Which Way Should The Toilet Paper Hang? | QI

[@jonahship5900]

- Which Way Should The Toilet Paper Hang? - Down

[@Galerak1]

perfect 🤣

[@macsnafu]

Now THAT's the correct answer!

[@R0ssMM]

Look at Isaac Newton over here!

[@valeriehowden471]

My old cat used to unroll the TP when it came off the front. I tried to outsmart him and had it unroll off the back. Well, i woke up to a perfectly shredded roll of TP. From then on, we compromised by taking it off the holder and placing the roll on the top of the tank.

[@weust2672]

Maybe close the door?

[@sooskevington6144]

My cat shreds loo rolls so I outsmarted him by keeping the roll in an apothecary jar. Then the cat learned how to take the lid off the jar

[@bgrigg07]

Every time my cat unrolled the TP I gave her a bath. She quickly associated the two and stopped going into the bathroom, at all!

[@ChristopherCurtis]

"compromise"

[@caeruleusvm7621]

@@bgrigg07 The first human being to train a cat to do anything! Respect.

[@renhoeknl]

Toilet paper to the front.. This is a hill I'm willing to die on.

[@MattTCfarm]

It is when you are off your hill in a tiny bathroom and the holder is so close to the toilet you hit it with your leg and it start unrolling you realize the backward direction has a purpose.

[@Maniakatus]

@@MattTCfarm If that's its only purpose then fine, let it have that one. And in every other circumstances, front it is.

[@echassin]

I felt the same until I was adopted by a Siamese cat. They looooooove to unroll the stuff.

[@dmontes133]

You’re dead.

[@WyattRyeSway]

Me 2

[@archstanton6102]

Nice to see Mark Steel.

[@highdownmartin]

Always nice to see steeley

[@simon199418]

And his brother Jeremy Irons

[@GnomaPhobic]

I admire a man who accepts going grey. It shows confidence, innit?

[@BBQAndButter]

Like Alan, I also have a double roll holder with a magazine rack at the bottom. It's called a Loo Read. Quite nice looking, actually.

[@keithmills778]

Does the estate of Lou Reed get royalties for the (sort of) use of his name?

[@GnomaPhobic]

And when you wipe your ass with a magazine, you're taking a walk on the wild side.

[@mastermill79]

I use the shells from Demolition Man so.

[@sandrosliske]

What do the 3 sea shells do?

[@JamesLikesIcedCream]

@sandrosliske it's intended to be humorously vague I think. Star Trek TNG also had 3 sea shells in the bathroom

[@alliedatheistalliance6776]

I don't care about flying cars or colonising mars, we will only be in the future when they finally bring out the three seashells.

[@Radonatos]

@@sandrosliske He doesn't know how to use the 3 sea shells!! :D

[@steves9250]

1:38 Puts a new meaning to “Four sheets to the wind”

[@krashd]

I'm sure the saying is "Three sheets to the wind", a four-master is a very rare ship indeed.

[@TxVoodoo_]

Bidets got more popular in the US after the Great Toilet Paper Shortage during COVID!

[@Ferined]

You're probably thinking of washlets, the water spray nozzle things that people have been calling "bidets", even though that's a different thing. An actual bidet is like a water basin you can sit on.

[@TxVoodoo_]

@@Ferined Yes, I'm well aware what a bidet is, having traveled in Europe a lot. But they now make attachments for toilets which do exactly the same job without requiring yet another porcelain fixture. Those by Tushi, in fact, are really great. Check them out! Not a hand spray thing.

[@Ferined]

@@TxVoodoo_ Yes, they're popular in Japan, where I think they originated, and over there they often call them washlets. They feel like a different thing from bidets to me, so I think that name makes a lot more sense!

[@TxVoodoo_]

@@Ferined Actually, the bidet was invented by the French, hence the French name for them. The Woshuretto (Washlet) is a latter development by the Japanese. The company Toto really went to town on it, adding warm air drying and other innovations.

[@safebox36]

South Park did a whole episode on it cause one of the creators got a bidet, they went into the history of why toilet paper is so popular in the west despite studies showing that bidets are cleaner and quicker than toilet paper. Tldr; big paper is a real thing 😂.

[@c0mputer]

A friend’s father is an hvac tech and he went to a customer’s house and he wasn’t there and so couldn’t get in the house. He was just parked in the driveway waiting for him to arrive. He had to poo and crouched behind his car, laid some newspaper on the driveway and did his business. When he was done he realized the newspaper had blown away before he started going. Then the home owner came home.

[@AcrosArchive]

And that house was in Hampstead Heath.

[@numbereightyseven]

​@@AcrosArchive True QI fans will understand that.

[@frankie3036]

You can't end the story there! What happened next? 😆

[@krashd]

@@frankie3036 Something involving sticks, leaves, and an irate phone call hours later asking about a human shit found in the customer's flower bed.

[@beady123]

Why would you just squat on a driveway !? The newspaper blowing away is unfortunate but that is strange behaviour to me! If you need to go that badly drive to a supermarket or pub and use a toilet. More importantly, which way round did he place the paper or leaves used to wipe?

[@BOABModels]

I watched this whilst fitting a loo roll holder in the downstairs loo.

[@NewMessage]

I turn them around, no matter what side they're facing, when I go to friends houses. I imagine I caused more than one divorce.

[@LotusFlower0409]

Thee best comment

[@h14hc124]

You've got a new message

[@lajoswinkler]

Hello, Satan.

[@Fadamor]

In the U.S. there was a nationally-syndicated advice columnist whose column was called "Dear Abby". She appeared in newspapers across the United States. One person asked her in her column about which way was the correct way to hang TP and she chose "hang from the front". It was at that point I decided she was "insane" because I preferred hanging from the rear. Of course now I hang from the front but not because of that column. I grew tired of the paper tear happening in back where I couldn't reach it.

[@christophermccutcheon2143]

No matter which way it is, i flip it the other way when I'm in someone else's bathroom

[@GingerCC-he8be]

Every house/hotel in Italy includes a bidet. I believe there is a bidet law requiring one for a house to be deemed livable.😁

[@Zomerset]

I wish Bidets were common in the UK. Most new houses and apartments seem to have such tiny bathrooms.

[@catatonicbug7522]

​@Zomerset I wish the same for the US. My add-on for my toilet is wonderful, and I hate it when nature calls away from home!

[@ConstantChaos1]

They are super easy to install (the add on ones for the toilet)

[@twocvbloke]

Ours is sideways, because of the rebellion... :P

[@ObscureReference9]

This must be where the phrase "three sheets to the wind" was started.

[@1kreature]

The best solution is a holder that hangs on the wall and the roll unrolls towards said wall. Reason is you can then, with one hand, pull off a set of sheets while applying pressure to the roll towards the wall. Your pull on the paper rotates the roll opposite from your pressure and movement of the hand locking the roll and tearing the sheet. This is not possible if it unrolls from the front.

[@JeremyKasperson]

My grandparents had an outhouse and swore by the Sears catalog.

[@andrewschmidt5312]

I have a poem I live by: I don’t care, as long as it’s there…

[@JonatasAdoM]

And it isn't wet.

[@williamjones7163]

This subject created the greatest surge in letters, According to Ann Landers, Toilet paper should unroll off the front. That is the way it is manufactured. If the paper is printed or embossed, the printed or the embossing is on the front side. Now, this all goes to hell if you have cats. The cat will unroll the paper if it comes off the front. My cats took great pleasure in unrolling the roll when it came off the front. Even if I caught them in the act, they would just look at me and go back at it.

[@shabadoojr]

Ann Landers is a boring old biddy.

[@massimookissed1023]

I had a cat scratching my couch. I told her "No", and showed her how to scratch the scratching post. She looked at me like "OK, _you_ do that, but _I'm_ scratching the couch."

[@Tjs736]

Squeeze the roll before you put it on enough to make the cardboard tube slightly elliptical. Your cat won’t find it so easy to unroll

[@ianjlilly]

If you've got a cat then the "feed" is adjacent to the wall!!

[@uIz-slc]

or just close the door of the bathroom...

[@olivertunnah3987]

None of our cats throughout my life have ever been interested in the toilet paper.

[@kilroy987]

1:20 I'm pretty sure I saw a tilt a roll demonstrated on a late night talk show before 1999.

[@oliverohnemus5791]

Or just set the roll on top

[@brotherfranciz]

That would PISS off both sides.

[@dougaltolan3017]

Yeah but.. Folder or scruncher?

[@peterclarke7006]

I didn't even know scrunching was an option anyone would ever consider.

[@TR-rz1xt]

@@peterclarke7006 Indeed, much too risky!

[@Natatattatification]

@@peterclarke7006my mum actually taught me to fold and I’m glad she did

[@numbereightyseven]

​@@Natatattatification It gives new meaning to "fold your washing"

[@frankhooper7871]

3 sheets; fold in half

[@der.Schtefan]

I always heard the cat explanation for the backwards orientation.

[@razzle1964]

Good boy, Nish. Respect.😉✌️

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

I usually leave it on the counter by the lavatory (bathroom sink). If forced to mount it, I have it hanging from the back so I have something to tear it off from.

[@mrd8826]

The cat/child benefit is a myth that's constantly repeated. If you have it unrolling from the front they can easily pull it from the top, if you have it unrolling from the back they can also easily pull it down from underneath, just against the wall. One would think that's actually easier for a cat with no opposable digits. The real solution to that problem is to install one of the dispensers from any public toilet, where even humans struggle to get one or two sheets to dispense before they jam.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

Reason for all the brown stains on those damned things?!!

[@TP_Rockstar]

Another reason for the toiletpaper hanging from the front is hygiene. When you hang the toiletpaper backwards, when you go to grab it, researchers found that you're prone to touching the wall being the roll, an area that now becomes a hotspot for bacteria, particularly E.coli.

[@williamtomkiel8215]

within arms reach is adequate .. .

[@andrewaevaliotis8769]

It’s a beard, not a mullet!….🤨

[@RubyDoobieScoo]

I don't check before putting it on, I don't know why anyone would care.

[@sandrosliske]

Most people find it irritating to have their finger nails scratch the wall when getting a sheet.

[@RubyDoobieScoo]

@@sandrosliske sounds like a skill issue.

[@tedhobgood]

I'm with Nishy on this one.

[@weirdunclebob]

We had a cat for 17 years and she never once touched the loo paper in either dunny. Neither did she constanly knock things off shelves or tables etc. She was a true queen! Also, front because beards for the cool, mullets for the fool.

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

we have had a number of cats, some of them pains, but none ever messed with the loo roll.

[@johnreder4118]

If you do have a cat and hang it from the top down it is going to end up unrolled into the living room. As for splinter free toilet paper, any school kid up through the 1970's can tell you school toilet paper was like sand paper. In rural America people in the outhouse would not wipe with the Farmer's Almanac, but the Sears Catalogue and they would do their mail order shopping for crap while pooing. Perhaps coincidentally as they switched to toilet paper Sears sales began to drop off until Sears finally folded.

[@WG55]

I was told by my elders that with the Sears catalog, everyone would use up the yellow index pages in the middle first as those were more effective than the glossy colored pages.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

@@WG55Sounds like that "Government Issue" stuff that was used in all schools, hospitals,etc when I was a kid. 3 wipes and it was up the back of your neck! 😱🙄😈

[@JimC]

Always "against the wall" for me, except for one time. A place I lived at for a short while had a bathroom that was laid out weirdly. It was narrow, and the TP holder was placed on the wall opposite the toilet, not right beside it. So while I was there, I always had the TP away from the wall, because the extra couple of inches closer to me made the TP easier to reach.

[@JustsomeblokeinYorkshire]

Friend's parents lived in a very large Victorian house in the north of England. A redundant corridor had been closed off to make a very long, narrow room for a downstairs toilet... door at one end, WC itself about 20 feet away at the other. My friend's dad had a slightly warped sense of humour... he fixed a toilet roll holder to the back of the door, so that you faced it when seated. Quite a few guests had a moment of panic before noticing that there was a second roll placed within reach just to one side of the WC!

[@mastermill79]

You mutant, how dare you! 😂😂😂

[@elaineb7065]

In small bathrooms, opposite wall. In bigger rooms when the lavatory is in a corner, side wall. If either wall is too far away, get a pole like the one in the show & weighted at the base. DO NOT mount one on the same wall as the lavatory; people don't want to twist at weird angles just to get the tissue for wiping off

[@markylon]

You utter freak

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

As a godless, hopefully intelligent person who uses my brain to determine things, I came to the conclusion that horizontal rolls require two hands. One to hold the roll, and one to tear a square from it. When placed vertically, the roll holds itself against the base of the holder, meaning a quick tug of one corner will separate one solitary square. It's so simple that a one-handed person can do it blindfolded. Try removing a single square one-handed and blindfolded with a horizontal roll.

[@LoPhatKao]

i admit to being a savage and not using the holder it just sits on counter

[@tkralva.6668]

How it hangs. Just depends on how I pick it up before. I don't even look. But more times than not it just goes on hanging to the back. Must be something to do with the way they are packed when to have the bags front forward.

[@Tillyard86]

I just have it on a poll behind the loo.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

And what was the result of your poll? (Vote?) 🤔🙄

[@stone5against1]

It hangs from the front at my place, but I don't really care when I go elsewhere, both ways work. It's a non-issue, like wiping sitting down or standing up.

[@marc.lepage]

Used to use old magazines, but now i just use an iPad.

[@markylon]

You mean an iPood

[@JonatasAdoM]

How do you wipe with it? Oh, Magazines. My brain was trying to imagine ammo magazines in the bathroom.

[@PedroConejo1939]

Can't beat a jug of water.

[@elaineb7065]

A good jug every so often is essential for lady parts!!! Warm water only though; anything else can irritate

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

Have a drink first though. 😱

[@elaineb7065]

@@theoztreecrasher2647 I have a beaker for that. The jug is strictly washing

[@Gowerrr]

outside

[@JJONNYREPP]

Which Way Should The Toilet Paper Hang? | QI 1306pm 21.10.24 so i did. i went outisde to find masses of farmer's almanac scattered abotu the place.... and a fight!! a fight between two farmers... who couldnt be bothered "wiping their arses".....

[@Rathkryn]

According to the patent it should hang from the front. (Away from the wall.)

[@grahamyates2490]

Except that, in the patent drawing, there is no reference point included such as a wall, or a person, so there's really no way of knowing which way round the roll is.

[@Rathkryn]

@@grahamyates2490 The front of the drawing is not facing the wall. lol.

[@grahamyates2490]

@@Rathkryn how do you know if no wall is included? Arrogant front-hangers think the world revolves around them (clockwise). (If viewed from the left).

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

@@Rathkryn It's shown from the wall's perspective.

[@tomgagnon2878]

I prefer burlap

[@stephanieyee9784]

My uncle used to work for Kleenex. He said the correct way to hang it is the long side out. However, you do you. I will always turn the 🧻 around, though.

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

I hang it to the front, because it's a lot easier to pull off a piece with one hand (so you don't have to put down your phone/newspaper/book). Also, I don't see why you'd need to rinse your butt every time you used the toilet. It gets cleaned with hot water and soap at least once a day anyway.

[@cgyrask]

The patent was for the perforation, not the hanging direction.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

away from the wall

[@joel7227]

It's official, Toilet paper hangs over the front, as decreed by it's inventor. Now we can focus research on the universes hard questions, like how some people enjoy the sandpaperish feeling of scrunched toilet paper?

[@markylon]

Its inventor NOT it's inventor. It's means IT IS, so you're saying by IT IS INVENTOR, see how silly you sound now

[@cromulentpotato]

​@@markylon its you're rodeo

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

@@cromulentpotato And may you get yaws!. 😜

[@MikeDuddy-q2t]

There is absolutely no difference between them the choice is arbitrary. That being said the correct way is to hang in the front and not to leave it up on the shelf so you have to stand up and grab it to wipe your ass. Erica if you're reading this I'm talking about you.

[@Snaakie83]

Just spoke to Erica, she just shat herself.

[@marilynkornelsen5734]

The paper goes from the front this way shitty and pissed fingers don't touch the wall

[@shockeye3863]

Cat owners know why the toilet roll is supposed to be hung against the wall.

[@ethelmini]

People owned by cats

[@olivertunnah3987]

I have two cats and it goes front first as it should. Never had an issue.

[@flargenz]

Front only because other people care 😅 either way doesn't bother me

[@TheDreamtimezzz]

It’s your house, it’s your paper, you decided.

[@ElGordo1959]

Ahh but therein lies the rub (pun intended) when the house is 50/50 owned and shared by joint tenants or tenants in common usually of opposite gender... The twin roll dispenser is the solution imho 🙃

[@yester30]

orthogonal to the wall.

[@anathardayaldar]

I can see how having pets or children would advantage going the other way.

[@howlinhobbit]

front only. because beards are cool and mullets aren’t.

[@Ineddiblehulk]

The design is on the outside so that HAS to face out

[@peterclarke7006]

But why does that matter when you're going to smear it in excrement?

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

@@peterclarke7006 Always order your bog paper with your "favourite" politician's portrait on it! 😉

[@peterclarke7006]

@@theoztreecrasher2647 I like to order the variety pack, so I can go on a bit of a smear campaign.

[@jeffkeith637]

Australian drovers used round rocks.

[@danmayberry1185]

Nish had it right. If it hangs down the far side, you are of no use to society. Straighten yourself out.

[@paulinecastle1138]

Phone books

[@HOTD108_]

I've been using phone books for years. Haven't bought toilet paper since 1972.

[@John_Smith_60]

So now you're wiping your butt with your cell phone?

[@bradprice8040]

Do you go straight at it with the hard scratchy paper or do you soften the paper up somehow? I have been out places where their paper quality felt like sandpaper. School toilet paper was always like that. I simply couldn't imagine using actual paper.

[@bradprice8040]

​@@John_Smith_60they still deliver phone books. People get in an uproar about it every now and then over of the waste of resources since most people immediately throw them away.

[@graceygrumble]

Fun Fact: Countries where people do not use toilet paper have a higher incidence of typhoid, giardia, meningitis...

[@wikiwikiwa]

Overhand

[@bradprice8040]

I need explained about the milk bottle comment. Unless that was just a joke. Because there is absolutely no way a milk bottle would be suffice for my "functions."

[@AndrewTBP]

You use it to pour water over your arse to wash it.

[@bradprice8040]

@@AndrewTBP ah. How is the scrubbing handled? Just pouring water over my dirty forest would not work.

[@krashd]

@@bradprice8040 Seeing as it's India I'd just imagine it's handled 😐

[@Maisiewuppp]

@@bradprice8040You use your left hand to gently rub while the water is pouring over your hole. Not rocket science and hence the taboo about eating with your left hand in cultures who use this method. Better than a milk bottle is a 2 litre soft drink bottle. Better than that a dedicated wall mounted sprayer on the end of a hose right next to the toilet or a bidet.

[@CricketEngland]

I just wash and go

[@peterclarke7006]

Can your bum hair even get dandruff? I mean... Genuine question. Might have to go look that up, now.

[@LucasCarter2]

Obviously you hang it so that the paper is minimising contact with the wall, and also makes it easier to grab, and generally more cleanly.

[@Tinker1950]

More cleanly what?

[@lajoswinkler]

@@Tinker1950 Wall and other surfaces collect dust and poo aerosol.

[@Tinker1950]

@@lajoswinkler Missed the ungrammatical point entirely.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

@@Tinker1950 Some do seem to miss entirely - when using the body-temperature water to wash their hands. 😷

[@CptScottyAUS]

Sandy your elves could not be more wrong on this, the image you showed was for a patent for perforation paper, they had to draw it that way other wise the perforations would not been seen in the patent. Therefore it was not drawn in such a way to show the "correct" or "incorrect" way to hang toilet paper. The correct way is underhung if you must know.

[@JonatasAdoM]

If the toilet paper is uneven, it can unravel itself.

[@thehellyousay]

It depends upon whether you have a cat or not.

[@biggdogg6196]

How do they wash? Usung their bare hand to wipe inside the arse with water?

[@shed66215]

And people wonder why the UK has toilet humour 😂

[@davidadams421]

Vertical, with the paper exiting on the left. Don't knock it 'till you've tried it!

[@Andymandyrocks]

As an Indian I used to think toilet paper was used to dry your arse after washing it with water 😂

[@lairddougal3833]

The Japanese have got it right. Brilliant!

[@nethergoth]

The real question is... do you wipe sitting down, or standing up?

[@bradprice8040]

Sitting of course. Just the process of standing up would spread the mess.

[@robertgransee8849]

Why would you sit down to wipe? EDIT: Wait... you sit down to shit?

[@bradprice8040]

@@robertgransee8849 woot

[@JonatasAdoM]

People on the internet take some sort of pride in using a bidet. Little do they know most hoises use to have them and society just did away with it. I reme big bathrooms.

[@chrisjackson1215]

This is silly. The correct way is to not give a damn which way it hangs because it's your wipers problem to deal with.

[@brotherfranciz]

Hotels ALWAYS hang it facing the front.

[@peterclarke7006]

Hotels tend not to have cats.

[@HOTD108_]

​@@peterclarke7006Because guests kept using them instead of the toilet paper.

[@peterclarke7006]

@@HOTD108_ which is silly. Everyone knows dogs are better for wiping.

[@TR-rz1xt]

They couldn't do their fancy fold-the-end-to-a-point if it went down the back ;)

[@caeruleusvm7621]

@@HOTD108_ I knew someone would one day find a use for cats.

[@ThisZombieBitesEverything]

You put it so the paper hands at the back, if you give it a yank it snaps the paper off without unrolling. If you hang it so the paper is at the front and you yank on it, not only will it not snap, but it will unroll uncontrollable. Try it for yourself

[@krashd]

Birdy Num Nums.

[@markylon]

You freak

[@gusbrowner4089]

ah yes gods 11th commandment

[@danparsons1423]

Does anyone find Nish funny?

[@ykskes2561]

If I’m visiting others and have to use the toilet during my visit and the toilet roll is hanging backwards… I will hang it the other way round … 🫣 🤫😬😅

[@dougaltolan3017]

Have noticed that on subsequent visits, your hosts set your dinner place with the plate pattern upside down? I would :P

[@ykskes2561]

@@dougaltolan3017 hahaha yup !! 🫥 🤣🤣 same here 🤚🏼🤝🏼

[@20shourya]

you are a poo fighter,

[@ykskes2561]

@@20shourya 🤣 I’ll take it 🤚🏼🤣🤣

[@Tjs736]

Do that more than once and I would never be inviting you back

[@StevenBanks123]

Bidet. Won’t go back.

[@davidf2281]

I don't understand bidets. How does a little fountain of water clean crap off your bum without soap and scrubbling/abrasion? And how do you dry your bum afterwards? A towel is going to be utterly unhygenic since you've not used anything to actually sanitise / sterilise your backside. Someone with experience please enlighten me.

[@CrazyMazapan]

You CAN use soap. Then a towel. Actually, the area that is dirty is really very small so it's easy and quick to clean

[@pouletbelette]

You wash your bottom in a bidet like you would your hands in a washbasin. Therefore, with soap, hopefully. Also, I wouldn't describe it as a "little fountain". It can be a pretty big flow. The towel will be as clean as the one you use after washing your hands: not that much. And will require a frequent change.

[@massimookissed1023]

Now I don't wanna touch anyone's soap bar.

[@bradprice8040]

Females don't have the disaster that s male has. Just found this out when having to help someone with bathroom duties. It is so simplistic it is almost a marvel. So I had the same question about how the hell a bidet would even help. The soap and towel answer raises even more questions to be honest. A stack of single use bars of soap and hand towels? A soap bottle by the toilet and a stack of single use hand towels. Or soap bottle and a paper towel roll by the toilet?

[@davidf2281]

@@massimookissed1023 Yeah I'm with you on that one. I'm sticking with paper as the least-bad option.

[@SonnyDarvish]

Rub some chocolate on your hands, will a toilet roll clean it better than water? I don't think it's a complex setup to have bidets everywhere instead of rolls.

[@brotherfranciz]

You have a very interesting way of doing your business... You rub the poo on your hands and then clean your hands? What is this?!

[@invictus7736]

I'd wager most people don't rub shit on their hands or want to clean it with their hands, hence the toilet paper

[@krashd]

80% of the world washes their arse while 20% wipe. A strange ratio that, it correlates exactly with the fact that 80% of the world do not bathe everyday while 20% of us do. I'd wash my arse after every shit too if I knew it was the only time it'd see water that week.

[@magillanz]

Makes absolutely no difference which way around the toilet roll goes. Just as long as there is enough

[@Daniel-yy5tx]

The only thing I don't get about bidets is, are bidets usually literally just about rinsing your ass? Doesn't rinsing your ass with water let the insoluble bits of poo drip and spread all over your asscheeks? I encountered one of those fancy bidet toilets in the airport in Tokyo, and that seemed to be the case, which didn't appeal to me at all. BUT, when I moved to Taiwan, it turned out that most of the toilets in private homes are right next to the shower, which always has a flexible shower hose, but that makes more sense to me because it means the soap is also always nearby so you can literally wash your ass. Rinsing your ass after pooping makes as much sense to me as rinsing your hands after pooping. If soap isn't involved, it's just not right.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

In some developing countries ... you use your left hand.

[@Maniakatus]

Yeah but this wasn't about the US.

[@massimookissed1023]

I would argue that counts as not really developing at all.

[@phueal]

I read a comment one time which completely changed my mind about bidets: "you wouldn't try and clean peanut butter off a carpet using only kitchen roll, would you?"

[@richardmclaren8549]

Exactly why I have a hand bidet. 😊

[@MCPhssthpok]

Or if you got sh*t on any other part of your body, you wouldn't be satisfied with just wiping it off, would you?

[@RonGardener4142]

Carpet? Exactly how hairy is your arse?😂

[@phueal]

@@RonGardener4142 😂 I know, that thought occurred to me too, but to be honest even though it would work better than on carpet I wouldn’t even choose to clean peanut butter off a dinner plate using only kitchen roll. So I think the point still stands.

[@John_Smith_60]

So, you hose down your living room carpet?

[@anononomous]

The backwards direction makes the one handed tear easier.

[@woodrobin]

The savage and the foolish argue over whether paper should hang front or back. The wise wash their asses, and thus their hands, of the whole issue. Team Bidet.

[@margaretnicol3423]

Thank goodness for wet wipes!

[@intheshell35ify]

Do the heavy lifting with the TP and spruce it up with the wioes!!

[@maxytwist]

Where do you put your shitey wet wipes??

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@maxytwist You only need one or two sheets to finish the job and the decent ones are flushable or you could have a handy little bin like people do for diapers.

[@bradprice8040]

​@@margaretnicol3423none of them are flushable. They shouldn't even be allowed to have that on them since those same packs say not to flush them.

[@EebstertheGreat]

@@margaretnicol3423 Wet wipes are never flushable. Even the Cottonelle ones that try to advertise how dispersible they are hang together fairly solidly in pipes, even for hours, plenty of time to snag other junk and form a ball. If you must use wet wipes, throw them in the trash instead (a lined trash can with a lid).

[@topm.hatter1760]

I tell people they're not clean if they're wiping with toilet paper. They think I'm being irrational.

[@Robespierre-lI]

Why are you so interested in other people's bottoms?

[@TeamVanityVideos]

A bidet and using water are different. A bidet is posh, costs a lot of money and sprays water on your butt. A bowl filled with water that you dip your hand in to wash your ass is not posh at all.

[@Ferined]

You're thinking of a washlet, not a bidet. A bidet is a water basin you can squat on and splash some water up there with your hand. I don't know why but some people have been calling washlets bidets recently (presumably in places where bidets weren't popular before?).

[@bradprice8040]

Googling says that a washlet is the full featured fancy "bidet" that does all the cleaning. A bidet is just a water jet toilet seat replacement where you still do all the wiping and just use this as a tiny shower to rinse afterwards. Some of those can be fancier with built in heaters for the water. An actual bowl of water type bidet might have been an old type of thing but that is just me guessing. Similar for use with what I have heard referred to as a "wh*res bath" like seen in old westerns and other movies.

[@pilgrimoutdoors-uk6177]

4 Comedians .....and Nish Kumar.

[@decodolly1535]

I hang the loo roll away from the wall and have a friend who incessantly tells me I should hang it the other way around so that cats can't unravel it. I don't have a cat. Being hugely allergic, and disliking the creatures, I'm never going to have a cat. I now no longer understand why this woman is my friend!

[@ebola1974]

Beards are cool, mullets are not

[@angemaidment5640]

Why would you hang it closer to the wall?