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Just out of morbid curiosity. Do you sit or stand up to wipe, maybe even both?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bet OP saw the same conversation I did on here earlier. I'm a sitting person, but the first time I learned about standers it blew my mind.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This has been a topic across every forum I've been on, from Reddit, to Digg, to Fark, to Stile Project, to even old usenet posts. People just love talking about how they wipe...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Jesus fuck. Who tf wipes standing up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fucking barbarians that don't mind having shit smeared all over their ass cheeks apparently. I mean, seriously, who the fuck thinks standing up to wipe is the proper "technique?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Animals. The lot of them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

🙋‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Neither. Wiping is a waste of potential ammunition that I could use against my enemies.
Monkeys flinging poop. Relevant note: the avatar of the user sending this message shows a smoking chimp.

(I sit.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why are you people just wiping and going about your day? If you got shit on any other part of your body would you wipe it off with some tissue and just say, 'yep, that's good enough'? Get a bidet and wash your asshole you fucking disgusting animals.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe because our butts are never relevant except when in the bathroom. If there was shit on my hands, I'd wash my hands because I use my hands for tasks. Same with most other body parts. What am I going to need my butt for in the workplace, it's in my panties 24/7.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

bidet spray gun / sitting

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm standing, that's the way I always wiped, maybe I was taught to do it this way, but now I'm a big man and I think it would be messy now to write while sitting like my hands wouldn't fit, we need to research this further, maybe it's geographical thing, specific to a country, their toilet sizes and it's history or something

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sit and lift up the right hip

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In a public stall I'll sit. At home I crouch on the toilet bowl like a bird, makes pooping very easy, and you get the least amount of poop contacting your cheeks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Some people who grew up with squat toilets, like to squat on other toilets too. Thats why in some countries you see a lot of signs like this in public stalls:

What's the best way to go to the toilet – squatting or sitting?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hybrids do exist:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I saw signs like that in Japan at Chinese establishments. Also ones showing that you face away from the toilet while sitting on it.

Blew my mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've seen the signs in a tech office in San Francisco

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Somebody stuck this sticker in a porta john at the job.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, but rotated a few degrees to the right. I just feel like, if you had to shit in nature, you'd obviously do this, I'm not above the ergonomics of that.

I'm also lightweight, and I wouldn't do it in public because shoes on a seat is fuckin gross, also people would notice that in stalls, also you'd have to remove your pants entirely to not be fuckin gross, and I wouldn't put excess weight on other people's toilets

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just use the bowl of water to splash everything clean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think that this is a question for men. Catch a woman with period poops and I will bet money she never stands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wasn't raised by bears! I sit to wipe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It depends on if I'm wearing pants or a skirt that day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I sit down.