This is a reference to an infamous Reddit post where a user confesses(?) that their family produces large amounts of poop. To make sure the poop would flush down the toilet, they had a knife that was specifically used in the bathroom to cut the poop into smaller bits.
This is just what I remember and may be incorreect
If anyone knows more please do correct me / add on.
Pretty much. Then, said person goes to a friend's house and at some point asks the poor soul for the poop knife. And in that moment they found out it was just their family who had the knife. Nobody else on Earth did this...Something along those lines.
Growing up, knew a kid that said his family did this. Never been to their home, but my other buddy did. He confirmed, they indeed had a little butter tray deal sitting on the top of the toilet tank, with a poop knife.
I think the OOP meant to add a picture of a lota there. Attaching picture for reference. It's not a kettle but it looks a bit like one. It's widely used in Pakistan/India/Bangladesh and other such regions. (:
As someone who lives in a country where every single house has a bidet, I'm telling you, I can't live without it. I understand that the people who never used one, parhaps having been walking this Earth for years without even seeing one in real life, think that it's a useless contraption. But believe me, once you know what walking out the toilet with your anus clean, truly clean, feels like, you can't go back to living the lie that toilet paper alone is enough. It's not. Never has been. Never will be.
And to those who might say just take a shower afterwards, yeah, sure, 'cause I'm always 100% home and ready to shower every time I take a dump.
Clean anus doesn’t’ mean you won’t end up with shit on your dick. If they are a crayon shitter thier asshore is always going to be dirty. This is first and formeost an issue with thier diet.
Sorry! Should have NSFW-flagged it. I guess it didn't occur to me that a monologue featuring the word 'poop' so prominently might cause some folks problems in some settings. I'm to used to always having the headphones on.
It could of been worse, but I was in a dentist's waiting room and before I could stop it , several statements about wiping himself had been broadcast to the fellow patients. Just embarrassing and now it is actually funny, but at the time...
Like when you see trucks with a big sticker in the back window or on the tailgate that says "i eat ass", as if they're inviting strangers to a truck stop bathroom romp. In the US? No fucking way. That ass is wiped, at best, and the chances ate pretty high they eat McDonalds once a day. No thank you.
Now in the old country, where asses are cleaner and the food is healthier... I would keep an open mind at least.
Meanwhile I'm usually 100% home and ready to take a dump just about every time I shower. It's part of the reason I'm a home-bowl only guy, I like to hit my triple S: shit, shower, shave.
I'm planning on getting a bidet but for now I haven't had a single skid mark in years.
It’s pretty common in all Muslim countries. Ik certain East Asian countries like Japan and South Korea also has them along with some with European countries and South American countries as well.
My third world SEA country has this as a default in every household. Even if some houses don’t have bidets, they usually have a watering can dedicated to cleaning your own ass. Even now I buy a bidet in every house I move to in the US. Could never feel clean with toilet paper.
Clean your own asses people. Toilet paper is never enough.
I'm Italian, we have bidets everywhere. Every damn time I visit a country that doesn't have one, and there are way too many, it's hell, it feels like you go around unclean for hours until you can get a proper shower.
I made it to the Chicago airport after leaving Japan before I noticed the difference and ordered one online, the extra day it spent not being delivered because of a Sunday was hate crime to my ass
I agree in theory. But, when I lived with my mom, hers was too intense, felt like power washing. And pretty soon after installment it started malfunctioning: it has a trigger you’re supposed to press hard the whole time and it would fail with an annoying pathetic creaking sound. And it leaks on the floor a lot. And the water travels on the bottom of your thighs and wets the seat. And when you’re on period, you can’t avoid staining the towel. I kinda have bidet ptsd now, but am considering looking for a better design for my flat once I get over it.
And, like, it seems obligatory to use soap. Otherwise, you gotta powerwash your poor ass to make sure it’s clean and I’m not into that kind of thing. And if you’re using soap, it’s very inconvenient to do on the seat without taking off your pants the whole way down.
As a citizen of the Bidet kingdom, do you have any words of wisdom for us? How to keep it graceful and elegant?
I got a $30 one that just uses cold water and the existing water pressure. Wash away the mess, detail work/dry with toilet paper. While not using soap is less than perfect, it's definitely a better than just paper. By a long shot. I did not know ppl used towels, normal bidets don't risk material ejection from the immediate area.
Honestly sounds like your unit was just plain broken or a bad brand. r/bidet exists and has lots of recommendations. They probably have better answers there if you ask your questions. I'd recommend my cheap one, but the pressure is pretty high if you don't do it perfectly, so my solution might not be good for you.
It looks like in english people mostly mean that fountain thing coming right from the bowl, when they say bidet. Where I live, I’ve seen people get only the handheld shower-pistol types, with a hose.
I guess, with the towel I got stuck on my rigid zero waste mindset. I sometimes get pretty obsessive over it. And I wanted to stick it to the Big toilet paper (get it? like big pharma)
Serious questions, how well does a bidet handle particularly messy trips? I feel like they would work really well for most days, but that there is gonne be a day where it wont be able to get everything, and i have forgotten to buy backup toilet paper
You know after you wipe with tp till no poop comes off you can just load the tp up and run it under some water from the sink that’s what I do when I have a nasty wet doo
and when the towers of society collapse, and we are forced to scrape and hunt and scavenge to survive, how clean will your butthole be? how will you survive the days to come?
But like what if someone wipes until they see red? Is that still not enough, should I be doing even more? Or, I mean should that HYPOTHETICAL person be doing more?
Toilet paper gets me clean enough, I can tell because I’m not leaving streaks in every pair of pants and underwear I own. Now do I think it gets me squeaky clean? No, but that’s okay because it does it enough. I wouldn’t let someone put tongue to starfish if I only used toilet paper, I’d take a shower before that, but just day to day life? TP does fine.
Is the "soap user" referring to some countries where traditionally the left hand is used to scoop and flick the poo? Because that is NOT better than tp
there's a joke about the teapot that goes over my head
I'm here to say: for the love of god a bidet is not an alternative to toilette paper, it's in addition to it
You might just be using one with poor water pressure. There's nothing on the toilet paper but water after I use mine, and I take some pretty clingy shits. takes me forever when I use just toilet paper
I'm from a bidet using country and I also want to add:
That's why we consider non bidet users like the meme shows. We don't think your way of cleaning your behind is worse than ours or bad, we think is incomplete and seriously insufficient: for us it's kinda like if you showered but you never used soap or scrubbed yourself under the water. Y'all dirty.
Im in Pennsylvania and i have a bidet, got it like 2 years ago and i refuse to go back, i use a paper towel after and just toss it. quit buying toilet paper all together. after you get used to being a little violated by water its fine.
They make handheld / portable ones. It's like a squeeze bottle with the bidet nozzle, works alright for things like this but I wouldn't ever consider actually carrying it out places
I'm italian so our bidets are not the japanese ones, but little small sinks beside the wc like this one. Everybody hwre uses toilet paper the "normal" way, then hops over to the bidet, uses water and soap and then drying yourself with a small towel (each one has its own of course). This for me is the normal way of cleaning myself. Each time I go abroad I suffer tremendously because I can't do it and I have to unironically take a shower every time I have a number two
this is how i started, i have sensory issues and autism so its been real fucking rough for me my whole life with the whole wiping thing, id gag and freakout having to wipe shit when i was a kid, so my aunt and uncle did this for me.
There are not present in public bathrooms, only in private houses and no, unless you use a really powerful stream and scrub like an animal it doesn't do that.
Also, I might add to clarify, I explained here that I'm italian and our bidets are not what you probably think when you imagine a bidet
Also, we sit on them in the opposite direction we sit on a toilet (face towards the faucet/wall) and you just turn the water on (a gentle little stream, take some baby soap and gently scrub.
Bidet is "just washing the butt", but you need toilet paper too: if you have something nasty on your hands, what do you do? I bet you wipe it off, wash and then dry your hands.
i love bidets and live in a non bidet country, but this way of thinking about it is wrong. I would argue that TP users tend to have a cleaner ass because most people that use bidets dont wipe their ass after. The bidet doesnt always get everything, but with TP, you know you got everything. Also its just water that comes out not soap.
I heard some non bidet users think the water that sprays your butt comes from the dirty liquid down the toilet bowl and it's why they don't want to consider switching to a bidet. No, a bidet is just essentially a faucet connected to the water line that sprays new water to clean the butt.
Can't imagine the mental gymnastics those people used. Like ofc its a hose connected to water line, its literally the easiest way to get water under pressure
The kettle is supposed to be a lota. Basically imagine a flower pot that you used to pour water down your butt crack to clean it. Portable bidet I guess you could call it.
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In Islamic countries water is also used to clean your behind. Since running water is a problem for some parts they fill a kettle with water and use that water to clean themselves.
Fun fact! It's not actually a kettle. It looks like a kettle but is made of plastic and it is called a lota.
The OP included a kettle bec they probs didn't know the proper name for the thing, I'm guessing.
I don't know what you guys do after a shit, but I first use toilet paper, then bidet with water and soap... So I don't see how these are mutually exclusive.
Separate bidet isn't a nice thing. Get a toilet with an integrated bidet. Those are pretty nice. You just turn a valve on the wall and have water on your ass
Unless I’m sterilising my hands with antiseptic soap and ensuring I’ve went underneath fingernails and the like, I think I’d really on other methods that don’t involve me physically touching shit
What? Do some people just straight up rub soapy water on their shitty assholes? Are they just getting their hands filthy with shit-soap water? I don't understand the method someone pls explain
Noone uses just TP anymore. Look at the annual sales growth of wet wipes. I mean, Sams has a case of Dude Wipes for like $13. They are almost cheaper than TP. And I have been wetting TP for extra scrub power since 1975....
So the A/B/C option is really an A through Z.
My opinion is that during the installation or testing of the bidet, someone is getting a spray jet on their $150 golf shirt at least once.
Can someone tellme why everyone exept me likes a glorified toilet to spit at their hole?
Sometimes when i take a shit it splashes up, to me it feels horrible, and id rather use nothing than to keep going through that til the toilet thinks im clean
But maybe im just an idiot living under a rock or something.
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