Bidets 🍑

[isha]

I have travelled a lot and coped with many toileting arrangements including happily using the Indian water cleaning method which deploys jugs of water or a hose on the

This is an embarrassing announcement but . ..I have never used a bidet.

How hard can it be, I think, as I look through pictures of my various Italian hotels. Yerra sure I'll Google it ....just to be sure.


https://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Bidet

Now I have more questions than answers and I am a bit discombobulated.

Facing TOWARDS the taps?
Some FILL with water instead of jets??
Sometimes there's a towel hanging beside them to dry your ???? Seriously, a shared towel!!!

Have you got experience? Et Tu, Bidet?

[kadman]

Karcher power washer

[isha]

Like, if some bidets fill with water instead of using jets and people use their hands to scrub their this gives rise to all sorts of questions....
What happens if water drips off their fingers to the floor as they reach for the loo roll? What if the loo roll is not on a holder and they are lifting the roll using their fingers on the inside of the roll that have just been scrubbing their . What happens after they pull the plug? Do they clean the sink thoroughly before leaving because that's effectively what it is...a sink?
I don't like all of these questions or thoughts.

[Diamonds of Frost]

I have also never used a bidet and the very thoughts of them make me feel a little queasy. Are they used instead of wiping I wonder?

[isha]

I have also never used a bidet and the very thoughts of them make me feel a little queasy. Are they used instead of wiping I wonder?

Wikihow tells me one can wipe and bidet, or simply bidet.

Yes, I've been imagining people doing the crab walk from toilet to bidet with an unwiped .

All rather unexpected and shocking.
My husband has pointed out what if a guest to ones bathroom preferred the look of the lovely fluffy hand towel instead of the designated towel to dry their ?

[kadman]

The mention of bidets brings to mind a story from way back when I was a beer guzzling nipper, out on a session.
I bumped into a few lads I was working with on demolition, and the beer and whisky started to flow. I noticed one of the lads had no socks under his shoes, and when i asked what happened to his socks, the rest of the troupe burst into thunderous laughter.

When they recovered they explained that the said fellow, kieran, needed to make a trip to the "jacks", due to his over eager indulgence of numerous pints of the black stuff, in the last establishment . Upon his return from the loo, the lads asked him what happened to his socks. Nothing he said" here they are" and pulled them from his pocket.

And continued to explain that there was no loo paper, so he had to use his socks to wipe his scuttery arse.
Of course the lads ran for the door, with him in hot persuit shouting " its nay bother lads.......the mudda will wash them out with a bit of Daz in the morning."

He could have washed them in the bidet if they had one

[kadman]

Can CR tell us if Bidet is a posh french word for bum wash

[isha]

Bum sink, please. Bidet is for snobs.

[quodec]

Does this confuse things more.....

[kadman]

Problem solved, so long as the towel is only used to wipe your clean hands and nothing else

[kadman]

I am surpised that CR didn't call in to tell us how the frenchies use dock leaves out in the woods

[isha]

I think he is traveling, if I recall.

That video was useful Quodec. Bidets are more complicated to use than I had suspected. I still think someone confusing the towel and the towel is a distinct possibility. Which could lead to a serious distrust of all towels.

[isha]

Ugh I've just also thought about the soap in the video. Fine if people lather their hand but what if they use the soap directly

[Leg End Reject]

I would love a bidet or a bum gun.

Think about it - using dry toilet paper to smear one's own excretions around the evacuation zone.

No bars of soap allowed and a stack of face cloths would allow each person to dry themselves without sharing a towel. These would be boil washed.

[quodec]

Another epic thread started by isha! She’s gold and we need to keep her!!!!!!!!

[isha]

I would love a bidet or a bum gun.

Think about it - using dry toilet paper to smear one's own excretions around the evacuation zone.

No bars of soap allowed and a stack of face cloths would allow each person to dry themselves without sharing a towel. These would be boil washed.

The stack of one use facecloths idea is good.
I wonder why we took on croissants and baguettes so readily here but have stubbornly resisted le bidet?

[isha]

Another epic thread started by isha! She’s gold and we need to keep her!!!!!!!!

In fairness I have shown little sign of bolting.

[kadman]

Another epic thread started by isha! She’s gold and we need to keep her!!!!!!!!

I had always pictured Isha as a refined, elegant, lady like figure.

But the fact that she has introduced the act of bodily ablutions to gubu.............just goes to prove she is just a commoner, and should be banished downstairs to the servants quarters, along with the rest of us commoners.

[isha]

I'm trying to broaden my range of experience and continental bidets are surely posh, no?