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What single item improved the quality of your life over you got it? (Buyed it/got as present/made it) (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by arthur@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] friek@sh.itjust.works 114 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A bidet.

[–] hotwarioinyourarea@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Japan has ruined toilets for me.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

I can ruin toilets just fine myself, thank you.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bidets are from Italy though.

[–] hotwarioinyourarea@slrpnk.net 38 points 1 year ago

They may have invented them but Japan perfected them.

[–] Gorgeous_Sloth@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bidets are french, source

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I was gonna ask how they got such a French name.

[–] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm too intimidated to try one despite staying in hotels round the world that usually have them. What if it goes wrong? How bad much shitty water do I and the bathroom end up covered in? How do you know if it's clean? Doesn't other peoples shitty water end up on the same appliance that you're now using? Does that mean I end up with other peoples shitty water being jet streamed towards my anus? So many questions, so much doubt. Similarly for those handheld nosel things popular in the middle East and parts of Asia.

[–] Kerandir@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Italian here. Get a bidet, nobody died or took any infection from them. Your brain is over thinking it. Get a bidet. Thank me later. Go get a bidet.

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna use a bog roll like a caveman until the day I die