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What the in the entire F are they doing with it?!

34 replies

Lex345 · 17/09/2025 20:40

Toilet roll.

I don't buy-excuse the pun-shit toilet roll. I buy the decent stuff, that's rolled out and on by puppies, or bounced on by Koalas, or chased around by kittens, or some other cutesy advertising rubbish that "justifies" the price.

THREE FUCKING ROLLS OF IT IN ONE DAY!!! And of course, NO ONE else could possibly think to change it when it is empty...nooooo, we will leave the saddest looking shred of macerated tissue perilously dangling off the barren brown roll until Mum does it.

WHAT ARE THEY DOING WITH IT?!?

Writing poetry? Origami? Making some kind of elaborate early Hallowe'en costume?

Are they selling it on the black market?!

Light hearted thread. Ish.

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Bluevelvetsofa · 17/09/2025 20:49

There’s less of it per roll, I think and it’s thinner, so you use more each visit.

How many are there to be using three rolls a day though. Are they practising bandaging?

StrawberrySquash · 17/09/2025 20:51

Certainly Sainsbury's have reduced the quantity of the rolls/made them less dense. It's noticeable if you have an old roll at the back of the cupboard.

CoffeeLipstickKeys · 17/09/2025 20:51

lol I like your tone
one can only imagine you’ve got peach bottomed aristocrats who await mamman refilling the poop paper

ElectricMagpie · 17/09/2025 20:53

I had a housemate in uni who was an absolute sod for this. When questioned about it he'd get defensive and tell us "I need to be clean!"
Would have been cheaper to hop in the shower honestly...

CoffeeLipstickKeys · 17/09/2025 20:53

Bluevelvetsofa · 17/09/2025 20:49

There’s less of it per roll, I think and it’s thinner, so you use more each visit.

How many are there to be using three rolls a day though. Are they practising bandaging?

Haha

randomchap · 17/09/2025 20:54

Do you have teenage boys?

BasilParsley · 17/09/2025 20:55

randomchap · 17/09/2025 20:54

Do you have teenage boys?

This ...

shellyleppard · 17/09/2025 20:55

I buy the bumboo toilet roll.....it lasts for ages. With 3 in the house one roll lasts 3 or 4 days.....

shellyleppard · 17/09/2025 20:56

Also it gets delivered so no having to run to the shops every few days for a restock.... the biggest plus point for me

Nopenousername · 17/09/2025 21:02

I don’t want to derail the thread but can we please talk about puppies working conditions? Are they being compensated fairly with treats and ear scratches? Is the workplace free of vacuums and cats?

KingOfPoundbury · 17/09/2025 21:12

Some of you may have heard that I have someone to put toothpaste on my toothbrush, well I also have someone to gently apply toilet tissue.
I have instructed them, in future, to use no more than THREE sheets* *per 'swipe as my gesture to saving the planet.

Lex345 · 17/09/2025 21:23

There are two of them, full time school and full time college, so this travesty has happened in the hour before school, and the 5 hours since they got home.

The eldest has been out all day at work, so although he does have form for lavishing shampoo all over the bathroom sink, and presumedly eating ketchup with his breakfast cereal, I have to concede it is not him this time.

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notmycatagain · 17/09/2025 21:23

So what you need to do is take your own roll with you to the toilet. Then whoever ‘they’ are will have to deal with getting new rolls themselves when the last one runs out.
Also, only ever buy it in the weekly shop. If it runs out, ‘they’ will have to go to the shop and buy more.
(You will have your own secret stash, of course).

Lex345 · 17/09/2025 21:30

notmycatagain · 17/09/2025 21:23

So what you need to do is take your own roll with you to the toilet. Then whoever ‘they’ are will have to deal with getting new rolls themselves when the last one runs out.
Also, only ever buy it in the weekly shop. If it runs out, ‘they’ will have to go to the shop and buy more.
(You will have your own secret stash, of course).

Ashamedly, I actually already do this with shampoo; because if I don't, I get none at all. It is astonishing how much they use and I half expect them to foam in the rain because it is surely impossible to rinse that amount out properly in one go.

I refuse to make clandestine midnight dashes across the landing with toilet roll!!
I will 100% forget until I am already in there!

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BigOldBlobsy · 17/09/2025 21:47

Wasn’t there someone posting the other day stating that their teens/pre teens were doing nonsense tik tok stuff with toilet paper - like dropping it in on purpose for it to go all wet and wrinkled ?
i cant quite remember the details but remember thinking what the hell

usedtobeprettybutImalrightnow · 17/09/2025 21:51

I knew this was going to be toilet roll before I opened it 😂

Motomum23 · 17/09/2025 21:53

Same issue in my house - I put on a new roll in the morning because presumably one of the teens has used it up late at night and then by lunch time it's gone again! Although I find nicky toilet roll (from asda) lasts longer than animal advertised products (and its cheaper - although at £5ish for 9 rolls I'm starting to think investing in a fancy bidet toilet seat would be a great idea!)

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 17/09/2025 21:58

Get the "reusable" loo roll, that'll fettle em.

BeMellowAquaSquid · 17/09/2025 21:58

Remember in lock down when everyone bought it all and the pasta. I blame those people.

alpenguin · 17/09/2025 21:59

I sat on the loo this morning for a pee having just replaced the roll last night before bed, and discovered that sad single sheet stuck to the cardboard and contemplated making this post myself.

I know my partner does a roll on a day on his own but i was awake most of last night so who the hell got to the new roll before I got up? Only one teen in the house (a girl) and a toilet averse primary school kid (boy)… they’re never awake before me.

i think shit goblins eat it in the night

Kurokurosuke · 17/09/2025 22:00

BasilParsley · 17/09/2025 20:55

This ...

Came (hehe) to ask the same question!

GarlicPint · 17/09/2025 22:10

alpenguin · 17/09/2025 21:59

I sat on the loo this morning for a pee having just replaced the roll last night before bed, and discovered that sad single sheet stuck to the cardboard and contemplated making this post myself.

I know my partner does a roll on a day on his own but i was awake most of last night so who the hell got to the new roll before I got up? Only one teen in the house (a girl) and a toilet averse primary school kid (boy)… they’re never awake before me.

i think shit goblins eat it in the night

Ohhhhh ... SHIT GOBLINS! I've been sporadically whattafucking at the unexpected scratchiness of my previously cushy bog roll, while surmising they must be putting fewer sheets on the demonstrably wider inner tube. Sneaky, bum-hating bastards, they are. Yes, them! And now I know who they are 😂

They are ... 💩👺🧻

the shit goblins

over50andfab · 17/09/2025 22:13

randomchap · 17/09/2025 20:54

Do you have teenage boys?

From experience girls can be just as bad

MrsMoastyToasty · 17/09/2025 22:21

Squash the toilet roll so that it doesn't actually roll on the holder.

randomchap · 17/09/2025 22:25

over50andfab · 17/09/2025 22:13

From experience girls can be just as bad

I don't think you quite understood