Baexpats Bidet Poll

[pauper]

GUILTY. ok, i guess what i meant was, its weird that all the places ive been to use bidets except the US. which basically means: south america and europe.

A pro-bidet spouting US exceptionalism? Now I've seen everything.

 

[sleslie23]

Are you suggesting to use cold water to wash there? :-o

Es lo que hay!

 

[pauper]

Are you suggesting to use cold water to wash there? :-o

No, what you need is an ice cube, a glass of vodka and a special friend, it's the only way to have that clean feeling all day. The Chinese call it fire and ice.

 

[johnw100]

Outside of Europe and southern Latin America they are very rare. At least that is my experience. I don't remember seeing one bidet in Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Mexico, Cuba, Viet Nam, China, Laos, Cambodia or Thailand.

Thailand I saw plenty, perhaps I stayed in more up market places that you ;-)

 

[nlaruccia]

This poll and thread is missing something very important: the clip-on bidet. My old apartment had an apparatus attached to the regular toilet with a swivel handle and a spigot. A quick flip and turn all was clean and ready to go in seconds. No need to move over to the space-taking underwear washer.

I stayed in a few hotels in Japan with similar contraptions but with heated water. That, my friends, is the pinnacle of civilization. I know Hybrid-San knows what I am talking about.

I also enjoyed the 2 in 1 toilet/bidets in Japan. Here they have nice hot water, music, sound effect. The Argentine ones also have nice warm water too, but once I forgot to turn the water heater down and burned my ass on the bidet. I don't think that would have happened in Japan.

 

[nlaruccia]

A not so well-known tango from the guardia vieja called "Concha Sucia" was later amended and changed to "Cara Sucia" by Francisco Canaro. I wonder if that's because maybe they didn't use bidets back then.

 

[Ceviche]

With all the talk of Japan, I suddenly miss my days spent in Japan.

 

[camino no tomado]

Like the US, bidets are pretty rare in Canada. But the house my Mom bought to retire in did have one in the master bath. Several times I wanted to ask her if she used it, but it just didn't seem like something you'd ask your Mom. But when she passed away, I got my answer. When we went in to clean out the house, the bidet looked just like the one in Frenchie's photo, except instead of beer it was full of shampoo, conditioner and body lotion bottles lol.

PS: Having lingered in numerous countries where bidets are common, I'm pretty pro-bidet ... and glad they're the norm in Argentina.

 

[Joe]

This is what it's like when I view an apartment in Buenos AIres:

 

[garryl]

With all the talk of Japan, I suddenly miss my days spent in Japan.

Argentina and Japan are opposite in many ways.