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To consider flannels fucking revolting

348 replies

BelfryWitch · 17/08/2015 18:09

Just use your hands! What's with dragging a manky rag all over your body and face about?

Or if you absolutely must have one, then it needs washing after every use. A sopping square of material draped over the bathtub to dry is just grim.

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bamboostalks · 17/08/2015 21:42

Again I ask, if you don't use a flannel what do you actually wash yourself with? Does the water just run off you as you rub ineffectually with your palms? I consider that very manky. Flannels are the business.

Lozy79 · 17/08/2015 21:45

Wow you lot must have huge water and electricity bills with the amount of times your towels, flannels and sheets get washed!

jenenberry · 17/08/2015 21:48

Again I ask, if you don't use a flannel what do you actually wash yourself with?

If you shower most days and keep on top of your personal hygiene and don't let dirt and sweat build up, then the dirt won't get so 'ingrained' that it needs scrubbing off with a flannel.

We non-flannel users are probably cleaner Grin because we don't let things get to the stage where we need a flannel, a blowtorch and a chisel to get the muck off.

dementedma · 17/08/2015 21:49

Do people really use seperate towels for face and bum?

jenenberry · 17/08/2015 21:49

Hot water from a shower, shower gel, hands. Every day.
Job done no flannel necessary

Cass168 · 17/08/2015 21:54

All these people dissing flannels, do you "hot cloth" cleanse?

MaidOfStars · 17/08/2015 21:55

But how do you get dead skin cells off?

bamboostalks · 17/08/2015 22:03

Sorry but hands, even every day, do not actually get rid of dead skin etc. hot water, soap, flannel are essential. Good scrub essential.

Notso · 17/08/2015 22:04

Flannels are great.
DH won't use one and gets disgusting rolls of dead skin when he dries himself after a showers.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 17/08/2015 22:07

What an unpleasant thing to say, jenenberry! Hmm

KumiOri · 17/08/2015 22:08

I have eczema so have to use soap (from a bar) very sparingly or my skin feels very uncomfortable.
tiny amount of soap and flannel=clean.

pictish · 17/08/2015 22:12

jenenberry where I come from that's fighting talk.

Happy36 · 17/08/2015 22:13

I hate flannels.

A few years ago, a friend was telling me how she loves using flannels. I said I didn't like them so much and she said, "How do you get your arse clean, then?" (She is Australian Hmm ). I said that I use the bidet, (I am French Smile ) and she then said that bidets are disgusting...

jenenberry · 17/08/2015 22:33

pictish Grin

cardibach · 17/08/2015 22:38

I still don't get how fanjo said get clean Jan shower without something to wash them! I can sort of see the rest of you, water runs over, rub soap on with hands (although a shower net uses less soap/gel) but your fanjo? The water doesn't run there...what are you using?

treaclesoda · 17/08/2015 22:41

cardibach maybe fanjos don't get washed in the shower but get steamed, like Gwyneth Paltrow?

jenenberry · 17/08/2015 22:43

Fanjos are self-cleaning.
Everybody knows that Hmm

MarchLikeAnAnt · 17/08/2015 22:45

You just take the shower head from the holder and hose between your legs.

bamboostalks · 17/08/2015 23:18

Well if you never wash your self cleaning fanjo jenenberry then I don't think the lack of flanneling is your biggest issue. You need water down there you know, it does need a cleanse.

AlanPacino · 17/08/2015 23:27

Again, what's the difference between cleansing and cleaning? Is cleansing only done by females under 40?

TheCommander · 17/08/2015 23:28

I really don't get it, for me a quick wash is a shower, if I have more time is a bath.
A flanel wash? Please educate me, I can't see how that get people properly clean (but as I said, I want someone to make me understand...)

DJThreeDog · 17/08/2015 23:31

I agree my flannels stink.

But I only use them for going over eyes, they stink because my husband is too stupid to not leave them in a wet festering ball.

He does it with towels too.

DJThreeDog · 17/08/2015 23:32

Oh I lie, sometimes I have a strip wash if I haven't got time for a bath and have just done my hair.

cardibach · 17/08/2015 23:33

jenenberry I'm not using fanjo to mean vagina. I'd say vagina if I meant it. Confused

TheFallenMadonna · 17/08/2015 23:35

The dead skin cells get rubbed off by towels then? Hence the single use of towels?