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wildcardology ,

It’s halfway 2024 it’s time to move on to bidets.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Based and Hygiene Pilled

MystikIncarnate ,

I use a bidet, I still need TP to clean up after the water does the job.

I know fancy bidets exist that will blow dry your arae, but what do I look like? A rich person? We got ours from Amazon for like $20.

TP use is way down, but it’s still needed in many cases.

lunarul ,

You use toilet paper to dry off? Why not a towel?

Tankton ,

A bidet ain’t 100% clean. Sometimes there is small residue which you notice when you dry with toilet paper. I got a handheld bidet btw and since installing it 10y ago I really hate pooping without.

wildcardology ,

In our culture we use soap and water to clean our asses after pooping. So a bidet+soap match made in heaven.

Before bidets we use a dipper to scoop water.

I_LOVE_VEKOMA_SLC ,

In our culture we just put in a new asshole every time we poop problem solved.

threelonmusketeers ,

Scoop water from where‽

wildcardology ,

From a big bucket near the toilet.

threelonmusketeers ,

Thank you for clarifying. My mind immediately jumped to “scooping water from the toilet bowl”. Glad this was not the case.

wildcardology ,

Looks something like this https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/72b0ab75-febf-4783-8301-339f847bf89d.jpeg

wildcardology ,

I just sit there and browse Lemmy while I wait for my ass to dry out. 😀

ByteJunk ,
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world avatar

People here be discussing the wrong thing, or am I the only one thinking that patenting a roll of paper is incredibly stupid?

It’s a damn roll of paper. How much of a genius do you have to be to come up with that? People have been doing it for millennia, the only difference is that it used to be so expensive that no one would think of whipping their butts with it.

BCsven ,

The patent was the tp roll but more so the angular serations that terminate short of the center, so a tearable roll of paper rather than a strip role that had to be torn manually or cut

ByteJunk ,
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world avatar

So the innovation that was patented is literally “cut it partway through”.

Patents are inherently stupid and only serve to stifle progress. Change my mind or otherwise just downvote away, works as well.

BCsven ,

They are stupid, but helped inventors recoup development costs. It gets abused now, especially with patent trolls. The invention here moved TP from a roll you had to cut or tear, to self tearing segments with enough attached at center that it pulled roll forward…smart at the time…we take this idea of perforated sheets for granted now

ByteJunk ,
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe this invention revolutionised how we clean our butts, or maybe it was utterly trivial and 20 different ways of cutting paper rolls were patented that same year (note that present day rolls don’t even use this method).

But that’s irrelevant to the point that seems to be implied here that patents somehow contributed to it’s success. They don’t, an invention will be useful or not based on its own merits, not on the fact they’re patented.

They exist to ensure whoever registered it makes a profit, which is why they’re being exploited way past the point of making up for any good they were supposed to bring…

BCsven ,

Yep, i agree. patents are stupid, but not everyone is convinced of open sourcing everything

Sam_Bass ,

I mount mine vertically so nyah

WarmSoda OP ,

Funny. That’s how your mom mounts me! Heyoooh!

Sam_Bass , (edited )

You must be necrophiliac since my mom has been dead for years.

WarmSoda OP ,

🙄

Sam_Bass ,

And in addition she was cremated,so i guess that makes you an assh man too

WarmSoda OP ,

Oh that’s good, that quality right there.
Respect.

tehWrapper ,
@tehWrapper@lemmy.world avatar

Unless you have a cat that likes to play with them… Then the other direction.

Rhaedas ,

Depends on the cat. If they're simply going with tapping the roll to spin it, that may work for a bit. I've found that rolls accessible to a cat tend to morph into big balls of clawed unusable pulp.

alquicksilver ,
@alquicksilver@lemmy.world avatar

When I was a young kid, I had a cat that was front-declawed (this was before it was well known that it’s an abusive practice - my folks didn’t know better at the time). Because he couldn’t shred the paper with his claws, he showed his spite by chewing up the roll so it looked like he’d clawed it. Didn’t matter which direction the roll was.

I loved that cat. He was so smart.

Rai ,

When my bois were kittens, they would play with it either way. You’re totally correct.

BoxOfFeet ,

Why not just shut the door so the cat doesn’t get in there? The toilet paper being hung correctly is more important than the cat for me.

Rai ,

Yes but also S T E A M

If you live in a humid, much poo carries on.

ArmoredThirteen ,

One of my cats knows how to open doors like a fucking velociraptor. We’ve baby locked several of our doors but some things like the bathroom I don’t like fucking around with extra steps when trying to get into at 3am

zammy95 ,

Oh hey, my fear. Do you have door knobs, or uh - the flat handled kind that swing down or up? I just realized I don’t know what those lever like door handles are called.

I can hear one of my cats pawing at the door knob at night, he’d be getting in places he shouldn’t if we had those flat kind.

ArmoredThirteen ,

The flat/lever kind, can get them open first try from either side of a door it’s impressive. He’s way too smart for his own good and I suspect he could work a round style one if it had enough texture on it. The menace certainly gets into everything else in the house

RBWells ,

Our Kimchi is working so hard on this and I don’t usually think of her as clever. She knows the knob opens the door so she bats at it, hangs on it.

Neither cat has been messing with the toilet paper lately though.

ivanafterall ,
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

Bank vault doors. With digital keypad entry systems. They’re really smart cats.

WarmSoda OP ,

That comes in handy when a girl comes over over, too

iopq ,

Because I don’t like the smell of cat shit anywhere outside the bathroom

WarmSoda OP ,

Then teach them not to play with the TP roll.

efstajas ,

Ah yes! “Just teach” the cat. Easy

Theme ,

Famously easy, like herding cats

WarmSoda OP , (edited )

If you spend time with them yeah it can be easy. I have two cats. They both listen to me.

You can’t expect them to just automatically know what not to do.

Iapar ,

But people get cats so they don’t have to interact with them.

WarmSoda OP ,

I do not condone animal abuse.

Iapar ,

Good, you shouldn’t.

WarmSoda OP ,

Interact with your cats, people. They’re pack animals. Just like dogs. They just hunt stealthily instead of barking.

iopq ,

The cat listens to me. It understands nothing, though

WarmSoda OP ,

Well, then teach it to understand. Do you think dogs just automatically understand everything too?

Why are all of the people in here getting animals if they don’t want to spend time with them? They’re not magic beasts.

Bobmighty ,

I’ve never paid a single bit of attention to which way it goes on. I spit into the face of this entire debate and it’s never done me any harm to do so. I’m a cat owner too. The roll goes on either way, it’s fine, and I’ll never change my mind.

WarmSoda OP ,

Someday if you ever live with another person you’ll figure it out.

Bobmighty ,

I’m happily married. Has never once been an issue.

MystikIncarnate ,

Not for you…

WarmSoda OP ,

Is your SO also a “super cool edge lord that bucks the trends of society”? Because you’re just so cool?

Bobmighty ,

Nothing about being an edgelord or cool. Its just not a thing that’s ever been an issue in any relationship, even ones I fucked up. It’s not even a thing I ever once heard talked about anywhere aside from the internet. It’s just a shit post argument that doesn’t matter, regardless of how you do it. Just an empty little thing people like fighting about online for whatever reason. That’s what I spit into the face of.

WarmSoda OP ,

Wtf says things like “spit in the face of”, and the other cring phrases you use.
Be better.

Bobmighty ,

Nah. I’ll be as cringe as I please. Don’t need your permission.

WarmSoda OP ,

I wouldn’t give you permission for anything, and I couldn’t care less, based on our interactions so far. People like you aren’t worth any energy at all.

Atin ,

Obviously designed in a place without deadly spiders.

TwigletSparkle ,

Can you explain why this matters, for people who don’t live with deadly spiders?

Atin ,

In Australia spiders like to hang out in places like where the outer layer of TP sits as it is a good hiding place for them. Especially Red Backs. Huntsmen like it too but will only kill by a jump scare caused heart attack.

CaptainEffort ,

I’ve never been more glad that I don’t live in Australia than right now

Atin ,

To be fair we don’t have bears, wolves or rabies.

CaptainEffort ,

I mean I live in CT, and technically I have wolves and bears, but neither are going to appear under my toilet paper

ASeriesOfPoorChoices ,

I love how everyone arguing against this mentions cats - and never toddlers.

It really speaks volumes to the types of users on Lemmy :)

harmsy ,

Putting the roll on backwards doesn’t stop my cats. I have to have a towel draped in front of the roll.

5too ,

And my toddlers both just turned it back around!

Chiarottide ,

Another proof that children do have ingrained morals

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

Thats the ‘cat free house’ way.

WarmSoda OP ,

Eh. I taught my 2 cats to not touch it. It’s not difficult.

nogooduser ,

I have had many cats and have never had a problem with them grabbing the toilet paper.

FordBeeblebrox ,

HOW‽ If I could I would

WarmSoda OP ,

Honestly I sometimes wonder how I did it, because my cats listen to me and rarely do something I don’t want them to.

Im firm with them, never loud, never hit them or push them. Consistency might be the key. Always tell them no the same way, as many times as it takes. I’ll give them something else to play with if they’re ripping something up too.

They’re smart, if you spend the time with them.

Shou ,

Exactly this. Had a friend struggling to teach a kitten. He had the habit of sounding stern, but not following through, simply pointing like a threat. It even confused me, let alone the cat

Within 1 hour of me consistenly spraying the kitten with water and using the same tone, the kitten started to hesitate when wanting to jump on the counter. It learned not to do so quickly after that.

Shou ,

I had cats my whole life and never had this happen.

MystikIncarnate ,

We have many cats, also, no problems.

drunkpostdisaster ,

They believed in a lot of stupid shit back then.

Draegur ,

Beards are based, mullets are cringe.

RizzRustbolt ,

Looks like some folks don’t know how to use the three seashells.

Decoy321 ,

hahahahah … I can see how that can be confusing…

Darkenfolk ,

Sounds painful tbh, but you do you.

IHateReddit ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bc31336d-7dbf-4ebe-bdff-c603377fb6f1.jpeg

MystikIncarnate ,

Booooooo.

OP is still right, but I hate what you’ve posted.

IHateReddit ,

this one would be the alternative https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e9d1d3cb-b3f0-4022-bee7-0ccae09abb17.jpeg

MystikIncarnate ,

I like this one more.

clot27 ,
@clot27@lemm.ee avatar

Just use water lmfao

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

I use both toilet paper and water

recapitated ,

Against the cats?

recapitated ,

Ooh I just got a new idea for a new patent!

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I like how it just looks like a log being shaved into extremely thin sheets.

MystikIncarnate ,

The original toilet paper was pretty much that, from what I understand.

IDK for sure, not like I’m some toilet paper historian.

hswolf ,
@hswolf@lemmy.world avatar

I read “a dog”, and spent several seconds horrified but searching the canine resemblance

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