<p>I never fail to think of Crocodile Dundee’s revelation out the window of the hotel in New York–“It’s for washin’ yer backside!”</p>
<p>Just want to say this is the funniest thread that I remember reading on cc since my first post! Never thought I would read about this topic on cc.</p>
<p>Wait…so if you use a bidet you’re not supposed to use toilet paper? Eek! I’m leaning toward a combo of both.
A question: does a bidet shoot fresh water each time? (sorry if “shoot” is not an appropriate verb, I wouldn’t know.)</p>
<p>Northeastmom you should click on the link in dmd77’s post. This contraption evidently runs on electricity, and there’s even an engineer’s diagram or something, I guess so that the user can understand how it works. Personally, I cannot understand why they didn’t just go all the way out and put wheels and a motor on it, and a gear shift too. </p>
<p>I tried - and then had to stop trying - wondering how they designed it, you know, proof of concept, etc.? I mean, did they, like, have different size and sex people come in the engineer’s product design studio and take turns, um, delivering waste into various iterative models as the designers made continuous adjustments, until they got the measurements and configurations just right???</p>
<p>And if so, can you imagine what the employees on the design team talked about over dinner with their families when they got home? “Well, honey, how was your day?” - “Oh, you wouldn’t have believed it, this very small person came in and pooped, and somehow the water wasn’t configured to aim just right, and it splashed in the subject’s face, and you know Dilbert tried to blame me, but it was all his fault, and that’s what I told my supervisor” and so on…</p>
<p>LOL!</p>
<p>^Giving new meaning to a bad day at the office! LOL!</p>
<p>I had a bidet in a former home once but haven’t seen once since. We don’t have them because MEN design most of the homes! There are many things about home design that I dislike and would change (such as the height of kitchen cabinets), but don’t get me started about complaints about houses and how poorly most are built nowadays.</p>
<p>Bidets should come standard in the home. Surely they aren’t that expensive although I haven’t priced any lately.</p>
<p>You can easily train your dog to use this device for use as a drinking fountain. </p>
<p>Yes the aiming is easily adjustable. But best used by knowing people. Those who are not used to the flow and aim will get a “face” full of water and must reposition until properly focused.</p>
<p>You really need to explore its use to appreciate my comments. Ebay have a good range of products of all the brands. You’all check it out. Great Holiday gift.
Happy faces all around.</p>
<p>I’ll say that out country is advanced now, but it was not always . In fact my opinion is our country is, was and forever will be the wild, wild west.( but with a Puritanical beginning) And that is why we have no bidets.</p>
<p>I will admit that the first time I encountered a bidet in a hotel in Germany, my friend and I stood and snickered at it for a good 5 minutes. We were not brave enough to actually turn it on. We also encountered a bathroom in one hotel that had hot and cold water knobs located on the wall above the toliet for no apparent reason. I was unaware that there are ‘combo’ bidets so maybe that was what it was for? I don’t know. Wouldn’t the water hose or faucet or whatever you’d call it get dirty by nature of just being located in the toliet bowl, and thus defeat the whole purpose?</p>
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<p>This is why, once upon a time 2 years ago, I wanted to be an architect. ;)</p>
<p>The baby bidet …</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.showerbaby.net/abetterhygiene.html[/url]”>http://www.showerbaby.net/abetterhygiene.html</a></p>
<p>… and how it works: </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.showerbaby.net/ahowitworks2.html[/url]”>http://www.showerbaby.net/ahowitworks2.html</a></p>
<p>I have never used the new “combo” devices, so I cannot speak to their virtues or flaws, but I see how they could indeed be tricky to use.</p>
<p>The traditional bidet stands apart from its cousin the toilet. The idea is that one moves over to the bidet after using the toilet – that includes toilet paper, by the way! Washing in the bidet is merely the finishing touch to proper hygiene. It is NOT what some seem to be implying – that of soiling one’s hands unnecessarily. </p>
<p>I assure everyone that once you have tried and gotten comfortable using it, you will wonder how you got along without it!</p>
<p>“Wild West” my a…!</p>
<p>Leanid, please don’t start this again today. I am now laughing myself silly, again. You mean this requires doing everything twice??? As in, one uses the first unit, the toilet (and does all the “normal” stuff), and then, sort of hobbles over, pants around ankles or perhaps skirts held up, over to the second unit, the bidet???</p>
<p>ROTFL!!!</p>
<p>The only funny thing I see about this is the rampant misinformation and ignorance about a vital bodily function and how to do it cleanly. I’d say America has been “sitting on it” too long.</p>
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leanid~</p>
<p>There are entire forums out there devoted to bodily functions, and if this subject means that much to you, you might find that the posters there take it more seriously. :D</p>
<p>Oh, do pardon me, I must have overestimated the intelligence level on this forum.</p>
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I was actually being serious about the other forums.</p>
<p>Do remember that even intelligent people sometimes have good senses of humor!</p>
<p>Leanid - I meant no offense, truly. A bidet on its own isn’t funny, and cleanliness certainly isn’t funny, and making fun of the practices and requirements of other culturals is downright horrible and unthinkable. </p>
<p>What’s funny is when one is working and posting at the same time, and a link showing a product designed to address a very basic, common activity appears with a contraption that seems like NASA engineers had’t’a designed it, offers more optional equipment than many of the $40K-ish cars I’ve looked at lately - I’m sorry, I laughed soooooo hard. And the concept of two totally separate devices rotlf !!!</p>
<p>I’ll stop now. :)</p>
<p>“As in, one uses the first unit, the toilet (and does all the “normal” stuff), and then, sort of hobbles over, pants around ankles or perhaps skirts held up, over to the second unit, the bidet???”</p>
<p>Yes, latetoschool. Not a pretty picture, is it?</p>
<p>I imagine if one has a diet (or bad butcher) that sends one to the john frequently during the day, a bidet is necessary. Or if one doesn’t shower at least once daily it comes in handy. But most of us have learned to deal with personal hygiene quite well without one.</p>
<p>Never would have expected to post on such a thread, but Leanid made it a necessity.
<a href=“http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7313327562483717356[/url]”>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7313327562483717356</a></p>
<p>Okay, all you naysayers, let me put it this way.</p>
<p>Do you wash your hands afterwards? If so, do you use dry paper for that purpose? I am guessing that most (if not all) of you wash with soap and water.
Why, then, is that area, which must be (depending on one’s skill) at least as soiled as one’s hands become in the wiping process, not accorded the same consideration? </p>
<p>Really, the only hilarious aspect of the holy mess is that such an obvious thing is not appreciated. Or… is it some kind of excrementitious twist on how to know one’s a** from one’s, er, hands?</p>