• rockerface 🇺🇦
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        1410 months ago

        Wait, those exist? I might have to look into it, because I can’t install a normal bidet in my apartment (horrible Soviet era piping all over the place)

        • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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          1110 months ago

          Are you saying the water supply to the tank is non standard? That’s the only piece you need to interact with. I’ve yet to see a non standard one

          • @Duranie@literature.cafe
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            710 months ago

            After the birth of my first child I ended up with a hemorrhoid. Truth be told, I was scared shitless to touch anything down there for a couple days after the trauma. They had given me a squishy bottle to rinse myself while everything recovered. Warm water from the tap was heavenly lol.

        • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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          310 months ago

          My $35 bidet is awesome and just diverts water from the tank. It took less than 10 minutes to install: remove seat, place bidet, replace seat, unscrew tank water supply, screw in water splitting hose. You don’t even need to turn off the water, that’s how easy it is. It’s great for renters, too, because you’re not actually making any modifications, and it’s easy to remove with no trace.

          Mine’s a Luxe, but there are several like it in the same price range.

      • tiredofsametab
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        610 months ago

        Tons of places do not have bidets. Hell, numerous places here still have squat toilets. I guess they are common in many tourist spots and stations in bigger cities. I have some occasional digestive issues and tend to know where toilets with washlets are in places I frequent.

  • @MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    3110 months ago

    We had them and then moved to a new place with solid metal lines going to the toilet so I couldn’t reinstall our bidets. I lived in luxury for years only to have it snatched away… Don’t take your bidet for granted people.

    • @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      1610 months ago

      Does your toilet’s water line have connectors on either side, or is it just straight from the wall to the toilet? If the latter, you really need to talk to a plumber, but the former can be solved by just getting a new hose line.

  • @rmuk@feddit.uk
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    2610 months ago

    I just do that dog thing where I hitch my legs up and use my arms to drag my ass down the hallway runner.

    • brvslvrnst
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      1910 months ago

      “Technology” in this instance is “little nozzle pointed at bum” 🙃

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      1410 months ago

      Sorry what’s the joke here? Big parts of India has issues with sanitation

      • @SoonaPaana@lemmy.world
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        810 months ago

        Sorry! Didnt mean to offend! Indians typically use their hands to wipe their butts with water. I think it is cleaner and uses less water relatively. The joke I intended to make was that India has been using water to wash themselves for several years whereas the west needed the invention of a bidet to force the change.

        • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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          Its almost like westerners came up with the germ theory of disease tranamission and adjusted their sanitation methods to prevent it.

          • @SoonaPaana@lemmy.world
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            I agree! But also both Hinduism and Islam had cleanliness rituals baked into their religion. Maybe they were able to notice historically that periodic bathing multiple times a day, helped them to avoid diseases!

            • @s_s@lemm.ee
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              210 months ago

              Sino-Asian countries only drink hot drinks for similar reasons…

            • @Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
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              110 months ago

              Honestly humans are stupid and it is so interesting what we learned to do for sometimes awful reasons that turned out to be pretty good for us. I mean a lot of medicine was “getting the devil out of you” for a long time and it sometimes happened to work because people would just do random shit.

  • katy ✨
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    810 months ago

    can’t believe david tennant’s husband was the head of one of the largest and most power vampires in the world and david tennant was a vampire expert.

  • @Tremble@sh.itjust.works
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    510 months ago

    Funny thing is during the time period of the folks dressed here…. They were dirty nasty and thought taking baths actually made you sick. These guys would have had shit encrusting there assholes in cookie cutter shapes like stars and hearts, and they would have smelled worse than a alcoholic who pissed themselves on the subway.

  • @AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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    410 months ago

    “Wipers watching bidet users spray their nasty all over.” Two sides of the same coin if you ask me. The happy medium is the dry wipe followed by the wet wipe then another dry.

    • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      1310 months ago

      It’s directed water, and goes straight into the bowl. There’s no ‘all over’ unless you’re doing it wrong.

      Also, I hope you’re not flushing those wet wipes. They lie about being biodegradable and cause fatbergs in the sewer that workers have to go down and clear.

      • @AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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        God no! lmao that’s almost as bad as that podcast guy that admitted he’d catch his own poop and gently drop it in the toilet so it doesn’t splash.

        You can get plumbing-safe wet wipes (baby wipes, basically). They work perfectly well.

        • @seathru@lemm.ee
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          2010 months ago

          plumbing-safe wet wipes

          That’s usually a lie. But as long as it’s a rent house, it’s fine.

        • @LordKitsuna@lemmy.world
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          1210 months ago

          There’s no such thing as flushable wet wipes. They might not clog your particular pipes but they do not break down in water. They can’t because then they wouldn’t be able to be wet. They contribute to massive clogs in the sewer systems that people have to go down and break up honestly it should be illegal to sell them

        • veroxii
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          210 months ago

          There’s no such thing as truly flushable wipes. They’re the bane of plumbers everywhere… Actually more the bane of people having to pay the plumber bill at some stage. A quick google will confirm this.

          Think of it… To be flushable they need to disintegrate in water. But they’re wet wipes so they are always wet… Yet they’re not disintegrating. Wipes which disintegrate in water is just toilet paper.

    • @fosho@lemmy.ca
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      310 months ago

      it’s kinda sad how close minded some folks are… so much so that they’ll convince themselves that flushing harmful waste is ok.