• Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    No one understands what a bidet really is.

    In the old days, they were a separate free-standing device. Not a lot of people have space or money to add one of these types of bidets to their bathrooms

    Now they make them as toilet seat attachments that don’t require extra space and really aren’t that expensive.

    But people don’t know. Older people will be like, “Oh a bidet? No I don’t want another toilet like device in my bathroom”

    So that gets rid of all those people.

    Next you have the people that know about the new style bidets that’s just a fancy toilet seat.

    Their biggest deterrent is probably cold water. Spraying cold water on their butt doesn’t appeal to most people.

    You can get bidets that heat the water, but you have to have power behind your toilet, which not everyone has.

    Then you have older people that just can’t work them or don’t feel like they can. Like my grandfather, I installed one with all the bells and whistles for him. Yet hitting a button and doing all that was too complicated. He was 90+ and could barely use a cell phone for basic functions. But he’d rather wipe his butt like he knew than mess with the “complicated” bidet.

    Eventually everyone is going to own a bidet, it really is the way to go.

    We just aren’t there yet.

    • Catfish [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 years ago

      I have a seat one that only does cold water and it hits different in the summer honestly. Sometimes you just need a splash of cold water in your asshole to keep going.

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      3 years ago

      Cold water, yeah in winter in Canada your cold water is something like 1°C (33°F), not a pleasant thing

      • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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        3 years ago

        Water doesn’t have to be 0°C (32°F) to freeze.

        Depending on your elevation, it can change.

        If the water in your pipes is even close to 1°C you have a serious problem.

        You can also hook a bidet to your hot water line

        The first bit of water will be wall temperature water and it will take a bit to fully warm up because you have to clear out the lines (some bidets will drain the first bit of water before squirting you)

        • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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          3 years ago

          Well you flush and that takes out the water in your pipes. Then you get cold ass water from the pipe outside in the ground.