Washing with water is better than using tissues: American scientists just figured this out
Washing with water is better than using tissues: American scientists just figured this out
The one thing all Asians can relate to is the difficulty of using the toilet in Western countries.
Imagine, you’re sitting there. Freshly finished doing your business (whether it’s a number one or number two), you look left and right and realise, “oh, no. I’ve made a terrible mistake.”
There’s no bidet, just toilet paper!
Asian’s have been happily cleaning their bums with water since we can remember, why hasn’t the West evolved to assimilate water into their toilet practices yet? Well, probably because they’re only realising the benefits of washing with water
Much to the surprise of Americans, Dr Evan Goldstein, a rectal surgeon in New York City, told Insider during ButtCon (basically Comic-Con, but with butts) that washing with water is actually the ideal way to clean yourself after using the bathroom for a number of reasons.
Asians know that using only tissue to wipe basically means you’re just smearing that faecal matter around (gross!), without actually cleaning the area.
Meanwhile, washing with water (and soap, guys! Especially when it’s a number two!) thoroughly cleans the area of any trace of faeces. Finishing that off with a wipe of tissue paper to dry, leaves our backsides feeling cleaner and fresher after every poop!
Full article: https://www.therakyatpost.com/2020/02/1 ... -this-out/
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It's the first thing politicians should be doing in Europe banning toilet paper But they would rather you buy a new electric car and save the planet that way.
Even if toilet paper comes from sustainably managed forests it's a complete waste.
Even if toilet paper comes from sustainably managed forests it's a complete waste.
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French bathrooms and posher ones in other countries often have bidets. There is a slight issue of the water being very cold in northern climes. Also you don't want to walk around with wet underpants in a cold country, they will stay wet all day.
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Water to wash it paper to dry it ,both are useful.Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 6:38 pmFrench bathrooms and posher ones in other countries often have bidets. There is a slight issue of the water being very cold in northern climes. Also you don't want to walk around with wet underpants in a cold country, they will stay wet all day.
The Australian Embassy doesn't have bidets because they couldn't find one that passes Australian sanitary standards. Apparently bidets on the market allow the shit particles to go inside, ready to be shot up the rectum by the next bathroom visitor.
There is some law in the U.K. about brown water and grey water as it's known, and their disposal can't happen down the same waste pipe or something.
Legally fitting bumguns is expensive and requires some sort of inspection.
Bidets are ok but I think must be connected to the brown water outlet.
It's very inconvenient.
Legally fitting bumguns is expensive and requires some sort of inspection.
Bidets are ok but I think must be connected to the brown water outlet.
It's very inconvenient.
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Any bidets I've seen had a fairly gentle spray, they are best not shared though. They use up a lot of space too.
I prefer butt sprayers but I'm not sure how hygienic they are either. Again it shouldn't matter at home, but in shared bathrooms it's different. Those sprays are hitting and cleaning but the contaminated spray is going all over the place and probably into the air too.
Butt sprayers aren't everywhere though. For some reason the more expensive hotels don't have them, and I'm not sure if the airport has any? On the other end of the scale many local households don't either, especially in rural areas. A lot of times it's just a cement or tiled trough or a huge bucket - and a scoop that looks a bit like a pan your mom might have warmed up milk in, but plastic. In other places it might just be the end cut off a 2 liter Coke bottle, or a plastic oil can sliced in half with the handle still good.
It's whats gotta be done but I can think of many ways that pathogens or parasites could spread because of a lack of hygiene by even just a small proportion of the people using these toilets.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Anyone whose argument that water *might* spray particles up their arse*, which will shit them out next round even it somehow a one in a million shot happened .. and then proceeds to smear shit all over themselves with paper is a moron.
I still know a couple of foreigners here who have that "you use the bum gun?!" surprise despite living here for years; I can't imagine living here, knowing that you WILL get the shits, and refusing to use the bum gun. Damn I can't get that image out of my head now. Just nasty.
Would you wipe this with tissue, or hose that beast down?!
* note, you don't actually wedge the hose up your arse ...
I still know a couple of foreigners here who have that "you use the bum gun?!" surprise despite living here for years; I can't imagine living here, knowing that you WILL get the shits, and refusing to use the bum gun. Damn I can't get that image out of my head now. Just nasty.
Would you wipe this with tissue, or hose that beast down?!
* note, you don't actually wedge the hose up your arse ...
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
I’ve gotten used to the ice cold winter water. Eventually will be upgrading to heated bidet
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The Japanese have it mastered. Open the bathroom door and the seat raises with a squirt of air freshener. Sit on a heated seat, and do your business. Afterward, choose the spray strength and angle that you would like. Then choose the dryer. Stand and the seat will close, it will flush, and it will then clean the bowl before the next person enters.
It's not rocket science....
It's not rocket science....
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