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To be sick of comments about the bidet

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Bidetdrama · 15/08/2023 12:42

Dp is from a country where they use a bidet. Washing your bits after a number 2 seems to be viewed like a holy ritual by some over there, including his family.

Every time they visit UK or we visit them, there's obligatory comments and questions about the bidet and lack of it in this country. I've lost count of how many times I've been asked how we Brits keep ourselves clean without one and the grimacing faces and adjectives of disgust that inevitably follow. They basically imply we're all filthy and they're superior with their squeaky clean backsides.

At a family party last weekend his cousin came from another city. She and I got chatting and she was desperate to understand the ins and outs of British toilet hygiene. I almost felt like I was having to justify the UK's standard bathroom plumbing set up. Other family members I hadn't met before were intrigued and started gathering round to listen and comment. It was just so cringe.

I used to live in DPs country and used a bidet then so I know it's a very clean feeling. I usually have my call of nature just before my morning shower nowadays so I can still stay very clean. However, this isn't the sort of detail I want to discuss at length with DPs family!

I've said to DP I'm sick of the topic, he also gets asked about how he stays clean in the UK too. They seem obsessed with it though.

AIBU to be sick of this topic. How can I shut it down?

OP posts:
CrazyLadie · 17/08/2023 13:21

vodkaredbullgirl · 15/08/2023 13:05

Had a bidet in a house I lived in as a child. Used it more for washing our feet in, never used for what it was supposed to be used for lol.

Same here, we had a bidet but I don't think it qas ever used to wash a butt, just smelly teenagers feet 😅😅

Lazym · 17/08/2023 18:05

Seems like noone can be arsed with this thread anymore. Think it's got everyone in a lather. Imo the ops family has a bit of a cheek! 😉 Seriously though some of these replies have given me a good chuckle👌

Harls1969 · 18/08/2023 00:22

oldwhyno · 15/08/2023 15:18

Wiping with toilet paper is perfectly adequate to achieve an appropriate level of cleanliness and hygiene. I wash my hands with hot water and soap because I use my hands for touching things including my face, other people, food and food I'm preparing for other people etc. It requires a higher standard of cleanliness. If I was in any doubt about my personal hygiene I would probably shower before any intimacy.

Ask them what they're doing with their buttholes that they believe they require surgical levels of cleanliness at all times? Perhaps impromptu rimming is a regular part of their culture?

😂

SammyScrounge · 18/08/2023 02:24

Back in the early sixties? my Mum and Dad took us abroad for the first time..we were the first in our street to attempt such a.brave adventure. Our hotel had fountains and marble floors -.and bidets in the end suites. My sister and I asked my Dad what.they were for. He studied ours for a while and then announced that they were for keeping bottles of Coke in.

SammyScrounge · 18/08/2023 02:37

To keep bottles of Coke cool in.

Somewhereovertherainbowweighapie · 18/08/2023 04:38

I would just make stuff up. Constantly change what you tell them. The more ridiculous the better. Hopefully once they realise you are just going to the piss (sorry had to) hopefully the topic will drop.

RampantIvy · 22/08/2023 08:19

AgentProvocateur · 15/08/2023 12:52

They’re right though - it’s is disgusting, if you think about it. Most countries use bidets or shatafs as standard.

Our shower is the type that you can remove the shower head from the wall and direct it to specific areas of the body. This is why I would never have a rainfall shower.

IScreamAtMichaelangelos · 22/08/2023 14:19

Oh goodness, I've just remembered why I didn't use the hose by the side of our loo that much growing up. The water pressure was set to turbo, so directing it towards one's tender bits was like being kicked in the crotch. The idea of talking to my father the engineer about this problem was akin to death, so my sister and I used it very sparingly....

jolaylasofia · 25/08/2023 10:18

@Tartareistasty i see skidders in undies to be rank

charlotte361 · 31/08/2023 21:24

I bought a bum gun (bidet shower) after a holiday in Finland where they are on every toilet.I wouldnt be without it now.

bellac11 · 31/08/2023 21:34

AgentProvocateur · 15/08/2023 12:52

They’re right though - it’s is disgusting, if you think about it. Most countries use bidets or shatafs as standard.

Seeing as huge amounts of the world dont have running water or sanitation I doubt its 'most countries'.

AgentProvocateur · 01/09/2023 09:49

Do you really think that countries that don’t have running water or sanitation use toilet paper? 😂 (hint - they take a plastic container of water with them)

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