A little though experiment. Imagine you got poop on your fingers. You take toilet paper and wipe your fingers clean. Are you now ready to continue with your business or does it feel a bit unsanitary? Then why do this to your butt?
What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
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#362A little though experiment. Imagine you got poop on your fingers. You take toilet paper and wipe your fingers clean. Are you now ready to continue with your business or does it feel a bit unsanitary? Then why do this to your butt?
Generally speaking, because we don’t interact with food and everyday activities with our butts! :)
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#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
The way US homes are designed it's hard to add a bidet to an existing bathroom, but doing away with toilet paper must be a goal. Unless you wash, you cannot feel "good" down there. That's the truth.
Yep. However I think that you responded to the wrong comment.
not really. It was about the great engineering that goes to design TP. I said to do away with it totally
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#364A little though experiment. Imagine you got poop on your fingers. You take toilet paper and wipe your fingers clean. Are you now ready to continue with your business or does it feel a bit unsanitary? Then why do this to your butt?
Social inertia. Toilet habits are very hard to change due to the taboo-ish nature of the topic, and the social expectation that toilets are more or less the same everywhere you go (at work or school, in restaurants, visiting friends or family, etc.).
Anyone who spent a year is in a country like Japan or South Korea will have experienced that toilet paper is down-right barbaric compared to a jet of warm water appearing at the touch of a button gently rinsing the nether regions. You still use toilet paper, but only two sheets or so to dry up.
But when you go back to a country that uses only toilet paper you either have to go out of your way (and pay a lot of money to renovate your bathroom) to find the kind of modern automated toilet seat that does add the features you've just left behind, or you just do as everyone else does.
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#365Unrelated to article content: When I try to browse to the site from Lynx, I get 403 forbidden'ed. Can anyone else confirm? Works fine from Firefox Nightly for me. Any thought on why this would be? Are they intentionally blocking non-js enabled web browsers?
Probably best if you ask your assistant to download it and email it across to you so you can open it in lynx locally
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#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are lots of places here in SG that have these toilets. They ... freak me out, tbh. Mostly because I have not the faintest idea how you'd use them and "So, how do you do your business" is not among the list of conversations I want to have. This whole floor (hosting six companies I think?) in a prominent office tower has one shared male restroom. Two booths. One is usable for me, the other one the scary thing. Mo…
May be a naïve question: have you tried googling the topic?
I honestly did. But the descriptions (just like the StackExchange link's replies) are utterly alien to me (squat..? How?) and I haven't found it in me to go on a video hunt (the StackExchange one links to something which supposedly is safe and helpful).
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#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
LOL, "a machine vision directed spray", missing a '/s'? My toilet has a built in bidet. When the spray comes on, I move my butt to positions the stream to dead center. There's really no need for any added complexity.
It's knowing when it's done
over-engineering much
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#369I think a machine vision directed spray is the future. I don't fancy collecting the training data though.
LOL, "a machine vision directed spray", missing a '/s'? My toilet has a built in bidet. When the spray comes on, I move my butt to positions the stream to dead center. There's really no need for any added complexity.
Toilets seats with built in bidets have already been perfected in Japan and South Korea since the nineties. Anyone who suggests the need for computer vision aided complexity has never used one of these. They just work, and you learn to use them properly really fast.
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#370An article /u/hudibras posted has the answer
In Rome, people cleaned themselves after using a public latrine with a sea sponge lashed to a stick, stored in a bucket of salt water or vinegar. It was considered polite to give the sponge a cursory rinse and a squeeze before putting it back in the bucket to get it ready for the next person.
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/what-did-people-use-before-to...