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It seems like the only logical option. If someone paid me to come up with a solution to having poopy butt I couldn't come up with a better one than a hose or a bidet. You know what I wouldn't do? I WOULDN'T INVENT PAPER YOU COULD RUB ON YOUR BUTT.

Like every person that has tried a bidet on the internet describes their experience as being reborn. Anyone that tries it instantly becomes a shill for big bidet. I have not seen a single negative review for a bidet aside from maybe water shooting up your back which is more of a skill issue with aiming.

There is some debate to be had between using a bidet versus using a hose. With bidet there's no hand contact but you can't control where the water goes. Im personally more in favor of hose since you still gotta flush and handle the bathroom door so there's gonna be contact either way, but using water is CLEARLY superior to toilet paper.

Water is cheaper and guess what? IT USES LESS CLEAN WATER THAN MAKING TOILET PAPER. That's right making a single tissue of TP uses more water than just simply washing your butt. You can also shower less frequently because you don't constantly smell like shit. We are deforesting jungles just to turn them into butt napkins that do not even clean us properly, they just smear the shit all over the crack and make us smell like poop.

Also without TP there's no longer an issue with assholes flushing their used TP down the toilet and clogging the pipes, houses will no longer get TP'ed, the pandemic scalping situation wouldn't have happened etc etc. So why are people still hellbent on using this inferior method?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Generally hygiene is taught by your mom/dad or primary caretaker and somewhat by your primary school. So if no one ever mentions that to you, you're probably not going to think about it, and even hearing about it is going to seem somewhat alien.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I personally just shit into my hand and cram it into my eurethra

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Not my comrade.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

lmao we have an insult for europeans which translates to "butt unwasher" (or کون نشور). y'all have the permission to use it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Is that Persian or Arabic? And can you transliterate please LMFAO. I love this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

it's Persian. technically it transliterates to butt unwasher the translation would be "someone that doesn't wash their butt".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is going on some protest signs for sure, thank you comrade

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

if it gets a quarter popular as cracker then that would be excellent.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Gatorade is more refreshing and hydrating.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

id go as far as saying buttholes crave it at this point. they cant just go back to water.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Gatorade tastes so shit it honestly belongs in waste water.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago

It never left.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

ego and homophobia/sexual propriety. those are the kneejwrk reactions I've heard from non adopters.

they "know" their asses are clean because they've smeared shit into their balloon knot for decades and it was "fine". got some peanut butter in a keyhole...? just use some tissue paper. totally hygienic. to consider otherwise is to consider one has been living with low standards for personal cleanliness despite full access to all the necessary technology and infrastructure of empire.

when they finally consider that maybe dry paper doesn't really clean feces off of skin effectively, they lash out about how the desire for a clean anus is some kind of sexual perversion they are "above".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

when they finally consider that maybe dry paper doesn't really clean feces off of skin effectively, they lash out about how the desire for a clean anus is some kind of sexual perversion they are "above".

This sounds like exaggeration, but I've actually had someone say he doesn't use wet wipes because it's gay. "Why does my asshole need to be clean? For my boyfriend??"

Absolutely deranged puritanical culture.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Better question: Why don't we wash water with asshole?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago

They do actually all sewage treatment plants have filters that contain millions of tiny assholes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Bidet gang.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You can also shower less frequently because you don't constantly smell like shit.

Nobody smells like shit after using toilet paper unless they’re doing it wrong

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Then a sizeable percentage of people are doing it wrong because why on earth do so many people smell like poop? I know some people don't even wipe but I've asked some whether or not they have wiped and despite that they still smelt like poop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

but I've asked some whether or not they have wiped

I'm in awe

[–] [email protected] 35 points 14 hours ago

frothingfash Clean my ass with water?!? Absolutely not. Fish fuck in water.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 13 hours ago

the canadian toilet paper lobby has controlled every major political and media figure since 1900 in the west, to ensure the steady consumption of their product. where do these massive profits go? nobody knows, but some suspect the canadians are building a weapon underground in north sasketchewan

[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (5 children)

I just gotta say I’m really confused by the “you don’t need TP” angle of bidet shilling, like I am a bidet user and a bidet shill but I still have to use several pieces of multi-ply TP to dry off down there, and sometimes need to wipe extra to get what the bidet missed despite my 30 seconds of ass-wriggling.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I bought a bidet and am never going back. Sidenote: were you here for the bidet struggle session where a user decided bidets were bourgeois?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

were you here for the bidet struggle session

No that's funny you got a link?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

This may not be the very first case of it, though it's 3 years old and in its small comment chain, it's not being treated as a repeat. I'm not seeing an earlier mention offhand.

But if you weren't aware, this topic of struggle is one that has come up numerous times on hexbear. But this might be the thread in question.

It brings me profound sadness that so much of Hexbear's greatest hits are forever lost to the void due to account wipes (no pun intended) and users who can't stand by their previous proclamations (usually with some excuse about opsec). The loss of that most important of all struggles to a string of "deleted by user"'s is one of the greatest of such tragedies. Fortunately, ~~@[email protected]~~ @[email protected] is doing god's work and summed up the most relevant statements.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

All the toilets where I am from have a bidet and we do wash our bits with them. At least all who I have done bidet discourse with do.

Even public toilets have them and it would be incredible miserable to exist in the world with periods if they didn't.

But I still need TP as a person without a personal hose for peeing. It's also nice to dry things up with after the washing and then there's the period stuff. This post seems to ignore that not everyone has similar plumbing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

idk if this is a dumb question but are there any worries about getting a uti or other issues if the bidet water accidentally pushes bacteria forward or is that something that doesn't really happen if your aim is good? i've been thinking about getting a bidet shower but i'm pretty prone to utis so i've been putting it off cause i wasn't sure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

This post seems to ignore that not everyone has similar plumbing

Yeah that's bad on my part this post is more about wiping after shitting than TP itself but your point is valid.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

We are simply not civilised enough for that kind of advanced plumbing.

Also, won't somebody think of the poor landlords who would have to pay for installing the bidets.

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