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

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Seriously. Don't scrunch. Eeuw.

I fold and cannot imagine doing it any other way. If I'm careful I can get one wodge of toilet roll to do three wipes. I also squirt soap onto the toilet roll, if I am having difficulty with getting my bum clean.

maggie!!! Soap!?!? ...on your bum hole?!? Aaaargh sounds painful.

I fold and stay seated

Love how everyone is saying what a shit advertis, look how many of us are talking about it

I just tried folding, it's impossible! How do you get a grip on a flat piece of paper?

I use those bum wipes, much better on the old bumhole. Although one night i got out of bed, didn't put my glasses on and popped to the loo. I accidently used flash wipes. At that very moment, i new what ring sting was.

Ha! my DH did that to DD when she was a tiny baby. We were staying at someones house and he took her off to change her bum first thing in the morning.
All I heard was fucking Nora what shall I do? he panicked because he'd decided (in his own mind) he would melt her fanny and proceeded to get in the shower and hold her upside down.

OMG I am in stiches this is the funniest thread ever!!! Ripsishere. DH did the same to 4 yr old. Luckly I got to him before he had her upside down in the shower!!

P.S. used to do straight forward rectangluar fold, but since watching kirsty allsop last xmas I now do lotus flowers!

I have no idea how I do it, I just use it to wipe my arse, more important things to think about than how I wipe tbh.

Scrunch, obviously. I wash my body with a scrunchie not a flannel, it gives a better clean. Hence scrunched loo roll does the same. I do not have poo under my fingernails but then I do wash my hands.

Surely by the time we reach adulthood we've all pretty much mastered the skill of cleaning ourselves and there aren't huge swathes of the adult population walking around with mucky hands stupefied saying "I just don't get it, shit, on my hand, every time, what am I doing wrong?" It's a rediculous advert.

scrunching gives you a much higher surface area to volume ratio - meaning scrunchers need less paper to clean equally well. So if I were selling loo paper I would want to encourage you to fold.

What I find quite funny about the whole loo wiping thing is that dd's approach is the same as mine, whilst ds follows dh's lead. I was brought up in a family that favoured parsimony, so I am a folder. Three bits at a time to be precise, folded along the perforations, as taught by my mother. dh on the other hand rips off reams of the stuff, scrumpled up any old how. It seems to me to be very wasteful plus risks blocking the loo.

Oh and US loo paper isn't very nice. I think that the British are much more invested in loo paper!

I used to enter data on toilet paper usage habits (we all have to earn a living somehow...) & a key question was fold/scrunch etc. However the most memorable was 'Did your hand get wet?' and entering the same person's data time after time (3 day questionnaire) you'd be surprised at how many people said 'Yes' their hand did get wet, multiple times a day! FFS! Surely you'd learn to use more paper or change your technique?? This was free loo paper people were being provided with so no need to scrimp!

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I scrunch and use more paper if nessasery

Surely you pass the end round the back, feed it out between your legs and then keep pulling really fast until it comes out clean?

Isn't that why toilet rolls come on rollers?

It never occurred to me that anyone would scrunch rather than fold until I spotted a funny little scrunched up 'thing' on the bathroom floor and picked it up Apparently, exDP liked to scrunch (it looked like he tried to wipe with one sheet) and had dropped it on the floor instead of flushing it

I've just realised I'm bi.
Scrunch for the front and fold for the back.
I might try swapping for a day and then report back.

I do both, depending on my mood

though I think LRD has the solution with the origami swan - that should be super useful at clearing difficult areas. And aesthetically pleasing!

I thought my dh had OCD when he tried to teach the dc to fold. I never knew anyone folded. I don't have problems scrunching - it just spreads out easier to have contact with all the surfaces.

I'll go into detail for those who wonder how folders wipe their arse.

The paper is folded, approximately three or four times depending on how rubbish the paper is or how thick it is. You'll end up with a folded up bit of paper approximately the length of one sheet. You hold this piece of paper in the palm of your hand with enough hanging over the tips of your fingers. You trap the lower corner of the sheet between your thumb and your forefinger. As you wipe, your middle fingers push the paper between your bum cheeks. Thumb doesn't touch anything, and the tips of your fingers are safe.

At least that's how I do it. I don't reuse the paper as I follow it up with a floralys moist toilet wipe which gets anything left off.

I always scrunch, much more hygienic. Folding is obviously more susceptible to leakage through said folded paper.

A good wodge of scrunched paper with its irregular surface gives a much more effective wipe.

YANBU. My youngest is a scruncher and I consider it to be a major character flaw.

I would seriously question the logic/mentality of a scruncher. It is just wrong on so many levels.

YANBU. My youngest is a scruncher and I consider it to be a major character flaw.

I would seriously question the logic/mentality of a scruncher. It is just wrong on so many levels.

And scrunching is SOOO wasteful. Folding, when done properly, allows you to use several sides fd the same batch of paper, with no cross contamination, whereas scrunching is an ineffecient use of a great wodge of paper that cannot be cleanly or easily turned over.

You scrunchers are a back-handed disgrace.