• 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world
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    I got onboard the bidet train during the Covid lockdown. Simple to add on at my apartment. It was my #1 request when I moved to my GF’s house. We replaced the whole toilet with the upgrades.

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    “Hey, if some caked-up mud pie got on your face, would you just wipe it off with a dry piece of tissue and call it a day? No! You’d wash it. So why is your butthole any different?” - Detective Allen Gamble, ‘The Other Guys’

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    I like the bidet’s we have at home, but I don’t get the ones that are separate from the toilet. Saw this type when visiting San Juan, PR once. Their plumbing system can’t handle toilet paper very well, so it’s all bidets with a stack of washed towels.

    Not only do they take up extra space in the bathroom, but are you supposed to waddle over to this thing with a dingleberry hanging out? I don’t get why you’d want that.

    The one argument I’ve heard in their favor is from people with vaginas who don’t like the idea of the built-in sprayer catching bits of poop that’ll get in their cootch.

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          Yes, but the extremely vast majority are. I feel this is discriminating against women.

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            Do you also think that saying “Happy Holidays” somehow excludes Christians?

            Increasing the size of your umbrella doesn’t discriminate against the people who are already under it. It simply invites more people to join them.

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            It’s not fear it’s just taking a bit of effort to be respectful and inclusive.

            If someone gets mad because you just said women then yeah I’d agree that’s a bit much but taking a bit of time to be inclusive shouldn’t be something you’re upset about.

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            Why do you assume it’s fear that motivates people to use language that’s inclusive of trans and non-binary people?

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    So, maybe I’m missing something here, but bidets don’t seem all that great? Everyone on the internet is always proclaiming life changing experiences with these things. However, when I recently used them they don’t seem to do very much. My butthole is still poopy and when I wipe to dry my ass the toilet paper tears.

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      I was like you a few years ago.

      The crappy ones feel like that.

      Then I sat on a fancy one that sang me a lullaby and gave me positive encouragement as I pooped. My god, my entire butthole is so fresh.

      I now understand.

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      Some are better than others in both power and nozzle angle/placement. Sometimes you have to shimmy to get the angle just right if the power is low. It should result in a wipe in which no fecal matter remains, only wetness, if executed properly.

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        Exactly. There’s a learning curve but once you’ve got it, you dread wipe only bathrooms. Installed a bidet on one of my toilets six months ago and now that’s the only toilet anybody in the house poops in unless it’s already occupied.

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      You need to use the power washer setting. Takes the paint right off the wall…

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      Low water pressure maybe? Mines a real cheap one and I’ve never had issues with not being clean after. I do usually get stronger toilet paper, but I only use a roll or two a month. I wouldn’t say it’s life changing, but I do prefer it. Also has saved me a lot on tp

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    Had my first experience of a bidet in Japan but not just that, the toilet seat was heated too, that was my first dump after landing

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      That’s what I love about mine. Automatic lid raise and lower as you walk in, heated ring and water, (both adjustable temp), air dry, (again heated), and charcoal filtered air filtration to minimize the stench from that drive through burrito.

      It’s the posh life. Very nearly the equal to having your own chamberlain.

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    I got something like this for like 15 euros from a German shop but I’m sure you’ll find it everywhere. I payed a little extra for stainless-steel instead of plastic. It’s still incredibly cheap and my family uses it daily for years. I don’t need any more luxury.

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      If it’s tapped directly into the ice cold water line that sounds terrible. Gotta save up and spring for ceramic instant water heating.

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      I think this is better than whats mounted into the toilet, because well sooner or later you get one of those days when shit flies everywhere and then enjoy cleaning the nozzle, meanwhile these things are usually just attached to the side of the toilet pr to the wall and no danger of it getting shit on barring extreme circumstances

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        Even the cheap ones have a self clean setting. It just sprays water down the nozzle, and is between on and off. Turn it to that for a second and then off. Never had an issue. When I clean the toilet I use the same brush to glance over it, but really it stays clean on its own

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      Plastic doesn’t rust, sometimes it’s better. Even better if it let’s you adjust the spray width.

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        Well you could hire a maid, and they pour toilet bowl cleaner onto it. Even after you told them not to. Now the plastic is eaten away, and you have to replace it.

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    Bidets are amazing. If you don’t have one you should go buy one, they start fairly low priced

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      Paid $50 for mine like 7 years ago. Is it fancy? Heck no. Does it clean my butt real good? Heck yes.

      When I can afford a fancy heated, air drying bidet that will be my goalpost of success.

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        I honestly got used to the regular temp one. So much so that when I moved and the new house came with the fancier bidet, I just ended up using regular water every time.

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        I started with a $30 cheapo 10 years ago and it was life changing. Last year I got a stupid expensive one. Like, has a night light, auto flush (because I got the matching toilet), auto lid, heated seat, heated water, deodorizer, wireless remote, etc. (Toto S7A)

        Just so you’re prepared, the air dry doesn’t fully replace the pat dry entirely unless you’re gonna sit there for a good long time.

        That said, I have no regrets.

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          Just so you’re prepared, the air dry doesn’t fully replace the pat dry entirely unless you’re gonna sit there for a good long time.

          I just shake my ass off like a dog coming in out of the rain

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      Do people not wash daily? This seems like a general hygiene issue, and not that closely correlated with bidet use.

      Source: I have never used a bidet, and my butt does not itch, ya know, because I wash daily?

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    I’ve brought bidets awesomeness in groups before.

    It is immediately apparent who is “in the club” and who is not.