• SuspiciousUser@lemmy.ml
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    Obligatory bidet comment. You don’t have to wipe like you’re trying to get peanut butter out of carpet. All shits become the same with a bidet, whether a short sticky stoagie or a hot wet mess of diarrhea. Imagine trying to clean a mud snowman off your driveway with a pressure washer. It can do anything.

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      You don’t have to wipe like you’re trying to get peanut butter out of carpet.

      I lol’d

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        Tl;dr: too much pressure can result in an unwelcome “deep clean”, not recommended as a surprise.

        You really have to limit the pressure to the bidet. We ultimately installed a little in-line valve but raw dogged it initially. I thought I’d be fine. “It has a dial,” I thought to myself, “I just won’t crank it up all the way.” I’m an idiot.

        The next time I was really sick was when it happened. I was little kid sick, the kind of sick where you’re feverish, nauseated, and delirious, barely able to function, yet still have to drag yourself through the house and half-assedly slap your arms at things until they work, just to fulfill basic functions like drinking water and using the toilet. A toilet with a bidet.

        I had just finished power blasting the porcelain for the umpteenth time and I wanted nothing more than to wash it away and ooze back into bed. I gathered all my willpower to swing an unwilling appendage over and twist the knob, but I twisted much too far and my aim… my aim was perfect. Bullseye.

        In martial arts, they teach you not just to strike your target, but to strike through your target. The bidet didn’t just blast my anus, it blasted through my anus. If we were at the fair, my bidet would have popped the balloon and taken home the big bear. My wife claims she heard me cry out a high-pitched “eeeep!”, but I don’t remember it. I just remember shock and confusion as I pawed at the bidet knob. The bidet had slammed its way straight to home plate and beyond, on to the “fifth base” of legend.

        I ordered a valve online that day and installed it as soon as I was able. Never again, not without intent, preparation, and a safe word.

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          I have never used a bidet.

          What I do use with every shit is a bidet shower.

          You get a nice gentle but strong enough stream which you control all the time.

          Also, I never shoot it directly at my anus, but more like from an angle, so even if it suddenly had 10x the flow, it wouldn’t go into my arse.

          Pretty much every single bathroom in Finland has these. As in even gas stations and bar toilets usually have one stall with a sink in the stall and a bidet shower attached.

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      I gave up on reddit years ago but whenever someone posts about bidets it reminds me of my favorite reddit exchange

      Someone posted asking why americans don’t use bidets. I commented, saying “am american, use bidet. Love it, shits tight”

      Eventually a reply came from a confused esl person asking me if I had a constipation problem because they didn’t understand the colloquialism “shits tight”

      I think about that exchange more often than I should

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          A bidet is a miracle device, helps in any and all situations. Diarrhea? Solved. Constipation? Solved. Regular? Surprisingly, solved. Wanna do the front too? Can be a bit awkward but it’s got you covered (in water, of course). Washing the throne? Solved. Basic calculus? Solved. Advanced calculus? Believe it or not, solved. Taxes? Avoided. Marriage counseling? Ever since I got my bidet my wife says my “stench is less appalling”. Solved, baby. I even use it to water the garden and defend my house from intruders.

          Cannot recommend enough.

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          Would require good water pressure. Although that’s a careful balancing act because you can go too far the other way. Then that’s an embarrassing hospital visit.

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        they didn’t understand the colloquialism “shits tight”

        ¡Duce’s Loose!

        <wavesPinkyAndThumbInTheShaka>

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      My house has four bathrooms and three bidets. My teenage son just won’t get on board with having a clean ass.

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    Fiber. Truly, up your fiber intake. The only time it won’t stain and linger is when it gathers in on itself.

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    So until they read about it on the internet they were leaving their butthole covered with shit all day?

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      Funny how there’s always a completely moot discussion about wiping techniques or bidets when the real issue with people having to wipe 20 times is almost always diet.

      If you think that’s bullshit go ahead and buy a small (for testing) pack of psyllium husk, consume two table spoons a day (in water or on top of a meal) and witness yourself becoming One-Sheet-Shane on the throne in 3 days.

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        witness yourself becoming One-Sheet-Shane on the throne in 3 days.

        <afterChipotlewayComercial>

        ¡Not everybody’s got a Golden Asshole, Kyle!

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        Psyllium Husk tastes like dirt, try Inulin instead. It’s basically tasteless and does the exact same thing.

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      Honestly, being constipated has always been good for not having a messy ass. It’s being regular or having diarrhea that is messy.

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        Eh I find truly regular isnt that messy. Its the liquid or liquids mixed with gas that get messy. True regular just slides out, sometimes so easily there isn’t even anything visible on a sheet after the first wipe.

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    Obviously, a bidet is the best way to have a clean butt, but baby wipes are a good compromise when in public bathrooms, they clean much better than dry toilet paper. Or wash on the side of the bathtub.

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    FFS get some technique. You use 3 squares folded over and do a pinch. You then use 2 squares folded for a second pinch. The last is two squares folded for a wipe, then folded again for the last clean up wipe. Yes, bidet is better but you’re gonna have to poo in a public restroom at some point. This isn’t rocket surgery, people. Get it together

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      Bidet is the obvious way to do it right. Japanese toilet second, but if you can-t go at home, at least use moist TP towelettes, and don-t flush them! Throw them in the waste bin!

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      Fwiw, there are portable “bidets”

      They aren’t exactly a proper bidet, they’re just bottles with a nozzle. Some of them you can’t even carry the water in it, you have to be able to access water where you’re going (so, not great for camping usually, or portajohns).

      But they do a decent job for the most part. Enough to at least reduce how much wiping is needed.

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        First vacation I went on after having a bidet for a couple years, I was miserable. My asshole had apparently lost its callouses and it bled and felt downright on fire for the second half of the trip. Now I never travel without my portable bidet. It does an impressively good job!

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      Our public bathrooms often have bidet showers.

      Like every bathroom will have at least one stall with one. Newer gas stations will have one in each.

      This isn’t rocket surgery, people

      Idk man I’m a bit hungover and I didn’t even try to mentally follow your arsewipe-origami.