Use bidet you savages !!!
What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
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#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well said. Whenever I bring this up to friends, they seem weirded out by bidets, sometimes even grossed out. How can it be grosser than trying to smear poop off with a paper towel!?
> How can it be grosser than trying to smear poop off with a paper towel!? I understand that with a bidet one must use one's naked fingers to clean the area. That seems substantially grosser than using toilet paper. Then there's the risk of spray going the wrong direction, and of getting one's trousers wet. A bidet sounds awesome, but terribly impractical. I wonder how people are able to use one so often.
No u use bidet and then TP ..best of both worlds
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#313When I moved to Argentina, it took me a while to get used to bidets. But now that I'm used to them, I never use toilet paper voluntarily. It leaves your butt still dirty! As someone said, if you got poop on your arm, maybe while changing a diaper, would you wipe it off with a piece of paper and consider it clean? No, not if you're from the mainstream of any developed country. You would use water, soap, and maybe more…
How do you dry?
The higher end models have heated blowers. But TP is kind of superior to that imo.
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#314we seriously need a better solution for toilets. toilets use huge amounts of water. if you want to have a toilet in a moving vehicle, or anywhere that is not directly connected to a sewage line and a giant water treatment plant, then you are just out of luck because all the mobile toilet solutions out there suck. it amazes me that a good solution has evaded us for so long. when considering how to travel where-ever i…
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
People who mock you for having a cleaner butthole than them are strange people indeed.
Surgeons used to mock other surgeons for washing their hands. A centuries-old insult about the French is that they insist upon bathing every day. People seem to generally associate cleanliness with a sort of hysterical fussiness.
This is not about cleanliness; any type of virtue is resisted by others before it becomes the norm, because of course people tend towards less effort than more.
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#316For 22 years I used toilet paper until I traveled to South East Asia where every toilet has a seperate sprinkler. After a few toilet visits I decided to give it a GO. Man, toilet paper feels strange and plain stupid now. Water is way cheaper, doesn't hurt your "behind" and I feel cleaner afterwards. Paper seems an invention to sell something we really don't need (by Mad Men :-)).
After traveling through a decent portion of China I tend to agree. The design of the “facilities” (e.g. “squatty potty”) in a lot of locations made a few in my group question toilet paper all together. Though being back in the states there are a lot of weird looks trying to find ways to mimic the stance...
A few years after my time there I saw the “Squatty Potty”[0] on Shark Tank, but haven’t tried it. Anyone with thoughts?
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#317I remember a scene from HBO's 'Rome' where Markus and Sextus use a communal toilet and a sponge-on-a-stick later.
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#318My grandfather grew up on a farm. He said they always had a bucket of corn husks in the outhouse and that was what you used. He was totally serious. If cheap toilet paper makes my bum feel raw, I can't even imagine what a corn husk would do to it.
My father grew up on a farm in WI. My mother grew up on a farm/gravel put not 10 miles from him. There's a reason the Sears Catalog was so popular in rural areas (in outhouses, no less). Read a page, use a page.
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#319So I couldn't resist adding this link to the SNL sketch of "The Bidet":
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/bidet/n12737?sn...
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#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps NSFW, but being frank so it's clear what I'm saying. There's cultural differences the other direction. German toilets catch feces on what we called a "shit shelf" instead letting it fall and submerge in water. Which, of course, made for a pretty bad odor situation. And in Turkey, the "toilet" was a hole in the ground. Even in the Hilton, it was a fancy carved marble and gold leaf "4 inch diameter hole in the…
When I was in Guangzhou squat toilets were the norm. You also had to bring your own toilet paper too which I found out much too late in the process 0/10 Experience for sure
Been there...done that. It doesn't help that the cuisine is so delicious.