine to limit bacteria, and a relatively small body of water compared to a bunch of people swimming in it.

I mean, is she going to jump out of the water if she sees a fish poop?

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wdwhereicome2015@reddit

Everyone does it apart from your girlfriend. The fish even shit in it. If want to really gross her out, remind her how natural sandy beaches are made by fish eating the coral and shitting out the sand.

Want to also tell her that the sea is that salty due to all the fish/ mammals sperm. Apparently a blue whale produces about 2 gallons of sperm.

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th_teacher@reddit

She and her family's wacked, no logical reason.

Never tell her about anything to do with "body horror" functions anymore.

As a certified Kiteslut, I can confirm that there are two groups of people at the beach. Those what are peeing in the sea a d those who are lying.

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bisonsashimi@reddit

At least you didn’t tell her you took a dump…

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jhf1989@reddit

Leave her

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SamDewCan@reddit

Context: are you generally a hygienic person? Yes, most of the urine will be diluted into the sea almost immediately, but you're basically missing on your leg and plenty of it will linger there. If you shower once you leave the beach (as everyone should) and wash the shorts I don't see an issue. If you don't, there's lots of issues on top of pissing yourself

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Fit-Assumption-6006@reddit

Depends on the context:

If you had a wee in the sea in a secluded, private location then she’s really over reacting; if you were on a busy public because and you decided to walk over to the sea - next to a kid building a sandcastle, or a family playing frisbee - and decide to have a wazz then the anger is legit.

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earlgray79@reddit

Don’t tell her what whales do in the ocean.

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Head-Intention-5815@reddit

Fish do….they also have sex in the sea

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ProfessionalWeekly43@reddit

Remember. Big difference between peeing in the sea and peeing into the sea. Location, location, location.

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RoyalCroydon@reddit

Tell her to shut up.

Pissing in the sea is fine.

Going into the sea specifically for the purpose of pissing isn't.

Your girlfriend went to the bar, I assume there's a toilet at the bar, you could've been nice, got the drinks and had a piss while you were at it.

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PotatoSaladHater@reddit

Yes. By all means, the Sea is nature's toilet. Tell your gal you can't pee in the sea because of whatever stupid reason she has, (quick tangent) with all the water in the sea that's connected to Oceans you think one person with a full bladder will make a seas water change with 14 fluid oz of pee? Billions and Billions and billions of gallons of water affected by .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000➡️ 528,000 more zeros ...000014 milliliters of piss?

Judges? What do you think?

Judges: The Math checks out and you are correct again about everything PotatoSaladHater.

Meanwhile in Australia… 😂 even for me… this is a tad too far

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Nath4_n@reddit (OP)

All about marking your territory

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Tasty_Revolution3668@reddit

i’m mean i’ve shat in there so i think you’re good

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oneletter2shor@reddit

Don't worry Kyle, lots of people pee in the pool!

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Doesanybodylikestuff@reddit

If you get a jellyfish sting, you have to get pee on yourself to stop the burning.

Then wash it off in the ocean minus jellyfish sting.

scrimblo-rat@reddit

wtf is wrong with nasty ass Redditors !!

"fish pee in the sea so I can too" yea and birds shit on the lawn but I better not catch you degenerates doing that

“But my family have been peeing in the sea for years” 😂 this got me..

And yes, I think it’s pretty normal. And this is coming from someone born in the mountains.. now how do I know it’s normal?? Cause that’s what we do in the mountains.. pee standing on the edge of the ridge. Idk maybe your girl field needs to understand what freedom feels like my friend. 😂😂

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AlmondCigar@reddit

If you were dry and walked past the restrooms to pee in the sea, yes I would think you were gross

If you peed close to people swimming, gross

I guess it depends how.

Your family standing at the beach like at urinals, pretty weird. I think.

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WorldwideSteppers@reddit

I don’t think she’s bothered about peeing in the sea, I think she’s bothered by peeing in your swim trunks

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Nath4_n@reddit (OP)

I’ve shat myself before and told her

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Mdgt_Pope@reddit

Tell her that every whale who has ever lived, of all species, and every dolphin that has ever lived, of all species, has pissed in the ocean. Nearly every walrus, seal, manatee, etc has pissed in the clean. And these are just mammals.

Then there’s the birds who fly over it and the fish who swim in it, all pissing and shitting in the ocean from the day they’re born til the day they’re dead.

Pinchynip@reddit

People are gonna say 'who cares it's the ocean'

Personally, I don't go into any water with people I can't be sure of.

When a reef releases eggs typically many of the other inhabitants also spawn to make too many eggs to all be eaten at once. Basically the whole area gets clouded with jizz and eggs. Barnacles ejaculate all over the place simultaneously too.

Also I wanted to just make people aware that moss produces hyper-mobile sperm that can travel outlandish distances, moist moss can be covered in little intrepid sperm adventurers.

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PotatoSaladHater@reddit

Whales shit, piss and blow their noses and penises all over the sea. I don't see them resenting it. I can swim in whale sperm and Dolphin snot but they can't swim in my tiny droplets of piss? Let's Sea who the assholes are! Well, whaddya know?

One of my favorite books.

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Crazyorangetabby@reddit

When I went to California once, I asked the lifeguard where the nearest bathroom was, and he said if you need to pee he pointed at the ocean. Then he said, if you need to poop swim to the sand bar. I was absolutely mortified and now every time I go to the beach wondering if people are pooping in it. Before I met this lifeguard this thought never crossed my mind.

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No-Jacket-800@reddit

Thanks for the laugh.

That's a super normal thing to do, lol.

Well if your incestuous outback family had always done it then I guess it's ok, right?

Your girl has found probably one of the dumbest things to get bent out of shape over and shows a blatant blind spot in real world logic and scale. This is going to finger out into so many ways she sees the world... consider it a giant red flag.

Your contribution to the ocean wasn't even significant enough to warrant using the word significant.

Find a new girl.

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secret_tiger101@reddit

Your girlfriend has issues.

Fuzzy974@reddit

There's a song called "Everyone piss in the ocean"

plutohuman@reddit

Bruh you made the sea extra salty😂

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iamnogoodatthis@reddit

Where does she think cruise ships and ferries empty their toilets?

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RicardoNurein@reddit

doing it- no big deal

One of my favorite things about living in the country is walking outside to take a piss.

Yes. I will literally walk past 2 bathrooms to go out my backdoor and go outside to pee.

I was in Playa la Ropa Zihuatanejo once & suddenly had to go for a number 2.

I knew it was coming out regardless & there was usually a wait at the restaurant toilet so I dove into the sea, swam away from people & took a quick poo. It was not a solid one as I'd overdone the spicy food & margaritas (as usual).

Suddenly a load of little fish were around me, nibbling away then next thing I know all these pelican missiles were dive bombing around me going after the fish. They were not worried about seeing so close to me at all.

My wife was watching from her table by the beach having a good laugh about it.

I don't think the OPs girlfriend would like me at all. But I didn't have a choice.

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She is ridiculous.

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toiletboy2013@reddit

I find this a really odd thing to take issue with. Were it a poo, I might consider it socially unacceptable given that other options may be available, but urine is usually sterile anyway. It is food for bacteria, but not generally a health hazard per se.

It is worth considering that many small boats discharge their toilets (or 'heads' in nautical terms) direct into the sea and I'm not aware that any authority is looking to legislate against this : certainly it has not grabbed mass media attention.

If toilets were available, I must admit going into the sea purely to urinate strikes me as a bit eccentric.

Why is she bringing up what her parents would think? It comes across as her not having her own independent opinion, or having an opinion but projecting it on her parents : this seems a bit strange to me.

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_Spiggles_@reddit

So literally every single animals in the sea takes a piss in the sea, if she thinks your tiny amount of piss will do anything she's nuts

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Appropriate-Captain1@reddit

Island girlie here. The rules for water. You may piss in the sea it’s salt and literally disinfects it. You may piss in a river of the water is running consistently. You may not in still bodies of water like ponds and smaller lakes.

No! Fuck no, that is very abnormal to the point of being absurd.

All fish and all animals' pee from rivers flow into the ocean. The damn thing is full of pee. Being angry about it is very abnormal indeed

If it was a pit full of shit and decaying corpses I don't think people would care if you a human added a bit more shit to it

Much the same way adding a bit of additional piss to the sea is no big deal

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First-Lengthiness-16@reddit

A bit of shit on a massive street would be no issue. Perhaps I could pop it next to some bird shit.

Humans and animals should have the same expectations of behaviour

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Brinsig_the_lesser@reddit

The problem is your analogy doesn't work, the street and the ocean are two very different things

The ocean and the forrest would probably be a better analogy (both of which it isn't unheard of to piss in)

blaireau69@reddit

The oceans are the ultimate solution.

Prize-Staff-669@reddit

Your girlfriend is going to be shocked by the real world when she figures it out.

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Captains_Parrot@reddit

There's a saying amongst scuba divers.

There are 2 kinds of people, the people who say they piss in their wetsuit and liars.

You shouldn’t have told her, it might be normal but nobody wants to think about the piss in the ocean when they’re considering a swim.

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BaconContestXBL@reddit

Why is nobody addressing the larger issue here?

You’ve been together for two years, who gives a fuck what her parents think?

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randomcommentor0@reddit

A good rule of thumb is don't do anything you wouldn't want everyone doing. If you would be OK with it if every beach goer took a wee in the surf every two hours (roughly how often a normally hydrated person should), go for it. If that much wee in your surf would bother you, don't assume your special and it's only you, and don't.

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saintnickel@reddit

She is stupid for being disgusted by that.

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VegasGamer75@reddit

Wait till she finds out what trillions of lifeforms living that sea do...

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IM-Vine@reddit

Your fault for telling her to begin with.

Consensus seems to be that it depends on the water level relative to your body.

Which begs some interesting philosophical debates about sexism and heightism.

Is it more or less acceptable for men to piss in the sea?

Does pissing in the sea get progressively less acceptable, the taller the pisser is?

oopsdiditwrong@reddit

I have to share this story with someone. I was on spring break in college and the beach was PACKED. MTV spring break packed. We were on the beach for hours yet no one has gone to the bathroom yet. I have no problem with this. We were polishing off cases of beer and I assumed everyone was using the ocean like normal. One of our buddies comes over embarrassed asking "guys, I noticed no one has gone to the bathroom, where should we go?" We realized he had been to the ocean but not like a beach you'd really swim in. We tell him to let it rip in the ocean. He was skeptical at first but we were like bro I'm 6 beers deep and haven't left. You gotta trust us.

He comes back way longer than it should have taken. We nudged him like hey man was the first time making you nervous? His response, "yeah it's hard to shit with so many people around"

chipCap1@reddit

There’s two types of people in this world. People who say they piss in the sea/shower. And liars.

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Humans_Suck-@reddit

Some people just don't like salt on their hot dogs

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TreadheadS@reddit

I mean, my family would think you are disgusting and I wouldn't do it but seeing the amount of people who pee in the sea on this thread we must be in the minority.

The Med is basically a sewer.

Looks lovely in many parts though, so doesn't stop me going in it.

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ReputationLopsided74@reddit

You did what?! The same sea that I swim in?!

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Wonk_puffin@reddit

Jeez fing Christ. You need to end this now! End it whilst you still can! Because a year from now when get home from a lads night out totally pissed out of your skull, 10 pints, plus chasers, and without knowing it you pissed in her wardrobe and her jewelry box, and left half a kebab on her new white carpet, then what the f do you think will happen then by comparison? You're totally F***ed at that point. Wake up!!! W A K E U P! This is your early warning sign. This is not normal!

Was there a bathroom readily available? If so, you should have just gone to the bathroom like a normal civilized person.

If there was no bathroom and you had to go, no harm no foul.

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trainriderben@reddit

If they think that's bad... Go find a pool with a swim up bar, you won't see anyone get out of that pool all night.

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ShireHorseRider@reddit

Wow. That’s crazy in my mind she would be upset. Does she realize that boats only have to be 3 miles offshore in most areas to dump their poop tanks???

I heard a story which was actually worth something getting mad about… a ~~dude~~ proper piece of shit I knew was in Mexico with his mates. He said “hey guys watch this” and proceeded to drop his shorts & do an impression of a whale doing a waterspout. He had gotten Montezumas revenge and had poop the consistency of liquid.

Op, I think your peeing is one of the least disgusting things you could have done.

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ArchaicInsanity@reddit

My wife shat in the sea once. We were on a scuba tour. The boat didn't have facilities and the captain had no intention of stopping. She was put in a life ring, the ring secured to the boat by rope and let to float behind, at around 15m distance. She was then free to go about her business. Not going to lie, I was a bit jealous. That kind of freedom isn't felt often.

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Ambitious_Rent_3282@reddit

I pee in the bath, don't worry! :)

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technohuntress@reddit

i think its fine to do that. it may not quite be normal but it should be fine

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jollygoodvelo@reddit

Would you get into a swimming pool with a dead body in it? Probably not.

But there are thousands and thousands of dead bodies in the oceans, so we’re just talking about proportions.

At last count the oceans had 372 petasquillion gallons of water in them so your half pint is barely scratching the surface.

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CATDOOR2022@reddit

Dump her. She sounds miserable.

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x4501783@reddit

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Takseee@reddit

It's totally normal.

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Divxtr@reddit

General rule of thumb: Do not tell anyone you piss in: - sea - pool - sink - shower - woods

Me and my girlfriend find this very funny 🤣

I pee in the ocean. I pee in the river. I do not pee in the pool.

LukasJackson67@reddit

What did fish do?

I actually had a fit of diarrhea in Mallorca and swam 100 yards out and shit in the see.

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Beer-Milkshakes@reddit

The sea is quite literally the graveyard of the earth and sand under a microscope is the ground down remains of basically everything.

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The_Infinite_Carrot@reddit

Pissing in the sea is fine. Just don’t take a shit in there.

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JSJ34@reddit

The thing is no one wants to see you stand and pee at waters edge even if it’s the sea! You’d be exposing yourself , which is a crime

If you went in Swimming and peed then don’t tell anyone! Ain’t nobody need to know and the sea will wash it all away

Somebody needs to explain to your girlfriend exactly what your local UK water company means when they talk about “spilling” (intro streams, rivers and the sea).

There is small brook near me with a typical flow rate of about 2.5 million cubic litres per day, my local water company admits to “spilling” up to 1 million cubic litres of untreated sewage per day into the brook, and to “spilling” on over 300 days last year. Your wee in the sea really does not even register.

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guinness-and-cheddar@reddit

Every time a blue whale ejaculates, it releases around 5.4 gallons of semen. She has other things to worry about besides your tinkles.

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Pissing in the sea: fine

Pissing into the sea: not fine

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J200J200@reddit

What does she think fish do? Get out and go to a porta potty?

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Kudasai76@reddit

Peeing in the sea is generally considered harmless for both the environment and people. Human urine is mostly water with small amounts of electrolytes and urea, which naturally break down in large bodies of water. The ocean’s vastness and its natural processes can easily dilute and neutralize the small amounts of urine.

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GoldenGolgis@reddit

I live at the seaside so I know the correct British etiquette:

draenog_@reddit

Ah, fair. That's the reason that there are such stringent restrictions on farmers applying fertilisers to their fields and why it's so ecologically devastating that water companies keep filling rivers with shit.

Point out all of the yachts you can see there in corfu then inform your GF that they all dump urine and Shit. Also Corfu has raw sewage pipes running from the island into the sea.

Source: 12 of my family members live there.

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tigbit72@reddit

Bitch is dumb. We’ve been sea-peeing for millenia.

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Novel_Individual_143@reddit

I think sea-pissing is something that should be broached before marriage so that all the parents can voice where they stand.

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Eryeahmaybeok@reddit

Fish pee, shit and cum in the sea, toxic waste gets dumped in it - point out to her the small fishing boats bobbing around Corfu, how many of those have toilets?

Also you're just over the sea from Lybia which is a large departure point for illegal immigration which means there are innumerable human bodies decomposing in the sea you're in at any one time.

Peeing is fine - but not shit

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behavedave@reddit

Uhhh, you piss in a loo, the water company say there's a deluge and flush it into the river and it runs down to the oceans any how. If it is treated it festers in a concrete pit then it gets pumped out to sea, your just cutting out the ceremony.

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You and a zillion fish.

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EffigyOfUs@reddit

It’s the sea 😂 who tf cares hahaha

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funnytoenail@reddit

There are two sides to this coin.

Decorum - I think, if the sea was right out of the restaurant, and all the patrons and beach goers can see you whip it out, yea that’s a bit weird.
Practicality - but if you’re already in the water, I say why not

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TheTerminatorJP@reddit

Normal stuff, some people are a bit uptight. Look at all the sewage that gets put in the sea.

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MrTrendizzle@reddit

Ow boy! Just you wait until she finds out that people shit in the ocean and the amount of waste dumped in by companies...

SSFL13@reddit

I’m on your girlfriend’s side. But after reading all the comments apparently I’m the weirdo. Perhaps I’m missing out…

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Goldennugget87@reddit

She sounds like a happy go lucky sort of girl

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Acceptable-Bat-9577@reddit

The fish and other mammals not only pee but crap in the ocean, too.

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omguserius@reddit

...

Just show her a video of mussels jizzing into the water or something

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nail_in_the_temple@reddit

She was at the bar. Bars have toilets. So instead of going to a bathroom like a civilized person you decided to make an effort to piss in a sea

Imo its excusable when you’re already in the sea and too lazy to find a bathroom, but you intentionally went there

Im on your gfs side, its disgusting

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Kinky-Green-Fecker@reddit

Look at what the Water Companies pump into the Fecking Sea @Presnt ' And get Angry at that ' !

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beneyh@reddit

As if she has NEVER EVER pissed in the sea.

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tcpukl@reddit

Don't tell her that's where all the animals in the ocean even shit let alone piss.

Most human waste goes in the sea as well, that isn't treated and recycled into our tap water.

Swimming pools are different entirely.

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TheOnlyNadCha@reddit

Many people do it, people have sex in it, some people even crap there, so everyone should know the sea is full of foul things.

But I still don’t want to hear it, thank you 🙉

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AggressiveStagger@reddit

I think your GF is overreacting.

The ocean is basically whale n fish pee anyway

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uberdavis@reddit

Sounds like she and her family need a basic lesson in organic chemistry.

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OkCoconut1122@reddit

Pollutant

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Efficient-Public-829@reddit

Just don’t tell her you pee in the ocean anymore. And make sure you’re next to her when you do it.

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Teembeau@reddit

What? It's full of dead animals, fish jizz and fish piss. Your pee will be diluted across a million gallons of water within hours with all the other disgusting stuff in there. It's not like pissing in the pool.

Bro I'll piss in your water, but I'll also drink lots of water myself so it's not yellow when it comes out, you can't see it so it's safe to drink.

Same exact logic

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Teembeau@reddit

Do you drink river water?

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AnticipateMe@reddit

I drink water that's filtered and treated

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Teembeau@reddit

So how much does it matter that rivers have a tiny percentage of human waste in them?

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AnticipateMe@reddit

A lot... like a fucking shit ton?

https://www.sas.org.uk/water-quality/water-companies-shocking-stats/

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/water-and-sewerage-companies-in-england-environmental-performance-report-2021/water-and-sewerage-companies-in-england-environmental-performance-report-2021

"Since 2015 the Environment Agency’s prosecutions against water companies have secured fines of over £138 million. We are increasing inspections of sewage treatment works; insisting that the companies put monitors on all their storm overflows, both on the network and at sewage treatment works and make the data public; and we have also begun the country’s largest ever investigation into environmental crime, involving all the companies, where we are looking at whether they have knowingly and deliberately broken the law in relation to the treatment and discharge of sewage." - UK Gov

"Serious water quality pollution incidents (category 1 and 2) from sewerage and water supply assets increased to their highest number since 2013 (Figure 1). This rise is contrary to our performance expectation to trend towards zero. This was first set out to water companies in 2013 (for the period 2015 to 2020) and repeated in WISER (issued in 2017) for the period 2020 to 2025. Serious incident numbers remain far too high. In 2021:

there were 62 serious incidents, an unacceptable increase from 44 in 2020, 52 in 2019 and 56 in 2018 and the highest since 2013
more than half of serious incidents were from assets of 3 water companies (Anglian Water – 14, Southern Water – 12 and Thames Water – 12)
7 water companies had an increase in serious incidents compared to 2020, Southern Water had a threefold increase
6 water companies (Anglian Water, Southern Water, South West Water, Thames Water, Wessex Water, Yorkshire Water) performed significantly below target (red) for this EPA metric – the highest number of water companies since the introduction of EPA
only 2 water companies (Northumbrian Water and United Utilities) achieved performance better than target (green) for this EPA metric – we expect this to be sustained
there was 1 serious incident from a water supply asset (Severn Trent Water) compared to 5 in 2020, 4 in 2019, 8 in 2018 and the record high of 14 in 2017" - UK Gov (Again)

"We use the EPA to ensure that water companies meet several core requirements and to highlight where they are not. As two thirds of the sector were rated no better than requiring improvement (2 stars) or poor (1 star), this was clearly a challenge for most companies in 2021.

This is the first year we are reporting on the revised EPA (for 2021 to 2025). We have deliberately tightened metric thresholds to set stretching targets that will push companies to meet regulatory requirements and our expectations. During this EPA period the challenge will increase to ensure companies achieve better environmental outcomes. Companies cannot be complacent with static performance and expect the same results. We welcome companies that are innovating to meet current and future challenges however this should not be at the detriment of complying with the law." - UK Gov (Once again)"

"Water utilities in England and Wales released untreated sewage into English rivers 464,056 times in 2023. United Utilities discharged raw sewage into English waters 97,537 times over a period of more than 650,000 hours that year. Due to growing concern over the number of sewage discharges into English waterways, the UK government announced the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan. The plan aims to eliminate 40 percent of raw sewage overflows into rivers by 2040." - Statista

So tell me, if it's not as bad as you say it is, why would the UK gov for example introduce the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan?

A lot of this is UK based, which shouldn't matter, because geography doesn't care where sewage is dumped, chemistry doesn't care, the impact is relevant regardless of the area before you pull out the "but that's in the UK i'm talking about another place like the US".

Peeing in the sea is fine.

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Think-Command3590@reddit

"but my family have been peeing in the sea for years" been chuc;kling at this for the last 10min lmao

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Arbol252@reddit

I’d have pushed the matter further, “I need you to know everyone pees in the sea. When you go into the sea, please note it’s probably a good percentage pee.” lol

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showmeyajunoo@reddit

You piss in there as hard and as fast as you can

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Proof-Draw8067@reddit

She's never been scuba diving, then?

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IcyPuffin@reddit

It's probably a very common thing to do. It's an ocean there is a lot of water in there. Its not going to do any harm.

I was on the beach and the gentleman next to me turned to his wife and said "I am going to go piss in the water because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom" and his wife responded "Ok, hun"

Relationship goals.

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jlb8@reddit

Life is too short to put up with someone telling you their parents would be disgusted.

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HeartAttackIncoming@reddit

Wait until she finds out what fish do in the sea!

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dopeydazza@reddit

1 time you shouldn't have told her. Some manly toilet habits remain manly quiet.

In the 2000s when we had drought in Melbourne (Australia) the water minister (1 & 2) encourage water savings by either 1 or 2 as they would save water.

Other suggestions were offered in the newspapers or radio (3 & 4) where people called in to share their water saving tips.

1 ) - shower or bath with a friend or neighbour

2 ) - wee in the shower

3 ) - wee outside on weeds

4 ) - wee in a modern version of a chamber pot and throw outside

This is when many started to embrace wholeheartedly the duel flush toilet.

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Richard-c-b@reddit

Wow, she's in for a shock if she ever finds out where sewerage ends up!

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tem1985@reddit

Fish do it.

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split_infinitive_@reddit

There are times you can do it, and times you shouldn't. Learn the difference.

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Original_Bad_3416@reddit

The solution to pollution is dilution…

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Brian-Kellett@reddit

As the saying goes

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TheKingMonkey@reddit

When she gets back home and has a piss on the toilet Seven Trent or Thames Water (or whoever your supplier is) will flush it into the sea anyway.

All you did was cut out the middleman.

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BlondBitch91@reddit

It is quite literally a drop in the ocean.

The ocean is roughly 1.335 sextillion liters (Sextillion is 21 zeros), most people piss about 250-400 mililires in one go, so 0.4 litres.

Do you see how miniscule it is. She needs to get over it.

Also, for that matter, where does she think the sewers empty out into?

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GayAttire@reddit

I shat at 38 metres once in the Philippines. 10/10

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Competitive_Egg3841@reddit

Lol does she know that all the drainage goes into the sea?

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ClaryClarysage@reddit

The ocean is full of salt and fish pee, your pee is going to make zero difference. I thought everyone did that.

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vms-crot@reddit

Lol, it's where the fish do it.

If you were IN the sea when you did it, no problem.

Nath4_n@reddit (OP)

I sometimes piss in the shower when she’s in there too and she’s down the same

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matscom84@reddit

Have you seen Kevin and Perry go large?

I love having my annual seapiss.

I hope your GF realises the number of fish and mammals (dolphins, whales) that pee in the sea too.

On balance, compared with the stuff some people dump in the sea, a bladder full of urine hardly counts.

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theProffPuzzleCode@reddit

This is normal behaviour. Pee is harmless.

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Terrible_Cost_216@reddit

Time for a new girlfriend. Welcome to betatization by a thousand cuts.

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bibby_siggy_doo@reddit

Just tell her they're are far worse things in there, like every time a whale ejaculates, it releases gallons on sperm. Then tell her that it's why the sea is salty.

I wouldn't say it's normal, but it's certainly no biggie.

P2P-BSH@reddit

Why have you turned a question about pissing in the sea into a place to rant about eating animals?

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Logical_Tank4292@reddit

You're the one engaging in it buddy.

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P2P-BSH@reddit

Damn, you got me there. That makes your point valid!

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Logical_Tank4292@reddit

Logical_Tank4292@reddit

You 'stand corrected' that it's just a meme?

If you're trying to be witty, at least do it properly.

She’s reaching your honour

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Non-Combatant@reddit

Nerd.

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BreakChemical9983@reddit

Maybe you shouldn’t date 8 year olds.

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TurkeyKingTim@reddit

If you been peeing in the sea how are we meant to drink the water?

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glasgowgeg@reddit

Did you piss through your shorts, etc, or drop them in the sea to pish?

Anyone who doesn't piss in the sea is weird.

It's not as if it's a swimming pool, which I also piss in.

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alpacacultivator@reddit

There are those who pee in their wetsuit, and those who lie about it.

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No_Eye_8432@reddit

How does your gf think people stay at the beach for 6+ hours when there are no public restrooms around? They ‘go to cool off’ in the water, aka pee in the sea.

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atdaog@reddit

It's a normal thing for the girlfriend to be angry.

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DinosaurInAPartyHat@reddit

The sea is digusting. It's full of oil, contaminants, lots of urine and faeces, rotting bodies, probably radioactive at this stage too.

As a kid, fine. As a grown adult, I would get out and go to the toilet if there are plenty of people actually using the beach.

One may assume she is upper class with that attitude.

If you went to the toilet at the beach, it would only end up in the sea anyway. You've just skipped the pipes

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Adventurous_Toe_1686@reddit

I pee in the sea all the time, the mistake I don’t make is telling my partner.

It's fine...

Just don't do the face, you know the face all men pull when letting out a much needed gush...

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voss749@reddit

What was wrong was telling her. Oversharing.

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HugsandHate@reddit

Your girlfriend's dumb dude.

Sorry.

My wife and I call it a “comfort paddle”. Totally acceptable.

Wait until she finds out that there are people who partake in the “waffle stomp”.

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nickelijah16@reddit

Where does she think her pee goes after she flushes? Where does she think fish pee goes?

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blackleydynamo@reddit

I honestly don't know why more women aren't on board the sea wee train. It's pretty much the only environment where they get to be equal to guys in terms of all fresco urination opportunity. Pretty much everywhere else they have to find an actual toilet, while guys can sneak behind a tree. I'd be tanking up like a dog before a walk.

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On_The_Blindside@reddit

lol what? that's ridiculous. as long as you're a bit away from. others does it really matter?

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WishYouWereHere-63@reddit

All the sharks, whales, turtles, dolphins, porpoises, etc all get out of the sea to relieve themselves so so should you !!!

Loonytrix@reddit

All those fish do it as well ...

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Bulky_Parsnip8@reddit

Let her know there’s human corpses in the very same sea she was swimming in.

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Schmicarus@reddit

There are about a bazillion other creatures peeing, pooping and reproducing in the same ocean that you are swimming in.

Not sure why she chooses to be disgusted about you joining in.

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