Bidets....

[Fab Foodie]

The shower hose will stretch to the loo but it will mean you are on toilet cleaning duty more often as you fill it up with water.

.... ever practical!

 

[stephec]

Sorry, I thought the bum gun was some kind of water pistol. View attachment 399735

How very Victorian, using child labour to do the job.

 

[HertzvanRental]

Cheaper to take loads of Imodium!

 

[Drago]

We all know that just like the oil companies, the toilet roll manufacturers deliberately suppress bidet technology.

 

[captain nemo1701]

An ex-acquaintance of mine now tips the scales at 32 stone and is too big with short arms to...erm..reach down behind. They have to shower that bit after every visit to the loo. Bidets may be useful for similar obese folk.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I've never used one in my life. Once you've washed yourself off, how do you dry yourself? With toilet paper? I don't have many pet hates, but pulling my drawers up onto a wet behind would be one of them.

 

[Globalti]

When I was a student at Grenoble Uni the rooms in halls had a partitioned area with a wash basin and a bidet, presumably because in the seventies students were expected to have very active sex lives, and as companies like Unilever and Colgate used to tell us with glee, French people took very few baths and showers judging from the fact that their usage of toilet soap was less than half that of Germans and British. The halls had 2 loos for about 20 rooms and 2 showers on each floor for about 40 rooms. Presumably everybody used the bidet as a toilet, for number ones at least.

Later in life when I got my own home I fitted a bidet but it never got used because the shower was so good so since then I've never fitted one. In some hotels it's quite common to smell drains in the bathrooms because the traps in the bidets have dried out, a few seconds of water from the tap refills them and blocks the smell.

So, a waste of time and money nowadays when everybody takes showers.

 

[Vantage]

They're a nice idea, but I feel that given the amount of sh**e that some people come out with, we'd have a national water shortage crisis very soon.

 

[Tin Pot]

* and people who live in Kent

 

[Tin Pot]

If I came from Tunbridge Wells I would be disgusted.

The more time I spend in TBW the more normal inner city madness seems to be, by comparison.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I've moved recently and the new place has a bidet. It doesn't have a jet upwards but it's like a mini bath with normal taps. Am I supposed to sit on it and slap a load of water all over down under? Presumably I should sit facing the taps as well?
The other thing this place has is a macerator, which blocked in the first week, ugh, what a job (no pun intended).

 

[Dave7]

An ex-acquaintance of mine now tips the scales at 32 stone and is too big with short arms to...erm..reach down behind. They have to shower that bit after every visit to the loo. Bidets may be useful for similar obese folk.

Way to much information. Particularly as I read this just before lunch time

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Having never used a bidet I'm interested to know whether a bar of soap or somesuch should be employed?

Surely just plain water wouldn't be able to cut it?

Graham

 

[Fab Foodie]

Having never used a bidet I'm interested to know whether a bar of soap or somesuch should be employed?

Surely just plain water wouldn't be able to cut it?

Graham

It does with a reasonable flow of water....

 

[Fab Foodie]

I've never used one in my life. Once you've washed yourself off, how do you dry yourself? With toilet paper? I don't have many pet hates, but pulling my drawers up onto a wet behind would be one of them.

Just pad dry with paper or a towel. - simples.