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Sorry. Now that I’m thinking more clearly, the adaptor included allowed the toilet paper roll to drop down so the thicker roll could be accomodated in the existing holder. It replaced the existing plastic roller.
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Those were for Charmin’s Mega Roll. They’ve since figured how to either make the paper just enough thinner, or wound just enough tighter or just enough less of it that the rolls will fit most home TP holders.
The diameter of the cardboard holder has increased too. I posted something a year or two back when I first started to notice this.
Sure enough, you’ll find the diameter to be about a quarter inch larger now, making rolls appear the same size with less sheets per roll. The fuckers.
If it hasn’t become clear to everyone yet, rolls of TP are more multi-dimensional than might have been thought. To screw around with us, sell more of their product, give a better value or (99.9%) outsell the next guy on the shelf, TP makers change:
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[li]The outside diameter of the roll[/li][li]The inside diameter of the roll[/li][li]The thickness of the paper[/li][li]The spacing of the perforations[/li][/ul]…so that, like pickup trucks, every one can claim to be the biggest, bestest, etceteraist.
Buy by paper quality and price and ignore everything else.
Aha, the BIG TP dilemma! Quality!
Most people (especially after using the industrial kind) think that SOFTNESS is the major factor in choosing your TP.
Not quite.
I bought some Cottonelle brand (by Kleenex) on sale. It was soft and cheap, and I thought, YAY!
The stuff SHREDS, and the area of the bathroom around the throne looks like it’s been in a blizzard.
~VOW
Years ago I was traveling in India. I was told that Delhi was one of the few places to find toilet paper for sale. (Much of the rest of the country uses the “left hand & water jug routine”.)
The roll was wrapped in paper so the size looked like a roll you might find in the USA. However, when I was outside of the store and unwrapped it, I saw that the cardboard center was huge! At least twice the size as the core of one sold in the USA. Less actual TP, I guess.
(After a week or so, I got used to the local “routine”.)
Jeez, what a load of soft bum poofters you lot are. Want to know what Real Men use, here in Australia?
See Aussie Toilet Paper - YouTube and man up.
Toilet Paper can varty one heck of a lot more than people seem to think. When I was an undergrad, the old buildings at MIT used Springfield Ovals, in which a cross-section of the roll was severely oval, rather than circular. It had a special holder with an oval core. Of course, no other toilet paper would fit on it, which guaranteed that Springfield had a monopoly, at least until MIT changed the toilet paper mounts. Which they eventually did.
Evidently this type was actually patented back in 1893
You’re right. Haven’t thought of those since whenever.
I was intrigued by the Springfield Oval and did some Googling. I found a cite which claims that MIT switched dispensers because they were Springfield’s very last customer when they shut down their plant in 1979.
Also, according to that link, squares of MIT’s last roll of Springfield Oval were used to light the fire for the Steer Roast until 2001.
I’m reminded of a strip I saw in the funny papers many years ago. It was Jeff McNelly’s Shoe, about the cynical crow who runs a newspaper for birds in the treetops. He was talking to the Professor (one of his writers, who wears a tweed jacket with elbow patches).
Paraphrased:
*Shoe: Whenever you go for a job interview, you should use the men’s room right before you leave.
Professor: Why’s that?
Shoe: So you can take a free roll of toilet paper home in your briefcase.*
I wonder how much, if any, of the reasoning behind TP rolls for use at quasi-public restrooms is to discourage pilfering.