Comments on: My First Bidet http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:07:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kelly Crawford http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet/#comment-269931 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:53:36 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7463#comment-269931 Yeah, right. Bidet is awesome! Been using one from http://products.mercola.com/toilet-bidet/ and it’s really good. Try it.

]]> By: Peter http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet/#comment-146775 Tue, 26 May 2009 03:31:41 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7463#comment-146775 Yes we are bidet “free” if you want to call it free = free to wipe with toilet paper and hope you timed it right with your morning shower…right, never had a burrito I’m guessing. Just joshing. Bidet Sprayers are the way to go. Why Buy a Bathroom Bidet Sprayer? Because you win. With a Bathroom Bidet Sprayer you win in so many ways if it was a woman I’d marry it. First off you win by saving money, and what in these times is better than that, well ok a bailout may be better but get in line. By almost eliminating the need for toilet paper the savings are immediate and long lasting. Not saying you have to give it up, you can even buy the soft stuff and not feel guilty because you will be using so little. Next you win by giving yourself some healthy side benefits namely a lessening of hemorrhoids, should you have them, and the virtual elimination of rectal itch. Now we move onto the fact that you are helping the environment by lowering the amount of toilet paper used and therefore manufactured which saves water, electricity, and pollution. Now there is the hygiene factor and unless you think wiping your hands off with a dry paper towel is cleaner than washing them then you get the point. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: “if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn’t wipe it off with paper, would you? You’d wash it off” There is the convenience of having such a handy means of washing up with after which at times, say after that big burrito you had at lunch, can get a might messy. That is the main reason why stand alone conventional bidets were invented but they are too expensive and don’t even work as well as the Hand Bidet Sprayer. Lastly there is the least practical but potentially the most influential reason of all……it just feels good. Cleaner, fresher, rejuvenating even. Can you imagine not brushing you teeth after a big meal? I can’t, and I can’t imagine just wiping with dry toilet paper and leaving it at that…..shudder. This is the best thing since the toilet was invented, give it a try. http://www.bathroomsprayers.com

]]> By: Erika http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet/#comment-146773 Tue, 26 May 2009 03:21:34 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7463#comment-146773 I must say, this has been quite an eye-opening comments thread! I had heard of bidets, obviously, but had only the vaguest idea of what they were really for, and no real idea why someone would want one.

Pre-moistened wipes (like baby wipes, but for adults) have become very popular in the US in the last few years. These serve the same purpose as bidets (for men and women both). But they are expensive, and I can understand why someone would prefer to keep chemicals away from “sensitive areas.”

I also think – if I may generalize – that many Americans have learned to time their morning poop so that it happens pre-shower. And as a girl, there are “certain times” when I will take a 2nd shower at the end of the day, if clean-up beyond the ability of wipes is required.

America is indeed a bidet-free zone. I’m 36 and I’ve never seen one in person.

]]> By: Eric Titzer http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet/#comment-146769 Tue, 26 May 2009 01:41:46 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7463#comment-146769 Davimack@94,
You should see the public toilets in Okinawa. They are literally a slit trench (and it’s even a porcelain molded slit trench that flushes)! Some, in remote locations like a beach, don’t even have a door on them. They are just a porcelain slit trench in a open ended stall. No modesty here. Anyhow, the flush mechanism is at the far end and stands just tall enough that if you want to face it you can hold onto the pipe to steady yourself. Of course, you could face the other way and risk said accidental colonic should you lose your footing. The whole flush arrangement reminded me of playing miniature golf when they had the little tunnel you hit the ball into to send it down a level. You press the handle and away it goes down the pipe in the end… kind of like your gold ball. Then again, this particular “toilet” was on a small rise looking over the beach and the pipe end pointed to the ocean. I never dove on that beach again after that seeing how I could not get that analogous image out of my head whenever I thought of where my poo went. Luckily, the Japanese do believe in sending the paper products down the same pipe. I’m not sure I could handle the whole hot, humid, putrid stench if they didn’t.

]]> By: pro expatria mori http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet/#comment-146767 Tue, 26 May 2009 01:36:01 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7463#comment-146767 Dude, bidet is the awesomeness. Never used them before I went to Argentina. Now, I miss them more than empanadas. If you’ve ever had an itchy ass they fix this. If you take a particularly gross dump, they got you covered. They are your friend. Americans seriously need to discover what it means to have a good ass washing.
Word of warning: turn the beast on slowly. I guarantee that you will have an eruption at least once during the learning process. This is normal. Just towel down the walls and try again.

]]> By: Peter http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet/#comment-146766 Tue, 26 May 2009 01:06:45 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7463#comment-146766 Yes I want to listen to someone’s opinion named “coolstar” on what is “un-AmUrican” !!! Please don’t leave whatever small, hick town you live in again so the rest of us won’t be embarrassed by your small minded attitudes.

]]> By: coolstar http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet/#comment-146760 Mon, 25 May 2009 23:33:46 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7463#comment-146760 The only thing I can imagine that is more COMPLETELY un-Amurican than a bidet is SOCCER. The first time I HAD to use one was in a house with no REAL toilet and the predictable happened: I caused a mini-flood in the residents shiny new ultra-modern bathroom (which served them right).

]]> By: Anna Feruglio Dal Dan http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet/#comment-146753 Mon, 25 May 2009 21:17:08 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7463#comment-146753 Whenever one of my Italian relatives or friends comes to visit, problem Number One, totally, WAY before the language, is the absence of bidets. My mom has a special basin in my house that she fits over the toilet bowl.

My uncle drew me into an intensely embarrassing conversation about how in Heaven or Hell do the Brits cope without bidets? I told him, squirming, that they shower. “What?” he said, horrified. “They have a shower every time they take a dump?” I changed the subject real quick.

The funniest bidet I’ve seen is my boyfriend’s British house. Obviously it was installed because it was a posh house and that’s what posh houses have, but whoever designed the arrangement of the bathroom furnishings didn’t really know its purpose, clearly, because as in many British houses, the toilet is in a separate little room… and the bidet is next door.

]]> By: ddlee http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet/#comment-146704 Sun, 24 May 2009 19:55:57 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7463#comment-146704 You do realize that http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet
is now the top hit on google for “Canonical Bidet Page”

]]> By: DaviMack http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/22/my-first-bidet/#comment-146677 Sun, 24 May 2009 15:10:39 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7463#comment-146677 You know, I wonder why there aren’t any of these things in Scotland? I mean, it’d seem a perfect fit: we’ve got way more water than anybody wants (no such thing as a low-flow anything, here), plus a far greater percentage of people wearing skirts (and no pesky undergarments to get in the way). Yep, they ought to be huge, here … but, alas, we have to go over to the continent to find them.

Fabulous commentary, all. Dancing about all manner of subjects with such grace and delicacy!

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