to think the UK should have bidets

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Just that really. I far prefer the French habit of having a wash after having a no 2, much more civilised. The British way is actually unhygienic and gross.

She was joking!

I prefer Japanese toilets - all contained in the loo then. I would love to have the money to install a couple!

Get a closmat toilet if it bothers you that much.

The UK DOES have bidets, in some homes.

You cannot be THAT dense? Oh, you are? Oops

That is revolting on so many levels, dirty flannels, even if rinsed still grim, manky rinsing water and a bucket.
Sounds like the medival times, just chuck it out of the window and done with.
I bet visitors are intrigued / amused at the set up, what happens if they want to use the loo for their bowels, do they get a brand new flannel?

Another one. How do you not fall down more?

i literally could not do a poo without washing after

Thank the lord! I was seriously considering a life of crime to retain my lovely bidet. It’s where I get most of my reading done!

A bum gun is a close second btw. We’ve only got one bidet, but the other shitters in our house have bum guns.

I'd imagine one can purchase a bidet if they so desire. Most homes probably lack the space for one without forgoing a bath.

I think the 'fun gun' you get in parts of asia where you can just hose your butthole over the toilet seems like a compromise. But I think those are harder to find in the UK than a bidet. I'm sure you can still get them though. It's just a tap really?

A person with a healthy digestive system shouldn't really have too much concern over the cleanliness of the arse after a BM. Assuming no disabilities etc.

I can also recommend using Wype gel. It’s much cheaper than getting a bidet fitted!

I’d love a bidet. They are pretty standard in Italy. The only French people I’ve known who had one didn’t use it but they were filthy anyway.

hello from a country that doesn’t flush, we empty the bathroom bin every day, nothing smells and we certainly don’t have piles of shit stained flannels on display, what an absolutely bonkers comment 😂

IBD is indeed an example of the digestive system not working well.

Spoken like someone who’s never had food poisoning, norovirus, IBS, a food intolerance or any one of dozens of conditions that cause runny tummy.

A quick and cheap and perfectly acceptable solution is to keep a small silicone bottle on you or in your bathroom at all times. Fill it with water, point and squeeze to direct a jet of water precisely where it's needed!

Speak for yourself lol 😂😂😂

All these gadgets! but you never know if the last user has clean hands? how can user wash hands before pressing buttons or manipulating handles to operate the machinery?

After living in west asia for a long time and now moving to greece, I am a big big fan of the bum hose. nothing feels properly clean just using paper now 😂

On our first holiday abroad (about 48 years ago), Mum was delighted with the bidet. I assume they knew what its true purpose was, but for many annual holidays after that, armed with a tube of 'Travel Wash' (anyone remember those tubes of laundry wash?), she would use it as a make-shift washing machine to launder our T-shirts and pants!

If we go anywhere with a bidet now, I often think "Uggggh" at the thought of washing clothes in something that people jet wash their arse in, although at the age of 10 to 16 it didn't bother me in the slightest!

Reading this thread, I do wonder how many of us carry some kind of bum cleaning kit with us. I’ve got Wype, myself.

I think in Italy that it's not legal to not have a bidet in the main family bathroom. The French had bidets in the days when they didn't have bathrooms but now that most homes have a shower or bath bidets have been dispensed with by and large.

I had one removed when we moved into our house. Vile thing that toddler ds was always playing with, and took up unnecessary floor space..

I'm perfectly able to keep myself clean in a standard English bathroom.

You may be surprised to know I have not been to your home😁

it’s not quite the same story in public loos though is it? Always nice to use the loo of a posh massively expensive beach club only to be confronted with a bin of shit. Unless you imagine they change the bin after every customer

Really?? Surely that’s not the case. There was one in our house, approx 30 yrs old, when we moved in.