Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2)

That was a good poll. I mean I vaguely remember seeing a couple, like “Rear Window” and I have seen snippets of The Great Dictator, I wasnt happy with voting some of them up or down.

Of the films in that poll that I’ve seen, I liked (or at least didn’t dislike) all of them. And since the poll actually asked “which ones would you give a thumbs down to?”, and I definitely wouldn’t give a thumbs down to a movie I’ve never seen, I had to vote that I like all of them.

I do kind of recall not liking Fantasia as a child, but that was because I was expecting a typical Disney fairy tale movie, and it wasn’t that. I suspect I might evaluate it differently if I saw it again as an adult, so I am reserving judgement on that one.

In the real world, I’d probably vote I am old and think it is cash register noise but with all of the fogeys around here I probably need to vote I am young and think it is cash register noise.

& yes, I’ll stay off your lawn

A blank vote means you either liked it, or had no preference; I was only concerned about those who actively voted thumbs-down.

From now on, I’ll have no choice but to ask everyone in the relevant thread how to phrase the bailout (or -in) options…

Neither toilet paper option is correct; it needs an ‘other’. If the roll is really far away from the toilet, hang it over the front. If it’s really close, hang it down the back. Either way, whoever fill it gets to decide.

Toilet paper: I grew up in a B household, but my wife converted me to A decades ago.

Still, I’m not about to argue with anyone over it.

I suspect a lot of it is what you grew up with, and anything else looks wrong.

I grew up A. A is the way.

To me, the way TP hangs is meaningless, but some cats love to play 'spin the roll" in which case your rolls are always done the so-called “wrong way”.

If you have read Bored of the Rings you know very well what that sound means.

Catching up a bit:

Top ten Disney animated – I picked the five I’ve seen

Top ten "50s-'60s disney live-action – I picked the four I’ve seen

Football Hall of Fame – never heard of any of them

The only possible reason to hang it from under is if you have a cat that likes to unroll it; otherwise using a Sears catalog or a corn cob in an outhouse (today) is probably preferable to those uncivilized heathens who have it roll from under.


How did those corncobs work, once & done or did people reuse them? :open_mouth:

Personally I prefer hanging in front, but I understand why cat owners have it hanging in back. In my own house, there is a towel rack blocking access to the hanger, so I just keep a roll lying on its side on a nearby shelf.

Soft takes priority over strong, and 2-ply is preferable to 1-ply.

For certain products, you want to shop around and find the cheapest option available. Toilet paper is not one of them.

Not just a question for mbh, but why would one have a preference about such a thing? It seems to me that either orientation works perfectly fine. Personally, I don’t even check which way the roll unfurls when I replace one.

They don’t work equally well. With the front unfurling style, the loose sheet is hanging away from the wall, so it’s easy to grab by pinching from both sides. And if there’s no sheet hanging down, you can just flick the roll downwards to make the loose end appear. By contrast, with the back unfurling style, if there’s a loose sheet it’s harder to grab since it’s held against the wall and is partially or wholly hidden by the roll itself. And if there is no loose sheet it’s sometimes quite difficult to coax it to appear.

I don’t understand wanting TP to be soft. The last thing I want is for a finger to push through while the paper is ‘in use’. Strong for me. Sandpaper would be better than some of the fluff they call toilet paper.

I did use a corn cob once. Only once. And if somebody wanted to use it after me, they would have to dive for it :slight_smile:

We used to buy a standard, “value” brand of toilet paper (Scott 1000). A few years ago, as I got older and started to occasionally suffer from hemorrhoids, we switched to a softer TP, Charmin Ultra Soft, which is, ummm, a lot more comfortable and forgiving when your heinie is feeling sensitive.

It’s more expensive, but it’s a luxury I’m willing to pay for at this point in my life.

Because “commercial grade” TP is usually not particularly soft (and some brands are downright punitive), I always bring a couple of rolls of the Charmin with me if I’m staying in a hotel.

I’ll just note that, in five-ish years of using Charmin Ultra Soft, I’ve not experienced this. YMMV, of course.

Soft doesn’t equal weak.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been buying “Strong & Soft” toilet paper from Dollar Tree. It may not be the strongest or softest you can get, but it’s perfectly adequate in both categories, and cheap too.

I’ve come to subscribe to the philosophy of the late comedian John Pinette, when it comes to toilet paper:

I still remember a pack of no-name 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.

mmm

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.