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Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn

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Re: Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn

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Western toilets seriously weaken the pelvic and hip muscles. Squat on them, either directly, or using a stand, or using an Asian style squat toilet instead. There is no other alternative. Weak pelvic and hip muscles can be painful. In addition, there is also the issue of worsening constipation and making it needlessly harder to produce output.

Squat toilets are disgusting and spread disease

> spread disease

Where did you get that? It's not true at all. In fact, cleaning a squat toilet doesn't even require a flush, only a drain.

On the contrary, when using the Western toilet, the dick touches the toilet surface, and this chronically spreads urinary infections up the urinary tract, starting at the urethra, all the way to the kidneys. This is not just theoretical; it actually happens, and only with the Western toilet.

Re: Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn

#72

They won’t be satisfied until they have taken everything away.

Who is "they"?

In this case, doctors. In a more general sense, those people who feel they are smarter than you and should control your life.

Re: Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn

#73

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I have 4 dual flushes that get fully flushed each use. The low flow option doesn’t even move enough water to clear the bowl of a single bladder full of urine. That is to say, it doesn’t flush. So we don’t like them. I also heard women tend to really dislike them, something about the flush mechanism is gross. Pushing a button I suppose.

This must be part of the problem. People complain about them here (in the US) all the time. I'm wondering if we're not producing crappy dual flush toilets in this country compared to overseas where they've presumably be manufacturing them for a generation or so.

Dual flush doesnt work as well with US sized bowls. You need the entire toilet fitting to be designed for it, not just retrofit the cistern.

Re: Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn

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Bidets can actually reduce water usage overall, depending on how much less toilet paper is used. Then of course there's the benefit of needing fewer materials to produce toilet paper.

i always assumed you wiped first, then cleaned up with with the bidet. you're telling me you're spraying and rubbing with your fingers... i don't want to talk about it any more

You spray. Everything is removed, leaving just water. Then you wipe with toilet paper or a washable towel.

Re: Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn

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post #62

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i always assumed you wiped first, then cleaned up with with the bidet. you're telling me you're spraying and rubbing with your fingers... i don't want to talk about it any more

You spray. Everything is removed, leaving just water. Then you wipe with toilet paper or a washable towel.

hate to break it to you, but if you are spraying poop off, you are aerosolizing poop. full stop (except for the poop, which you have not stopped, you have sprayed). No shit? no, shit.

(and it would no longer be aerosol, it would be pooposol)

Re: Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn

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When I was a kid, my dad had some Kurt Vonnegut book (I think Breakfast of Champions) in the bathroom. I sat on the toilet for a couple of hours while I read the entire book. And that is how I got introduced to Kurt Vonnegut.

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This guy Vonneguts
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