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Why aren't bidets more popular in America? (Would you just paper if "it" was on your hands?)
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Posted on 05/22/2013 9:49:51 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi

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1 posted on 05/22/2013 9:49:51 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

I have never used a bidet. Does it get “it all”?


2 posted on 05/22/2013 9:54:05 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

The great thing about toilet paper is that it localizes the mess. Bidets spread the mess because water just goes everywhere. For those who want the feel of a bidet without the mess, wet wipes are the way to go.


3 posted on 05/22/2013 9:54:06 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
would you consider a bidet during your next bathroom upgrade? Only if it had the "Al Bundy Whoosh!"
4 posted on 05/22/2013 9:54:10 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

When you don’t shower every day (Europeans) a bidet is a good idea/necessity.


5 posted on 05/22/2013 9:54:36 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
You mean that wasn't a drinking fountain in that Milan hotel bathroom?
6 posted on 05/22/2013 9:54:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

My impression, and it is only an educated guess, is that europeans tend to use a bidet INSTEAD of taking a shower.


7 posted on 05/22/2013 9:55:29 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

So after “wash and rinse”...how do you dry? Your underpants?


8 posted on 05/22/2013 9:58:10 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

When my parents were building a home in the late 1960’s, there were all sorts of ads and printed materials showing bathrooms with a toilet and a bidet. I didn’t see them as a european thing. I just assumed they were one of those things that would be everywhere eventually. I was a kid. I thought every “new” thing would eventually be everywhere.

But we shower pretty regularly in the US. No real need for those here.


9 posted on 05/22/2013 9:58:37 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Ah sooo! Racing stripes...!


10 posted on 05/22/2013 9:59:31 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Apparently the authoress is one "Starre Vartan"

(Why you omitted this fact is a mystery, as there is a field specifically for such.)

Also it seems she's a dyke:

I'm going to invest in an in-toilet unit bidet for myself and my partner.

Partner, eh? Hmm. And Hmm again.

11 posted on 05/22/2013 9:59:58 AM PDT by humblegunner
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Would it help if the government were to mandate the installation of a bidet in every apartment and every home?If people are not making the choice to purchase these things in our (somewhat) free market, maybe we should put a gun to their head and make them do so? Is that the new Progressive plan?
12 posted on 05/22/2013 10:00:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Kimberly-Clark and Scott Paper at the nexus of an EEEEEEVIL conspiracy??


13 posted on 05/22/2013 10:00:23 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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14 posted on 05/22/2013 10:01:32 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
not only does extra TP usage mean toilet clogging is more common

Only in

(i) gas station/ballpark restrooms where:

(A) someone has made a TP "cushion" 1,2, or 3 levels of toilet paper around the seat and pushed that into the toilet along with the bowel movement

or

(B) someone has deliberately clogged the toilet as a prank (and possibly even crowned the top).

(ii) "low flow" "efficient" toilets in one's home (as mandated by the government).efficient

or

(iii) small children/pets in the home

15 posted on 05/22/2013 10:05:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Bidets are found throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia (especially Japan) and pretty commonly in South America (basically everywhere besides the U.S., Canada and Australia), but I know exactly one person who has one, and he is originally from South Africa.

Coincidently, a lot of those places don't even have toilet seats, you squat over a stinking hole in the ground. Turd world here we come.

16 posted on 05/22/2013 10:07:53 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: humblegunner

It says women can use them “after sex”. Wonder how many use the jet stream FOR sex instead of their shower head.


17 posted on 05/22/2013 10:09:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

AL: These babies are made in Maine, you know, at the little Ferguson factory. It's the Stradivarius of toilets and my dad could play it like a violin.

AL: Yup, I'll never forget the time my dad took me on a trip to Maine, to visit the factory. On the way up, I had to go to the bathroom. I begged my dad to pull into a truck stop. He said no. "Wait till we get there. It will be worth it." It was.

BUD: Excuse me here, dad, but a toilet is a toilet.

AL: Bud, today's toilets aren't worthy of the name. They come in designer colors, they're too low, and when you flush 'em they make this little weak almost apologetic sound. Not a Ferguson. It only comes in white and when you flush it... "BaahWhooosh."

AL: That's a man's flush, Bud. A Ferguson says, "I'm a toilet. Sit down and give me your best shot." Oh, if a Ferguson could talk, the stories it could tell. And now I've got one of my very own. (TEARING UP) Yeah. If only my dad could have lived to see this moment.

18 posted on 05/22/2013 10:12:13 AM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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Q: If people are not making the choice to purchase these things in our (somewhat) free market, maybe we should put a gun to their head and make them do so? Is that the new Progressive plan?

A: YES!

digital televisions

low flow toilets

health insurance

non-filament lightbulbs

We are not talking about "better mousetraps". Each replacement has its own faults, headaches, and problems. The market is not permitted to dictate the solutions anymore. Liberalism is.

19 posted on 05/22/2013 10:12:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Just what I was thinking.


20 posted on 05/22/2013 10:14:36 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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