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I doubt the bidet thing is going to happen. TP is back in stock now.
by pmiller2 6y ago
I doubt the bidet thing is going to happen. TP is back in stock now.
- ashtonkem 6y agoThe limiting factors for bidets were work toilets and the weirdness factor. We’re still working from home (for those who can), and the makers of washlets sold out. They’re going to stop being a weird niche thing, and now it’s going to be a question of what people prefer.
- gburdell3 6y agoIt did in my apartment, don't know how I lived without it
- mixmastamyk 6y agoDid what exactly?
- jmuguy 6y agoProbably got an inexpensive bidet attachment for the toilet. Which for 20-40 bucks is an awesome investment
- mateo411 6y agoPerhaps it already happened, but people don't know because they aren't visiting each other's houses.
- pmiller2 6y agoAre you saying the reason TP is back in stock is because enough people bought bidets to reduce demand for residential TP? That would be interesting.
- ashtonkem 6y agoI'm sure at some point the TP pipeline got reworked to shift away from commercial production and towards consumer sized rolls.
- pmiller2 6y agoThat seems plausible, but do you have any information showing that’s the case? I never thought I’d be so interested in either TP or consumer supply chains until this happened, lol.
- ashtonkem 6y agoI read early in the pandemic that the problem was that a huge amount of TP was cheap and massive rolls for offices, which consumers can’t use. As far as them reworking the supply chains, that’s me speculating.
- sitzkrieg 6y agoTP is still thin here. paper product isle was cleared out completely again yesterday at least, ugh
- eikenberry 6y agoDon't you still need a bit of TP to dry off?
- elif 6y agoWith a good bidet, you'll find the TP is useless afterward. You're really just getting wet paper on your fingers for no reason.
- rootusrootus 6y agoHaving a dry butt is nice. Otherwise you're giving yourself an instant case of severe swamp-ass.
- swrj 6y agoYeah, but you don't really use toilet paper for it. People usually use a separate towel.
- stronglikedan 6y agoI just threw up a little in my mouth. I've used many a bidet, and they never get anything completely clean like TP does. I can't imagine building up residue on a towel like that.
- dzhiurgis 6y agoBut it's slow and stinks up the room with fresh warm feces...
- daenz 6y agoImagine not knowing how to use the 3 seashells.
- annoyingnoob 6y agoIf you look at extreme Japanese toilets, truth is stranger than fiction. There is a lot of space between TP and a full robo-toilet. All I know is that I don't have space for a bidet and a toilet in my house.
- elif 6y agoa separate bidet is a European thing. In japan they are all built into the toilet, and sometimes the sink as well.
- mlyle 6y agoA lot of people are buying bidet toilet seats, which retrofit onto existing toilets.
- shlant 6y agothe easiest solution is a "bum gun" type setup that is common in South East Asia: https://www.google.com/search?q=spray+bidet https://www.google.com/search?q=spray+bidet. I can't imagine living without one
- shados 6y agoThe most important piece of the puzzle already happened: people know bidets are now. If you ever did a bathroom renovation and went to a decently large plumbing supply store, they had a full bidet section for a while now. This time, more people are actually going to look at it. A large chunk of my peer group got cheap bidets at the beginning of the pandemic when toilet paper ran out, so it's at least semi normalized even though its not pervasive. I no longer have to explain what it is or why it's great. That's a massive step forward.
- cultofmetatron 6y agofirst encountered the butt gun when I was in Thailand. It was the first major upgrade I got for my home when I was back in the states. Using toilet paper feels so uncivilized by comparison.