Why YSK: It’s cleaner, cheaper and more convenient than toilet paper

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    1 year ago

    Imagine you get your hands covered in sticky filth. Do you wash them at a sink or just wipe them off with some paper and call it good?

    Why do any different for your ass?

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      Because your ass does literally nothing else all day, but your hands touch things like food etc. I’d say it was more like getting shit on your leg. Do you wipe it off or just wait until you next have a shower?

      That said I love the idea of bidets, I’m just terrified it’ll get my underwear and clothes wet while being cold and unpleasant.

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        I’m just terrified it’ll get my underwear and clothes wet while being cold and unpleasant.

        The beam is way more focused than you might imagine. It can’t reach your clothes, there’s a fat-ass human in the way ;)

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        " I’m just terrified it’ll get my underwear and clothes wet while being cold and unpleasant." I’ve never had this issue.

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        It’s a focused stream of water so you just have to aim a little. And the cold water is actually surprisingly refreshing even in the winter for me.

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        it’s more like having shit smeared on your face. you wouldn’t use a tissue to wipe it off and smear it around, you’d use soap and water.

      • Mallard@lemmy.world
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        That’s exactly the comparison that the comic strip is making. People are okay with just using tissue in one situation but not in others.

        • Grabthar@lemmy.world
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          I think the other comparison we’re overlooking is how many people would be ok with “just a quick rinse” if they were washing shit off their hands.

          • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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            Well it’s a quick rinse with or without some TP to dry versus just smearing it around your butt with dry paper.

      • … you don’t wash your butt?

        Your point is also the point of the comic: saying that you’ve rubbed dry paper on your butthole and that makes it “clean” is analagous to getting poop on your hands and doing the same.

        You wash your hands; you should also wash your butt: so get a bidet.

        • heili@lemmy.world
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          Except that I don’t touch literally everything else including my food with my butthole, though. And it’s not as if I never wash my butthole. So if I happen to be in a public shitter and I drop a deuce, I will simply apply shit tickets and not freak out about it.

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    I’m from the US. While I have travelled to locales where they are commonplace, I never actually tried one. When lockdown and the tp crisis started, however, I purchased one online. I now hate having to use any lavatory that doesn’t have a bidet.

    Q - Doesn’t it feel weird? A - No. Some people are worried that it may feel sexual. It doesn’t. It’s just a localized shower on your ass, which is something you hopefully do regularly.

    Q - Won’t it just push detritus away from the epicenter and make a mess? A - It can, if the bidet has narrow spray. Mine does this. Just do a quick shimmy that makes the jet draw a decreasing radius spiral.

    Q - Doesn’t everything get wet? A - Some bidets have air dryers, but in the absence of, yes. Keep tp in the lav to address this. The quick wipe to address this still saves a ton of tp.

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    I did some travels in places where bidets are common, here’s my take:

    • Egypt - basically a brass pipe targeted at your hole, everyone shitting oh it - no for me
    • Italy - standalone, you have to jump over - impractical, takes too much space
    • Japan/Korea - toilets from space, heated seat warm, water and dryer - comfy, but you need electricity, and if it fails, expensive
    • Finland - a shower attached to the toilet’s water intake - just cold water, but it’s fine, that’s the easiest to install and use
    • HLB217@lemmy.world
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      South-East Asia - Hose attached to the tank or a tap in the wall. Best of all the worlds, just make sure you don’t touch the tip.

      • Roadkill 🇦🇺 @lemmy.world
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        Also South East Asia - bucket of water with a plastic cup next to the hole in the floor. I don’t have a problem dribbling water down my buttcrack with my right hand while scrubbing my clacker valve with my left hand, but squatting over a hole in the floor is hell on the knees when you are nearly 2m tall.

    • PumpedSardines@lemmy.world
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      I’ve never used a bidet, are you wet in your ass after leaving the toilet, or do you whipe the water off with toilet paper?

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        Shouldn’t flush those either.

        Get a bidet, at worst you waste like $30, at best you will know true comfort.

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          You convinced me, I will try it one day when I have $30 to use. (Probably be a while lol) My method works well, but it takes a while. I’d rather use a bidet if it saves time.

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        As someone who born to a country where a bidet is the norm and migrated to a country which doesn’t have it. We start to use wet wipes and believe me when I say it a bidet is way way way better. So I bought an attachment. Now I can’t use any other toilet except that one.

        • Anonymous0573@lemmy.world
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          Lol at least I made progress. I was taught to just use toilet paper when I was a kid. Now if I have to do that, I feel so dirty

          • CocoLopez@lemmy.world
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            I feel quite the opposite. Hear me, if you stick your finger in penut butter and just clean it with paper, you can still taste it if you suck it. But of you wash it with water your truly clean. But didn’t want to sound like I was criticizing. Cheers

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    You should also know that if you do this, when you go on vacation you are going to have one seriously sore butthole until you get home again.

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      seriously. I should look into a travel bidet… it’s hard going back to tp now that I have bidets installed at home. feels nasty

    • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
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      I mean at least in Europe when you use a bidet you use soap and then still dry a few times with tp. These contraptions are good to soften the ass crud but you’ll still need to wipe it off with tp.

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    Have been using bidet my entire life. It’s a must! This post should be more of a PSA rather than YSK.

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    I got a Tushy classic bidet a year ago. It is amazing! For anyone out there that uses more toilet paper than you think you should, gets a raw bum from wiping, or wants to get three times cleaner, a bidet is for you. I’m a dude, but also my wife loves it. Honestly, one of the best purchases per dollar I have ever made and one that reminds me daily.

    If you got poop on your hands, what do you think will get you cleaner? Couple of wipes with toilet paper or rinsing in the sink with water.

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      Being fairly hairy, a bidet is absolutely one of the top 5 things I miss whenever I come home to the UK from Finland. My dad did some work in Abu Dhabi last year and has also been converted to team bidet, so hoping he installs one before I move up to his, it makes a huge difference.

    • kakes@sh.itjust.works
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      Honestly, I thought I was pretty clean before getting a bidet, but since getting one I can never go back without feeling gross. It’s weird what we can get used to, when that’s just how you’ve done things your whole life.

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    Please God, I beg you all to do this. I mean no disrespect to y’all at all.

    I have been using a bidet/health faucet/Jet spray all my life. I was so shocked and disgusted when I found out people in the west used toilet paper 🤢🤢

    I’ve used toilet paper a few times in emergencies and I’ve regretted it everytime. The difference between water and paper in cleaning your butt is so vast.

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    I keep seeing bidets recommended. Ive thought about getting one, but I’m not sure.

    Are there any vagina owners here that can testify to them? I’m worried it will just spray poop up into my bits.

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      My girlfriend loves the bidet. You will not spray poop up into your bits but I get your concern. We also have a dial, on ours, to change the angle to vagina-mode. Great for periods, allegedly, but it blasts me in the balls if I don’t notice.

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      The water is not pulled from the bowl, it’s fed from the same pipe your tank pulls from. They’re great, but if your water is cold, well you have to brace yourself.

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    I installed one shortly before the pandemic started and ended up looking like Nostradamus.

    You don’t realize you want one until you have it.