I’m sure everyone has argued their opinion on the subject of weather a roll of toilet paper should be installed on the dispenser so that it comes over the top and down in front, or drop down the back and come from underneath when you unroll it. My question is this. Not regarding which way you like the toilet paper to go, why is everyone you talk to so passionate about their point of view about it? I’ve seen people get down right mean, calling people with the other point of view an idiot for making their toilet paper go the other way.
There are so many other things that our opinions differ on, like what we like on a hamburger, but you don’t hear people getting into heated arguments over the fact that one of them likes ketchup and the other one doesn’t.
Well, TP is something you usually have to use every day, sometimes multiple times a day. If you ate hamburgers every day, I’m sure your views would be much more passionate.
I’m a TP out person, myself. I’ve found that most TP-outers are more concerned with the utlitarian aspect and TP-iners are more concerned with the aesthetic aspect. Just an observation.
Well as a TP-inner, I just find I can pull and tear the the stuff easier that way. When it is on the outside the stuff just keeps streaming off the roll and never tears. Would be more than happy to convert if I could get the stuff off the roll and tear it with one hand like I can with it on the inside.
Just thought I’d say that I’ve never even discussed this issue never mind got into a heated debate over it. Just curious how many times you’ve broached this subject with others and how many times it came to fightin’ words?
Maybe not arguments about hamburgers, but hotdogs can give rise to much debate! As a matter of fact, Cecil Adams has written several columns about hot dogs.
My WAG is that it is easier for a child or pet to unroll the TP when it is hanging on the OUT side, as you put your hands on the roll and spin it down easier than spinning it upward. Go try it. Don’t pull it, just use your hands and spin it. Think Lumberjack rolling a log. If the paper is hanging in the IN side, spinning it downward, toward yourself, will not make it unroll.
MrC, but it’s so cute to see a kid pull all the toilet paper out and get all wrapped up in it and stuff it in the toilet, which then clogs and runs all over the bathroom and out onto the carpet and mildews the floorboards, causing them to be structurally unsound, so then you have to call a carpenter and, and, and… Uh, wait a minute!
This topic obviously requires no more discussion. Arnold said it, top is best! Woo hooo!!!
:: Running home to tell friends and family off, because I always knew TP over the top was best!!! ::
What do you mean I’m overly passionate about this topic? Pshaw! Now get outta my WAY!!!
I’m going to send this topic to In My Humble Opinion. I’m not sure why, since there’s really no room for opinions on this subject. “Under the bottom” people are obviously uneducated, godless insults to humanity. Or cat owners.
I put the TP will the roll under because I think it’s easy to tear that way. The loose sheet always hangs down so you don’t have to spin that thing around and around trying to find the end.
Plus after many trips to the ladies room at work, I have noticed something about the way the custodian put the rolls in the dispenser. If she does it over the top, when you go to tear off the TP, you only get two sheets before it tears. There’s some mechanism in the dispenser that stops the spinning action causing the paper to automatically tear at the seam. So unless you don’t mind getting a little dirty and/or wet, you have to tear it off 2 pieces at a time several times.
If she puts the TP under, then the roll just spins and spins and you get all the paper you need.
And since we’re on the subject of bathrooms (by way of toilet paper), does anyone flush the public toilet with their foot? My co-worker does this and I think it’s the oddest thing. She’ll put her bo-bo on the toilet but not her hand?!?
I guess I’m a heathen. I prefer the roll on the counter next to the toilet, free from the restraints of the tube-holding device. At least it’s that way 80% of the time. When guests come over, shame forces me to use the wall device, and then I usually go for the classic over-the-top look.
Depending on the height and type of handle, I usually also use my foot in public restrooms. But if the handle is one of those buttons halfway up the wall, I decline my Bruce Lee imitation and use my hand. I don’t know why I prefer not to use my hands - they both get washed on the way out.
Grace - I use my foot. I don’t know why, I can’t pee while squatting (I guess my aim is off) so I always sit on the seat…but something about those nasty metal flushers gross me out, and I will Bruce-Lee the button if need be. It just grosses me out thinking about it, maybe because I know so many peeople do the foot thing, and then I don’t want to touch their shoe crud.
PLUS, fecal matter can fight through TEN layers of TP to poisen your hand. One must be careful with those pesky fecal matter germs. All together now, EWWWWW.
BTW, I go over with the TP. I find that I never get enough when I go under. I like a nice quantity of TP to properly wipe.
Another TP question - what’s with the automatic plastic seat covers? Anyone see these? At the local Loew’s theatre, the seat is covered in thin plastic and before you sit, you touch (or kick, if you are me) a special red button that rotates the plastic.
It is MHO that the same used plastic just rotates every time.
Well, I’ll second the above comments about flushing with the foot. I will, however, Bruce Lee it everytime. Hey, it’s fun! My main reason is that, true, even though I use the paper, someone’s ass has been where my ass is going, but, I don’t eat with my ass do I?
Therefore, I want the hands to touch nothing foreign. I also elbow/nudge the door open, turn on/off faucets using towels and open the door with a towel. When the bathroom has one of those towels dispensers where you have to pull the handle down, I will get toilet tissue, pull the handle down, and then…well, you get the point. I’m a little OC when it come to handwashing, but I like it, so there!
Brothers and Sisters, attend me! Some believe toilet paper direction is a personal choice, but this is not the case. This is the sort of thinking which has led Our Great Nation down the path of corruption, wickedness, and bad television programming on Wednesdays. As nights follow days, as thunder follows lightning, as special prosecutors follow the Clinton Administration, there is a right way…a proper way…[REVERB] The One True Way [/REVERB] to position the roll of toilet paper on the holder, and that is so it flows down the front.
In truth, Brothers and Sisters, we all know [REVERB] The One True Way [/REVERB]–it is inborn to our collective Souls. But there are infidels who reject the Natural Order, who refuse to Do The Right Thing, who (and I know we would all prefer not to speak this aloud, but we must call a spade a spade or we will never attain perfection, wisdom, or a straight flush) flow toilet paper down the back! These Backsliders (and yes, Brothers and Sisters, this is where that term comes from) have strayed from the Light, and threaten to plunge Our Great Nation into chaos by their deviatation from [REVERB] The One True Way! [/REVERB]
The Backsliders pay for their rejection of [REVERB] The One True Way [/REVERB], though most of them never realize the connection. A few True Facts and Statistics:
And there are many more examples, too numerous to list.
It is tempting for those who follow [REVERB] The One True Way [/REVERB] to become angry with Backsliders, to become abusive with them, to hit them on the head with aluminum siding. But Brothers and Sisters, you should not do these things–most Backsliders know not that their Souls are in peril. Do not be mean to them. Do not lose your temper. Do not call them Ignorant Wankers in front of their friends. Correction should be applied gently, with love and understanding. Change their toilet paper so it is Right, and then explain [REVERB] The One True Way [/REVERB] in a friendly tone. Meet defensiveness with compassion, anger with tolerance, gunshots with return fire only to wound. Backsliders can change–I know this from personal experience. I married a Backslider, but I knew it wasn’t her fault–her parents had raised her poorly. I merely changed the rolls she had incorrectly positioned, gently explained [REVERB] The One True Way [/REVERB], and almost never humiliated her in public. And I’m here to tell you that it had an effect–by the time she divorced me, she often remembered to follow [REVERB] The One True Way. [/REVERB]
So, Brothers and Sisters, let those of us who understand [REVERB] The One True Way [/REVERB] go forward armed with our Faith, our Rightness, and perhaps sawed-off pool cues. Our Cause is Just, our Will is Strong, and our Toilet Paper is Correct.
And for those of you who are Backsliders, please know that we of [REVERB] The One True Way [/REVERB] care very deeply about you, and will do our level best to help you See The Light. Now go forth and sin no more, you Ignorant Wankers.
There are two ways to put TP on the roll, over the top and the “I sofa king we Todd did” way.
Over the top makes it easier to unroll, easier to find the end, and most importantly, it looks better. No questions about it, THIS was the way TP was supposed to be. Period.
Oh, and nothing will do except for Charmin Double Roll.
proof: Arnold Winkelried says so. manhattan says so. Democritus agrees. Diane as the rock-inest chick says so.
i wouldn’t be surprised that Cecil :thunder and lightening: does it that way. or any of the Administrators and moderators not mentioned for that matter.
under the roll?, puuulease! what ARE you thinking.
My cats wouldn’t appreciate that.
OMG! I thought I was the only one who did this! I do it because the genius who designed my bathroom put the holder way over on the left, deep into the wall. Not against the sink or counter, like a normal bathroom. It is in the wall, next to the toilet. If I need to get it while sitting on the toilet I have to be a contortionist. It’s easier to put the roll on the counter.
I NEVER, EVER, EVER, let my ass get less than a few inches from any public toilet seat. Hell no!
Sure, there are the seat cover thingies, but no one can convince me that a drop or two of someone’s pee isn’t going to soak through and touch my lily-white ass. Maybe when they invent rubber covers I will think about it. T-H-I-N-K.
The proper way to pee in a public restroom is to lower your bum until it is only a few inches away from the seat. With enough practice, not only will you not drip on the seat you will also get great looking legs from the mini leg workout.
Don’t even get me started with people who poop in public. Eeeck.
Rarely is the the roll in it’s holder. It’s usually found on the counter next to the sink or on the window ledge just above the toilet. Once in a while it ends up on the back of the toilet.
Pet Peeve: Hubby is constantly blowing his nose and when we’ve run out of kleenex he’ll use the TP. He then puts it down on the FAR SIDE of the sink and I can’t reach it.
But if by chance it gets put into the TP holder (company is coming over) it’s over the top. If hubby happens to put it into the holder (yeah, once a year maybe) I usually have to turn it around to the correct position.
I’ve got another question: how much do you use? Only asking because I like wads of the stuff. In the restroom here (at work) I’ve noticed that the other ladies seem to tear of a few squares, whereas I’ll unroll reems of it - hell, why get your hands wet.
Where do you keep the spare roll? Us - in the cupboard under the sink. In other words, don’t keep a spare roll handy. The cupboard door has the hinge missing on the bottom and it’s amusing to hear guests struggle with that damn door.
Demo - I just spit water all over my monitor. That is hilarious!
And IMHO… toilet paper should be over the top. There’s no particular reason for it that’s just the way I’ve always done it.
And just a little gripe here… where I work the toilet paper is so thin you have to use about 50 sheets just so you don’t get your hands wet. And it doesn’t matter if the put the toilet paper over or under, it rips off about 2-3 pieces at a time! It’s a pain in the ass… no pun intended.
