Random, Bizarre Questions.

[Drake Tungsten]

I understand that part of it, but do you sit on it? Do you just stand over it? Do you use tp to dry off afterwards?

On the Japanese super-toilets, you sit normally. When you push the bidet button, a nozzle extends out from the back of the bowl and, when it's in position, sprays your manhole. It retracts back to its original position when finished. You can dry off with toilet paper afterward, but some of the nicer ones have a blow drier.

[Q Classic]

Agathon: I'll honestly say I hadn't thought to look it up in Wikipedia, but I can't say I'm that surprised that it's there. Wikipedia has a crazy breadth in terms of articles.
Incidentally, I do have wireless in my bathroom (I presume so, anyway, since the wireless router is right outside it), but I've never taken my laptop in there.

Drake: Thank you. While I haven't yet encountered such a device, it'll be good for future reference, I'm sure. That said, the more I read about the Japanese super-toilets, the more I'm really curious to try them. They've got to be better than the Asian squatters.

As far as traditional bidets, I'll say that I've yet to encounter them as well--the only reason why the question occurred to me was that I saw Crocodile Dundee again after a very long while.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

All you gotta do is ask.

How to Use a Bidet

A bidet looks like a toilet but has warm-water jets for personal hygiene after you use the toilet. You might appreciate a bidet before sex, during menstruation, or if you have hemorrhoids, problems with bowel movements or physical disabilities.

Steps:

1. Have bidet devices fitted on your toilet, or install a separate freestanding bidet next to your toilet if there's enough room in your bathroom.

2. Sit on your bidet after using the toilet.

3. Turn on the water and adjust the jets so that the strength of the stream is comfortable. The direction of the stream can usually be adjusted.

4. Cleanse anus and/or genitals. Some bidets are equipped with an air-dryer to dry skin afterwards. Otherwise, pat skin dry with toilet paper or towel.

5. Rinse out the bidet if it is freestanding.

Tips from eHow Users:

Use of free standing bidet

1. When you are finished defecating, wipe your anal opening one time in the usual manner, throwing the toilet tissue in the toilet. This prevents excessive feces from being washed off into the bidet.

2. Turn the hot water on in the bidet and open the spray valve until the water is spraying about six to eight inches high. When the water feels hot to the hand, adjust the cold water valve until the spray is comfortable, being careful not to let the spray column exceed over a foot in height.

3. Straddle the bidet, sitting on the rim and align the anal opening with the column of spray water. Gradually open the spray valve until adequate pressure is achieved to flush the remaining feces from the anus.

4. Go back to the toilet and check with toilet tissue to make sure that the anus is clean.

This may take some trial and error to perfect. Be careful adjusting the spray column to avoid scalding the anus. Some bidets recommend that cold water only be connected to the bidet for people over 60 years of age.

For females only: The bidet is an excellent utility for cleaning up the female genitalia after intercourse.
The procedure is the same, except no toilet tissue is needed.

Bidets are sometimes mounted in various positions and may have limited room around them, requiring different facing positions. Either facing forward or backward works efficiently. If the valves are behind, it requires reaching behind the back to adjust them

http://www.ehow.com/how_13097_bidet.html

[KrazyHorse]

Cleanse anus and/or genitals

Sig time

[Vince278]

First time I saw a bidet was in Saudi Arabia in 1984. I thought it was a urinal.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Q Cubed

I've never taken my laptop in there.

n00b!

[Winston]

In light of that remark, I think I'm beginning to see where you're coming from, Agathon.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

Cleanse anus and/or genitals

Sig time

Did you have to put that in the line below ApolyCon 06?

[mrmitchell]

First time I saw a bidet was in Saudi Arabia in 1984. I thought it was a urinal.

I've only seen toilets and urinals although I could well have mistaken a bidet for a urinal in France.

Euros: Bidets are extremely uncommon in the USA. Probably only people with one in their home bathrooms have ever used one.

edit: But boy are there lots of kinds of urinals. There's the standard ones that hang off the wall, the ones that are really just a drain in the floor with a little partition to the next drain in the floor, the ones that jut out a foot because the designers were retarded...anything in a bathroom that isn't immediately recognizable as a shower bath sink or toilet will probably get mistaken for a urinal.

[Spiffor]

While in Mali, I was surprised to see that they don't use toilet paper. They use a kind of teapot, for the purpose of cleaning yourself with water instead. Apparently, all Muslim countries use water to clean your ass, instead of paper (which seems to be a very western-ish way to do things).

A friend of mine originating from Algeria, told me that her father, being a wealthy retiree, installed a Japanese-like system in his home in Algeria.

[CrONoS]

Re: Random, Bizarre Questions.

That's quite simple... dont know why you ask such question.

Bidet is a place where a white cat lie just before you use it to wash your anus.
Here is an already used cat!

Originally posted by Q Cubed
How exactly does a bidet work? How are you supposed to use them? Do you still use tp after using a bidet?

[Winston]

He-he.

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Spiffor
While in Mali, I was surprised to see that they don't use toilet paper. They use a kind of teapot, for the purpose of cleaning yourself with water instead.

The steam must be painful.

(If I ever go there I'll just drink the coffee. )

[Az]

While in Mali, I was surprised to see that they don't use toilet paper. They use a kind of teapot, for the purpose of cleaning yourself with water instead. Apparently, all Muslim countries use water to clean your ass, instead of paper (which seems to be a very western-ish way to do things).

A friend of mine originating from Algeria, told me that her father, being a wealthy retiree, installed a Japanese-like system in his home in Algeria.

Here, we use both

Clean asses.