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How do you not drip back onto it? Do you use paper too? How is it okay for me to use the same one right after Typhoid Larry? Doesn't poo go everywhere?

It just seems so weird.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 11 months ago (17 children)

The actual sprayer nozzle sits towards the back of the bowl and sprays up at an angle so any dripping is going straight down into the bowl not landing on the sprayer nozzle.

It's getting fresh water, not recycling bowl water, I suppose there could be some small risk if Larry has explosive diarrhea all over the nozzle, but its probably no worse than if you have any splashback after using a regular toilet after him. Most of the models I have used also have a self-cleaning feature that will have the nozzle rinse itself (they still do need to be actually cleaned periodically of course)

There is a little bit of splashing, unless you're abnormally small and skinny though most of it is probably just going to get your butt and staying in the toilet, once in a while I'll get a couple drops on the front of the toilet seat and I'm pretty sure that's just over-spray shooting directly between my legs, not poop water splashing off of my ass

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago

I think this is the best response. So many people are answering a seemingly angry way to a question that seems sincere. It's clear OP didn't get how it worked and just wanted some information and wasn't saying it was a terrible idea.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Also a lot of typhoid and stomach flu type pathogens don’t spread butthole to butthole, they spread via the β€œfecal-oral” route so.. that happens in situations like someone took too small a slice and touches your food (or receipt that you ate to prove they liked your gift) without washing their hands properly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Okay but are you just using toilet paper to dry afterwards? And does just water actually get it all? You've still got to get in there a bit right?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

A few things.

  1. On mine there's a little guard around the sprayer and it peeks down under it when in use. There's also a cleaning mode.
  2. I do use a some toilet paper to dry. Less than I would if I wiped. One day I'll upgrade to one of the fancy units with a dryer.
  3. I don't know about other people but I move around a bit to make sure that the spray gets everything, including "in there a bit". If you dab to dry and your tp has anything other than water on it you didn't do a good enough job spraying.
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It depends on your bowel movements and how much fiber you eat. I still have to wipe a little after the water, but far less than without. Others, drying is enough.

After using one for a while now, it seems so uncivilized not using one now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Most people do, but a couple squares to pat dry is probably less than you'd use otherwise. Some fancier models have blow dryers. Personally, I won't lie, I'm probably going to sit on the toilet for a few minutes scrolling through Lemmy on my phone after I've done my business so I tend to just air/drip dry.

I have some pretty basic models, and they do a pretty good job getting everything clean, they have a pretty powerful jet. Definitely a lot better than I've ever been able to do with TP.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I'm going to explain how an Italian bidet works, I don't know if you're referring to some other kind of bidet (e.g. the pressure washers).

You do your thing, then you lightly clean yourself with paper. Don't waste too much paper, just one pass or two will suffice.

Then you get up from the toilet bowl and go on the bidet. In Italy, it's always next to the toilet bowl so you don't have to walk around like a maniac. The best way to sit on the toilet is to "ride it" as if it was a horse (so you face the water).

You open the water, maybe you wait for it to become warm (it depends on the kind of heating system you have in your home, sometimes it takes longer to come out warm). Then you get some soap (we use a specific kind of delicate liquid soap that we call "intimate soap" in Italian). You apply the soap to your private parts and you rinse using the water.

After you've finished cleaning, you dry youself using a personal towel. This is important: you don't share your bidet towel with anybody. We usually use a smaller kind of towel.

And that's how an Italian uses a bidet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

You left out the bow at the end.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

would this be like, only in your own home? or would you be carrying the bidet towel around with you when in public?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago

You always carry both your towel and your bidet wherever you go. This is very important.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

Is this the towel suggested in the hitchhikers guide?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

No of course only in your home. If you're visiting someone else for some days they'll give you a bidet towel. If you're just outside well... you'll just use your toilet paper. Some people will use the bidet anyway and dry with toilet paper, but that's a bit annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't need to defend power washing my butt to you. You need to defend mashing shit around your buttskin through microscopically thin and flimsy sheets of paper to me.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (8 children)

noone was talking about defending stuff, rather explaining.

tbh, it's kinda unclear to me as well how do you use a bidet properly, I mean you walk around with shitty hole in your bathroom, when do you flush or clean up the toilet if neccessary...?

or if it's built into the toilet, you stand up still drippy hole? do you use soap? when and how? you dry your butt still sitting on top of your poo?

see? lots of unclarity here.

I'm thinking about upgrading my porcelain throne anyway...

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it's not like anyone on planet earth just takes a single sheet and wipes with that.....right?

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[–] Noteleks 52 points 11 months ago

You can get a simple one that goes on your toilet. Turn dial, water hits, you pat dry and feel a million times cleaner. Most people that try them once get it. Just ask yourself if you would use water if you knew poop was smeared on any other part of your body

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Can you explain washing your hands? It seems so weird. Doesn’t the water just drip back on the sink? Do you dry your hands with paper after?

What seems weirder is using paper alone to wipe away feces from your body and doing nothing else during a bowel movement to clean yourself. I cannot understand my own countrymen’s aversion to using them. Squirting your asshole with water does’t make you gay.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Why are you making out like OP is stupid for asking questions about something they clearly just don't know much about? You could have just answered the questions.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Squirting your asshole with water does’t make you gay.

Are you sure though? I’m scared to test this theory.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember reading a comment thread on reddit about a guy who discovered his friend refused to wash his ass crack in the shower because he thought it was gay.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you’re scared of being gay you might actually just be gay.

In all seriousness though, everyone should get a hand bidet installed on their toilets ASAP. Once you squirt your asshole with water to clean the poop off you will immediately realize how disgusting you’ve been up until that moment in your life using only flimsy ass ass paper to wipe shit off your body.

I swear, Puritanism really did a number on North America.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, you share a toilet bowl with Typhoid Larry already. The bidet isn't going to be worse than that!

And honestly, they're the best thing ever! Sometimes it drips, but that's just like getting out of the shower, except with much less water. You can wipe off the drops with toilet paper, or you can just not bother. I'll do that if I'm going straight to bed for example, or if I'm putting on running gear etc that I'm going to sweat into anyway

[–] RoquetteQueen 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I reeeeeally recommend drying off after. Anyone who is prone to UTIs like I am, please dry off each time...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I love my bidet. Since the bidet came into my life I feel unclean after using a non-bidet toilet, even after using wet wipes. Imagine never having monkey-butt (an itchy asshole}. No more skid marks either.

Others have described the normal use of a bidet. I'm here to tell you about advanced bidet techniques. The first is learning the mini enema. You need a bidet with a water jet nozzle. Position yourself so the jet hits the bullseye. Slowly raise the water pressure until it starts filling your rectum with water. This is the hard part - relax. Your initial response will be to clinch shut the ol' brown eye. When full, turn off the water and let loose in the bowl. Repeat as needed. This cleanses the rectum and prevents those times when you feel like there's still some poop up inside that won't come out (because there is). It also prevents anal leakage that produces butt butter.

Once you've mastered the mini enema, you can use the technique to battle constipation. Squirt some water in that stuffed up bunghole, fill up, hold it in, stand up, then sit down and enjoy the relief.

It also provides immediate relief from a burning irritated bowel caused by eating Atomic Hot Wings from Wingstop.

Finally, the feminine wash setting is not just for women! After a sweaty workout where you don't have time for a proper shower, use it to wash your balls. That prevents itchy balls and the embarrassment of being caught scratching them.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They are butt showers.

You poop first in the toilet and if it was a messy one you use some paper (not all countries' pipes can handle paper though). Then you go to the bidet and clean there. Let the jet hit your hole and wiggle a bit if need be. Use some paper to dry off. Woman will also wash their privates with the bidet after peeing.

In India and China you also got a hose or just a hose in many places. That requires a bit more finesse due to the risk of giving yourself a shower if you don't aim well. You might even just get a cup which you fill and use to wash yourself manually. You need to carry some liquid soap and sanitizer when traveling in areas that might require this and keep your fingernails cut short. In remote areas it is a hole next to the animal pen and you bring your own paper.

I got a bidet attachment for my home during the pandemic due to the severe toilet paper hoarding that was going on.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For reference I have this one: https://a.co/d/94y5ID3

You use it while still seated so the water drips back into the toilet bowl; no mess there

I do use paper too to dry or further cleaning if needed

If you look at the 3rd picture on the link above you'll see that the sprayer lowers down while spraying and then retracts back behind a guard; I've never seen the guard or sprayer themselves get dirty from general toilet use

No, the water pressure isn't so intense that it would scatter debris everywhere

I first used one at a friend's house and found it does a far better job cleaning compared to just paper alone and would certainly recommend giving it a try

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

Because it sprays at an angle, not directly up

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

There are a number of videos on how to use a bidet but one of the best resources is Tushy.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

I have no idea about public bidets, but I have a cheap one in my home and there is a "wash nozzle" option which causes it to spray itself down with similar water pressure to what it uses on my asshole.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

if you got poop on your skin would you use water or a piece of paper to wash it off

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Piece of paper to smear it around more like

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

It's a shower, but just for your ass

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

I have a Toto that has a remote to let me control the flow, and it has a blow dryer for my bum. It’s self-cleaning and also has a heated seat. When society collapses it will be the the object I miss most. Haven’t used a poop knife in years.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Follow up question for those with ass hair: how long does it stay damp?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

It doesn't because I dry off with toilet paper

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Dude just get a bidet thing that you can install under your toilet seat. Just get one, don't question it! Best 30 € I've ever spent!

The thing is that with this you don't have to clean your ass anymore, it just does it by itself! You don't have to do anything anymore πŸ’β€β™‚οΈ and it's really not strange to use it. One may think it would feel strange but you'll see. Just get one! Everyone should have one πŸ’β€β™‚οΈπŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does poo go everywhere when you shower? It's like a small wash for your ass, but the stream is very concentrated so doesn't splash. The water isn't pulled from the bowl, but from the water tank. It gets your ass actually clean, which paper alone never does, you still use like one sheet of paper afterwards. I used one in Japan, and now I'm intending to replace my toilet, it's like the difference between hand washing clothes and using a washer dryer in terms of revolution to me.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

its a spray. its like with a water fountain its no issue if people drink from the stream but not if they suck the output (which do to placement can't be done). good ones have hot air dryers.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't use public bidets, but the one I have at home I would say is critical to my quality of life.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I dread holiday traveling to relatives because none of them have bidets. I will not go back

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Very simple, it works just like a sink, only you can sit on it. Some have a hose to make washing easier. Older models shoot water straight upwards like a fountain, but they all have a drain like a sink.

And you wipe first, so whatever falls into the bowl is small enough to be dissolved and passes through the drain.

It's ok to use after Typhoid Larry the same it is ok to use the sink after him. It's not a pressure washer so shouldn't be making a huge mess unless you are particularly clumsy. And btw, they're usually in private bathrooms so unless Larry is your housemate then it's likely just you using it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

How do you not drip back onto it?

I have only used (and own) asian or japanese style ones and its a little jet that squirts at your puckered pink starfish, water drips back into the bowl

Do you use paper too?

Yes, I have a hairy butthole and have to pat dry

How is it okay for me to use the same one right after Typhoid Larry?

Like any other toilet seat? I don't know.

Doesn't poo go everywhere?

No, not for me, anyways.

[–] sbv 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How easy is it to get your asshole into the stream? Does it spray your butt and you need to reposition?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Yes, I need to move around a bit to hit the mark, and generally ensure full coverage. Not sure how much I'm over doing it, but it works for me. Totally feel like I'm slumming any time I'm forced to use a toilet without one, now.

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