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+Pool Would Let New Yorkers Go River Swimming
cylonlover writes "Three young entrepreneurs have proposed a way of getting New Yorkers into the Hudson, East and/or Bronx Rivers. It's called the +Pool (Plus Pool) — a public swimming pool that would float in the river, allowing people to swim in filtered river water. River water would flow into the pool through permeable walls, which would be composed of three layers filtering out the river nasties."
...to filter out the New Yorkers.
Still too nasty for me.
What happens in winter?
My wife's Scandanavian ancestors came up with an answer to that. You beat each other with birch twigs in the sauna until jumping through a hole in the ice into freezing water begins to look like an attractive proposition. Once disabused of that insane notion, you crawl out and do it again.
I think the beating part would go over big with some elements of the New York population.
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How those Jersey Shore people get their orange "tans".
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
Swimming pools are a toxic soup of deadly chemicals like Chlorine, Bromine, Cyanuric Acid, Sodium Bisulphate and Sodium Carbonate.
Straight from Wikipedia:
Sodium carbonate is a food additive (E500) used as an acidity regulator, anti-caking agent, raising agent and stabilizer. It is one of the components of kansui, a solution of alkaline salts used to give ramen noodles their characteristic flavor and texture.[5][6] Sodium carbonate is also used in the production of sherbet powder. The cooling and fizzing sensation results from the endothermic reaction between sodium carbonate and a weak acid, commonly citric acid, releasing carbon dioxide gas, which occurs when the sherbet is moistened by saliva.
You know what? I'm not even going to bother looking up the rest of those chemical compounds.
If the worst effect of a toxine is a subluxation..... well .... isn't "toxic" a bit misleading??
"OMG he just ate arsenic - get a chiropractor - QUICK! !!"
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