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Why YSK: It's cleaner, cheaper and more convenient than toilet paper

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

Do you all have an electric outlet by your toilet to get heated water already? I'm interested in trying it out in my house, but don't want to run electric for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

heated water is nice, but room temperature water direct from the pipes is not as cold as I expected. It's still much better than TP.

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

I've thought of getting at least a portable Bidet for a while (I rent, so can't really install a proper bidet). How easy are they to install?

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

For a bidet attachment like tushy it's just shut off the water, flush to drain toilet, remove seat, attach bidet and use the hose splitter for the water, and put seat back on over the bidet attachment.

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

laughs in Italian yes come to the right side of personal hygiene

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I've tried them before and have never had a good experience. It either is too high pressure and hurts, or it's too low pressure and doesn't clean.

And I'm not particularly a fan of how wet everything gets down there after using one.

Is there a particular trick to them or, am I missing something?

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

The one I have has a dial to adjust how fast the water comes out. Sometimes I need a gentle whisper of water, othertimes I need my butthole power washed.

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

It truly is life changing. A roommate received one as a gift in college. We soon fitted the other bathroom with a bidet as well because it was too good.

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

ok.....I'm intrigued. I've actually been using my kid's baby wipes because really, anything is better than dry TP. Looking at some options on Costco, seems the cheapy is just a hand-held thing for $80, then the seat-integrated ones are around $300 and up. Is the seat integration worthwhile? What about water temp? Is it basically a cold-shot to the butthole? That'll wake me up, no doubt.

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

I thought the cold shot to the hole was going to be horrible, but it's actually a little refreshing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Huh....OK more intrigued. I can't say I've had that experience. FOMO is building.

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

I love using a bidet, but one problem I do have with it is that the water jet thingy stopped receding after a while, so every flush now splashes poop and water onto the jet nozzle and I have to manually use the cleaning mode every time I use the bidet.

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

Do they make any that don't take up the rear 3/4 of the seat? I'm interested in getting one but with the standard round toilet you lose a lot of real estate. I don't want my poops to look like they've been squeezed through a playdough extruder or worry about missing my target in an emergency situation.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There are about a million people here all saying the same thing. It’s amazing, it’s better than you think, and once you use one, you will never ever go back.

It’s all true. When you poop in a public restroom or at a friends house without one, you will feel tainted.

In the winter if you’re worried about cold water, you should know the anus is not very temperature sensitive. I suppose because in our evolutionary past we did not use our anus much to sense the temperature of objects.

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