Real men don't use tissues

[SarzWix]

My Pa always uses/has used real hankies too Got a shock when he started having to wash & iron them himself Now, if he's properly poorly, he uses Kleenex!

[piskieinboots]

... Now, if he's properly poorly, he uses Kleenex!

ah ha ........

[jacob marley]

i must be a real man can't be doing with tisue's i always blow a hole in them and it make's a mess on finger's.
There is always two hankies in my pocket and i use them together it work's for me better that way.
I can't get over the fact that i must be a real man jacob marley

[snuffer]

Taking snuff inevetably leads to blowing ones nose more often. I always have a packet of tissues with me. If I were to use hankies I'd get through hundreds of the things. Without being to graphic, no one in their right mind would want to wash a snuff taker's hankies.

[kirsty b]

apparently real men don't use toilet tissue either ...

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

my sentiments exactly Lynda! Yuk

[Snadger]

Taking snuff inevetably leads to blowing ones nose more often. I always have a packet of tissues with me. If I were to use hankies I'd get through hundreds of the things. Without being to graphic, no one in their right mind would want to wash a snuff takers hankies.

Frank Muir always had a hankee sticking out of his top pocket (polka dot?) and a snuff stained mustache!

[FionaH]

Theres one thing really confusing me here, you IRON hankies??????

[piskieinboots]

Theres one thing really confusing me here, you IRON hankies??????

see above FH in relation to Snowdrop being a Serviceman

[FionaH]

see above FH in relation to Snowdrop being a Serviceman

Ah ok that explains it

[Flummery]

i must be a real man can't be doing with tisue's i always blow a hole in them and it make's a mess on finger's.
There is always two hankies in my pocket and i use them together it work's for me better that way.
I can't get over the fact that i must be a real man jacob marley

Ah, but do you like quiche?

[Snadger]

Ah, but do you like quiche?

Or prawn sandwiches?

[Stacey Steve]

It's funny, I'm the only one in the house that uses hankies, I don't feel properly dressed if I haven't a clean one in my pocket.

Of course being stupid, I use tissues indoors and at my desk but I still have to have my hankie.

However all the well washed ones, Oh won't throw them away, they religiously appear bak in "their" drawer. All the family raids this for the soft washed out ones when they have the sniffles.

[Flytrap]

My Dad always used proper hankies, ironed. He had two at a time, one for blowing and the second for polishing afterwards!
I still have nightmares about the hankies boiling in the big pan on Saturday mornings, YUK!!!
Also at school, when I had a cold I remember my hankie getting wetter and wetter as the day went on. Cold and wet, DOUBLE YUK!!!

I now use tissues. In fact I have a cold now so am using lots of tissues.

What's more environmentally friendly. Throwing all those snotty tissues in the bin for landfill or flushing down the toilet to be sorted out by the water company?

Flytrap

[Nicos]

I have childhood memories of my Granny boiling hankies on the hob in a huge alluminum pan.....problem was that all the scum on the top was the snot!



Needless to say- cloth hankies are banned from my home!!

[Flummery]

What's more environmentally friendly. Throwing all those snotty tissues in the bin for landfill or flushing down the toilet to be sorted out by the water company?

Flytrap

Tissues are treated so that they don't easily dissolve in water - otherwise they'd disintegrate at the first blow! I never flush them - they can cause blockages when they wad up together. I can't personally see a problem with composting them.

I use tissues but a box lasts me months. I'm the sort of tight-@rse who keeps one going till it's like lace! (Can't when I have a cold, obviously) My Ma is of the blow and throw school. She uses about 3 boxes a week, which frankly appals me.