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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] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If we're talking about "inventing TP", I'm pretty sure we wiped with leaves and stuff before we invented the hose. Maybe even nice thick leaves like cabbage leaves.

I don't like getting only my butt wet instead of the whole body. If I wanted my butt wet I might as well take a shower.

Also, composting toilets are superior. Flush toilets emerged along with the capitalist class and the liberal idea of private bathroom ownership. Putting water pipes into every dwelling unit is a wasteful luxury that speeds up the decay of buildings. If we're talking about plumbing and commodity shortages we need to have a holistic approach instead of a hyperspecific bandaid approach.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Putting water pipes into every dwelling unit is a wasteful luxury that speeds up the decay of buildings. If we’re talking about plumbing and commodity shortages we need to have a holistic approach instead of a hyperspecific bandaid approach.

I'm all for public baths, public kitchens, and public toilets but... do you want to tear everyone's plumbing out?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure we wiped with leaves and stuff before we invented the hose

And rocks too, people still do when in nature without access to clean water. Of course people also used to (and still do) have pitchers and use that water to wash themselves. Still if im saying it's the better way it really doesn't matter that people used to wipe more than wash (this is a pro-washing post rather than anti-TP).

I don't like getting only my butt wet instead of the whole body. If I wanted my butt wet I might as well take a shower.

Valid but also I feel like comparing washing your asshole to dipping your bottom in water or taking a shower is a little bit excessive.

If we're talking about plumbing and commodity shortages

We're not we're talking about having poopy butts I just threw that stuff in last minute.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Valid but also I feel like comparing washing your asshole to dipping your bottom in water or taking a shower is a little bit excessive.

Are you actually washing anything or just blasting it with water? Is soap involved at all?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you said "bum gun" you had me sold. I am now going to buy a water gun, mostly for giving myself silly bathroom pranks

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i really want one but my partner has no gall bladder and blah blah gross stuff basically i'm afraid it will get really dirty and poopy from backsplash. i have to clean and bleach our toliet down every 2 days.

will that add complicated nooks and tubing to clean basically?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You can watch an installation video it seems simple enough it's just a piece that goes over your toilet bowl and there's a tube connected through a tee connector to your water supply. Otherwise if you can't get it im sorry that you can't experience the pure bliss of having clean ass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Yeah not the installation that i'm worried about. I'm pretty handy. it's liquid shits basically encrusting it in a few days making it a hard to clean

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

I hate to say it, but it probably comes back down to capitalism. You can't continue to sell copious amounts of toilet paper if everyone is blasting their arse clean with water.

-A Westerner who loves their bidet

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Idk about that. It seems like more of a cultural thing there are a lot of ass washers in capitalist countries. Still I will support any comment that portrays my minor grievances as the enemies of communism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Tbf probably between a third and half of America is rationing or rapidly running out of water because all of it got sold to big agriculture.

Personally I carry an electric portable bidet with me though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Idk i can clean my butt with toilet paper. I agree with the other reasons but i don't smell like shit all the time.

Honestly getting a bidet never entered my mind as an option until the yks guys were talking about them. Never got around to it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Idk i can clean my butt with toilet paper.

Yeah me too but I always have to waste what feels like a lot of toilet paper. Washing your ass is objectively superior, I just can't be fucked to install a hose into my toilet and it's almost never an option to me anywhere I go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Takes like 3 mins to install

And the money you’ll save from not buying as much toilet paper is good motivation

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I just can't be fucked to install a hose into my toilet and it's almost never an option to me anywhere I go

Yeah pretty much

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

Even if you can clean a bidet is still better cause you wouldn't have to pay a premium just to avoid the single-ply ones that fall apart instantly. I haven't run the numbers but imagine all the beanis you can buy with all that TP money saved over your lifetime.

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

Yeah i know the bidet is better, maybe when I'm back from out of town work I'll buy one for the family shitter.

A bidet, until very recently, had only been presented as a japanese novelty toilet gadget in any media i consumed anyway. This is my guess as to why Westerners don't use them

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

A bidet, until very recently, had only been presented as a japanese novelty toilet gadget

I never understood the luxury Japanese toilet trope in movies and TV. Are the workers in America so exploited as to not be able to afford a piece of plastic that goes over their shitter? Ludicrous.

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

Bidets exist but only in "fancier" homes. I think France & Italy have it more common. Anyways I use a hand bidet for travel, and have one at home. But I still need toilet paper because I dont want a wet crack.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

smear fudgy chocolate on the anti-bidet crew and then when they ask to wash up just give them a rough paper towel

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just use a cup and fill it with water you don’t need a bidet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Better yet, if you want something on the go. This disc top container works, especially convenient if you have used shampoo containers with it

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Id install one if i ever owned a place

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

$30 bidet from Amazon can attach just fine to pretty much any toilet and easy removal

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Ive bought and installed my own when I rented. They're really easy to plug in to the toilet water and just unscrew when you move out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Does it really require permission from your landlord? It's just a piece of plastic that goes between your toilet seat and the toilet bowl. It takes like 5 minutes to install.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

There is pretty much no excuse, bidets are like $40 and easy to attach/detach so no prob if you're renting

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