pffffft
do you know how many people live around the outside of the Med? It is not a particulary nice sea. Full of jellyfish too. Bits of it are okay, I suppose, but there is a lot of crap in there as well.

Actually, I suppose that this kind of supports the OP's point.

Ooooh, that reminds me. I was once in Palma (on Majorca) towards the end of the summer. Hadn't rained for weeks. One night it absolutely bucketed down. Next morning the marina was vile; all the crap that had been sitting on the streets and in the sewers got flushed down and into the harbour. Seriously, at the edges there was a layer of rubbish (with the occasional dead rat or two) extending 3m or so out from the walls. A city of 400,000 can drop a lot of rubbish over the course of a summer. No real tide to speak of either so takes a while to disperse.
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 14:35, 2 replies)

In Bristol there is a shopping centre complex called Cribbs Causeway. Inside it there are numerous fast food outlets. I was doing a bit of shopping there and after purchasing/devouring a boots meal i couldn't find a bin to place my rubbish into. In the end i asked the information desk...their response was there are no bins here because of bomb threats !!!!!
(Cov Boy, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 16:28, closed)

The Med
is a nasty cess pit, certainly. Which is why it's nice to sit on the sand in the sun away from the water. The worst jellyfish are the ones "ribbed for her pleasure".
(Rsoles, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 1:28, closed)

Yeah, but if I go to the beach, I'm going to want to go in the water
that said, I've spent my fair share of time in scuzzy water. No inner ear infections yet!
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 2:24, closed)