What if you spray diarrhea on the sprayer and that person doesn’t use it, the next person gets it up their azz
the sprayer is hidden away unless you press a button to extend it
The Rise of the Japanese Toilet
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#92https://unbloq.us/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/busines... Via a tool that I made to auto-redirect to archived links :)
By the way, it would be useful if https://unbloq.us/www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/toto-t... worked as well, for manual use (just typing “unbloq.us/”).
Thank you for the feedback, I will fix this!
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
>If its not aimed correctly, where does the splash go? If you're lucky it stays in the toilet boil. However if your aim is off, you can completely miss your anus and either shoot to much under or over which will shoot the water outside of the toilet bowl. so slowly squeeze the trigger to confirm the aim is correct, rather than going full blast at the start?
it is often all or nothing.
Yeah, depends on how sensitive the trigger is, which is something you can't always control at a public restroom
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#94In 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…
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.
this is also the most common thing in india fwiw so it’s not all religious.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's standard equipment, why wouldn't bathrooms be designed for it? New expectations? Something else?
Standard equipment in Argentina, not in Northern Europe or the US, where you would have to be in the opportunity to completely redo your bathroom to accommodate it. Otherwise you need to rearrange, or go for a Japanese toilet.
Completely redo a bathroom? The barrier to entry is replacing the seat with one that connects to the existing waterline. I've got one and it took 10 minutes to install - and 5 of those were just cleaning first.
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#96Only North-Americans have trouble with the concept that water is the best way to wash yourself after doing your business. Y'all seriously need to grow up.
I don't really much of a difference unless you have unhealthy messy shits all the time. Spraying your ass with water doesn't make it sanitary, so at the end of the day it is merely personal preference.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't run an extension cord but there are absolutely Toto washlets that just replace the existing seat. IMO, absolutely the better answer as there things probably can break in ways that a regular toilet won't.
Hand sprayer still cheaper and less likely to break. Power still an issue.
Bidet seats only have power for things like seat heating. I don't why everyone is bringing this up like it's required. The cheaper options at $100 hook up to the existing waterline for the toilet and are entirely mechanical. No power.
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#98In 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…
computer vision will solve this and direct the waterjet in yer bullseye. :D ai...ai everywhere.
Anyone to volunteer to feed image categorization for AI? PTSD might be severe and tenure shorter than at Facebook.
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#99A bidet is one of the largest increases in quality of life from a product I have ever experienced. My brother got one first and then it spread like wildfire across our family. I've never met anyone that actually uses one that goes back. I hope it takes over the whole world.
I used one and find it disgusting
What do you use instead?
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#100I live off-grid in the deep woods of Sweden with no neighbors; I heat my 125 year old timber house with firewood.
For two decades I lived in a fancy flat with all the amenities in a large city.
Now I do it in two 100L plastic barrels in my stables that also have an outhouse, each barrel corresponds to one of my needs.
I neutralize number 1 with Corega tabs in the warmer months, I neutralize number 2 with a scoop of peat or sawdust.
I also wash myself (in number 1) after number 2 using soap and a 10L-bidon with a shower hose attachment that I carry with me like a briefcase from the house during the colder months.
The barrels are emptied regularly in a hole in the woods, in summer the dung beetles take care of everything. There's virtually no smell, actually less than in a modern bathroom with mechanical ventilation. It's always drafty in the outhouse and I usually leave the door open anyway.
I can wax poetic about sitting in the outhouse on a sunny day with the door open watching the blue sky and hearing the wind in the trees with the birds chirping vis-à-vis doing it a concrete box surrounded by high-tech plumbing and equipment, but ironically it just feels better not having any nastiness inside or anywhere near the house I sleep and eat in.
Just think about that for a second.
I've been to Japan and I actually prefer my way.
I think technical (smart?) toilets are nasty, nasty to clean and even nastier to repair if they break.
Less is more, if given the choice I'd much prefer a simple (dumb?) toilet with a shower hose next to it.
This is pretty common in most bathrooms in Sweden.
P.S.
Rimfree toilets are the shit.