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Ask HN: Why do Americans/Europeans not use “bum gun” or water to wash?

• byoung2 9y ago
  There was an old article reposted to HN recently http://mentalfloss.com/article/23210/toilet-paper-history-how-america-convinced-world-wipe http://mentalfloss.com/article/23210/toilet-paper-history-ho...
  • philiphodgen 9y ago
    This article kicked up a fake virus scare popup on my Android phone. Beware when clicking on this link.
• kamranahmed_se 9y ago
  Not sure how they can feel clean with those tissue papers
• simonblack 9y ago
  Lots of Europeans use a bidet. It seems to be mainly the Anglophone countries (US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand) that find using water to wash the nether regions as something strange.