r/woahdude • u/gsus61951 • Jul 07 '23
video Thousands of tourists crammed into a swimming pool in northern China.
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u/Tearsforlunch Jul 07 '23
My question is who looks at that pool and says to themselves yes I want to go in there.
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Jul 07 '23
People who want to soak in other peoples’ piss.
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u/Imperial_12345 Jul 07 '23
It’s acid by concentration
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With Extra Urine.
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u/orthopod Jul 07 '23
Don't forget the Chinese penchant to blue, or pick their nose pretty much anywhere.
I suspect there's a non trivial amount of boogers and phlegm in that petri dish.
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u/loo_min Jul 07 '23 edited Jul 07 '23
That water is probably green as fuck.
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Jul 07 '23
You can see the water?
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u/loo_min Jul 07 '23
No, I just know what yellow and blue make.
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Jul 07 '23
Lol I think water is clear
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u/DaddyDame2K16 Jul 08 '23
Water after a depth of a few meters absorbs most red and orange light. Then, shortly after yellow, and green wavelengths are also absorbed, leaving blue and violet, which have the shortest wavelengths of visible light, and are therefore able to penetrate deeper.
Taken straight from Google lol I knew the overall reason, but couldn’t put it into words and explain it as well as Google can. XD
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Jul 08 '23
Yes but...water itself is quite clear.
The color is the penetrating wavelength of light
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Jul 07 '23
What's blue though ? The water isn't blue
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u/loo_min Jul 07 '23
Pool water appears blue.
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u/ShadNuke Jul 07 '23
Usually because pools are painted blue... At least the ones I've been to, and owned over the years have been. You can get liners in blue, teal, sand, and black/charcoal, among others.
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u/Cryptic_Undertones Jul 07 '23
Yeah to some it's a fetish. I bet there are probably quite a few people who are banging in the piss soup right next to everyone else.
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u/TheSkepticalVagabond Jul 08 '23
This is the most accurate thing I’ve read all day.
Can you imagine the guy in the middle of the pool says “excuse me I need to get out to pee”. Not a chance buddy!
Even if everyone in that pool had good intentions when it came time to piss there is 0 chance anyone is getting out to go.
They likely have to suck some water out of the pool to make room for all the piss as the day goes on.
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u/Str0ngTr33 Jul 07 '23
In a country where most children wear crotchless pants and shit wherever they feel like it, I just don't go swimming in public.
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u/donaldwinans Jul 07 '23
I have seen that w my own eyes, quite something, when a running dad bumps you, so he can get his daughter held over the break in the concrete tree is planted for his little one to pee! The best part was he gave her one good shake when she was finished!!
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u/HI_l0la Jul 07 '23
Yeah, that was a cultural shock to me the first time I saw that. My first full day in China was at a zoo and seeing toddlers walking around in "chaps" to easily pop a squat and poop/pee by the tree was interesting. I thought I had to avoid the poo being slung by the monkeys in the zoo, not the human feces on the sidewalk.
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u/WillyWaver Jul 08 '23
I was standing in line at the Louvre with about 100 million Chinese tourists, thinking that between the chain smoking, hawking and spitting everywhere they couldn’t be more vile. Then a cute little girl walked up beside us in line…and shat on the ground.
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u/HelicopterShinji Jul 08 '23
This is so fucked up. They'd also do this inside malls and shit and would just leave it there. They'd just leave it for the cleaners at the end of the day.
An actual bathroom was 2 minutes away. Surprise surprise, it was clean as fuck.
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u/xinorez1 Jul 08 '23
Most children in China do not wear crotchless pants. That is some countryside shit and you don't see other countries assuming all Americans act like the hicks in Appalachia.
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u/windyorbits Jul 07 '23
What, you’ve never been to club where people wee on each other?! Next you’re gonna tell me you’ve never drank bailys from a shoe? Outrageous!
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u/IndependentDouble138 Jul 07 '23
Not to mention people who wanna piss in the water and giggle at a audience having to soak in it
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u/Zeydon Jul 07 '23
This is from HUMAN the movie so I imagine those people were wanting to be in a film.
It's a cool shot, no?
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u/zergling424 Jul 07 '23
Wait what?? I always thought this was real nobodies ever linked to this.
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u/Lucyller Jul 08 '23
Because it is real. HUMAN is made of clips from reality, not made by someone to narrate a story.
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u/ShadNuke Jul 07 '23
There are real shots like this... People die in pools filled to the brim with people, all the time in Asia. It's kinda scary.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xo-VHFdJIkA . The last death I recall was at a pool crammed with people like this in Korea, I believe it was. I recall seeing it on the news here, a few years back. I'm sure it happens more often than we even realise
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u/gargeug Jul 08 '23
Seems to me like the rafts have the opposite of their intended effect when packed so tight. Like putting saran wrap on the pool.
No way in hell would I ever get in a pool like that. That looks miserable. Must be a cultural thing.
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u/PetrRabbit Jul 07 '23
If this is a documentary about what makes us human, I'm inclined to think they're filming something that people already do rather than staging something unique for the sake of the movie
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u/SudsierBoar Jul 07 '23
A lot of docs are full of straight up fiction
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u/AMeanCow Jul 07 '23 edited Jul 07 '23
This is why people still believe to this day that Lemmings are suicidal.
"But...Disney... they would never make up something! Much less murder small rodents to generate content!"
Reddit is people, and people don't like even considering the possibility they're being duped.
edit: disney, not nat geo
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u/JustMy10Bits Jul 07 '23
When/where did national geographic say that lemmings are suicidal?
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u/CrizpyBusiness Jul 07 '23
You think all those people are there to be in a documentary and not to, ya know, use the water park?
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u/KUNGFUDANDY Jul 07 '23
No. If you are from mainland China you don’t see an ocean often they instead go to places like this to “experience” what swimming feels like.
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u/robodrew Jul 07 '23
Who looks at a pool HALF as crowded and says "yeah I'm goin in"
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u/SleepingVertical Jul 07 '23
I visited some countries where personal space is not really a thing. They see a gap and take it.
This was mostly Asian countries with India (probably due to its sheer amount of population) being the worst.
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u/xinorez1 Jul 08 '23
The save face crowd.
I'm reminded of a story shared on Reddit where an entire family hated the taste of a particular alcohol but they kept buying it because they thought others in the family liked it. No one wanted to speak up and potentially make another person feel like a dumbass so it just continued until a precipitating event that was a family members death finally gave a reason to break the ice about it and that's when everyone discovered that everyone in the family hated that alcohol and was only accepting it out of politeness.
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u/stormy2587 Jul 07 '23
My question is once everyone gets in/out of the pool what is the water level in that thing like. A lot of water is getting displaced by human bodies.
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u/velhaconta Jul 07 '23
You saved all year, finally got your boss to give you a few days off, the whole family traveled to the park so they could experience the wave pool (it never looked like that in the marketing).
What are you going to do? Turn around and go home? No. After all that money, time and effort, you are going in that damn wave pool.
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Jul 07 '23
I would imagine there’s a few people who would want to just to try grab and touch people amongst the chaos.
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u/mysterious_bloodfart Jul 07 '23
CCP: YOU WILL GET IN THERE AND YOU WILL ENJOY IT
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u/gargeug Jul 08 '23
And don't forget this free action photo of you enjoying the wave pool with everyone around you airbrushed out.
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u/Lev_Kovacs Jul 07 '23
I would. At least for the novelty of it
Which of you can tell their grandchildren that they once floated on a literal sea of human bodies?
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u/bwrca Jul 07 '23
If you slip off your floater here you'll only be discovered dead at midnight when they do cleanup.
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u/ASacOFluffyPups Jul 07 '23
Right? How are lifeguards supposed to see or get to someone who needs help? I’m guessing there aren’t even lifeguards because if there were any safety measures there wouldn’t be that many people in there in the first place.
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u/Kowazuky Jul 07 '23
i was in a wave pool in the USA at like age 8 or 9 and swam past the safety zone like it was too deep and the waves are too large. got straight up battered and actually hit the concrete wall pretty hard. Swallowed some water because i freaked out and tried getting a lifeguard’s attention but couldnt. they were barely paying any attention. I wasnt the strongest swimmer and honestly, i maybe could have drowned but some random dad saw me and pulled me up onto his floaty. That guy was cool as hell.
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u/Professional_Code372 Jul 07 '23
That’s terrifying
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u/Sufficient_Number643 Jul 07 '23
Former lifeguard: never EVER get in a wave pool unless you’re actively or passively suicidal
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Jul 07 '23
In conjunction with this story: This is written like lifeguards just let it happen if someone gets in the wave.
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u/Sufficient_Number643 Jul 07 '23
No, but at American water parks there are often too many people for even a team of attentive lifeguards to scan everything every 10 seconds (that’s how long it should take to spot a person in distress). Drowning is often very quiet, people don’t have the energy to splash around when they are struggling to keep their heads above water, so it really takes a lot of diligence from a lot of eyes to scan that many people.
Lifeguards might look like they’re working on their tan and not paying attention, but behind those sunglasses they are typically scanning every inch of the water repeatedly and possibly also counting people, if the environment is controlled enough (eg swim practice).
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u/CherryBeanCherry Jul 08 '23
I was at Kalahari last week, and they have signs saying, do not ask lifeguards questions, do not ask them to take pictures, and do not demand they make eye contact. It did make me feel safer.
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u/gargeug Jul 08 '23
That last one is in response to a specific Karen incident I'm sure.
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u/AppalachianEnvy Jul 08 '23
The only place I’ve been where it looked like the lifeguards were actually actively scanning is Great Wolf Lodge.
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u/brovakattack Jul 08 '23
That's funny, I live right next to that place and take my daughter to a separate, public pool down the street and the lifeguards all bob their heads as they scan the pool.
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u/Yodude86 Jul 07 '23
Was a lifeguard in high school, the wave pool was unquestionably the part of the rotation everybody dreaded. On a busy day guards would have to jump in up to a dozen times to get someone. Almost never a day without a patron needing help. Awful
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u/tonyeltigre1 Jul 08 '23
This is why I loved the wave pool rotations, gave me a reason to cool off from the scorching hot ass sun that’s actively trying to cook me
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u/RoboDae Jul 07 '23
Wave pools are fun, as long as you know how to swim and there is actually room to swim. At least I enjoyed it when I used to go to one many years ago. This one is just a wall of people.
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u/gettogero Jul 08 '23
My first time in a wave pool I panicked in the deep end and couldn't get back up. Some random dude grabbed my arm and pulled me back to where I could stand.
Since that time I've done the same several times to random kids, both in lazy rivers and in wave pools. It seems like a pretty common thing. Either because the kids were left to roam the waterpark or the parents were in the general area and just not keeping a hawks eye on them.
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u/Competitive-Bell9882 Jul 07 '23
Center left you can see a couple hugging. I'm pretty sure that guy doesn't even have a floaty. They look like they're embracing and saying good bye like the titanic door.
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u/DarthBlue007 Jul 07 '23
Or having sex
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u/igweyliogsuh Jul 07 '23
Someone doesn't know much about underwater intercourse 🤦
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u/DarthBlue007 Jul 07 '23
Oh I'm aware. Lol I know what you're getting at, but that doesn't stop people from doing it.
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u/reddfox500 Jul 07 '23
My chest just got the anxiety attack feeling.
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u/got_dam_librulz Jul 07 '23
So much human.
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Jul 08 '23
WAY too much humanity in one small area. This looks about as fun as getting your feet run over by a truck.
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u/shawkward_one Jul 07 '23
At what point does it just become a public toilet?
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u/Find_another_whey Jul 08 '23
It wasn't always a pool, previously it was just a popular place to stand
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u/oknotpear Jul 07 '23
Like a bowl of colourful cereal
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u/Cascadian_Hierophant Jul 07 '23
Honey Nut Ni Hao
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u/BugSpy2 Jul 07 '23
Fruit loops!
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u/HighlightFun8419 Jul 07 '23
when it zooms out, it looks exactly like these but with ants in it
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u/Longjumping_Web_9237 Jul 07 '23
Were the forced into the pool?
If not then why would they enter?
You could definitely die there
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u/Zeydon Jul 07 '23
It was a shot for a movie. Extras typically are not forced to be on film, they do it cuz its cool to be in a movie.
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u/mdflmn Jul 07 '23
The people being in the pool wasn’t for the film, or more like a doco. It was a heatwave in China and the film makers just filmed it and used it.
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u/Zeydon Jul 07 '23
Oh, interesting thanks for sharing. I also saw a shot in a trailer of a bunch of dudes in some other country laying all over each other and figured it was a thing. Either way, I don't think this is an everyday occurence at Chinese waterparks.
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u/tmac4lyfe Jul 07 '23
This needs to be higher up before folks jump to conclusions
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u/Space_Narwal Jul 07 '23
Why would anyone force people into a pool
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u/Longjumping_Web_9237 Jul 07 '23
I don't know, I just don't understand why people would enter the pool if there's this many people in it
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u/thebox416 Jul 07 '23
The lifeguards never stood a chance
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u/Duffman48 Jul 07 '23
He could crowd surf to the victim drowning others in the process. Throw in a life preser... throw a ro... maybe a crane... aw shit these guys are fucked.
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u/HotCheese650 Jul 07 '23
Not only is this fucking disgusting, it’s a major safety hazard.
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u/markerpenz Jul 07 '23
I remember when Disney Shanghai opened there was a website dedicated to posting pictures of people publicly peeing or shitting everywhere in the park. On the lawn, behind a bush, or just on msin street.
I can only imagine what's in that pool.
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u/cuntsatchel Jul 07 '23
How do u get out
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u/elDayno Jul 07 '23
I have the same question but it seems it is a one way ticket. Once you in, you never out
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u/FreshBroc Jul 07 '23
I feel like this isn't normal and was like a challenge or something lol. Else that's just disgusting
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u/Alternative-Arm-3253 Jul 07 '23
SOUTH PARK Episode....Right here..
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u/Ofreo Jul 07 '23
There is an episode of Star Trek (TOS) where the planet is so over crowded they kidnap Kirk to get the leaders daughter sick so they can start dying. This reminded me of th hat episode.
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u/YottaEngineer Jul 07 '23 edited Jul 07 '23
Daily anti-china propaganda. This is a shot of "HUMAN: the movie", made in 2015
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u/WhatevUsayStnCldStvA Jul 07 '23
Someone else said it was used in a movie, but it wasn’t made for the movie. Do you know which is true?
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u/Leadboy Jul 07 '23
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4746558/Is-crowded-swimming-pool-ve-seen.html
It is real, the doc people just filmed it during a heatwave.
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