There’s more bidet discussion on LW than you’d think, considering how rarely it would be appropriate to bring up one’s pooping outside certain special-interest fora… I think LW is actually where I first took the idea seriously and got one long ago around February 2015 - totally worth the $15* (now $24) and half an hour it took to install (with no further problems or maintenance). I am no handyman, but it’s really not hard to turn a knob to cut off the water, pull off the hose, put it in, and turn back on; the hardest part was physically squeezing the little plastic hose onto the protruding nub (oaths were uttered).
The comment I left in my 2015 spreadsheet rating my purchases is apparently, “I cannot go back to living like an animal or American.”
* I bought the cheapest to test it out in a trial period, and felt no need to upgrade. Synchronously, a hotel I stayed at last month, which caters heavily to Japanese tourists, had a fancy bidet installed, with heated seats and all, the sort you’d spend $1000 on, so I could finally try a ‘proper’ bidet. I wasn’t impressed and still feel no need to upgrade mine.
While we’re on the subject, the Squatty Potty (bonus silly Amazon review) is something I first encountered at a rationalist’s house. Got one myself probably 5+ years ago; it seems to help, and I’ve been using it since then.
Yeah, I read about that too and as a trial run, used cinder blocks ($0) to help squat. After a month or two, I wasn’t impressed enough to want to continue to spending money on the real thing. (It felt a little bit easier but then was awkward in being additional things taking up space and interfering with pants etc.)
There’s more bidet discussion on LW than you’d think, considering how rarely it would be appropriate to bring up one’s pooping outside certain special-interest fora… I think LW is actually where I first took the idea seriously and got one long ago around February 2015 - totally worth the $15* (now $24) and half an hour it took to install (with no further problems or maintenance). I am no handyman, but it’s really not hard to turn a knob to cut off the water, pull off the hose, put it in, and turn back on; the hardest part was physically squeezing the little plastic hose onto the protruding nub (oaths were uttered).
The comment I left in my 2015 spreadsheet rating my purchases is apparently, “I cannot go back to living like an animal or American.”
* I bought the cheapest to test it out in a trial period, and felt no need to upgrade. Synchronously, a hotel I stayed at last month, which caters heavily to Japanese tourists, had a fancy bidet installed, with heated seats and all, the sort you’d spend $1000 on, so I could finally try a ‘proper’ bidet. I wasn’t impressed and still feel no need to upgrade mine.
Thanks for the anecdote and the link.
While we’re on the subject, the Squatty Potty (bonus silly Amazon review) is something I first encountered at a rationalist’s house. Got one myself probably 5+ years ago; it seems to help, and I’ve been using it since then.
Yeah, I read about that too and as a trial run, used cinder blocks ($0) to help squat. After a month or two, I wasn’t impressed enough to want to continue to spending money on the real thing. (It felt a little bit easier but then was awkward in being additional things taking up space and interfering with pants etc.)