Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years

Re:Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years by wnevets on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:34PM (#36888605)

> I find it hard to wrap my head around a liberal European country letting a river stay so contaminated it's dangerous to swim in, at least in this century.

You may not want to look up if swimming in the Thames is safe.

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Re:Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years by worik on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:53PM (#36888725)

>> liberal European country letting a river stay so contaminated

> You may not want to look up if swimming in the Thames is safe.

The Thames is in England

They said "liberal European...". As much as (some of) the English might hate it they are European...

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Re:Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years by adastra22 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:26AM (#36888906)

The UK is geographically situated on the continent of Europe.

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Re:Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years by pyuser583 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:35AM (#36889331)

Europe is not a continent. It is a peninsular sub-content of the Eurasian landmass. Like India.

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Re:Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years by wnevets on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:45AM (#36889394)

> Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Europe

Continents are more about how humans want to group landmasses rather than a hard scientific definition.

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Re:Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years by nsteel on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:01AM (#36889967)

But it's not banned. You can officially swim at a bunch of places, including the disgusting inner London Docklands area, as well as the dock2dock event. I think the idea is that it's fine providing you don't swallow any of the water... Everyone I know who's done it (mostly from my tri club) has gotten ill afterwards.

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