bidet - which way to you face?

[Bruce]

So your neighbours watch you using it?

[RobertL]

but if you face the taps wioth the taps at th eback you have to take you trousers off!

I thought the original idea was to have the taps at the front and to sit with them between your knees. That way knickers/trousers can stay round the ankles .

Anyway they all seem to have taps at the back these days, although I'm not sure how much choice there is about which way the jet squirts.

Robert

[BigWallop]

but if you face the taps wioth the taps at th eback you have to take you trousers off!

I thought the original idea was to have the taps at the front and to sit with them between your knees. That way knickers/trousers can stay round the ankles .

Anyway they all seem to have taps at the back these days, although I'm not sure how much choice there is about which way the jet squirts.

Robert

I always thought the point to a bidet, was to wash the intimate bits without having to splash water all over the room, like from a shower head, the bath / basin taps Etc. The bidets douche sprays a nice warm jet of water on the bits that need it most, and nothing else.

With the taps at the back, you can keep your trousers at your knees, not right down at your ankles. Trousers don't get caught on the taps when you sit down on it, when the taps are that way round.

Maybe you need a remote control unit on your bidet. :-)

[jgharston]

Don't people spit on their loo paper, then, or is it just me?

-- JGH

[BigWallop]

It's just you mate. It's just you. :-)

[Peter Scott]

I wonder if that is the origin? It makes sense. Do you know or are you guessing?

[Peter Johnson]

One of my sisters has a house supplied with bidet. When I visited a few years ago it, the bidet, was covered in dust.

[ARWadsworth]

So they are as useful as a sink in a gents urinal then:-)

Adam

[ARWadsworth]

or following a roll in the hay -

The Karacher is in my garage.

Adam

[PeterMcC]

The French said "main de merde" for the same thing.

[Owain]

Wot BigWallop said

Owain

[ARWadsworth]

Someone at my house once mistook

moistened tissue wipes. She screamed a bit.

Adam

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember jgharston saying something like:

It's not me, for sure. Anyway, how do you avoid breakthrough with soggy paper?

[BigWallop]

Oh yah yah!!! A bidet would come in handy after that mistake. :-)

[BigWallop]

Avoid long finger nails? :-)

[BigWallop]

After a good hose up, you can have good hose down. :-)

[BigWallop]

You might have to show her how to use one. :-) Or at least explain the principal behind its use. I mean. lol

[The Medway Handyman]

It seems to be

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[Dave]

Could be a lot worse !!!! Dave

[Keith]

Yes, we ripped ours out after a visitor's young daughter used the 'girls toilet', leaving a surprisingly large deposit, which she tried to flush away by turning on the hot tap. We discovered her mistake shortly after when the downstairs ceiling collapsed. Plasterboard and hot water don't mix.