I need all you people to help validate my thesis that women tend to fold, whereas men tend to scrunch…
So, what’s the deal?
I’m a guy, and I scrunch.
I’m a guy, and I fold.
I mean, scrunching? What’s the big idea there?
Also, if the toilet paper roll looks like it only has few pieces left, folding gives you possibility of re-folding. You just have to be rather careful to not get sticky fingers.
There was a thread on this a while back (or lavatory habits in general IIRC). It was the first time I had ever heard of the “scrunching” phenomenon.
And IIRC - memory hazy though - it seemed that more women scrunched than men.
Anyone find that thread?
It occurs to me that people don’t know much about each other’s arse-wiping habits, for understandable reasons. We just assume everyone does it like we do. I mean, I know some people stand instead of sitting, I know some people scrunch their toilet paper (although I can’t understand why), but I’m still not completely believing all those people saying that they reach between their legs instead of just reaching from the behing. Especially guys.
Google found this survey claiming that men are 12% more likely than women to be folders.
Well as I’m allergic to most toilet paper I use sani wipes and the liike so i dont get rashes … So neither really
I fold.
I run a length between my legs and floss. What’s this scrunch of which you speak?
Hey…I do neither. I must be a woman.
I roll mine around my hand and then swipe from behind. I then slide it off and drop. If any remains I will then fold it over, (so maybe I AM a folder?) and then drop it in.
{related Hyjack} How many of you put the paper on the roller so the pull flap is on top. As opposed to reaching under the roll for the pull flap? Are the the folders also the unders like myself?{End related Hyjack}
I had an intreguing conversation on this very subject whith a friend of mine some months ago. We’re both guys, so we talk about weird shit.
[ahem]
As it turned out, we are both folders who perform a minimum of three wipes.
Also, I like to have the end of the roll on the outside, because when it’s on the inside, it is harder to get at around the roll-holders and sometimes rests too close to the wall to just grab.
Man here, I wad.
You people are sick! I flush it. 
Male. A few years ago, after a lifetime of wadding, I switched to folding because I moved into an old house with unpredictable pipes. I realized that with the wadding method, I would usually need three pulls off the roll to get clean, but that with folding, I could re-use a pull at least once and thus cut my paper consumption in half, not to mention drastically reducing the possibility of a clog.
Oh, and I reach around my ass to wipe, not up between my legs. That’s just weird.
Female. I scrunch. And reach behind. And pull-flap on top.
Female. Fold.
Why? [sub]TMI alert![/sub] because when I was five or six years old, the scrunching method led to a bit of a dilemma: it’s more easily torn, a bit more unpredictable, and small pieces got stuck in the various environs of my butt.
This never happens with folding. The paper stays as one piece.
And this is moved to Great Debates because…?
Moved from. We’re in IMHO.
I fold, one wipe per (what is the SI unit of measure for a wipe of your arse?)
Does anybody use a bidet instead?
female here, i wrap then fold