to assert that decent people FOLD, and if you SCRUNCH you are a shit-fingered mingstinger?

[Greensleeves]

Seriously. Don't scrunch. Eeuw.

Scrunch at front, fold for poo

I worked for someone in marketing! It is a question that they ask!

bump6 - what now? Someone in marketing at Andrex, or do you mean that marketeers talk about arse-wiping all the time?

Cos we don't!
Er, but clearly I am now.

Fold? I honestly can't picture the logistics of that. How do you hold onto it?

Scrunching means you have a nice bit to hold on to with plenty of paper between your fingers and your, eh, skin. It's nice and thick, there is no seepage. Surely that's obvious?

I didn't know people folded. Weird.

What is a communal peanut

I scrunch

Folding is anal

DH folds (and yes I've witnessed)

MrsHelsBels74 - You know, the communal peanuts!
The ones in bowls, at bars. It could be mints. Or even bombay mix.

Every so often, a newspaper will run a story about how communal peanuts are contaminated with the faecal matter from over 7867698453 different scrunchers people, and I always wondered, how?.

Now I know.

at communal peabuts. I imagine if you put your ear next to the bowl you could actually hear them humming

but surely if there was EVER a time it is OK to be anal, it would be wiping your arse!

Title word of contention was "mingstinger" - ie you are a durty minger, but with overtones of minge-stinging because you are going to poke your pooey fingers up your muff

Sorry but the idea of "a communal peanut" just had me in tears of laughter... just the one peanut, ceremonially placed in the middle of a group of people, each periodically poking it with a pooey finger...!

Oh, folder btw. Definitely. Who the hell scrunches? Weird.

I don't believe people scrunch, there is no way it can be done

the advert is awful

folding IS THE ONLY WAY

I used to scrunch when I was younger. I started to fold when money was tight and every sheet counted...

I scrunch and I stand. I use loads of sheets though. I've tried folding, not good at all and sort of chafes

Fold fold fold! As for standing...how does that work?

You fold into a neat thickish shape, then wipe as if using a flannel or other cloth.

Presumably scrunching is like using, I dunno, a random bit of moss you scraped off the drive?

Haha this thread is hilarious. For what it's worth DH and I are folders

didn't think scrunching existed? What's the point of scrunching?!! How can that even work?!!?!

Scrunching is wasteful - you can't get to use the other side!

You evidently have brought her up wrong. Perhaps you can send her to a correctional facility.

Before this thread I'd only encountered one confessed scruncher. She's Australian. Make of that what you will. She said 'who has time to fold?' WTF? What are you doing that's keeping your hands too busy to fold. There's surely not that much pressing business to be seen to that you have to multi-task when you're on the toilet.

I fold mine into a swan to get at any hard to reach nooks and crannies.

Actually I used to take two sheets fold in half then half again but a few years ago I realised that although that was fine when I was a child (quite some time ago) I'm a bit bigger now so I take 3 sheets fold in half and half again for front bottom and 3 sheets folded twice for bottom proper. I think you can all learn from this. HTH HAND

Who the hell would scrunch?!

That advert makes me to just think that people might scrunch and get shitty fingers!

How on earth does folding and sitting work? How did I miss this part of my education.

The campaign is grim beyond belief.

I don't care how other people wipe their arse. I'm surprised anyone does.

However, if you're talking about how you put your clothes away in drawers: fold. DS1 seems to think that scrunching is acceptable.

Folding is twee- like using the word serviette instead of napkin.

Scrunching is the proper way to do it.

I read it in Debrett's, I'm sure.

There is a small chance I'm lying about the Debrett's bit, but NOT about the tweeness of folding

How does folding even work? Surely you just get the flat wad of paper wedged into between your arse cheeks? Do you have to spread your cheeks first or something??

Haven't seen any adverts but knew as soon as I saw the thread title what it was about. I'm sure I heard/read somewhere that Americans are scrunchers and loo roll in the US is softer because of this.

All folders in this house. I only know this because that's how DH taught DS1 to wipe his bum - we don't discuss that kind of thing.

I assume that FIL is also a folder as he's a fan of the "greaseproof style" of TP and I don't imagine that works well if you scrunch it, or at all in fact...

I scrunch - I find that if you fold it slides over the top, and doesn't pick up the shit as well.

I have never, ever had poo on my fingers from wiping my own arse. (Different rules for nappies etc.)

YABU even to consider other people's bottom wiping arrangements.

It is none of your business.

I scrunch.