Yikes! Bizarre Swimming Pool in the "Sky"

[3113]

Would you swim in this hotel pool?

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120808055710-pool-shanghai-story-top.jpg

Yes, it juts out from the building and is reinforced glass below so you look down on the city as you swim. Full story here.

Not for the faint of heart or those with a fear of heights.

 

[Weird Harold]

Not for the faint of heart or those with a fear of heights.

Probably not the best pool for skinny-dipping or romantic trysts, either.

 

[damppanties]

Why is a plane there in that picture?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Not for the faint of heart or those with a fear of heights.

I suddenly feel faint.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Heights don't bother me. Deep water, on the other hand . . . now there's a phobia I can get behind. So, a pool jutting out into empty space . . . uh . . . no. Just no.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Probably not the best pool for skinny-dipping or romantic trysts, either.

I would think being in that pool would enhance the erotic nature.

 

[TE999]

Heyyy ... that looks like fun. I'd swim in that, no problem.


On the other hand, this kind of pool would give me the willies: http://designbeep.com/2010/08/20/40-breathtaking-infinity-edge-pool-photos-around-the-world/

 

[mynameisben]

My "infinity" pool is a 3-gallon, blue Rubbermaid™ bucket I bought at Home Depot. If I point my toes upward, I can just get both my feet wedged into it. I like to sit in a lawn chair and cool off in the pool beneath the expansive shade of my umbrella hat. I toss a few slices of canned pineapple into the bucket and imagine I am vacationing in Hawaii during those brief interludes when the neighbor's three bloodlust Dobermans are not jumping up against the chain link fence and snarling at me.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Heyyy ... that looks like fun. I'd swim in that, no problem.


On the other hand, this kind of pool would give me the willies: http://designbeep.com/2010/08/20/40-breathtaking-infinity-edge-pool-photos-around-the-world/

Actually, I kind of like those though the one's over-looking cities are a bit over the top.

 

[topace]

This pool isn't for me, as I've got a big fear of heights that I still haven't conquered!

 

[TE999]

Actually, I kind of like those though the one's over-looking cities are a bit over the top.

No pun intended, of course.

 

[PennLady]

I am not particularly bothered by heights, and I love to swim, but I don't know if I could go in that sky pool.

 

[oggbashan]

Some of my Australian relations used to own a weekend cottage that had their own tidal swimming pool in North Sydney. While staying there we had to evict a shark that had swum in at high tide.

The shark was only 5 feet long.

One of their neighbours had a swimming pool on the roof of their 1959-built property with a glass bottom. Underneath the pool was their dining room so that you could look upwards through the swimming pool. It wasn't such a good idea when the pool had a leak through into the dining room.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

This pool isn't for me, as I've got a big fear of heights that I still haven't conquered!

A bird? Afraid of heights?

 

[PayDay]

Would you swim in this hotel pool?

Abso fucking lutely.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Some of my Australian relations used to own a weekend cottage that had their own tidal swimming pool in North Sydney. While staying there we had to evict a shark that had swum in at high tide.

The shark was only 5 feet long.

Meanwhile, up in the Northern Territory, they get big crocodiles washed up all over the place every wet season. It's a rare day when the NT News doesn't have a crocodile-related story on the front page.

Forget the venomous wildlife, 4-metre ambush predators are a wee bit intimidating. I've never seen anything so big capable of such stealth.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

All it takes is tinted water and a moment's inattention . . .

Or a block-headed unwillingness to read signs!

 

[Bramblethorn]

All it takes is tinted water and a moment's inattention . . .

Or a block-headed unwillingness to read signs!

Seriously. NT is full of great big fuck-off DANGER HUGE CROCODILES WILL KILL AND EAT YOU STAY AWAY FROM THE WATER signs at every bridge, and people still go swimming in croc waters. Some of them swim out to traps baited to attract crocodiles.

In unrelated news, NT has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the world.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Unrelated? Possibly not . . .

 

[SweetMaj]

Would you swim in this hotel pool?


No - I'm afraid of heights.

Just looking at that picture makes me a little dizzy.

 

[desertslave]

If I could get my shoulder repaired so that I could swim again, I'd happily do laps in there to the end of my days.