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Oslo Municipality's Water and Sewage Administration has offered a useful tip to reduce water waste – it's OK to pee in the shower
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- Title
- Oslo wants you to save water by peeing in the shower
- Published
- Oct 14 2019
- Word count
- 395 words
Maybe it's because I grew up in a dry area, but I never saw peeing in the shower as gross or particularly unusual unless you were showering with someone else. Why take the extra time when it's getting washed down the drain and you're washing yourself off anyways?
Hey nothing wrong with peeing on someone else in the shower so long as they consent!
I mean... so you pee while you’re actually doing some other shower thing? I sort of pause what I’m doing to pee, even if I’m in the shower. I reckon 20 seconds of delay in the shower is comparable to 1 flush.
There's also the rule (for toilets): if it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's brown, flush it down!
I dislike this
It may save water, but it's unsanitary and disgusting. Not a fan of this "rule" either. If you're in your own home, particularly if you live alone... hey, you do you. But if you're using a public restroom or the one at your workplace, PLEASE flush your pee.
You know what else is unsanitary and disgusting? Using a piece of paper/tissue to wipe your butt instead of using a bidet.
i'm sorry but a public restroom bidet sounds vile. and at home you could just pop under the shower for a minute and clean off if you need to.
or just use babywhipes.
I think you're confusing bidet with enema. Some bidets are even built into toilets. All they do is spray warm water on your butt hole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet
Also, a shower every time you poop is impractical and ironically wasteful.
I gotta say, putting one in (we just have a cheap one that bolts on under the toilet seat and hooks into the water line) was one of the more satisfying little things I've done. We've saved a ton on toilet paper too, so it's not just the sparkly clean buttholes that makes it awesome.
it just seems like it's get other parts of you splashed with gross-water and it's kind of gross to think about how other people have used it and i don't know contaminated it. i don't want other peoples' ...particles splashing up at my butthole.
The irony here is that nearly everyone that uses a bidet (which apparently is a huge proportion if not the majority in the developed/accessible world) think that those who don't use bidets are the disgusting ones.
Anyways, if that's how you feel, you should just avoid using anything public (showers, air dryers, toilets, water fountains etc.), if you're going to be that anal about it.
Unless the toilet is specifically using non-potable water, it's exactly the same water you are drinking and showering with.
Bidets are shooting out the water that's in the toilet, they're connected to the wall to the same water source that feeds the toilet.
They are incredibly sanitary in comparison to toilet paper, and are better than toilet paper for a variety of reasons including general health and cleanliness but also environmental impact and subjective experience.
Why is it unsanitary? Everything I have read says it's fine to do. You have to scrub your toilet bowl slightly more often but it’s not like flushing your toilet is very sanitary if you don’t close the lid beforehand.
I think it's implied that this is a private practice. Though in general, some people do lack knowledge on toilet flushing.