Ah no, a dead fish indicates that the water isn’t healthy. You should shy away from it.
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smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Corpse size has a lot to do with it. I wouldn’t swim in even a large pool with a dead human in it (knowingly), but one dead fish or rodent or dozens of dead tadpoles or bugs? Not an issue.
Heck, most household swimming pools have dozens of dead bodies in them, but they’re 99% insects.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 months ago
Bertuccio@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, fish always make sure to leave the water before they die.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Fish tend to die by being eaten, a dead fish that nothing has eaten yet is a concern.
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Like too much chlorine?
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Now what if it’s a severed human head?
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Or a couple of severed toes or fingers?
Hupf@feddit.de 3 months ago
What about a clipped fingernail? There’s some kind of acceptability threshold here as well.
Speaking of which, what percentage of poo would be acceptable? Does it matter whether or not it’s family?
Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Fingernails aren’t flesh; there’s no such thing as a dead fingernail because there’s no such thing as a live fingernail. It’s like shed hair floating in the pool; kinda gross, sure, but not dead body gross
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Similar to corpses, it’s not the %, it’s the accessibility: “How quickly could I be touching a corpse / poo right now?”
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
How distantly related we talking here? Siblings/parents or cousins? We’re not the hapsburgs, no incestuous shit eating in this pool.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Hard no, leaking is gross.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What if the head was laminated after it was severed?
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
How exactly do you propose to laminate a severed head??
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What about a dead baby?
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Dead babies don’t care how many bodies there are.
deus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ah, the old Lemmy switcheroo!
peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
The whole premise of this meme is a bit silly. If there was a corpse floating near the beach, I think most people might wait for the corpse to be removed, and perhaps even a reasonable cause of death to be determined, before entering the local area. The same is true for pools.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 months ago
“Smithens, the corpse is growing near me again. Use the pool-skimmer to push it into the deep end”
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Ah, so corpse count AND proximity are both factors? Along with knowledge of the presence of said corpse?
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
And corpse size. The variables are piling up… This is gonna be a difficult study
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
This can be simplified to the individual’s understanding of how quickly they could be touching a corpse.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Corpse size still plays a role. You wouldn’t want to touch a dead tadpole, but you may not even notice.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As it says, there’s a minimum acceptable volume/corpse ratio.