# A "Quasi-Mini Pit": Toilet Paper..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221 "2009-09-15T20:25:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/1 "2009-09-15T20:25:17Z")
… that don’t start right.🙂 How much _trouble_ is it to fold that first sheet off the roll _over_, and then “tack” it, rather than the way some of it is now? My arthritic fingers sometimes just can’t manage stuff like that, and those little “whisps” of paper seem to just take _forever_ till you get to that first real sheet. And don’t _even_ get me started on that plastic package-sealing tape the post office sells? You ever lose the “start” of that (unless you’re _reaaal_ careful and fold it over, before cutting it), you’ll never find the start of it again, if you have numb fingertips… 🙂 I don’t come in here that often, so I try to keep my rants _light_. (These days!😉 Thanks Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/2 "2009-09-15T21:14:35Z")
Then there was the time I tried to seal my parcels with toilet paper and taped my ass shut. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/3 "2009-09-15T21:20:03Z")
**ROTFLMAO!** :D:D:D Thanks, **Jimmy Joe**! Q ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/4 "2009-09-15T21:26:42Z")
No offense intended **Quasi** , but I’m going to move this from The BBQ Pit to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share. **Gfactor** Pit Moderator ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/5 "2009-09-15T21:51:40Z")
My first thought was, a rant about runnin’ out of tp, which is just inexcuseable! No one should _ever_ run out of tp. There is no such thing as too much! That bein’ said, I hear ya **Quasi**. It’s like they use superglue to seal the roll. I always end up with a big hunk of tp when I start a new roll. I can’t get it started without it lookin’ like I just ripped into about the first quarter of the roll. Of course, my excuse is not arthritic fingers. I’m just a klutz. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/6 "2009-09-15T22:12:46Z")
> [@Gfactor](#): > > No offense intended **Quasi** , but I’m going to move this from The BBQ Pit to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share. > > **Gfactor** > Pit Moderator And **absolutely** none taken, **G**!🙂 I am a gentler, kinder, medically-enhanced Quasi these days! Hoping to avoid the frontal-lobotomy, however! WARNING: If you’ve never seen _“Cuckoos’ Nest”_ Do NOT go to the link below! I am only using this as _SATIRE_ as it pertains to ME! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DCUmINGae44/hqdefault.jpg "One flew over the cuckoo's nest") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCUmINGae44) Also, **swampbear**? I would never run out of tp! Extra napkins everywhere! Stock up! Thanks! Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/7 "2009-09-15T22:13:20Z")
Since the subject is toilet paper, I’ll add my rant that the end of the paper is supposed to go over the top of the roll, not under. Under is just…wrong. **Quasimodem** , I’ve cursed and picked at tape rolls too many times in the past - now I’m careful to fold the end over so I can find it again. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/8 "2009-09-15T22:28:18Z")
Of course it goes over the top. Why would you want your TP up against the wall??? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/9 "2009-09-15T22:40:39Z")
**Quasi** as one who has dedicated at least one and a half percent of my life preaching the virtue of never having too much tp, you make me proud! Proud, I say! Oh, and I always have plenty of napkins too. 😃 I dont’ worry too much how the tp is facing, but I will say over the top seems to be the more convenient way. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/10 "2009-09-15T22:43:38Z")
I gave up and started keeping a butter knife under the sink - slide it under the top layer of tp and split the perforations near the welded joint. Works like a charm and doesnt leave shreds dangling. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/11 "2009-09-15T22:54:28Z")
Easier to reach when you’re drunk? It don’t match the “white”, and it kinda hangs down for the next user, making it “user-friendly” tp.? 😉 [Danny Kaye}"Aihm an **oelt** MENN! _Keff_, _Keff_[/Danny Kaye] Just trying to be still uselul, before I’m relegated to a W-M “Greeter”. Prolly suck at \*\*that \*\* too, though: _"Heyyyyyy! Welcome to Wally! How 'bout that “STRAIGHT DOPE”, huh??? Heh-Heh-Heh_ _lleer_ God, I miss my WoW! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/12 "2009-09-15T23:01:40Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I gave up and started keeping a butter knife under the sink - slide it under the top layer of tp and split the perforations near the welded joint. Works like a charm and doesnt leave shreds dangling. **HAHAHAHAHA!**! Hey **a**!🙂 Greetings to you and the “hubster”! Miss my in-game guru, and if I could, I’d be in Azerotth _right this minute_! Family’s all gone out to eat, and it’s just me and the “Laig”. Can’t wait to get back “home”. Thanks, Hon! Q and **Wolkie** and **Silka** (and **Heather** ) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/13 "2009-09-15T23:14:39Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Quasi** as one who has dedicated at least one and a half percent of my life preaching the virtue of never having too much tp, you make me proud! Proud, I say! > > Oh, and I always have plenty of napkins too. 😃 > > I dont’ worry too much how the tp is facing, but I will say over the top seems to be the more convenient way. \*\*:)Shhhhhhh! Don’t you **dare** breathe this to a SOUL, \*\*swampbear[/B, but I still have a 12 pack of “Kost-Kutter” TP left over from Y2K! I guess I thought I would find food! :)] (It’s Quasi’s form of “poetic license”, chirrun! If you can’t see the text above, just left-click mouse over it…) Thanks! Love Q ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/14 "2009-09-16T00:08:32Z")
I hope you mean napkins in the American sense of the word, **swampy** , because I immediately wondered why you would keep a bunch of diapers on hand. _g_ (This is what I get for working with people from all over the world, especially the ones who learned British English, plus our resident Aussie…) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/15 "2009-09-16T00:29:29Z")
**Wellllllll!** 😃 Since you brought it uo, **whiterabbit** … I once had to endure a _severe_ verbal lashing from the once and present wife, because… one night, at a “Hooters Wings Special”, my wife asked for “plenty of napkins”, and I added: “Would you make sure that these are all _SANITARY NAPKINS_?” And the whole damn table got quiet, because “sanitary napkins” in the US , \*used \* to be a name for “Kotex”, “Tampons”, “Clampax Pontoons” and who the hell knows _what_ else??? I just wanted to make sure they were clean and hadn’t any fly-shit on 'em, fer Chrissakes! Look it up: **Sanitary** : > **[sanitary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/sanitary)** > > Definition, Synonyms, Translations of sanitary by The Free Dictionary Phshhhhh!;)🙂 Thanks Quasi ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/16 "2009-09-16T00:38:57Z")
😃 😃 😃 “Napkin” has interesting meanings outside the US, doesn’t it? _g_ ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quasi-mini-pit-toilet-paper/510221/17 "2009-09-18T01:19:45Z")
> [@whiterabbit](#): > > Of course it goes over the top. Why would you want your TP up against the wall??? Actually it can be easier that way to tear it off one-handed. Comes in handy when you don’t want to put that page-turner you’re reading even for the time it takes to clean up…