Bum Washer
Bun Mui
What is the proper word usage for "Bum Washer"?
In U.K. & Europe people have these toilet shaped basins used to wash their
bums by squirting water on them. What are they called???
Maybe if in North America, these were used by North American people,
they would be more respectable in public.
Why do people in U.K. and Europe have this and North Americans do not?
Does this show that North Americans value less about their personal
hygiene?
Comments?
Bun Mui
Truly Donovan
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:27:11 GMT, Bun Mui <xBun...@usa.net> wrote:
>What is the proper word usage for "Bum Washer"?
>In U.K. & Europe people have these toilet shaped basins used to wash their
>bums by squirting water on them. What are they called???
It's called a "bidet," pronounced "bee-DAY" in the USA and god only
knows how in the UK.
>Maybe if in North America, these were used by North American people,
>they would be more respectable in public.
No, even if we used them, we wouldn't want to do so in public.
>Why do people in U.K. and Europe have this and North Americans do not?
Some North Americans do; not all people in the U.K. and Europe do.
When are you going to learn not to generalize?
>Does this show that North Americans value less about their personal
>hygiene?
What it shows is that the North American predilection for daily
bathing of the entire person, a habit that at one time was -- if not
still -- found very peculiar by Europeans, along with our
preoccupation with deodorants, makes the necessity of washing a
particular part of the body less compelling than it might otherwise
be.
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Robert Lieblich
Bun Mui wrote:
>
> What is the proper word usage for "Bum Washer"?
NEVER!
> In U.K. & Europe people have these toilet shaped basins used to wash their
> bums by squirting water on them. What are they called???
Bidets.
> Maybe if in North America, these were used by North American people,
> they would be more respectable in public.
Which, the bidets or the people? I live in North America, as allegedly
do you, and I don't think myself any less respectable than others merely
because I lack access to a bidet. (My status as a lawyer may well
affect my respectability, but that's another thread entirely.)
> Why do people in U.K. and Europe have this and North Americans do not?
Custom and habit.
> Does this show that North Americans value less about their personal
> hygiene?
No. It shows they have other ways of cleaning their rectums.
> Comments?
The foregoing responses were mostly serious. If YOU want to be regarded
favorably, you should consider refraining from inflicting insults on the
populace of entire continents.
Bob Lieblich
Markus Laker
tru...@ibm.net (Truly Donovan):
> What it shows is that the North American predilection for daily
> bathing of the entire person, a habit that at one time was -- if not
> still -- found very peculiar by Europeans, along with our
> preoccupation with deodorants, makes the necessity of washing a
> particular part of the body less compelling than it might otherwise
> be.
I think it's quite usual here to bath or shower every day. But then we
Brits aren't *real* Europeans, are we?
Markus
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Robert Lieblich
Perchprism wrote:
>
> Markus Laker wrote:
> >From: fredd...@tcp.co.uk
> >Date: Wed, Feb 25, 1998 18:41 EST
> >Message-id: <34fcaa91...@news.tcp.co.uk>
>
> <snip>
>
> >I think it's quite usual here to bath or shower every day. But then we
> >Brits aren't *real* Europeans, are we?
>
>
> Is "to bath" usual, or is that a typo?
I recall someone using it earlier this week to indicate a path to take,
with "Bath" capitalized.
Bob Lieblich
Robert Lieblich
Perchprism wrote:
>
> Robert Lieblich wrote:
> >From:<lieb...@erols.com>
> >Date: Wed, Feb 25, 1998 18:40 EST
> >Message-id: <34F4AC...@erols.com>
> <snip>
> >> Does this show that North Americans value less about their personal
> >> hygiene?
> >
> >No. It shows they have other ways of cleaning their rectums.
>
> Ducking the plural of "anus," were you?
Actually, ducking the anus is the way many North Americans make do
without a bidet.
As for "rectum," I got that from the character Tom Hanks plays in "Punch
Line." I have long suspected that I am one of only ten persons or so to
have watched the entire film, and surely I am the only one who recalls
the scene in which the word appears.
Bob Lieblich
Pierre Jelenc
Defective washing machine.
Pierre
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Larry Phillips
Bun Mui wrote:
>
> What is the proper word usage for "Bum Washer"?
It's a water skiing term describing a type of wipeout where the
man forgets to let go, and gets his feet tangled in the tow-rope.
When it happens to a woman, it's known as a 'hundred yard douche'.
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Perchprism
Markus Laker wrote:
>From: fredd...@tcp.co.uk
>Date: Wed, Feb 25, 1998 18:41 EST
>Message-id: <34fcaa91...@news.tcp.co.uk>
<snip>
>I think it's quite usual here to bath or shower every day. But then we
>Brits aren't *real* Europeans, are we?
Not since the land bridge eroded through.
Is "to bath" usual, or is that a typo?
GBL
"Quotation is the opiate of the intelligentsia."
Perchprism
Robert Lieblich wrote:
>From:<lieb...@erols.com>
>Date: Wed, Feb 25, 1998 18:40 EST
>Message-id: <34F4AC...@erols.com>
<snip>
>> Does this show that North Americans value less about their personal
>> hygiene?
>
>No. It shows they have other ways of cleaning their rectums.
<snip>
Ducking the plural of "anus," were you?
GBL
Jitze Couperus
In article <jg$I.10$qB3.1...@typhoon.mbnet.mb.ca>, Bun Mui
<xBun...@usa.net> wrote:
> What is the proper word usage for "Bum Washer"?
> In U.K. & Europe people have these toilet shaped basins used to wash their
> bums by squirting water on them. What are they called???
Not found in average person's house and not for bum washing.
Is found in flashier hotels and used by foreign tourists to
soak feet after hard day's sightseeing and to wash shirts.
Could be the name originates from "bide a wee" but this not true.
Not for weeing in either.
Invented by Madame Bidette probably.
Comments?
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Mike Barnes
In alt.usage.english, Truly Donovan <tru...@ibm.net> spake thuswise:
>It's called a "bidet," pronounced "bee-DAY" in the USA and god only
>knows how in the UK.
I note you didn't say "only god knows how". The answer is "BEE-day".
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Markus Laker
perch...@aol.com (Perchprism):
> Is "to bath" usual, or is that a typo?
It's quite usual. Sue and I grew up on opposite sides of London, and we
both use 'to bath' for 'to take a bath' and, in her case, 'to administer
a bath'. (She's a nurse.) 'To bathe' is also correct here in Britain,
but is more likely to refer to what you do publicly in the sea than to
what you do privately in the bathtub.
GT
My understanding is that it is for washing the whole of the genital region.
Bun Mui wrote in message ...
>What is the proper word usage for "Bum Washer"?
>In U.K. & Europe people have these toilet shaped basins used to wash their
>bums by squirting water on them. What are they called???
>Maybe if in North America, these were used by North American people,
>they would be more respectable in public.
>Why do people in U.K. and Europe have this and North Americans do not?
>Does this show that North Americans value less about their personal
>hygiene?
>
>
>Comments?
>
>
>Bun Mui
>
>
John Packer
My quess is that many North American women shower or bath daily so there
is not much need. In Europe, women use the bidet to freshen up as a
North American may use a sponge bath. Bidets are becoming more popular
in the Toronto area, perhaps because of the concentration of Europeans.
My understanding is that they are for washing the vulva, although if one
sits on it backwards (i.e. facing forward) it would indeed be a bum
washer. That is the purpose that Crocidile Dundee surmised.
P&DSchultz
Pierre Jelenc wrote:> Defective washing machine.
I replaced the rubber washer in my leaking kitchen sink faucet
but it still leaked. That was a bum washer, I guess.
//P. Schultz
Truly Donovan
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:25:16 +0000 (GMT), bas
<b...@cybernexus.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>In article <34F51C...@rogers.wave.ca>,
>Really, or is this one of aue's "unfortunate habits"?
Responses to B** M** don't count. B** M** isn't looking for
information, so the lack of any in a response is immaterial.
Amicus Constantini
That was a 'bum WASH-er'. The Bunmeister is asking about a 'BUM wash-er'.
Intonation is so important for English, it is a shame it is not noted
orthographically.
Amicus Constantini
In article <34f5eb5e...@news3.ibm.net>, tru...@ibm.net (Truly Donovan)
wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:25:16 +0000 (GMT), bas
><b...@cybernexus.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>>In article <34F51C...@rogers.wave.ca>,
>
>>Really, or is this one of aue's "unfortunate habits"?
>
>Responses to B** M** don't count. B** M** isn't looking for
>information, so the lack of any in a response is immaterial.
>
what I find so fascinating about the Bunlet. Even though its posts are
generally inane, it often succeeds in generating interesting threads. I
think it possesses an understanding of human nature that is far, far beyond
any of us! An entity we cannot hope to comprehend.
P&DSchultz
No, the washer which finally did the job was the GOOD washer. The one
that didn't work was the BUM washer. So intonation doesn't help.
//P. Schultz
Alec Owen
Three men in a tub.
Did they bath or did they bathe,
When they went for a scrub.
Sorry
A Owen
Toronto
Alec Owen
Polar wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:39:18 -0800, Larry Phillips
> <lar...@rogers.wave.ca> wrote:
>
> >Bun Mui wrote:
> >>
> >> What is the proper word usage for "Bum Washer"?
> >
> >man forgets to let go, and gets his feet tangled in the tow-rope.
> >When it happens to a woman, it's known as a 'hundred yard douche'.
>
>
> Polar
Earlier, I was trying to think of a suitable reply but gave up.
Couldn't beat the above anyway.
A Owen
Toronto
Simon R. Hughes
Only understandable to those who understood the true quality of "Twin
Peaks". I tend to place the two phenomena in the same class.
(My ignore filter hasn't ignored this thread because BM hasn't
contributed to it since its first belch started it. That makes me
wonder if every thread the BM contributes to will then be ignored,
whether useful or not.)
Simon R. Hughes
mailto:shu...@geocities.com
(Mail not sent directly to the above address will be deleted without being read.)
Ross Howard
>Only understandable to those who understood the true quality of "Twin
>Peaks". I tend to place the two phenomena in the same class.
I prefer to envision BM in Lynch's far creepier "Blue Velvet" --
screaming "Candy-colored clown! Candy-colered clown" before donning
its gas mask and inhaling feverishly until we can see the whites of
its eyes.
On a bad day, though, its just the dead policeman in the gaudy jacket
who won't fall down.
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In article <34F63B...@erols.com>, P&DSchultz <schu...@erols.com> wrote:
>Amicus Constantini wrote:
>>
>> In article <34F5D9...@erols.com>, P&DSchultz <schu...@erols.com>
wrote:
>> >Pierre Jelenc wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Bun Mui <xBun...@usa.net> writes:
>> >> > What is the proper word usage for "Bum Washer"?
>> >>
>> >> Defective washing machine.
>> >
>> >I replaced the rubber washer in my leaking kitchen sink faucet
>> >but it still leaked. That was a bum washer, I guess.
>>
>> That was a 'bum WASH-er'. The Bunmeister is asking about a 'BUM
wash-er'.
>> Intonation is so important for English, it is a shame it is not noted
>> orthographically.
>
>No, the washer which finally did the job was the GOOD washer. The one
>that didn't work was the BUM washer. So intonation doesn't help.
Sure, it does, it's just more complicated and flexible. If it wasn't for
the stressed 'GOOD' one would think it was a defective bidet of which you
speak, or perhaps some apparatus for cleansing panhandlers. Only when 'BUM
washer' is contrasted with 'GOOD washer' is the meaning 'defective washing
device' a possible interpretation, and even then, the meaning is still
somewhat ambiguous.
John Cheung
Markus Laker <fredd...@tcp.co.uk> wrote
>
> [snip] I think it's quite usual here to bath or shower every day.
[snip]
You're right. I still have memory of my first landlady in England years
ago, scolding me for the sin of bathing so often, using up her precious
hot water.
John
John Cheung
Robert Lieblich <lieb...@erols.com> wrote
How ?
Albert Marshall
John Cheung <stch...@mbox2.singnet.com.sg> wrote
>Robert Lieblich <lieb...@erols.com> wrote
>> No. It shows they have other ways of cleaning their rectums.
>
>How ?
>
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Ross Howard
On 28 Feb 1998 08:57:40 GMT, "John Cheung"
<stch...@mbox2.singnet.com.sg> wrote:
It's the shillings for the meter, you see. She's only got so many to
go round, what with decimalisation leaving us all at sixes and sevens
I blame that Edward Heath myself you can never trust a man who never
gets married that was the only mistake Mrs. T. ever made she never
brought the shillings back and get your feet off that sofa this isn't
a bloody hotel.
Robert Lieblich
John Cheung wrote:
>
> Robert Lieblich <lieb...@erols.com> wrote
> > No. It shows they have other ways of cleaning their rectums.
>
> How ?
INDELICATE DESCRIPTION WARNING:
Stand in shower. Soap one hand thoroughly. Reach behind.
The rest I leave to your imagination, if you have one. (Your question
implies otherwise.)
Bob Lieblich
Jitze Couperus
In article <01bd4426$f8d50d00$309f...@singnet.singnet.com.sg>, "John
Cheung" <stch...@mbox2.singnet.com.sg> wrote:
>
> You're right. I still have memory of my first landlady in England years
> ago, scolding me for the sin of bathing so often, using up her precious
> hot water.
>
In negotiations for my first "digs" in England, the landlady summed up
the terms and conditions thus:
"That'll be three guineas a week - and which day of the week would
would you like to have your bath luv?"
For a young apprentice right off the boat from the colonies, this was
but the first of a series of cultural shocks.
Jitze
Mike Barnes
In alt.usage.english, Robert Lieblich <lieb...@erols.com> spake thuswise:
Concentrate on the meaning of "rectum" compared with, say, "anus". You
might then feel that you missed John's point. Of course I could be wrong.
Robert Lieblich
Mike Barnes wrote:
>
> In alt.usage.english, Robert Lieblich <lieb...@erols.com> spake thuswise:
> >John Cheung wrote:
> >>
> >> Robert Lieblich <lieb...@erols.com> wrote
> >> > No. It shows they have other ways of cleaning their rectums.
> >>
> >> How ?
> >
> >INDELICATE DESCRIPTION WARNING:
> >
> >Stand in shower. Soap one hand thoroughly. Reach behind.
> >
> >The rest I leave to your imagination, if you have one. (Your question
> >implies otherwise.)
>
> Concentrate on the meaning of "rectum" compared with, say, "anus". You
> might then feel that you missed John's point. Of course I could be wrong.
And how long is your arm?
Bob Lieblich
Chris J. Gull
Mimi Kahn schrieb in Nachricht <34f6c5fe...@news.mindspring.com>...
>On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:14:32 -0500, Robert Lieblich
><lieb...@erols.com> wrote:
>
>>Bath bun n. Brit.
>>a round spiced kind of bun with currants, often iced.
>
>Nothing said of "mui," however.
>
>And you'd think a bath bun would have currents rather than currants.
>Strange are the ways of you Brits....
Try it......it tingles and really is fun !
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Chris J. Gull
Robert Lieblich schrieb in Nachricht <34F4C2...@erols.com>...
>Perchprism wrote:
>>
>> Robert Lieblich wrote:
>> >From:<lieb...@erols.com>
>> >Date: Wed, Feb 25, 1998 18:40 EST
>> >Message-id: <34F4AC...@erols.com>
>> <snip>
>> >> hygiene?
>> >
>>
>> Ducking the plural of "anus," were you?
>
>without a bidet.
I'll never eat Duck in America again - or did I misunderstand something here
?
David Marshall
Chris J. Gull wrote:
> >And you'd think a bath bun would have currents rather than currants.
> >Strange are the ways of you Brits....
> Try it......it tingles and really is fun !
Much like a bidet then? :)
Dave
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Peter Moylan
>In article <jg$I.10$qB3.1...@typhoon.mbnet.mb.ca>, Bun Mui
>> bums by squirting water on them. What are they called???
It's originally from France, where the word "nu" means "naked".
That's why we call it a Bum Nui.
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Robert Clark
bidet
pronounced (roughly) bee-day
RC
Peter Moylan <pe...@eepjm.newcastle.edu.au> wrote in article
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