11 points

I feel like most intelligent people are now on the bidet bandwagon, but it still blows my mind how many people I know that still resist using one (even when readily available). Quit being fuckin disgusting!

Some of these same people wonder why their sex life is mediocre at best. Maybe it’s your hygiene. Just sayin.

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2 points

wow. shitty attitude is shitty lol

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3 points

You’d understand if you had one

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2 points

we have tons of them here lol

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-1 points

This is high level trolling, very impressive sir

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52 points

Wow, I’ve never seen someone try to link bidet use to intelligence before. It’s almost impressive.

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28 points

Nor I to a better sex life

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3 points

You clearly haven’t met a Southern European. We divide the world in civilized ass washers and uncivilized smelly barbarians

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1 point

This comment is slightly ambiguous. Who are “we” and who are the barbarians?

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5 points

During my first trip to Japan I was reluctant to use it.

My manager was traveling with me and he bought one to take home and he already had one from a previous trip and he kept talking about how life changing it was

I finally decided to use the bidet on my last day of the trip and it was a life changer. I had to go back to Japan a month later and I got a nice Toshiba that unfortunately died early this year but now you can find bidets easily on Amazon or Costco

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63 points

Mask. N95 or better. My wife and I never stopped, and she never gets sick despite being immunocompromised. I work in a place where illness is common due to the environment and I’ve been sick once in the last year, meanwhile all of my coworkers come in sick like twice a month. Apparently they’d rather be sick and miserable all the time than wear a mildly uncomfortable thing on their face.

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While wearing a mask is never a bad idea, it is absolutely not necessary to not get sick. I am also immunocompromised and I have stopped wearing a mask. I wash my hands very often and never eat handheld food without washing first. Zero issues since getting covid back when I was wearing a mask religiously.

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9 points

We’d rather not take risks. Plus, we’d like to not accidentally contribute to the spread of disease ourselves if we can help it.

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2 points

I thought masks wouldn’t protect against a virus (being tiny) but might help slow the spread to others by stopping spittle/moisture filled with virus from covering real world objects.

How do they help you if no one else is wearing them?

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-19 points

Getting sick occasionally is good for your immune system if you do not have a condition like your wife.

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4 points

Covid is a retrovirus. It destroys your immune system.

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13 points

Being outside is good for your immune system. Being near other people is unnecessary.

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1 point

Don’t we need viruses to build resistance?

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8 points

The level of sick for which this is true is below the threshold of what we normally call “getting sick”. You’re always fighting off something. That’s what’s good for you. Not the getting overwhelmed and having to stay in bed amount.

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18 points

Do ypu have kids? No masks, also barely ever got sick. With kids I’m sick 5 or 6 times a year. Could be the same for your coworkers.

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My oldest just started Pre-K so we’re now having a fresh plague circle the house for the second time this month. Hopefully within a year or so we’ll have developed enough immunity to enough children’s plagues to not get sick as frequently

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I do not have kids, and I don’t know about all of my coworkers, but I know the overwhelming majority of them do not have kids either.

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My sweet friend with two childs is CONSTANTLY sick. My partner and I mostly WFH and have no kids and have gotten sick twice since 2020.

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0 points

I like having a face for expressions

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Ok, but i have a question.

You want us to wear it all the time? Beacause i also use a mask when i use the metro or any other means of travel in which i share a communal space.

But being a social animal as we all r, wearing a mask all the time is a fast way to get ostracized.

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I would like everyone to wear them until the pandemic is over, at least. After that we can reassess the situation, and preferably during flu season. To me it seems cruel to not mask for that seeing as it would greatly reduce the number of preventable flu deaths.

I think if all, or more realistically enough, of us were masking, that would eliminate the social stigma surrounding it. Personally, I don’t receive much pushback about my mask aside from the occasional staring anyways. What’s far more ostracizing to her, I, and several other people I know, is the fact that all of the social gatherings and hobbies we used to participate in are no longer accessible to us because not a single one is taking any acceptable precautions. In fact, I can think of exactly two social events I wanted to participate in this year that still “required” masks, and neither actually enforced the rule. This is sadly not a new problem for disabled people either. Many, if not most, are alienated from society and forced away from any participation in social activities due to a blatant disregard towards making those activities actually accessible to them. I cannot stress enough how painful this is for those people on the receiving end of this ableism. So, frankly, I have little sympathy for those who fear ostracism from choosing to wear a mask. If they really care about people being ostracized, they should do what they can to make their social circles safe for everyone, not just those without disabilities.

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At the hospital I worked at there were no transmissions of COVID from known infected patients to providers wearing N95 masks (at least in the first 2 years, I didn’t keep up with it after that). So if you are wearing N95s you should feel quite confident that you are protecting yourselves without requiring behavior modifications from anyone else.

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My only dislike about the mask is that it sucks for people with glasses… If it wasn’t for that I would be using it all the time.

I liked to be allergy-less in my work lol.

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3 points

Agreed. We have kept wearing masks in specific places (public transit, crowded events, airplanes) and it really does make a difference. I never get sick from airplane trips any more, which used to be a fairly regular occurrence.

I will say, I was never able to figure out how to stop a properly fitted mask from giving me a terrible headache after 8 hours of use so I’m glad I work from home and don’t need to make the choice of mask vs comfort at work.

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9 points

Yes yes yes! I work facing the public and I interact with people from all over the world. Me wearing a mask just feels like a basic courtesy. I could potentially spread diseases around like mad.

I’m glad it’s more accepted now, but I have had a lot of people “looking out for my safety” to put it mildly. That’s what they say they’re doing. Really, they’re just confronting me and demand answers to personal questions as they “educate” me.

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3 points

Using curbside pickup at Chick-fil-A. The line is a mile long, people. I’m in and out in 45 seconds.

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  • Having hand sanitizer in your everyday bag. I’ve been doing it way before the pandemic and it’s a quick and easy way to disinfect while you’re out and about and not near a restroom to wash your hands.

  • Want to get free food a couple of times a month? Just go on eventbrite and meetup and look up free events in your area. If you are in a relatively large city, chances are there are a ton of free events every week where you can just show up and get free food in exchange for a little socializing.

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23 points

Socializing for free food sounds too expensive for me.

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2 points

I could give away food if that would reduce my socializing

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Well technically you can avoid the socialization part (eat-and-run). As long as you can get to the food without having to talk to someone first, you should be good.

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70 points

When someone asks a thing like this on Lemmy, look up the same thread on Reddit (guaranteed to find it was recently also posted there) and copy-pasta some of the top posts. Guaranteed worthless internet up arrows.

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11 points

The real hack is always in the comments or something

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7 points

I just said to someone that Lemmy comment sections have a little bit of that Reddit 2014 vibe and here you are with the Reddit 2014 meme.

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The real Reddit 2014 memes were the friends we made along the way.

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30 points

I mean… you’re not wrong. Just thought that it would be a great question to ask here. Also, with fewer users on Lemmy, there tend to be more genuine answers than on Reddit.

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4 points

I encourage this only because I never again want to touch that god forsaken site

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11 points

Please keep doing this because I’m never going back😎

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