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It’s time to get on the bidet train, America
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- Title
- The Pandemic Has Made At Least One Thing Clear: It's Time to Get on the Bidet Train, America
- Authors
- Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Ali Breland, Rebecca Smithers, Megan Jula, Jeremy Schulman, Dave Gilson, Anna V. Smith, Jamilah King, Naveena Sadasivam, Nathalie Baptiste, Clint Hendler
- Published
- May 5 2020
- Word count
- 2065 words
The Stuff You Should Know podcast has an excellent episode on this very subject.
I don't feel clean without wet wipe
One of the reason why i avoid public toilet as much as possible
Single ply being the other
I hope you don't flush these. You know they clog up the sewers, right?
People often have little trash cans next to their toilets.
People often don't realize that wet wipes shouldn't be flushed either though (e.g. my sister didn't at first)... so it's a valid concern to bring up, IMO.
A little unfair to assume Thiccpad is unaware. Well, at least with the tone Algernon_Asimov presented.
Maybe I’m reading too much into a conversation about ass-wipes, tho.
If you're going to give thiccpad the benefit of the doubt, I don't see why algernon doesn't deserve the same, and I personally didn't read any hostility in his comment. It struck me as just trying to inform someone who potentially may not know, is all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don't bother trying to defend me. Thank you, but it's a waste of time.
You and I may bump heads a fair amount, but even still ❤️ :)
And they put their shitty wipes in the bin? Sounds unhygienic to me. Also smelly.
Which a bidet would replace...
Not really. Bidet users still wipe.
Not with a wet wipe.
Wet wipes are not commonly used for that purpose here in Brazil unless you are a baby, but there's nothing stopping you from doing so.
There's nothing stopping people from using newspaper either, doesn't change the fact that the context was wet wipe vs bidet.
I understand. I think the context is wrong. It's based on a false dilemma.
I have a bidet and I still wipe, but only after using the bide. I use much fewer wipes because of that. I believe most people do the same.
Ewww.
Edit: Turns out I am culturally ignorant, and this is normal in some cultures.
I don't think they mean the same towel you dry your hands with, but probably a set of hand towel sized or wash cloth sized towels that you throw in the wash with a generous helping of bleach. Plus, the bidet (reportedly, I've yet to try one but I want to) gets your butt much cleaner than paper would have, so there's not really much fecal matter to get on the towel (or small bit of paper if it really skeeves you out).
I have a bidet, it’s very common here. We don’t use towels on our assess :P Just a bit of toilet paper. It’s clean, practical and eco friendly. It’s also good for the health of our bottoms.
I use a bidet.
The idea of wiping my ass with a hand towel is very strange to me.
Does one share the ass towel with family?
If it's a thing, please do tell me, and I will be careful of which hand towels I use when I am a guest in anothers abode.
Edited to be less inflammatory.
People who are super committed to zero waste do things that others find gross sometimes. I would envision having enough wash cloth sized kind of rags that each one is only used once before it's washed. I guess in the strictest sense you're still sharing them with others but it's washed in between. Kept and washed separately from hand dying towels though, and I would definitely provide toilet paper for guests.
Basically. Here's an example
I suppose, in theory, it's basically just a cloth diaper that you don't have to wear all day. So if you're already used to handling cloth diapers it shouldn't be too bad. But I have no idea how you deal with the smell when disposing of the things. You'd need a very airtight disposal container, but that would also inhibit letting the cloth dry, out which would be important for hygiene since moisture promotes microbial growth.
You don't need to bleach away poop, it's organic matter so soap (or detergent) is all you need to do a fantastic job of dissolving it.