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[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 90 points 10 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

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] swab148@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 15 points 10 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.

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 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?

[–] NormalPerson@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

That's a fair question.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 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

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (6 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.

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 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.

[–] arbitrary_sarcasm@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Loudermilk had an episode on this.

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