# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 492
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9823 "2026-01-10T21:15:10Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > But, toilet paper – you buy _good_ toilet paper! I can understand investing a lot of money in something you’re going to keep for a long time and use often, but not something you buy for the express purpose of smearing with shit and flushing away. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9824 "2026-01-10T22:26:51Z")
An extra $5 or $10 a week for a product which helps to keep a sensitive bit of my anatomy — which has proven to be prone to issues lately — happy and un-irritated is absolutely worth it to me. May you never have to experience this. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9825 "2026-01-10T23:41:00Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > An extra $5 or $10 a week I don’t disagree with your conclusion, but I have to question your premise. How much additional can a _good_ roll of toilet paper cost of the cheap stuff? I’d guess if my wife is out of town, I’d go through a roll or maybe two _per month_. Not two rolls per week. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9826 "2026-01-10T23:55:00Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I don’t disagree with your conclusion, but I have to question your premise. I will just say that I go through considerably more than you do. Some of us are on one end of the bell curve on #2 frequency. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9827 "2026-01-11T02:01:10Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I can understand investing a lot of money in something you’re going to keep for a long time and use often, but not something you buy for the express purpose of smearing with shit and flushing away. If you ever get hemorrhoids or just want to prevent them, yes, spending a little more is worth it. Not nessesarily top of the line stuff, but not the cheap stuff either. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9828 "2026-01-11T04:10:33Z")
My workplace buys AngelSoft Professional brand toilet paper. It’s two of the thinnest, least absorbent plies you could imagine, but the more maddening thing is, when you tear it off, the two plies invariably delaminate into two separate plies of of tissue, which must be folded back together for use. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9829 "2026-01-11T07:40:42Z")
Toilet paper here (Switzerland) is 3-ply, 4-ply, or 5-ply. Currently have 3-ply in the house. Good TP is worth the money. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9830 "2026-01-11T14:10:01Z")
If the holder is vertical (which is what I meant by sideways, sorry), while it’s true that one side is closer to the wall at any particular moment, that doesn’t affect how the paper comes off. It’s still possible to have a preference for whether it comes off to the right or the left, but it also takes about one second to turn the roll over, as there’s nothing to take apart and reassemble. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9831 "2026-01-11T22:32:19Z")
Just realized that I voted that I don’t know them all well enough and also a vehement thumbs down on one but wasn’t supposed to do that. I’m going to let it stand, though, because it’s true both that I don’t know them all well enough to say that I love them and that there’s one on the list I can’t stand. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9832 "2026-01-11T22:33:42Z")
I don’t actively dislike the ones I know, but I don’t love them, either. My least favorite on the list was Dancing Queen, but I wouldn’t say I dislike the song. Oh heck, yes I do. I dislike anything adjacent to disco, with very few exceptions. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9833 "2026-01-11T22:55:37Z")
One of my kids finds it endlessly funny how much I hate the song America Pie, partially because it kept playing in random places when we were together. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9834 "2026-01-11T23:17:59Z")
I couldn’t recall _all_ the songs on the list off the top of my head, but that tends to indicate that none of them were detested enough to generate active dislike. There were many that I do actively like, but not nearly 100%, so didn’t vote at all. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9835 "2026-01-11T23:22:16Z")
Right now, the first _Blowin’ in the Wind_ has a 19% vote and the second _Blowin’ in the Wind_ has a 14% vote. I guess the second one is better. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9836 "2026-01-11T23:24:55Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > > I still remember a pack of toilet paper we bought during COVID, at a time when it was rare to even find some on the shelf. I wouldn’t trust it to wipe a hummingbird’s arse. > > In those days, I used to go onto Amazon at like 2am each morning, to see if I could find any TP to order. Once, I got what turned out to be a large carton with something like 96 rolls in it. It was commercial-grade paper, for use in public restrooms. We tried it, and both my wife and I decided that it was really uncomfortable. I wound up donating the remaining 95 rolls to my church.. LOL - 96 rolls? That is quite the haul esp during Covid. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9837 "2026-01-11T23:26:50Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > LOL - 96 rolls? Yeah, the carton was like 2 1/2 feet on a side. Too bad it was awful. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9838 "2026-01-11T23:57:44Z")
We got terrible weird tiny rolls of 1-ply from China during COVID. We used them, but we weren’t happy. We’re still using folding brown paper towels from that year as well. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9839 "2026-01-11T23:59:55Z")
I followed the directions and only selected the songs I knew and disliked, but I have to say there were a dozen that I can’t remember ever hearing at all. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9840 "2026-01-12T01:41:36Z")
Re: waving things, I have done “the wave,” so I checked “other.” I’m not sure what that is waving: the crowd, maybe? And I’m surprised to see how few people loathe the terrible “God Only Knows” song, which is pretty much all of the worst elements of pop music combined into one neat package. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9841 "2026-01-12T02:09:22Z")
We had pennants to wave when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9842 "2026-01-12T03:05:06Z")
Throwing the O at a Ducks game. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Oregon_O_gestures.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Oregon_O_gestures.jpg) However, the person here pictured appears to have the common problem of throwing the sign for “vagina” in ASL. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=491) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=493)