Fall off the bowl? Jesus christ. If you lean forward correctly, your center of gravity should still be back near your ass. You should also keep your feet planted in front of you. These are not yoga moves.
These freaks of nature are talking about standing straight up and wiping. There isn't much difference between the squat, and the sit-n-wipe technique. Standing.Straight.Up.
I can't believe I haven't done this yet, maybe because I haven't seen fog proof mirrors, I will buy one today. On top of the steam from the hot water, the clean up has got to be much better. It takes me 5-10 minutes to get the hair in and around the sink (I only shave once a month or so).
I knew even leaving that line as joke would start it back up. I tried sit wiping the last time the thread came around. The sit lean(I leaned to one side) provided only adequate access to the area. Standing allows MUCH more access, with an ass crack as hairy as mine you want the most possible access. You aren't standing at military attention, you are standing in a squat position, as in the gym or football or wrestling, this spreads the cheeks out much better than sitting and leaning and at a much better angle (sit/leaning is the only method I tried, fuck reaching around the back without moving, Im not a woman and I don't have huge oblong public toilet bowls). Jus to keep the shit train going and lower your perceptions of me that much more I'll admit, I wipe from top to bottom. This conversation actually blew up on a family vacation as it turns out my dad and I wiped down and my mom and brother wiped from bottom up. It makes sense for girls to go bottom up because any chance, how ever little, of getting shit in their vagina is a problem. My dad flipped and said, "I push the shit down and into the toilet, what sense does it make wiping it upwards only to have to redrop it by the same area?!? Let gravity help do the work." The motion is down and away from the balls, I wipe my taint every time to make sure not to miss anything but 99.9% of the time if I didn't have some hot wings explosion shit, there is nothing there to begin with. I use wet wipes as well, them shits are great. I've only tried bottom to top wiping once and it felt like throwing a baseball with your non dominant arm. I didn't have the muscle memory and it felt weak and very sloppy. I had to finish up regularly to have peace of mind.
I forgot one. A few months ago I was with co-workers in an office and somehow we started talking about how we wipe when we pee. (I think it originally started as talking about a patient who always smells like shit. A girl I work with wondered if he took the time to wipe correctly. Thus, the discussion). This girl said she went back to front, as to not get the germs from pee into her bum. Everyone agreed. I was like, "Wait...back to front? I thought you were supposed to go front to back, forever, at all times!" Everyone looked at me with disgust.
I'm not a chick, but I thought the same, as I was told that wiping back to front caused urinary tract infections (i.e., E. coli getting where it doesn't belong). As for the towels. I wash them every other day. Washing them every day seems excessive, but if a damp towel hangs around for more than a couple of days it starts to get, and smell, mildewy. Short of tossing it in the dryer every day how do you folks avoid this?
It's a bitch trying to dry off with a wet towel, and assuming you take daily showers, after a few times they're going to get just way too damp to be effective. Plus, like the person above me said, they start to smell all mildew-y after a while as well. It also never occurred to me to wash my hats until my wife showed up. I mean yeah, now that I look back on it, they do get disgusting with all that sweat. But I call that "broken in."
I live in a pretty humid climate and I take showers daily, dry off with a pretty thick towel, only wash the towels once a week, and they NEVER smell bad or are the slightest bit damp the next time I go to shower. Either you guys live in the rainforest or you aren't hanging your towels up right.
I have hand towels that I use when I work out that only get used once before I wash them. My shower towels would be used until laundry day. Jeans, ha, think Ive only washed them a handful of times in my life, generally after something large was spilled on them. I hate washing them because it seems to tighten them up and I have to kind of wear them in again.
This is awesome. First off, sitting down and wiping front to back is the only way to do it. I do remember on the RMMB thread we had a George Castanza in the group who would get completely naked. Secondly, where and how are you people hanging your towels to where they are still damp the next morning? Even if I take a shower in the morning before work my towel is dry when I shower to go out that same night, and I also use thick and plush towels.
I was thinking the same thing, unless you shower three times a day or fold your towels instead of hanging them, there shouldn't be the slightest bit of wetness between showers.
If you hang a towel up all bunched up, it won't dry completely. I do this occasionally when I'm in a hurry and just throw my towel back on the rack so I have to throw that towel into the laundry basket and get a new one because drying off with a damp, clammy towel is unpleasant.
It just dawned on me that yee of daily or even every-other-daily (bidaily?) towel washing probably live in houses with your own washer and dryer. I was starting to feel bad, but I have to go to a laundromat. Spending $5 just to wash a towel every day, along with the general inconvenience of going to the laundromat, would be ridiculous. However, regardless of that, I still think all of you are ridiculous. As for the focus, I don't understand how everyone else doesn't have a cup in the bathroom for rinsing your mouth out after brushing your teeth. That was probably the most traumatizing thing about starting to have sleepovers, when I realized this was rare. When I'm at a house or hostel that doesn't have this, I make do with the sticking your head under the faucet to sip right from the water thing, but I can never get a satisfying enough amount to really rinse it out and I'm still standing there like a doofus spitting and spitting to try and get it all out. (Granted, I'm really not good at spitting. But, still, I always have a lot of toothpaste in my mouth afterwards.) The people who sip the water out of their cupped hand are gross, and the people who don't rinse out at all and just do one spit are FREAKS. How can you stand it?
Really? How much water does it take that you can't get enough to rinse out your mouth with water cupped in your hands? How is that gross? They're your hands? If the water is bad enough that you won't rinse your mouth out with it, you shouldn't be brushing your teeth with it either.
I do this when I'm not brushing my teeth. I'll stick my face under the water and drink deeply. For some reason, people think this is disgusting.
Co-sign on this. When I'm in my room upstairs it's way more efficient to just drink out of the sink than go downstairs to the kitchen. It's all the same water.
You're right. Much better to sip out of a cup that is not regularly washed, sits in a humid room and has a small amount of constant moisture in it than to drink out of your hands that at least get a shower once a day. Much more sanitary. I'm in the slurp-it-right-out-of-the-faucet crowd.
Funny this is mentioned, because I just had this discussion with my wife the other day. I always had a cup in my bathroom growing up. When I realized my friends didn't do the same (they used the cupped hands/faucet slurp method), my mom explained to me that it was because it kept the mess to a minimum. You don't realize how much of a mess slurping water creates, especially around the faucet and mirror. Try using a cup for a week or two...you'll notice the difference. /end mom propaganda
I set my cups in the cabinet upside down after I wash and dry them. Everyone else always sets their cups right side up.