I really like the water gun next to the toilet in Thai bathrooms. It's multi-functional, not only can you use it as a bidet, but you can use it to wash other things.
What Ancient Romans Used Instead of Toilet Paper
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for posting this - you added more value than that entire article.
The wikipedia article used quite similar wording and images, and you can click through to some more topics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium
TIL that "In the middle of the first century Seneca reported that a Germanic gladiator had committed suicide with a sponge on a stick. The German hid himself in the latrine of an amphitheater and pushed the wooden stick into his gullet and choked to death."
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#83an ancient Roman would often grab a tersorium (or, in my technical terms, a “toilet brush for your butt”).
Picture: http://static.nautil.us/16038_96fb9b48825b741083d35b0137af1b...
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#84I wonder why so many articles today have so many words but yet so little content? This one has a mile-long introduction. The headlines question could have been answered in rather few words. I feel a short answer had satisfied me. To make it even more frustrating to me the article teases different but-wiping techniques used today without telling me which ones. Thanks for that... I said I wonder why, I guess that was a…
all those digression are used to spam links to third party blogs, which in turns cross link back on some other article.
if it was just the answer paragraph + affiliate paragraphs you'd notice it, rule of thumb is one paragraph of content per one of cross-linking.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll tell you the difference since you asked; If you wanted to eat a hamburger, and i handed it to you with my hand.. you would eat it... I really hope i don't need to finish that thought for you. I swear this is where the saying 'Don't know your arse from your elbow' comes from.
depends on which country this is and with which hand. the left hand, i would probably take offence, despite being left handed myself.
IIRC I read somewhere that in some places people use the right hand to wash their bums, open doors, shake hands, and other dirtier stuff. Left hand is used when needing tottouch food and other cleaner things.
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#86Americans don't have a high ground here.
The first time I used a modern bidet was eye-opening.
It eliminates the funk. It's environmentally friendly. It's easier on the bum, if you have hemmaroids (I don't, but this is the report from friends and family that do suffer). And it just feels refreshing.
The toilet paper is only needed to sanity check cleanliness and dry out.
The American squeamishness over the bidet is irrational and overdue for a change.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
For real, I can’t stand this kind of longform. They take three simple facts and write an article that is more a short essay. And when the write starts with an accurate description of weather, place or person, “It was a foggy winter day in …”, “we reached a hidden part of the shore”, “is a tall woman with bright expressive eyes" you know you’ll be stuck in a fifteen minutes reading without learning anything.
Not all writing is utilitarian. People in tech, on average, prefer the utilitarian. They also, as a whole , on average , are considered to have below average social skills and below average art skills. Their coincidence is not a coincidence. > To make it even more frustrating to me the article teases different but-wiping techniques used today without telling me which ones. Thanks for that... For an introduction to So…
Why do you wonder about "down votes" on a comment that basically insults people in tech on a forum primarily visited by people in tech.
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#88Importantly, if you're a world traveler, is to know if the culture uses toilet paper at all, and if they do, is it safe to flush or do you put it in a nearby trash bin? https://wheredoiputthepaper.com/ Memorable advice: > Loving your work, not many people go to Myanmar (Burma), and if you happen to find a toilet (and these days they tend to be Western-style sitters rather than squatting over hole sorts), put the pape…
A can for TP next to the toilet seems the default all over the developing world, assuming TP is used. I guess the plumbing is fragile.
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#89I wonder why so many articles today have so many words but yet so little content? This one has a mile-long introduction. The headlines question could have been answered in rather few words. I feel a short answer had satisfied me. To make it even more frustrating to me the article teases different but-wiping techniques used today without telling me which ones. Thanks for that... I said I wonder why, I guess that was a…
I wonder any of this is real.
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#90Not sure, but ... Pro-Tip: If you come to the US, please throw poopy toilet paper in the toilet and not the little trash can next to the toilet which is meant for women's hygiene products.
In Kosovo: its the opposite, you put the used paper in a bin specially placed for the purpose.
I was very, very confused about the hygienic requirements during a recent visit - turns out that they don't have the plumbing to handle the paper in the loo.