Why aren’t baby wipers our default?

    • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
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      Got one off Amazon for $35…wifey’s like, “meh”…I say, “30 days, you’ll wonder where it’s been all your life!”…8 days later, wifey, “When I go at work, I wonder why they don’t have…”

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      I’d argue, majority of places don’t have those. Also I’m talking about the wiping process.

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            Naw buddy it’s like an attachment onto your existing toilet. You can even get one with hot water for just a lil more if your toilet is close enough to the hot water inlet to the sink.

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                You really need to investigate what people are telling you before you tell them they are wrong.

                Mine goes under the toilet seat (space that’s already being used) and connects to the tank by a 1/2" metal hose.

                Took me 10 minutes to install. $35 on Amazon.

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                To be fair, I honestly don’t know the size of your toilet, but I would be rather surprised if it’s such a nonstandardized size that you couldn’t find a cheap bidet to put on there.

                That said, you seem opposed to the very concept of being able to mount a bidet so I think that’s your biggest barrier to a cleaner anus.

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            Homie, I have a bathroom that is the literal T from Tetris. I got a bidet installed in mine ezmode.

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            Hard to say. I like to lean forward and to the side, lifting one butt cheek off the seat and then I do sploosh with relatively much pressure.

            One mistake I’ve made at first, is to be a bit overzealous with the wiping. In order to be clean, you only need the outside of the sphincter to be clean. Trying to clean beyond there is rather pointless, as that’s the inside of your rectum, where your body literally stores shit.
            But with toilet paper, you can obviously reach beyond that, which will return a stained toilet paper and make it look like you weren’t clean yet.

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          I don’t get this, I’ve used bidets, it results in a wet ass that I need to dry off with toilet paper which sometimes still shows poop

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            I guess keep wiping then. About a month since I installed our bidet and the only time I used paper after about the first week of checking, is at work. And yeah, my asshole is wet after I spray, but it is not like there is water pouring out of it or anything.

  • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    Because toilet paper can be flushed, but baby wipes should go in a garbage bin?

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      My roommate refuses to acknowledge that key difference. I just hope I’m out of the apartment before it becomes my problem.

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        Being in an apartment, good chance it gets to the building-wide plumbing before clogging, and so wouldn’t be traced back to you. Of course, that would still leave you (and the rest of the building) without plumbing for a while whenever it actually does clog

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        Proof or gtfo; being labelled ‘flushable’ is not proof, they are lying

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            flushable in the us means it can go down the toilet. However, Wastewater treatment plants have to remove these from the wastewater, as they do not break down the same as poop, or in same case they don’t break down at all.

            hopefully the Aussie government has define flushable differently than the us.

            It’s very expensive problem. At least in the USA. My spouse works in waste water treatment and hates “flushable” wipes with a fiery passion.

            Us centric link, so it may not apply to you in Australia. https://wiser.eco/flushable-wipes/

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                Update: After extensive input from public wastewater bodies and industry experts including Kimberly-Clark Australia (the maker of Kleenex® Flushable Wipes), Standards Australia published a new, AU & NZ-specific, Flushable Products Standard (AS/NZS 5328:2022). The Standard details clear testing criteria that need to be met for manufacturers to use a “flushable” label in accordance with the Standard.

                We welcome the introduction of the new Standard and are proud to announce that Kleenex Flushable Wipes meet and exceed the requirements of the Australia/New Zealand Flushable Products Standard (AS/NZS 5328:2022)

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      And they’re still non-flushable, despite what the package says.

      Most baby wipes and similar materials aren’t designed to be flushed—“flushable” products like wipes do not readily disperse upon flushing and actually remain in a solid state while traveling through the sewer system. They may clog your pipes at home resulting in costly visits from your plumber. They may get caught in the public wastewater system, which can cause thousands of dollars worth of damage to regional pumping equipment leading to higher sewer bills for us all. While many of these products might masquerade as “flushable” and “sewer friendly”, don’t be fooled!

      https://protectyourpipes.org/wipes#

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        Toilet wipes have led to an epidemic of what have been colloquially termed as turdbergs, which are vehicle sized piles of shit held together by baby wipes that refuse to actually biodegrade and have caused sewer and plumbing issues costing taxpayers and individuals millions of dollars.

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    This shit again? Pun intended. But JFC Lemmy is fucking obsessed with TP & bidets.

    Mandatory PSA: Baby wipes clog up the plumbing system. Please don’t flush those down a toilet. TP was designed to break down.

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      Right there with you.

      Damn kids act like adults never considered it. Motherfucking kids go read some got-damn HISTORY once in a fucking while.

      Neither existed for my grandparents.

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        People in the past had to put up with a lot of shit we don’t have to today. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take advantage on modern luxuries. Your hemorrhoids will thank you.

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        I can only imagine the confusion your grandparents must have lived in, having neither toilet paper nor history.

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      PSA Kleenex Australia sells flushable wipes

      Update: After extensive input from public wastewater bodies and industry experts including Kimberly-Clark Australia (the maker of Kleenex® Flushable Wipes), Standards Australia published a new, AU & NZ-specific, Flushable Products Standard (AS/NZS 5328:2022). The Standard details clear testing criteria that need to be met for manufacturers to use a “flushable” label in accordance with the Standard.

      We welcome the introduction of the new Standard and are proud to announce that Kleenex Flushable Wipes meet and exceed the requirements of the Australia/New Zealand Flushable Products Standard (AS/NZS 5328:2022)

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    Read some history to discover methods used before we settled on toilet paper.

    Spoiler: you’re not gonna like it.