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>Why is the arse the only place that, if covered in fecal matter, doesn't get the benefit of water? Have you ever used a public toilet in the US? Put a bidet i

>Why is the arse the only place that, if covered in fecal matter, doesn't get the benefit of water? Have you ever used a public toilet in the US? Put a bidet in a public toilet, someone will have gum and/or feces on the dispenser before the day is over purely out of malice. As far as in the homes, it's a plumbing issue. You're either going to have to have to monkey with toilet feed lines yourself, which are often cheap fittings that seize and break, or call a plumber to come out or buy some tank system that requires a powered pump which has to be plugged in. Then of course learn how to use the thing. Or, you could pick up some charmin every time you go to the grocery and bathe regularly. Americans are catching on to wet wipes, give it a few more decades and squirt-gun-butt-cleaning will catch on. I've never seen a bidet in person. Not once in my entire life. In fact, the only time I've ever seen a bidet is in Crocodile Dundee and another film.

dwighttk 8y ago
please don't flush wet wipes, even if they are "flushable wipes"
Symbiote 8y ago
My wealthy American relative had bidets installed in the bathrooms of his multimillion-dollar houses. He wasn't surprised that 12-year-old me was unfamiliar with the device, but he was surprised that journalists from interior design magazines hadn't seen them before. (This was the 1990s, things may have moved on.) They've fallen out of fashion in Britain, according to [1] they're replaced with larger showers or extra sinks. [1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/news/8080653/Death-of-the-bidet.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/news/8080653/De...
- tunesmith 8y ago
  That confused me briefly - like, people use an extra sink as a bidet? Turns out that what has fallen out of fashion are the entirely separate bidet-only commodes. I've more recently only heard "bidet" in the context of something that is built in (or attached) to the regular toilet, that's what is increasing in popularity.
tunesmith 8y ago
Those $60 attachments are no big deal. They ship with the fittings, and you also don't need to bother with running a hot-water line - you don't have as many nerve endings back there as you think. You just route the cold water that normally goes to the tank into the device first. You turn the water off at the toilet, attach the T-device, and the most monkeying you will probably need to do is maybe a bit of extra tape around the threads so you don't get a drip leak. Difficulty-wise, it's in the same ballpark as hooking up a stereo system, less difficult than swapping out an electrical outlet.
IncRnd 8y ago
> As far as in the homes, it's a plumbing issue. You're either going to have to have to monkey with toilet feed lines yourself, which are often cheap fittings that seize and break, or call a plumber to come out or buy some tank system that requires a powered pump which has to be plugged in. It takes about 2 minutes to install one after purchasing online. I referred to the attachment ones that work directly off of the water to the toilet. There is no need for a plumber, pump, tank, or anything else. It takes more time to throw the packaging away that it does to install the item.

dwighttk 8y ago

please don't flush wet wipes, even if they are "flushable wipes"

Symbiote 8y ago

My wealthy American relative had bidets installed in the bathrooms of his multimillion-dollar houses. He wasn't surprised that 12-year-old me was unfamiliar with the device, but he was surprised that journalists from interior design magazines hadn't seen them before. (This was the 1990s, things may have moved on.) They've fallen out of fashion in Britain, according to [1] they're replaced with larger showers or extra sinks. [1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/news/8080653/Death-of-the-bidet.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/news/8080653/De...

tunesmith 8y ago
That confused me briefly - like, people use an extra sink as a bidet? Turns out that what has fallen out of fashion are the entirely separate bidet-only commodes. I've more recently only heard "bidet" in the context of something that is built in (or attached) to the regular toilet, that's what is increasing in popularity.

tunesmith 8y ago

Those $60 attachments are no big deal. They ship with the fittings, and you also don't need to bother with running a hot-water line - you don't have as many nerve endings back there as you think. You just route the cold water that normally goes to the tank into the device first. You turn the water off at the toilet, attach the T-device, and the most monkeying you will probably need to do is maybe a bit of extra tape around the threads so you don't get a drip leak. Difficulty-wise, it's in the same ballpark as hooking up a stereo system, less difficult than swapping out an electrical outlet.

IncRnd 8y ago

> As far as in the homes, it's a plumbing issue. You're either going to have to have to monkey with toilet feed lines yourself, which are often cheap fittings that seize and break, or call a plumber to come out or buy some tank system that requires a powered pump which has to be plugged in. It takes about 2 minutes to install one after purchasing online. I referred to the attachment ones that work directly off of the water to the toilet. There is no need for a plumber, pump, tank, or anything else. It takes more time to throw the packaging away that it does to install the item.