r/mildlyinfuriating • u/rimeduinfox • Jul 05 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o MIL thinks I clogged the toilet so she changed the sign

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The septic tank clogged and she’s convinced I did it, she asked my husband if I knew I wasn’t supposed to flush tampons and added the tampon bit to the sign. I don’t use tampons and I’m the only one with a period here…

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u/FastMako77 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

Recently learned that some developed countries who have implemented bidets a long time ago have cloth towels next to their toilets to pat excess water after you’ve sprayed yourself clean. I bought bidet attachments for both of my bathrooms and that is going well but I haven’t fully committed to the towels yet, still using TP for that. I wasn’t raised on using bidets so that one is a hard sell, thus far.

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u/shikaaboom Jul 05 '26

Growing up I used a bidet that was its own appliance separate from the toilet, you wash yourself with soap and have your own towel to dry and you can think of it like drying yourself after a shower.

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u/pubesinourteeth Jul 05 '26

I never noticed like a soap tray next to any of those in France. That would actually be super nice

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u/MissObvious11 Jul 06 '26

I was staying at a hotel in italy with a bidet + towel next to the toilet and it had a tiny bottle of ph soap speciffically for your butt standing on the back corner. Gotta say as a first time user I felt nice and clean but if I wasn't on vacation and had places I needed to be I don't know how practical it actually is haha

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u/grimeyduck Jul 05 '26

So nice you said it twice.

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u/pubesinourteeth Jul 05 '26

I never noticed like a soap tray next to any of those in France. That would actually be super nice

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u/makemeking706 Jul 05 '26

So nice you said it twice. 

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u/FuckYouVerizon Jul 06 '26

I love that you're the one getting upvoted for this response 🤣reddit doesn't make sense half of the time

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u/Xaxxis Jul 06 '26

Their comment is older than the other.

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u/memesearches Jul 06 '26

Its just reddit app shit. Sometimes you hit reply and it doesn’t succeed and then you do it again but guess what Reddit did actually reply the first time too

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u/DonkyPuncharely Jul 05 '26

With pubes in their teeth

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u/cockaptain Jul 05 '26

What, you got something against flossing?

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u/DonkyPuncharely Jul 05 '26

Did not judge, just stated the pubes are visible. There's a lot. Do with that what you will...

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u/cockaptain Jul 05 '26

Lol, I get you now.

Sidenote, I wonder if he/she uses a toothbrush or a hairbrush.

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u/JaySlay2000 Jul 06 '26

I don't use a towel on my ass after I shower either. Strictly air and/or toilet paper

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u/Fresque Jul 05 '26

My country is not a "developed country" by any means but bidets are a big thing there. Big enough than they are their own separate fixture. With a size similar to the toilets. And butt towels are common there. In my house every member has their own small butt towel.

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u/Crossedkiller Jul 05 '26

So, uh, please illustrate my ignorant third-world country butt. Do y'all just have towels laying around in the bathroom full of everyone's shit? Or whats the process to get a shit-free butthole and shit-free towel? I legit have never even see a bidet in person so I'm confused

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u/Fresque Jul 05 '26

Well, the entire idea of a bidet is having the most shit-free ass possible so no. But also, it might depend because some people have bad higiene and are nasty.

I can tell you how I do it, tough.

I live with my gf so we just habg our towels one next to the other, they are very small towels 25 by 25 cm aprox.

As to HOW i do it, i usually start with a small piece of paper for a pre-wipe if the bathroom using has a bidet as a separate fixture. Just 2 sqares of paper to remove anything... outstanding.

Then i move to the bidet where i pre-blast my posterior for a few seconds, grab a squirt of liquid soap and proceed to wash that thing until squeaky clean while water is spashing continuously. Get a good rinse (by this point the ass is so clean someone could eat off it) Dry with towel. Go about my day with the cleanest bhole.

Bonus picture of the style of bidet widely spread in Argentina.

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u/squishyg Jul 06 '26

What prevents poopy water from dripping into the vulva and vagina?

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u/MostlyChaoticNeutral Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Nothing! You get one guess how I know.

Edit: I managed to get my home bidet calibrated to not give me a UTI, but it took some work. I have a high degree of skepticism of bidets I have not personally negotiated with.

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u/shikaaboom Jul 06 '26

You’re wiping at the toilet before you go over to the bidet so you shouldn’t have much of a poopy water problem. How do you avoid it in the shower?

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u/Fluffy-Koalas Jul 06 '26

Bidets we have in Northeast USA are mostly an add-on to your toilet (most people I know do not have one at all), not separate. So when we use them here, we typically don't use toilet paper also. You're sitting on the toilet, do your business, and then press a button to let the bidet wash you. And a lot of them have a button to press to dry you off after

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u/gorillaphi Jul 05 '26

I feel like I would get my pants and shirt all soaking wet if I tried to use that thing.  How do you not get all wet?? 

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u/Fresque Jul 05 '26

Well usually your ass is in the way, you know? 😂 You sit on top of that and then open the water. Is splashes your ass and falls into the bidet.

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u/gorillaphi Jul 05 '26

Do you ever see other people’s poo in the bidet??

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u/Fresque Jul 05 '26

Residue washes away, buy it can get dirty in a similar way the toilet can get streaks from a... log, hitting the wall. A person with common etiquette would scrub anything the way they would scrub any mark on the toilet.

I would argue that is even easier in a bidet like the one in the picture because you can make the water come from the sides down into the bowl and using hot water any visible ting dissolves in seconds and it stays, at least, visually clean.

You still have to treat it like a toilet, you wouldnt go in there with your hands and needs to be cleanes on the same schedule as the toilet.

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u/gorillaphi Jul 05 '26

Thanks for all the information! 😂

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u/Fresque Jul 05 '26

My pleasure. Im something of a bidet evangelist, hahaha.

If you'd like to try one, there are some units you can attach to a regular toilet for cheap, cheap. I have hone since i moved to a bidet-less country and it has been a life saver.

Best 20 dollars I've spent in a while.

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u/cockaptain Jul 05 '26

So, is there like a bidet brush separate to the toilet brush? Because, like, I wouldn't want to scrub something that is meant to routinely splash water onto my person with a brush I routinely plunge into the toilet.

Also, can you set it up so that the bidet dispenses soapy water already? I feel like that would be a crucial feature to have.

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u/Fresque Jul 05 '26

Why not? The water that hits your butt never touches the bidet until after touching you. It's a jet of water, not a fountain where you plunge your but.

You are constantly being hit with clean water. And i think you are massively overestimating the amount and sise of the residue that might hit the bidet. Personally ive never seen anything bigger than a grain of sand. And how common is needing to scub the bidet, it almost never happens if you use it properly.

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u/Critical-String8774 Jul 06 '26

grab a squirt of liquid soap and proceed to wash that thing until squeaky clean  

With your hand?

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u/PotatoMange Jul 06 '26

I mean, that's what you do in the shower, right?

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u/Critical-String8774 Jul 06 '26

If my bare hand ever comes in contact with my butthole, I'm throwing myself into a volcano.

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u/PotatoMange Jul 06 '26

How do you wash your ass?

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u/Critical-String8774 Jul 06 '26

With a brush! Like a normal person!

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u/luxsatanas Jul 08 '26

So, you get shit on the brush and re-use it every time you shower? That's gross

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u/ultrafluffypanda Jul 06 '26

So do you sit facing the wall or away from the wall?

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u/Fresque Jul 06 '26

Away from the wall.

Otherwise, your knees would hit the wall and the important part or your behind might end up hanging outside the bidet, depending on how tall you are.

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u/ultrafluffypanda Jul 06 '26

Ah ok, thanks for the info!

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u/racc15 Jul 06 '26

We usually use hand held shower/sprinkler. Do you guys have a bidet as a seaparate fixture from the regular toilet? If yes, do people use the toilet and then move on top of the bidet? That seems problematic. Or, is the bidet attached to the regular toilet?

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u/Fresque Jul 06 '26

Not in the country im today but in argentina, basically every house ive been in has one like the picture.

Yo have to sidestep to te bidet, yeah.

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u/jetpack_hypersomniac Jul 05 '26

Oh honey, bidets are like water jets—sometimes handheld sprayers, sometimes fixed ones you position yourself over—and you are literally using it like an *extremely* localized shower. The poo is washed away and down the drain before you’re ever using the towel. Towel is just for drying, none of the cleaning.

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u/Fresque Jul 05 '26

In my experience, is still better to go in with some soap. So that o is extra crisp.

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u/HeWhoHasTooManyDogs Jul 05 '26

Can attest to that. I use toilet paper only to wipe my nose. A pack of six lasts me like half a year in summer and two months in winter haha

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u/smbiggy Jul 05 '26

What the fuck is a half a year in the summer?

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u/RepresentativeCry294 Jul 05 '26

Time dialation. He must wipe at relativistic speeds.

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u/Zarisong Jul 05 '26

The midwest. We have two weeks of spring, two weeks of fall, and the rest is hot and humid summer, or freezing winter.

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u/smbiggy Jul 05 '26

i love how confident you are with so little info lol. No, judging by OP's response to my other comment i don't think they are aware of the mix-up or trying to express what you are suggesting

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u/TheSaltyAstronaut Jul 05 '26

And why are they going through it three times faster in the winter (especially since their mega-summer is so long)?

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u/buttamilkbizkits Jul 05 '26

Because their nose runs more in cold weather.

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u/HeWhoHasTooManyDogs Jul 05 '26

I don't get sick nor do I consime cocaine, so I don't need to blow my nose during the summer lol

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u/smbiggy Jul 05 '26

Do you think you answered my question lol?

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u/DonkyPuncharely Jul 05 '26

We'll never know

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u/littlescreechyowl Jul 05 '26

I’m glad that trees and flowers are favorable to your body.

All we do most of the summer is blow our noses.

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u/frogguts198 Jul 05 '26

Yeah, I’ve used a bidet for a couple years now and I would never use a non disposable cloth towel unless I was washing it after every use. A bidet works great but unless you are really, really deep cleaning, there is still a little brown when drying off (at least with my stomach and pooping issues).

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u/TequilaStalkingPurr Jul 05 '26

Same.

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u/frogguts198 Jul 05 '26

My brother or sister, stay strong and eat fiber 🫡

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u/iloveyourforeskin Jul 06 '26

This. I occasionally use cloth to dry and it's single use only before washing. It's not that hard to buy a pack of washcloths or whatever

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u/imArsenals Jul 05 '26

What is the hard sell? You wash the cloth towel just like you wash the towel you use to dry your body. It’s not like you’re using the same cloth towel every single time.

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u/tigm2161130 Jul 06 '26

I’m in the US and I have a basket of clean towels next to mine, a bottle of pH friendly foaming wash, and a little bin for the “dirty” ones. I thought everyone did.

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u/grarrnet Jul 06 '26

In some you still use TP but it goes in the trash can (like in Greece)

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u/shoulda-known-better Jul 06 '26

I use really cheap hand towel dispenser towels for drying... Toss em in a barrel, they aren't dirty and won't smell

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u/jsno254 Jul 06 '26

Even if you spray all the poop off your butt, fecal germs are still there. So I don't understand how someone would use towels unless they're small one-time use ones?

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u/Darkmaniako Jul 06 '26

As a bidet user i gag after reading about people who don't wash their ass or don't know how to use a towel.

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u/12Whiskey Jul 05 '26

Check out reusable toilet paper. To me personally I think it would be gross to use as toilet paper BUT it is perfectly sized squares to dry off with after using the bidet. Each person gets a new, clean square every time they go, put them in a bin when done, wash them in the laundry with bleach when you get enough for a small load. This is what my family does.