The concerted jokes about the lack of air conditioning in Europe seems to me like an effort to paint Europe as being third-world, effectively dismissing the real problem that it is being invaded by the third-world.
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@black6 Let's not forget that in the same way that Europe finds itself unfortunately suffering from regulatory over reach that has left the masses suffering, the US (albeit to a less existential degree) has also found itself in a similar situation with issues such as regulations on vehicle emissions which has decimated the small and mid-size diesel vehicle industry. Instead of pointing and laughing, we should be learning valuable lessons from their real and unfortunate suffering.
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Reality is (a lot) weirder than that.
There's actually no regulation on AC here, that's a meme. There are SOME regulations on how your house can look - you can't paint it pink. People are saying they can't put ACs because of this, but mostly just not a thing unless their neighbors are the devil.
The real reason people don't have AC is purely cultural - like the same reason Americans don't have bidets. People feel like "I don't really need it" and that feeling has a strong pull.
The regulatory situation is also weird.
You can't get a soda bottle with a removable cap, but those weirdo "anti-spill" spouts on gas cans don't exist here. Incandescent lights are also still widely available.
Zoning is very strict, with many places forbidding new buildings entirely, but WeTLAnDs (swamps) where you have to protect the nAtuRaL BioDiVeRsiTy (mosquitos) is not a thing.
There's actually no regulation on AC here, that's a meme. There are SOME regulations on how your house can look - you can't paint it pink. People are saying they can't put ACs because of this, but mostly just not a thing unless their neighbors are the devil.
The real reason people don't have AC is purely cultural - like the same reason Americans don't have bidets. People feel like "I don't really need it" and that feeling has a strong pull.
The regulatory situation is also weird.
You can't get a soda bottle with a removable cap, but those weirdo "anti-spill" spouts on gas cans don't exist here. Incandescent lights are also still widely available.
Zoning is very strict, with many places forbidding new buildings entirely, but WeTLAnDs (swamps) where you have to protect the nAtuRaL BioDiVeRsiTy (mosquitos) is not a thing.
@BowsacNoodle @black6 @cjd I agree. Fuck toilet paper, we should all go back to wiping with our fingers.
You would think that - at least - if a person was honestly afraid of a toilet paper shortage back in 2020, then that person would be thinking about a bidet at least as an emergency backup solution.
Anything is better than nothing...
Anything is better than nothing...
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@BowsacNoodle @cjd @Jackwood @black6 My friend has one and both me and his wife are too 'Murican (scared) to use it.
I can't shake the feeling that shooting water at your butthole is gay.
I can't shake the feeling that shooting water at your butthole is gay.
@Robert_Edwardly @cjd @Jackwood @black6 I don’t get this. It’s not like people don’t wash and rinse their behind while taking a shower. It’s like using a wet wipe but you don’t have a gross non flushable 💩 cloth.
There's the "bowl with a faucet" thing that's common in Middle East and Europe - and there's the upward-facing pressure washer thing that I guess is an Asian thing - but I've never seen one of those up close.
@cjd @Jackwood @black6 @Robert_Edwardly Mine has a lever that changes it from fountain to jet, and I put a supply line ball valve on so I can further tune or turn it off when guests with young kids come over. A toddler thought you flushed with the seat lever and squirted the wall more than once 😆
@BowsacNoodle @black6 @cjd @Robert_Edwardly Post shower towels are used once, or possibly twice at most and never shared between washes. The hygiene issue is made more significant (in the eyes of Americans) with anything touching the butt. Of course, the obvious solution is paper towels which would be dispensed in a trash can, instead of being flushed, but because TP is designed to be flushable, trash cans are rarely included close enough to toilets in men's restrooms for this to be a solution.
If you're gonna actually be clean and all that's left is water, maybe one of this type of thing would work... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> The sink pisser
> The waffle stomper
> The aerosalizer
> THE BANO TRIO
> The waffle stomper
> The aerosalizer
> THE BANO TRIO
@BowsacNoodle @black6 @cjd @Robert_Edwardly And then we circle back to the issue of apes and invaders not understanding how to do any of this correctly, wiping themselves with napkins or paper towels, and throwing it in a trash can that was never meant to be used for this purpose, undoing all of the hygiene advantages of modern day plumbing, and turning public restrooms into third world shit holes.
> public restrooms
I just shit at home.
I just shit at home.
@BowsacNoodle @cjd @Jackwood @black6 >he washes his behind while taking a shower
I didn't mean "gay" in a negative way, sorry if I outed you like that
I didn't mean "gay" in a negative way, sorry if I outed you like that
@Robert_Edwardly @cjd @Jackwood @black6 I do wash my behind. I do not wish to be more grotesque than this topic already is, but many people have hairs around that area.
I always got a kick out of the fact that the word "dingleberry" is a product of the (fairly short) window of time when boys start to grow hair but are too squeamish to properly wash themselves.
@cjd @BowsacNoodle @Jackwood @black6 Listen to enough female "comedians" and you will discover that such phenomena are not constrained to children.
History will not be nice to public education designers.
@Robert_Edwardly @black6 @cjd @BowsacNoodle Moisture + Hair + Cheap TP + Friction = "Debris"
Toilets should have blow dryers though. I want one of those fancy Japanese toilets that does everything and talks to me. I want to program it to say, "Yum! Yum! Yum!" like the cookie monster. 😅
@Robert_Edwardly @Jackwood @cjd @BowsacNoodle The "bum gun" is the superior version and should be standard equipment on all commodes,
@black6 @Robert_Edwardly @Jackwood @cjd Those are nice if you have cloth diapers or want to rinse the bowl and not use a brush. I have the fancy one that auto retracts and self cleans. Might upgrade to a heated one or run a warm water line and blend valve to my next one.
@BowsacNoodle @black6 @cjd TP is unsuitable when wet to any significant degree. It can't be used to drying purposes because it leaves debris behind. Bidets create a moisture issue that requires a drying solution compatible with septic systems (rural areas do not have sewers), and tp is generally effective for the purpose it serves without complicating an already surprisingly sophisticated engineering problem with additional moisture. And I'm not sharing a butt cloth with you. No thanks.
@cjd @black6 @BowsacNoodle The funny thing is that I've used toilet seat bidets and still find toilet paper (except in public restroom settings with the thinnest, cheapest, most abrasive paper coming out of impossibly frustrating dispensers) more preferable. I think the issue comes down to discipline in some weird way, and that at least in America, it's difficult to trust strangers to use sanitary tools correctly. Toilet paper is designed to be hard to fuck up, and invaders still use it wrong.