Women, why do you insist on putting the toilet paper in the holder backwards? We all know that the only True and Civilized way is to have the paper roll towards the user.
Last night I went to the bar and my inability to operate a vehicle caused me to end up in an apartment inhabited by females, and I noticed that they took this trait to the extreme: even the paper towels in the kitchen were mounted in this freakish fashion.
Why must women do this?
How many women out there install it the correct way?
Any men that are willing to confess to uncivilized behavior regarding the mounting of spooled disposable paper products?
I’ve definately had male roommates that installed it the wrong way. They suck. But i eventually figured out that it’s not a preference to install toilet paper backwards, but of mere laziness and not caring which side faces where.
Putting it on the wrong way around is a woman thing? I’ve never noticed that. I just thought some people did it regardless of their gender. The question remains, though: why?
Yeah, it’s the cats thing. You put it the roll on the wrong way and you come home to find all the toilet paper in a heap on the floor. After that, you put it on the right way. No problem.
It has EVERYTHING to do with cats. My cat unraveled an entire roll of toilet paper one day. If you put the loose end against the wall, they can spin the roll but not unravel it. If the loose end is on the outside, well…you have a major toilet paper trauma on your hands.
I don’t think it is gender specific. I used to reverse the toilet roll at every house I visited with the expectation that later that night there was some pointless domestic squabble about who hung the paper the wrong way. Yeah, I know.
We have a friend that does this and it drives me batshit! He does it just to annoy me. He’s on his way over. Maybe I’ll hide the whole roll and see how he likes me THEN.
One of my friends worked out what I was doing. For a while when I turned up at his place he would hand me four neatly stacked sheets of toilet paper, “if I needed to go to the toilet,” and removed the toilet roll. I agreed to exempt them from my childish shenanigans.
It’s not a woman thing. Whatever gave you that idea?
I prefer it to hang with the paper hanging over the front (as the paper towels are hung), but yes, the cats will unroll it. I’ll hang it ‘backwards’ when they start that game of unrolling the TP, just for a few days and then they lose interest. Then I can go back to hanging it correctly. A few months go by and one of them will remember that fun rolling paper game in the bathroom, and back we go to the TP being hung ‘backwards.’
Should we define our terms? Over the top toward you, or over the top away from you. I just follow the way that it was packaged; I figure the manufacturer must know the best way for that particular roll. Funny, it varies from roll to roll…
If the roll has a printed pattern, then that pattern should face out; therefore, over the top toward you. I just extend this philosophy to include all rolls, printed or not.
I have cats, but they have so far ignored the rolls in favor of other, more destructive pursuits.
Taking bets as to when this thread is moved to the Pit.
I used to have the toilet paper the right way, but the cats quickly discovered how to unroll the whole blasted thing. I’ve had success with putting the toilet paper the wrong way, with them only being able to chew on it ineffectively, but now they’ve discovered they can stand on the counter above the toilet paper, roll it the other way a few turns, and then hop down and unroll it the rest of the way. I may have to start keeping the tp in the cabinet.
I’m female and I hang it the right way. My male SO hangs it the wrong way, but he doesn’t notice or say anything when I fix it. Luckily, my cat never figured out the TP game.
I am female and have cats and I hand the TP with it coming toward you. Except when my cats are kittens and then I usually go several months without actually hanging the roll of paper. I usually just set it on top of the roller or on the back of the toilet. It’s much easier than trying to salvage an unrolled roll of TP.
I am female and hang it the correct way; i.e., so that it hangs over the back. This way, it dispenses smoothly for the entire roll, rather than breaking off only one or two sheets at the beginning, when the perforations can’t handle the weight of the roll. I realize that’s an incredibly petty point but there you go. Fortunately, my cats aren’t obsessed with TP–I come home to the occasional chewed up mess but that’s it. Maybe I’ll experiment with leaving it hanging down enough for them to pull and see what happens…
