Whenever I use a Taiwanese toilet, I ponder why we have to live as poop-smeared barbarians in the west.

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@hynek I feel the same way whenever I need to spend an extended period of time away from my Japanese-style toilet seat I have at home.

I don't know who convinced so many people that, "oh there is poop on you, maybe you should clean it off with dry paper" was a good and perfectly sanitary thing to do, but I suspect that in the future people will look on the toilet paper era the same way we look at the "bathe once a year" era of Western civilization...

@pganssle maybe back in good old cholera times the poop was more liquid and easier to wipe away with paper only

@pganssle @hynek I'm guessing people that didn't want near freezing water attacking them. Now that heated water is an option is a good choice.

@Netux @pganssle @hynek hot water has been a thing in homes for quite awhile though

@shironeko @hynek @pganssle you wouldn't want the ht water attached to the bidet. Takes too long to get to a faucet. The fast electric heating is the key.

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