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What's some amazing technology they have in Japan that's very normal to them but would blow our minds here in the US and western world? (lemm.ee)
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[–] 150 points 2 years ago (108 children)

sorry this is gross:

i do not understand american's aversion to the bidet. why would i want to wipe my ass with dry fucking paper rather than water? why why why. like it's somehow 'gross' to use water. but scraping at wet shit with fucking tissue paper is hygienic and normal?

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    American with bidet for 2.5 yrs. I hate shitting anywhere else now. Need a shower to get a new ass. Day is ruined.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    pro tip: get a mobile one. Its basically just a plastic bottle with a nozzle screwed on. Some even come with little travel bags.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Somebody once said it to me like this: "If you faceplant into a pile of shit, would you rather wipe your face with a dry paper, or use water for cleaning"

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    This is also gross. There's a lot of men in the US that thinks touching there ass is gay so they never clean them.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    I don't understand this either, toilets already require running water and have plenty of room to integrate bidet function. It's not fancy tech or anything... in North America that's sort of how they're marketed though, with an emphasis on the settings, like its something you have to learn to use.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Pretty much every thread we have in this community, someone comes along to say "you should pressure-wash your asshole". I'm mildly bemused that this is what Lemmy obsesses over.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I've always heard it explained like this (which I wholeheartedly agree with). Imagine you're hiking a trail in the forest, and you trip on a rock and fall. By chance, you land on turd of excrement, luckily it only smears part of your arm and elbow with shit. Would you be fine just taking a piece of toilet paper and scraping it off? Or, would you feel compelled to wash it off with water, perhaps also soap?

    Why wouldn't you just use paper, if you scrape hard enough it wouldn't even smell and be just as clean, arguably?

    If you would at least use water, why do you extend to your elbow a courtesy that you don't extend to your anus?

    The point is that there's a lot of people who walk through life with a dirty asshole, but then try to act morally superior regarding personal hygiene, and I think that that's not right.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I was in Asia and got pretty horrible food poisoning. My wife suggested we head over to this Japanese mall. Spent the day there. Use the toilet, walk around, buy something, use the toilet. That was the ideal toilet to have in that situation.

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