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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by WizzleKake on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:09PM (#9201412)
Regular toilet paper seems absolutely barbaric after one has become accustomed to wet wipes. Try them and you will understand.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by 001sky on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:44PM (#9201473)
Wet wipes are terrible for the environment. There are plenty of other alternatives. Please look into them. The real luxury is clear, warm running water.

Wet wipes do not biodegrade, no matter what the package says.

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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by debaserab2 on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:20PM (#9201439)
Wait until you try a bidet. Any form of wiping will seem like savagery afterwards.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by yawaramin on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:14AM (#9201525)
I've lived in three different countries in Asia. Have always had a mini-shower or at least a piped jet of water beside the toilet to help clean up. North America has the most bass-ackwards wiping convention I've ever seen.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by tzs on Saturday March 14, 2015 @01:24AM (#9201637)
This is the 21st century. We should be able to do a lot better. We should be able to have our sphinctors replaced with an artificial valve. This should be a standard size (or one of several standard sizes if one size does not fit all) and standard mechanism.

When you have to go, you sit down at a waste collection station, and a computer guided arm would connect a hose to your valve and open it. This can be designed so that at no time in this process is anything on the outside of the valve, the hose, or your body exposed to feces. All the feces goes into the hose. When you have been emptied, the valve is closed, the hose retracts, and its interior is cleaned.

That is how civilized people would take a crap (until we reach Star Trek levels of technology...then we'd just beam our feces out).

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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by burnte on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:11AM (#9201522)
I had my gallbladder removed at the end of 06. TP became less effective. I switched to wetwipes in 09, and got a bidet two years ago. Dear lord my life is genuinely SO much better now. It was an inexpensive $100 stainless steel addon for a regular toilet, and so incredibly worth it.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by bidetsprayerman on Sunday March 15, 2015 @04:02AM (#9205781)
Better than a Bidet = the Hand Bidet Sprayer. It requires no new plumbing and can go in any bathroom including a rental. See www.bathroomsprayers.com.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by cgag on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:51PM (#9201485)
A bidet attachment for your toilet is only ~40 dollars and will make wet wipes seem barbaric as well.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by HelloMcFly on Saturday March 14, 2015 @02:16AM (#9201709)
And if that sounds like too much, Amazon has super well-rated bidets for around $25-$30 that have served me well.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by codinghorror on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:35AM (#9201566)
You know you can put a bit of water on toilet paper to make it wet, right?
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by CodeMage on Saturday March 14, 2015 @02:12AM (#9201704)
Unless you're at work, where you usually don't get the luxury of having a sink inside the stall.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by inyourtenement on Saturday March 14, 2015 @07:36AM (#9202263)
I never understood this suggestion. I've tried it, the toilet paper shreds and gets stuck everywhere, including my hands. It's a huge mess.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by philwelch on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:06AM (#9201513)
I'd rather remain in ignorance, then. Lots of things are hard to go without once you've tried them, like heroin or scraping the inside of your ear canal with q-tips, but that doesn't mean those things enhance your life any.
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