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The Rise of the Japanese Toilet

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Re: The Rise of the Japanese Toilet

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Post by yubblegum »

unhappy_meaning wrote: post #24

In almost all of SE Asia, especially Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, all of the toilets come with a hand-held sprayer. They also had this in the Doha airport and I'm not sure how common this style is outside of SE Asia but I'm guessing it's common. Japanese style bidets are very common in Korean households as well and I'm sure its easily a billion dollar business. It is nice but the functionality is quite difficult for…

Simple instructions:

1 - wipe with tissue

2 - wash with water. Traditionally, use left hand.

3 - dry hand with tissue.

4 - flush

5 - wash hands at sink

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Post by pixelbro »

unhappy_meaning wrote: post #24

In almost all of SE Asia, especially Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, all of the toilets come with a hand-held sprayer. They also had this in the Doha airport and I'm not sure how common this style is outside of SE Asia but I'm guessing it's common. Japanese style bidets are very common in Korean households as well and I'm sure its easily a billion dollar business. It is nice but the functionality is quite difficult for…

> try as best as you can to aim it into your anus to wash as best as you can

This seems like a great way to spray shit everywhere and is not at all how I learned to use those. What I do is soap one hand, aim the jet into the toilet past the anus with the other hand (jet vector orthogonal to the anus's normal vector), then go to town on it with soap and water. It's foolproof and you get very clean.

How has nobody mentioned this? I feel like I'm on crazy pills, is everyone seriously blasting a jet directly at their chocolate starfish?

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Post by Gud »

unhappy_meaning wrote: post #24

In almost all of SE Asia, especially Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, all of the toilets come with a hand-held sprayer. They also had this in the Doha airport and I'm not sure how common this style is outside of SE Asia but I'm guessing it's common. Japanese style bidets are very common in Korean households as well and I'm sure its easily a billion dollar business. It is nice but the functionality is quite difficult for…

You don't use these the first time at an airport, is my advice.

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Post by KPGv2 »

anigbrowl wrote: post #147
MichaelRo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> it’s incomprehensible that in other countries people just wipe and…hope for the best. Well ... I don't have a bidet but doesn't mean I don't wash my buttocks after doing business. Unfortunately it's a bit of a taboo subject so it's not discussed, not taught in school / hygiene classes, just let it be. Best example I heard from someone is this: imagine you dip your hands in Nutella. Then try to clean them just wipi…

Way too much information guy

No, this is exactly the problem: "we mustn't speak of buttholes, it is preferable that we all continue sub-par hygiene practices because it's TABBOOOOOOO"

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Post by ragazzina »

rcpt wrote: post #55
MichaelRo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> it’s incomprehensible that in other countries people just wipe and…hope for the best. Well ... I don't have a bidet but doesn't mean I don't wash my buttocks after doing business. Unfortunately it's a bit of a taboo subject so it's not discussed, not taught in school / hygiene classes, just let it be. Best example I heard from someone is this: imagine you dip your hands in Nutella. Then try to clean them just wipi…

Nutella is oil based you should not have something like that coming out of you

No Nutella then, you dip your hand in a bucket of human feces. You wipe with toilet paper. Will it still smell?

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Post by numpad0 »

socalgal2 wrote: post #251
kelnos wrote: post #229

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> Button to automatically raise and lower the lid. Bonus points if it’s motion activated to raise the lid when you enter the bathroom. I have this, and eventually disabled it. It's super annoying, and goes off if if I enter the bathroom and go near the toilet for any reason, even if I'm not about to use the toilet.

It probably only works in Japan where, if possible, the toilet is in it's own separate room, separate from the room where you wash your face, separate from the room with the shower/bath. You'd never be in the toilet room except to use the toilet. The door stays closed so the toilet is only going to open when you open the door to the toilet room.

It's still kind of annoying since you can just leave the lid open instead of waiting for it to open...

Except, the motorized seat is indeed convenient, for which the lid might be a dependency, and I guess at which point a scope creep into auto opening everything is just an inevitability.

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Post by illiac786 »

socalgal2 wrote: post #252
halpow wrote: post #173

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No, they're everywhere in Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines, none of which are majority muslims.

that doesn't make them non-muslim things. Plently of things in those countries that are not from those countries

I feel it’s weird defining them by the main religion of the country it is (maybe) mostly used. No one says the numbers used in English are Muslim, they are generally referred to as Arabic.

I wouldn’t say printing is a “catholic thing”, but it definitely came from a super catholic part of the world.

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Post by swat535 »

zdc1 wrote: post #134
raincom wrote: post #46

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Those hand sprayer versions are bad to use and unhygienic too, because fecal matter gets sprayed beyond the toilet bowl. I know why Arabic countries prefer hand sprayer versions: istinja practices of Islam.

They are also very, very cheap to install and replace (US$1 or less in low cost of living countries). So for some it's better-than-nothing.

They are also installed in all houses in Iran. I think many places in middle east has them. Toilet paper usage is not a thing there.
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