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[linnea]

Whoa. Philippe's face is serious times in the last panel.

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=06282007

[jaydub]

Linnea!  Link!

[Lister]

Lyle in these glasses is now Evil Wilford Brimley.

Also, I hear that sad Western movie music that begins with the bell striking when Phillippe opens that door.

[linnea]

Linnea!  Link!

SHIT! Thank you, J. I totally forgot that crucial bit of information.

[littlefallsmets]

Lyle in his glasses looks exactly like what G. Gordon Liddy looks like if you're very very high.

There. I said it.

[CortJstr]

This can't be good for Phillipe's therapy.

[mrdna1]

I see this turning out like his trip to the dump, for some reason.

[V-Adore]

The idea of a drinking fountain for dogs being in the bathroom is also sort of great, you have to admit. I can picture Philippe's mind racing furiously, concluding that, at last, it's just thoughtful, and now the dogs won't have to drink out of the toilet anymore! Win for everybody!

[jaydub]

Being the colonial rube that I am, I have seen bidets while travelling, and played with the controls a bit for amusement but haven't ever used one.  Is it used in lieu of, or in addition to, TP?

[theinevitable]

yeah, I've only seen one once, and couldn't figure the whole concept out. It's just so...

French.

[Ruta Bagas]

Re: the alt text - I have the same compulsion.

The same compulsion as a five year old cartoon stuffed otter.

[side_show]

I used bidets several times in my childhood when visiting family in Europe.  I remember some tension and my mom explaining them to me back then.  But then I forgot about them.  So when I was in Bali and my bathroom had a bidet, I was uncertain which way to sit.. facing the wall, or facing out?  But I wanted to try it since the Indonesians love to make fun of use Westerners for using toilet paper, and they'd had a few good laughs at our expense about this during my visit.  Then I turned it on and it shot water right into my face!  Horrible!

In lieu of the question as to if a bidet is in lieu of TP or in addition to it, in my experience, in Europe it in addition to, and in Indonesia it's in lieu of.

Such a contentious addition to the bathroom.

And what do you do with the ass towel afterward?  That's what I want to know.  Especially in someone's house.  I mean, I don't want someone washing their hands and then using it....

[Gimpson]

I heard an interview with no impact man on Brian Lehrer a while back, who is trying to live for one year with no environmental footprint.  About a third of the calls were people asking him questions about his bathroom habits.  Everybody wanted to know how he's getting by without toilet paper.  (A washing bowl and many washcloths is apparently the answer.) 

[side_show]

Yeah, the Indonesian folks in the parts of the country I visited just use their hands.  This is also apparently the case in some parts of Thailand and Malaysia and other parts of Asia too.

Here's some shots I took of two bathrooms in Indonesia.  The first one was from a row of tiny little closet style rooms with tiled floors and drains in the middle.  The second one sort of almost looks like a trough-style urinal, but this was a women's washroom - none of us ever figured out how to used it.  At the Jakarta National Arts Centre, the womens washrooms had these low to the ground, individual, urinal style thingies that I never took a photo of.  One of the women explained that you sort of lean against it facing the wall while straddling, and there were two levers, one for a bidet style spray, the other for a flush, but it was too confusing.  What I really didn't understand is why everyone was neither wet nor pee smelly, as there was nary a towel for miles and miles.

[pmcd9]

I heard an interview with no impact man on Brian Lehrer a while back, who is trying to live for one year with no environmental footprint.  About a third of the calls were people asking him questions about his bathroom habits.  Everybody wanted to know how he's getting by without toilet paper.  (A washing bowl and many washcloths is apparently the answer.) 

How does he have no environmental footprint if he's using a washcloth?  Come to think of it, the entire idea of no environmental footprint is absurd.  It's impossible.

Edit- Ok, I read his blog and he agrees sort of.  I didn't find anything where he explains how using a washcloth is a no impact choice though.