I haven't.
While I like the idea, doesn't it just splatter the muck in all directions as it sprays the area after a generous but perhaps not entirely solid number two?
Not only on the person's local crotchal periphery, potentially making for even more complication in wiping - but also around the upper regions of the bowl where flushing is ineffective?
It's a French thing.
shareI've not even seen one so I looked it up and here's an image of a bidet that is pretty self explanatory. Mind I don't know if they're all like this one:
https://www.taninihome.com/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/2000x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/b/i/bidet.jpg
Are you supposed to face the wall or the other way around?
shareIt depends on the orifice.
shareDutch toilet bowls have the hole in front, but we are supposed to sit facing away from the wall just like normal toilets. Therefore the poop won't directly go into the hole, but only after we flush.
The Dutch are crazy.
That's the only thing good about America - toilets (and not being a target of their foreign policy!)
Millions of Americans shit outside since they don't have homes. When I was a tourist in SF, I bought a slice of pizza, and he said "the bathroom doesn't work" (they just don't want people using them - I had been there before), until I said, "I need to wash my hands before eating your pizza" and when I went in, I used it, and there wasn't a thing wrong with it.
However, it's probably a good idea having a #1 and a #2 flush in The Netherlands. But I miss the dubbel frisss, kaneelstokjes, cassiss (which I bought from California, and it tasted so bad, they refunded me my money, along with anyone else - after I read reviews).. I even paid this Dutch girl I met online. I sent her 50 Euros for whatever she thought was fair, and then I saw her a few weeks later, and told me "I didn't forget. I'll send you your package".. She never sent it.
Oh, and kroket... I miss traveling, but it went downhill thanks to the phones, lack of cultural exchange, less social people. You don't have to even go "out", but I never understood someone who travels and then uses their phone the entire trip. Talk to someone!
(I'm sure you might be thinking, "What did I do to deserve this reply?")
"the bathroom doesn't work" because he doesnt want to find dead junkies in his bathroom. i live on the edge of a bad neighborhood. happens all the time.
never used a bidet. butt, they sound like a good idea.
though that one Q posted looks too scary to try. i saw some japanese designs that looked efficient.
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shareI was in Italy ( Sicily ) a few years ago and I was surprised at their widespread use. I never saw a bathroom, either public ( restaurants, airports ), private dwelling, or hotel that didn't have a bidet of some type.
I tried the kind that is integrated into the toilet set and has adjustable knobs to adjust the stream. I was relieved to see the water was somewhat heated, and it seemed to work very well without the kind of splatter I was expecting. I just then used TP to dry off.
I'm the type where I only defecate before showering, but I can see where if one had to do so after showering, it's a very sanitary system to use then, much more than a TP dry wipe.
I once heard a comedian (I think) talking about bidets versus wiping, and they said something like "if you somehow got human shit on your elbow, would you just wipe it off with a piece of paper and that's it? No way, you'd definitely be washing that elbow. How is your arse different?"
I too am a shower guy, though some people think that's wrong because if others are using the shower what's their assurance you're cleaning the shower floor appropriately afterwards.
Sounds like an argument in favour of bidets.
Hells yes.
They say it's more environmentally friendly too as you're not using up paper that from what I've heard costs a lot of resources (including water) to produce, and also doesn't have to be processed by waste treatment plants at extra cost.
The most environmentally friendly loo is the dry version. So you have too pee and poo separately. And you don't use water to flush. Actually, you don't flush at all.
share"if you somehow got human shit on your elbow, would you just wipe it off with a piece of paper and that's it? No way, you'd definitely be washing that elbow. How is your arse different?"
You just have to know your elbow from your asshole.
Bidets are a great idea. But trying to eradicate shit from an asshole is a bit of a losing proposition.
I see a problem here when people become so disconnected from nature they can no longer function. There's a term for such a mental illness - neuroticism. If you have to shower after you take a shit, that becomes a bit dysfunctional.
Forget about leaving the house for the day. Forget about traveling long distances. Camping is definitely impossible. It's not good to become too addicted to the creature comforts of modern civilization.
It's not a case of 'have to' shower (or use a bidet) after a shit, but to do it if the opportunity is there.
That doesn't mean you can't ever be away from the shower when you need to shit, lest you fall to pieces. There's no addiction involved.
Bingo, they've who've suggested otherwise have got it backwards. Either that or they have issues that cause lots of "off schedule" bowel movements.
shareI was referring to this statement from the Creosote fellow:
I'm the type where I only defecate before showering
That's classic neuroticism. Most of us are busy people with lives and we don't schedule our days around taking a shit! 🤣
I think you may be reading too much into that statement. I don't think Creosote meant it literally.
shareOkay, fair enough. I just wanted to make that point.
Actually I was an operations manager for a company which manufactured plumbing supplies, including bidets. Most our sales on bidets were in Canada. For some reason they've never caught on in the U.S. except among the very wealthy.
Sicilians don’t think of themselves as Italians. La Cosa Nostra was BORN in Sicily.
sharei guess you spend a lot of time home.
shareNon sequitur.
shareI sometimes work long days for a few weeks at a time, but I've got my shit sorted (pun intended) so I always shit on my own toilet at home - and use my shower after. I really don't like shitting in public/shared toilets, and luckily my 'cycle' (I'm a once a day straight after breakfast guy) is very regular.
shareExactly. It is my fortune, in concert with my diet, to be very "regular". Wake, coffee, then shit. Shower follows anyway, since I'm getting ready for the day. I very, very very seldom have to shit at any other time than my usual time, even if I'm traveling. I think I've had to take a dump at work, or a public toilet maybe once or twice a year at most.
One of the units in a house that I rent out has a bidet and I always try to humorously add it into the apartment description. It's not an attachment, but instead one of those big, stand alone bidets next to the toilet lol. Not sure if I should keep it at this point or have it removed.
shareSurely keep it, it could be a good 'selling' point for a classy tenant. People who are finicky about their crotch cleanliness may also be more likely to look after the property. Maybe.
Then again, you might attract the sort of person who thinks it's a bonus drinking fountain. Maybe folks like this: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxxSstH_t2fiOOrIdUqKuB37i7th8AvWet
They seem and feel kinda gay....
shareI've just been reading about the amount of men who don't wash their asses in the shower, nor do they wipe because it's gay to spread their cheeks and touch their asses. Washing shit off of your body is not in any way gay. I'm sure that unless they have a scat fetish, most straight women would much prefer men wash their asses.
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