Dirty habit?

Someone tried testing the water at the swimming baths and found there was a high % of urine. I don't like that thought and it's what makes your eyes sting, not the chlorine.
At our community garden there's a compost loo. It has a separator so the urine goes one way and the other gets made into manure.
Apparently it's the mixture which smells.
Another interesting fact about pee.
If you are bothered by foxes attacking your poultry. Get all the men you know to pee around the boundary fence. This puts off the foxes. It must be male. Just as well. You wouldn't catch me peeing around the garden.
Urine is also a mordant for dyeing. But you all probably know these things.

I very rarely shower as I like my daily (shallow) moisturising bath but honestly I could never, ever urinate in a shower. Nothing to do with germs, I just couldn't imagine why anyone would do it, it must feel horrible, wee running down your leg ?. DGS wees in his bath every night the second we pop him in but after reading this thread I can see this must be doing his tiny patch of eczema good rather than harm - that's a relief anyway ?

No it doesn’t feel at all horrible as it just joins the rest of the water running off your body Try it sometime ???

It seems it's one of those questions it's best not knowing the answer to. I can think of a few more.

It saves water. We should all do it.

My husband is a plumber , he actively encourages it !

If you don't want to know the truth, which clearly you didn't, don't ask. There is no way I would dream of asking my husband such a personal question.

I am no way a prude
Nor me (fortunately), because as I've aged, my accuracy has diminished, but the shower has proved to be a more acceptable target.

Merlotgran - have to agree with you 100%!
Jalima1108 - ladies can pee in a potty and throw it on (no need for all that clambering!!)

Thanks wellwalked
we do have a chamber pot somewhere, I think I have a plant in it.

I am told that female wee is not as good for plants as male. No idea why.

Just as an aside, pee (male or female) doesn't seem to work if you get an invasion of badgers in your back garden.

Unless you could 'go' like a water cannon.

This has given me a chuckle, I wonder where the word wee or pee originated from

I don't understand the problem but I still feel it's gross even so! Irrational I know, but there ya go.

To be honest, I think it's standards! ?

Blimey, how on earth is this "disgusting"?

Well, might as well accept the majority of us do it and still leave the shower pristine. The shower tray is not fundamentally a different thing to the loo is it?

By the way, you know that heel balm you buy for dry, cracked skin on your feet? Yup, contains urine!

Think it highly unlikely it is pee not chlorine causing stinging eyes in the pool! It is when the smell of chlorine is strong that people have a problem with sore eyes.

I do it in bath but not the shower.

I can't believe this has reached o pages

9 pages

I can't believe this has reached 9 pages grin
ninathenana; 'Fraid so! Possibly more to come, but at least it encapsulates the noble aim of "educating, informing, entertaining"! As Frankie would have said "I find it all so amusing"

I am still surprised that people are shocked about urine going down the drain but are happy to pour all kinds of chemicals down their drains.


not that I pee in the shower, but please think about it!

What? Think about you weeing in the shower?!

I was going to say p**s off but that would be rude MissA


oh dear, should I delete that post?

Origin of the word Pee?
Presumably to do with spending a penny if any of you are old enough to remember that.