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Why don't Irish houses have bidets?

  • 09-03-2020 5:29pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 616 ✭✭✭


    As above.


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  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Just use the shower head if ya want one that much mate


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Crock Rock wrote: »
    As above.
    Why don't they have verandas? Basements? Escalators? Just because there is such a thing doesn't mean it has to be incorporated into everything. Buy one and hire a plumber, ya lazy bum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭miezekatze


    My bathroom can barely fit a toilet, shower and sink. I think most bathrooms are just too small for non-essential items like that.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,875 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    mikhail wrote: »
    Why don't they have verandas? Basements? Escalators? Just because there is such a thing doesn't mean it has to be incorporated into everything. Buy one and hire a plumber, ya lazy dirty bum.

    FYP :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Plopsu


    Just buy a pack of flushable wipes.


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  • Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Considering we don't have enough homes for each citizen as it is, let's fix that first, then get particular about accoutrements.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    And so it begins. First, a new coronavirus variant. Then, a carefully-orchestrated shortage of bog-paper. Finally, every homeowner in Europe wants a bidet. It's all as plain as day now - the plumbers done it!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Simpler to attach a spray fitting to the water inlet for the cistern.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Probably a ploy by Big Bidet to gain more market share. Crafty bastards.

    I warned ye about this! OP is obviously part of an international bidet conglomerate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,412 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Plopsu wrote: »
    Just buy a pack of flushable wipes.
    Don’t do that. Even though the wipes themselves are flushable, a huge proportion of Irish plumbing uses old pipes that can’t handle them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,071 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    Why don't Irish houses have bidets?

    Because we don't wash our feet .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    If you have good water pressure upstairs, there's an adapter for the toilet that you can hook up and hose your hole.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    from the first time i went to south east asia i have been asking this question. the bum squirt guns are just such an improvement on toilet paper. i think one problem is the ambient temperature of the water in the pipes. in india you are blasting your ring with luke warm water, in ireland it would be FRAYZING


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    LirW wrote: »
    If you have good water pressure upstairs, there's an adapter for the toilet that you can hook up and hose your hole.
    link please


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭shivermetimber


    Love a good bum gun, especially on a scorching hot day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Love a good bum gun, especially on a scorching hot day.

    They're awesome.

    Added benefit: no need to be hoarding toiletpaper.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,694 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    We had one in the 80s.......was never used for its intended purpose.

    Only as a foot bath.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭shivermetimber


    Sky King wrote: »
    They're awesome.

    Added benefit: no need to be hoarding toiletpaper.


    Yup. Even though ambient water temp here would be baltic compared to somewhere east :D I'd still have one hooked up to the toilet if I could as they're cheaper in long run, won't potentially wreak your sewage system and are much cleaner. Anyone who thinks they aren't compared to using jacks roll is mad in the head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    NIMAN wrote: »
    We had one in the 80s.......was never used for its intended purpose.

    Only as a foot bath.

    Yeah, that happens in a lot of houses that do have bidets.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,694 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Yeah, that happens in a lot of houses that do have bidets.

    I remember it and to be honest it had very little water pressure.
    Don't think it would have shifted much material, if you get my drift.

    And then how would you dry your rear? With a towel?:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,513 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Our house had one when we moved in. Completely useless as there was no water pressure. The hose attached to the toilet is a good idea and I had been planning on getting one


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The first house I liven in as an adult had one, it was brilliant if you are a woman, most modern houses do not have a big enough bathroom for one but if I has a choice I would get one again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,633 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Considering we don't have enough homes for each citizen as it is, let's fix that first, then get particular about accoutrements.

    Why does everyone seem to bring everything back to the homelessness issue.

    The problem is more complicated than just building homes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,370 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Crock Rock wrote: »
    As above.

    You don't have one?
    Peasant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    Miley had a Bidet


    Till he had his way with Fidelma


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    I'm not familiar with the bidet system. How well does it work for each of the situations it may encounter. Does the viscosity and adhesive properties make much diference to how well 8t cleans

    How do you know your clean enough

    What do you dry up with and where does that end up

    Does it tickle


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭Granadino


    why don't we have the roll down blinds you see all over the continent on houses, apartments etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    I panic-bought 6 bidets this morning :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    I'd love one of those Japanese toilets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,330 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    you can attach one to your loo:
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07HMSDVGW/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭Fireball81


    Just use the shower hose when required- that's what i do anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,538 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    NIMAN wrote: »
    And then how would you dry your rear? With a towel?:eek:

    Why? What do you do after you have a shower?

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    A basin to Wash your feet in


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭randd1


    A bidet is no three seashells.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Rufeo


    Probably coz it's just freezing all the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭mvl


    glasso wrote: »


    this seems to be purposed for something else, being limited to 650 ml per use ...looking at devices that are meant to use lets say 0.5 litres of water /minute - when the cleansing process can be few minutes long ... don't think this is really a replacement for those.


    but then, on OP - think bidets, or even too much toilet paper should not be necessary for ppl with a healthy gut/bowel movements - more info in this article https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/healthy-poop-toilet-paper-signs/


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I remember it and to be honest it had very little water pressure.
    Don't think it would have shifted much material, if you get my drift.

    And then how would you dry your rear? With a towel?:eek:

    Hairdryer, of course! On medium heat setting :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    My friend's parents got one fitted when we were kids. Just assumed it was a weird toilet and pee'd in it. I was then informed that it was a "bum washer".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,314 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    We're not that posh!


  • Posts: 5,369 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Wash your arse when you jump in the shower if ya want.

    Personally I don't like bidet's as a cleaning method


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    My family home that I grew up in, in suburban Dublin had a bidet in the main bathroom. The house was built in the 1970s and I think bidets were very briefly in vogue back then (along with the vile carpets in the bathrooms).

    I don't think anyone actually used it, or I suppose admitted to using it. The old bidet had a sprinking jet of water that shot up from the base that we messed with as kids. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    mvl wrote: »
    this seems to be purposed for something else, being limited to 650 ml per use ...looking at devices that are meant to use lets say 0.5 litres of water /minute - when the cleansing process can be few minutes long ... don't think this is really a replacement for those.


    but then, on OP - think bidets, or even too much toilet paper should not be necessary for ppl with a healthy gut/bowel movements - more info in this article https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/healthy-poop-toilet-paper-signs/

    I use a similar contraption to rinse my sinuses :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Do what they do in India
    Fit a hose onto the wall next to the toilet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    I always use a squirt of baby cream onto the toilet paper for the second or third approach. Works wonderfully.



    - Dr Ficheall (phd in the mathematical study of holes, as it happens)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Nevin Parsnipp


    BuboBubo wrote: »
    I use a similar contraption to rinse my sinuses :D


    Matron ?


  • Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Just install a little shower head thing beside the toilet.
    Every house in Finland has them.
    Have seen them in a few Muslim countries also.
    No need for a while diffenrt toilet thing. A hose will do the same job


  • Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mvl wrote: »
    this seems to be purposed for something else, being limited to 650 ml per use ...looking at devices that are meant to use lets say 0.5 litres of water /minute - when the cleansing process can be few minutes long ... don't think this is really a replacement for those.


    but then, on OP - think bidets, or even too much toilet paper should not be necessary for ppl with a healthy gut/bowel movements - more info in this article https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/healthy-poop-toilet-paper-signs/

    how would you know - you don't have one?

    works well I can tell you :pac:

    saves the hassle of installing a hose and it's portable.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,430 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    GBX wrote: »
    Miley had a Bidet


    Till he had his way with Fidelma

    This post deserved way more thanks. Shame


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