I cannot WAIT to work “Bruce Lee” into my next flushing discussion! I think I will deliberately bring up this topic when I’m out with my friends tonight.
I always flush with my foot. As it was explained above, germs touching my ass aren’t nearly as bad as germs on my hands from the flusher. (Thankfully I’m not nearly as OC as Demo is, though).
Diane is completely correct about Charmin Double Roll. And it has to be Charmin Ultra - as someone put it in some other thread - “the Cadillac of toilet paper”. It should always be hung over the top. I can never find the beginning when it is hung the other way.
I have been trying to get my mom to buy that nice soft smushy tp since I could speak. She INSISTS on Scott Tissue, which is the equivilant of wiping your ass with sandpaper. Luckily, after 19 years, my cheeks are numb, but still…Whenever I go at my bf’s house, I get to use that fluffy, soft Charmin. Yumm. And at college, it’s even worse - like wiping with paper. AND you get a square at a time when the roll is new, and since the roll is roughly the size of Montana, it takes about three weeks (unless they serve tacos at the dining hall) to get to the point where you can get ten squares at once.
And I’m all for a lot of tp. I like a nice wad - why risk it?
Another question: Do ya’ll wipe standing up or down? I didn’t realize this was an issue until I got to college.
Thanks Rachelle!
MrEcks, I just want to say: You are a genius man! I loved it!
And wiping standing up??? What kind of horseshit is this? Reminds me of the three-point-pissing-with-wood conversation we had a while ago… Eh! Where’s Coldfire?
Well, I really don’t care if the toilet paper is over or under, but I s’pose it is usually over.
And as far as the public flushing with the foot thing, that is mandatory bathroom protocol in my book. I couldn’t even imagine touching that thing.
If I don’t have to sit on the toilet, I won’t. I don’t like the idea of my ass touching where another strange ass has been.
I’m not a phobic as Demo, but after washing my hands, I will open doors using just my pinky. And I do so love Purel.
How the hell could I have forgotten the Ultra part?
What about those who insist on pooping in public (yeah, yeah, emergencies happen, but still. . .)? Can’t they at least give a courtesy flush before they stink the place up?
And another question: Do you wipe front-to-back (i.e. from the base to the tailbone) with your arm behind you, or back-to-front (tailbone-to-base) with your arm between your legs? I always wiped back-to-front since it was easier to reach, but a little less than a decade ago I got involved in an intimate relationship with one of them thar female woman-type critters, and when she wiped after defecating, it was always from behind, front-to-back (base-to-tailbone). She said that otherwise, she’d get fecal bacteria in her vagina which would could her some kind of icky disease. She also criticised me for using such large wads of toilet paper when I wiped, but that’s another story.
Dang! I guess I’m really living up to the “uneducated, godless insults to humanity” title. I flush the toilet with my hand. I mean I’m washing my hands with soap 1/2 a second after stepping out of the stall. What’s the big deal?!? I also buy Scott Tissue. It’s what my mother bought and I have used it for as long as I can remember. When I get the soft stuff it just feels weird.
BTW, my coworker dropped her badge into the toilet the other day. She ended up having to reach into it and pull it out. She was so grossed out, she spent the next 20 minutes scrubbing her hands and badge with antibacterial soap.
I am a foot flusher, too. But there’s another
reason. I have very long legs, and having to
bend over to flush with my hand is too difficult.
Easier to just give it a good swift kick.
Unless, of course, you’re in the NYC Port Authority
Bus terminal, where the toilets flush automatically.
Having just purchased a new toilet paper holder, I have in my possession (well…it’s in the garbage now) the proof to clear this up. In the instruction sheet, it clearly shows the finished holder sporting an outie roll. I must concede, though, that other brands of toilet paper holders might require that the paper be installed the other way. I am just happy that I got mine on the wall in one piece. (Had I been that successful in removing the old one, I wouldn’t have needed a new one to begin with) I am still trying to figure out the mentality of the last owners, given that the other holder had been installed across the room from the actual toilet. I have looked for evidence that maybe the toilet had been relocated at some point, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
I was staying at a friend’s apartment and he had a c haped toilet paper dispenser. the c opened away from the toilet. I take a big handful and jerk it away from me to tear it off and the whole roll slings across the quite roomy bathroom. Fortunately it was good ole charmin so it did not break and i still had a hold on it so there was enough to finish with, but i was laughing so hard it was not easy.
My friend was waiting outside asking if i was ok, he had heard a rather large sounding thud.
Afther the second time the paper was slung across the room he turned the holder around so it faced the toilet.
Ecks: AMEN Brother!!
And women ARE supposed to wipe front to back, due to the lay of the land, so to speak. I don’t suppose it matters much with you male types.
The paper should always hang down the front. If it doesn’t and it does that thing, like tape does sometimes, when you can’t tell where the end is, you can just spin it and it will become apparent. Otherwise, you can be searching for it for hours. And yes, I have found myself expressing open hostility for people who hang the TP the wrong way.
Women should wipe front to back. I have never heard of anyone who wipes standing up. I have heard that some men pee sitting down.
I don’t care as much about what brand the TP is as long as it is two ply. I can work with two-ply. One-ply should be banished from the face of the earth. My biggest concern is no perfumes or dyes, just plain white and hypo-allergenic. That strikes me as the worst place in the world to have an allergic reaction.
Also, I heard on the radio that as far as TP goes, women are crumplers and men are folders. I am definitely a crumpler. My mom used to get on my case about the amount of TP I wadded up per use. I revel in my freedom to be extravagant now that I buy my own.
Democritus and dragonlady: <Elvis hat on> Thank you…thank you…thank you very much… <Elvis hat off>
Edwardina said:
I never thought about it before, but this sounds right. I myself am a folder (I even fold over any ragged edges, which may be a sign of some terrible personality disorder), but the women I’ve shared bathroom experiences with have all been crumplers as far as I can recall. I have these nice neat little piles; my ex-wife, on the other hand, would use gigantic wads of the stuff that barely made it down upon flushing. Is it any wonder the divorce rate is so high?
I have also heard heated debates about this under/over thing, and it confuses me, too. After all, the only opinions you should really care about are the people you live with. They are the only ones who are able to annoy you daily by doing it “wrong”.
I have always been an over-the-top person, but I used to raise siamese kittens, and I found that when they got to be about 4-5 weeks old I would come home to a pile of tissue paper on the floor of the bathroom. I used to think that they liked to play in the pile, but I finally realized that they enjoyed the unrolling of the roll-it takes much the same talent that using the scratching post does. (If you have a cat, you know what I mean.) So, I started putting the roll on backwards(IMHO), whenever I had kittens. It was kind of fun to watch them trying their best to unroll the tissue, and not getting anywhere. They were still having fun and all I had to worry about then was the millions of little shreds of tissue in the bathroom. Come to think of it, that was probably harder to clean up than the pile!
(Sigh) I miss the good old days-maybe it’s time to start raising the little darlin’s again!
Where else could we have such a heated discussion about such --um — * varied * topics?
Anyway, just wanted to share a story of my youth that came to my mind again when I read the OP.
When I was very little - prob’ly about 6 - it came to pass that the TP ran out when it was, well, my turn. My mom came along and taught me how to change it, saying “you put it on like this, with the paper on the front, that’s the way Mommy and Daddy like it.”
Well the lesson was easy to learn, however it must have tripped some weird switch in my tiny little brain because I remember getting all upset about it later. I guess I got a severe case of the What-ifs: What if mommy and daddy had liked * different * ways of putting the toilet paper on the spool? What if mommy liked it on the front and daddy liked it on the back? They wouldn’t have like each other much - they wouldn’t have gotten married - * and I never would have been born!!! *
Yes, all of this went through my head at the age of 6. Sometimes I amaze even myself.
BTW, I still think the correct way is “over the top”. Myster Ecks has it right.
Thanks, Brunetter. Don’t listen to anyone who claims me getting something right is purely accidental.
Speaking of memories from our younger days, that brings high school to mind. In my HS we didn’t even have rolls of toilet paper in the restrooms–we had box-like dispensers which gave you one sheet at a time. They were kind of like very thin single-ply napkins, had no absorbent qualities of any sort, and required a minimum of about eight sheets per wipe to accomplish anything. I have no idea if they used this format because it was cheaper, or they were afraid the inmates would unroll rolls, or what.
Out, definitely out. Yeah, I feel somewhat utilitarian in that respect and toilet paper seems to tear a lot easier when it is placed as an “in”, at least most of the times I’ve faced that.
