to cringe at the Andrex Washlets advert?

[Sunnymeg]

Picture the scene, you meet your friends (of both sexes) and start extolling the virtues of moist toilet tissue. You are so enamoured of the new product you supply all your friends with free samples and urge them to experience what has been missing from their lives all these years.

Your friends, instead of immediately deleting your contact details, try the product and experience true freshness.

�..��.. as if!!

Then all your friends get clogged drains and have to spend out for a plumber to unblock them. Those things can't be flushed successfully

One of these would be worth telling your friends about. You can MN on the bog then hose your bum down when you're done.

I nearly posted about that advert when I first saw it - I couldn't believe what I was seeing!!
"Ooh, try my new washing bum-paper and next week, let's meet for coffee and you can tell me all about it!!! "

And yes, Armami, I thought that too - let's flush more stuff into the already overloaded sewers, see if we can block them faster. Even the name "washlets"... Please...!

it is the worst advert currently on telly

and that is saying something

it makes me want to scrub my arse with a pan scourer

I swear she's flirting with that guy across the table. Flirting over bum wipes. How desperate is she?

Oh you can't have a bin for that. We did bins in bathrooms on another thread. (I don't have one. I used to wrap sanitary towels in the little envelopes they came in then into the main bin. Couldn't see the point of having a bin in the loo)

But the idea of a bin for people's used bum wipes is horrid.

No That Hotels 4 U ad, " hotels faw yau cupcake" that makes me want to twist someone's nerps, I get such a rage.

The one in the Andrex ad is a poor woman's Dawn O Porter, which is sad in its own way.

The website says they are flushable? ?

They won't block your toilet or your pipes. They're designed to disintegrate. Baby wipes, cleaning wipes and cleansing wipes will block your pipes, but not moist toilet tissue.

I swear I'm not the woman in the ad.

They are definitely not flushable, despite what the manufacturers say. I've heard far too many stories from plumbers.

Noooo, don't say that! I rely on flushable toilet wipes for DS's monster poos!

Washlet. What a fucking stupid word.

It's subtly encouraging more rimming and Dyno Rod call outs because that's what's gonna get us out of this recession you know. Apparently when Nick Clegg is too busy to lick DC's arse (and he's had a busy week with the whole Reynard thingy) Dave likes to slip one of these between his cheeks. That's how he came to be known as Shiny Dave.

Nowt wrong with a wipe as usual and a wash afterwards if required. These wipe things are just selling stuff that is unnecessary and will end up costing you a fortune in a) buying them, and b) unblocking your drains.

Thanks for that. I have pictures in my head of CallMeDave's cheeks now, as shiny & scrubbed as his face... .

They will undoubtedly block yer drains. Dh spent last Xmas Day a few years ago up to his armpit (in the pipe) & knees (in the garden) in unspeakableness because we'd bought a house from someone who didn't know this.

That turned out to be Kandoo. 100s of the nasty slimy little buggers.

Mind you, if I were thinking of marketing my own brand of these, I'd totally call them Cleggs!

I love the ipad holder/loo roll stand!

My grandad made much use of his bog roll stand with an ashtray on top!

David Cameron is banking on the middle classes getting into anal bleaching to get us out of recession. Moist Towelettes (as BIL calls them) is the just the start of the bum cleansing trend.

Thats true.

if I were thinking of marketing my own brand of these, I'd totally call them Cleggs!

That is brilliant :o

Do you work for Private Eye?!

has anyone seen the new 'power cleaning tool' ad? it's basically and electric toothbrush in 'manly' colours! they have a clip of someone cleaning their alloys with this tiny toothbrush! madness.

My dad used to wipe himself with a damp flannel, rinse it out and leave it scrunched up on the side of the bath. Not pleasant for us kids in the bath, but this was supposedly normal. I haven't broached it, but can only hope that these baby wipes for adults have changed this disgusting ritual. But then he used to blow his nose into the washbasin right next to all our toothbrushes... The more I think about it... Sorry for the TMI elements of this post.
However, YANBU. Very cringe advert. Almost expect someone to say 'yes, gosh, I couldn't believe how much extra poo was there when I had thought I was sparkly clean'.

bluuugh

Horrible but the "Anything for yoww cupcake" ad comes close.

a bin in the bathroom for used wipes and sanitary products is not disgusting if covered and frequently emptied.

blocking drains is far more disgusting for the person who has to unblock them.

NOTHING goes down UK drains except body waste and toilet paper. End of. News: adverts lie!