I was taking my daily mid-morning poop today and while I was wiping, I thought, I wonder how most people wipe.
I tend to wipe while standing up cause it’s more comfortable and allows for more cheek-spreaditivity.
So, I beg the question: How does most of Lemmy wipe? Do you wipe while standing up or do you wipe while sitting down? Why?
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People wipe standing up?
there’s people for everything, imagine the most bonkers absurd but still vaguely feasible thing and at least 10 people out there consider it to be the norm and find not doing it equally absurd.
I’m still waiting for the handstand folks to chime in.
Yea I guess there’s someone who read this thread and thought “people wipe sitting down?”
There’s dozens of us
Both, though it’s usually only one standing up as more of a failsafe/spot check.
This question pops up every now and then on social media and it always blows my mind that there are people who wipe standing up. I just don’t understand the logistics of it and it seems like it would make things more difficult.
It provides excellent access to the ass
Right? Standing up – strictly for topology reasons – is going to make the situation more difficult.
If you lean fully forward, palms against the floor, then reach back?
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Reach back with what??
Then that’s not standing up anymore.
That’s practically what I do… sitting down
Makes me think about the video with the huuuuge bulky black man thought everyone pooped in their hands and caress it gently into the water.
For the life of me I cannot tell if that was a bit or not
Children learn to stand up to wipe because thats the only way they can reach. Some people never learn otherwise.
Works fine and I’ve anyways done it that way…
I’ve tried sitting but feels wrong…
Funny how I’m the other way around.
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I just feel that the International Ass Wiping Authority guidance 27881 should be followed. By standing the cheeks close slightly, which what the hell, why would I want to wipe that. I do understand the white paper, “Stank Bowl finding 87712-b” outlined the wack idea of wiping over the nuclear blast you just left introduces some risk, but it’s not significant enough to stand up and introduce additional ass closing issues.
You need a slight forward tilt for separation.
We don’t stand that way. It’s “standing” in the sense the butt comes up off the toilet. But the overall posture is still “sitting”.
Ok so the Council of Auditable Shats (1998 conference) did mention this is a good hybrid deployment model.
I wipe in a position that is more like squatting, because standing up clenches the cheeks making it harder to clean, but sitting leaves the possibility of potentially dipping your hand in the toilet bowl.
It is the superior way, embrace the squat wipe.
potentially dipping your hand in the toilet bowl
Only in those strangely deep american toilets
Wouldn’t deep make it harder to dip your hand in?
deep water, as in strange high water line, not deeper bowl
i sit and wipe like anyone over the age of 8
I imagine it’s difficult for fat people.
Better question is do y’all wipe from the front or the back? I always do front cuz I don’t have to try and wiggle my hand between the seat and my ass or scoot to the edge. I’m looked at like I’m crazy whenever somebody says “ew who wipes from the front?”
Bro what. That means your tissue can possibly skim your taint and/or balls. Hard no. And if you’re a woman, that could lead to infection.
See I hear this argument all the time and I don’t get it, I just don’t wipe up onto my taint, it’s not too hard to avoid
Same, from the front. Done it that way my entire life and I tried from the back once, just can’t do it.
That said, I’m teaching my daughter to do it from the back because for woman there’s hygiene reasons to do it that way.
Sitting down.
The real question is if you use a wet wipe at the end? Total game changer.
I just wet the TP in the sink. Highly recommended. You’re not going to clog up your septic system that way. Even flushable wipes aren’t really flushable.
Unfortunately you don’t have the option to use the sink like that if your stall is separated from the sink or farther than an arm’s reach away.
I used to but where I live the toilet blocks very easily so I had to stop but I got a bidet.
You shouldn’t flush them down any toilet. Throw them in a lined, covered trash can.
Butt wipes are an absolute game changer. If I don’t use them I just feel dirty for the rest of the day until I get a chance to shower
I moisten my TP in the sink, which I can reach from the john in my special poop closet.
I just drip the TP into the bowl below me, that way I don’t have to travel as far.
Somehow that seems less sanitary.
I have long arms and my secret shitter safe space is literally in an old broom closet, so the sink is not inconvenient for me. It’s my happy place.
Oh I was mega joking, that’s completely horrifying hahaha.
Plus, I’ve got a bidet, which is the most life-changing thing I’ve gotten since my first solid state drive.
Don’t flush them please
Why? Mine say; flushable, made from plant sourced fiber.
I know someone who’s home flooded with poop water because of them doing exactly that. The plumber pulled a LOT of them out of the blockage. Apparently it’s a common mistake, although that doesn’t make the repairs any cheaper.
Just in case, don’t flush tampons or pads either.
Flushable means it can travel down a clean pipe. Once it encounters an obstacle it will snag and sit there until it breaks down or catches more debris. If it catches fat particles then it will never break down and will create what is called a fatberg which will restrict flow.
New products come out everyday. To test them, you could try putting the wipes in a jar filled with water and toilet paper. See what survives when you shake it up. Maybe add a bit of oil as well to see if that changes the result.
It’s most likely a lie. There’s no industry standard, manufacturers can say what they want and their wipes end up blocking your plumbing or the sewer system, or decorating beaches.
To test whether flushable wipes are truly flushable, Ryerson University gathered 101 products, including 23 wipes that were labeled as flushable. They conducted a series of tests to determine whether any of these products would actually fall apart or disperse safely through the sewer system and found that not a single flushable wipe product passed the tests.
I go for a shit standing up
Sit for the broad strokes, stand for the detail work. One foot up on the sink when standing, not bent over forward.
This must be fun in public restrooms
Wash the brush. Just beat the devil out of it.
What kind of shits are you taking where there’s a ceremony involved
Wait, you guys are wiping? /s
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Did you really need the /s
I’m seeing that /s as the symbol for a skid mark.
Sitting, why tf would you stand? I’m already seated and standing up is totally unnecessary.
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My ass and thighs are where most of my weight is stored so there’s very little room to stick my hand in without neatly moving my dick and balls outta the way
Try wiping from the back?
it’s really hard out here for us thicc thighed homies 😔
I appreciate your understanding
you wipe from the front??
Good question yes because to wipe from the back my dick and balls would be on the toilet seat. Also bad shoulders tbh
obligatory Cyanide & Happiness comic:
Of course there’s a comic about this
Standing up because then I can actually look at the toilet.
What? Is this some kind of obesity problem?
I’m actually fairly fit. I just always felt more comfortable standing and wiping than sitting down
The real shit (pun intended) is having a bidet and not buying into big toilet paper.
Wait so with the bidet do you still wipe after the little splish sploosh or do you just air dry?
Ya do still use some paper to dab your bum dry. They make models with lil blow dryers in them but none of them work that well.
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This is what everyone means when they say they wipe ‘standing up’ and afaik more than half the world probably does this.
I would consider squatting a form of sitting not standing but if that’s what people mean then it at least makes more sense to me.
Squatting is distinct from sitting though because sitting necessitates your ass touching something.
that’s a weird definition, i’d define sitting as not using your gluteus maximus while also not leaning against something to accomplish that (including laying down, you’re leaning against the floor).
honestly if anyone considers a squat to be standing then that is what makes me question their sanity
I’m a squatter. But when someone asks me if I sit or stand, I say stand because I’m not technically sitting my ass on the toilet. I’d wager most people who say “stand” are doing the same.
