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[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 months ago (42 children)

When people think a bidet is stupid, I always ask: If you had poop on your arm, would you clean it with water or just wipe it with a dry towel and call it a day?

Not to mention it's less irritating for ur bum

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey, that's mine. You can't have it.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (13 children)

This question shows that people can have differing standards of cleanliness and it's OK. Because the answer is "would you spray your arm with water only or would you use soap?" Bidets don't use soap, so with either bidet or paper you can still feel dirty until a shower, it's just what level of dirty you're willing to accept.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bidets don’t use soap? Well, I use soap on every use, what kind of bidet instructions do you follow up? Sponge and hands, a bidet is like a mini shower in your groins without a full body implication, is just a washbasin at a convenient height… don’t you wash your hands and your face in the morning with soap in the washbasin?

EDIT: Probably we imply different things for “bidet”, I got South European one in mind…

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hey, fellow Spuds fan. I have a similar one but it's: "If you smeared peanut butter on the outside of a watermelon but wiped it off with dry toilet paper, wouldn't you expect it to still smell like peanut butter?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's a fair question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I feel like they're both gonna smell like peanut butter about the same

Especially if you do that with a potato instead of a watermelon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Certainly the one you've sprayed after wiping would smell less like peanut butter though? The first thing we do when cleaning anything seriously is get the wiper/scrubber/sponge/paper towel wet, with either water or cleaning solutions.

The moral of the story is y'all need to wash your asses however it gets done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I mean if your argument is that things will be cleaner if you wash them twice (once with paper and once with water), compared to washing it once, then the answer is obviously yes washing twice will make things cleaner than washing them once.

I do agree that alternating between scrubbing (paper) and rinsing (bidet) will probably get you cleaner - but based on the comments I see, that's not what bidet users are actually doing.

But yes, folks need to wash their asses better.
And their hands too, way too many people leave public washroom without washing their hands. Wtf.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Honestly I'd say wiping my arm with a bunch of paper towels is about the same as spraying it down with a garden hose. I feel like people who say otherwise have never actually tried to rinse something off their body with just water pressure and no scrubbing.

I still plan to get a bidet because it's less irritating as you said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Loudermilk had an episode on this.

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