# Toilet rolls: front hanging or back hanging? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-rolls-front-hanging-or-back-hanging/58308 "2001-03-17T00:46:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![User\_10K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@User\_10K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/User_10K)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-rolls-front-hanging-or-back-hanging/58308/41 "2001-03-19T17:03:05Z")
I like it when the hotel makes it come over the top and folds the end into a point. Turns it into a toy! ---
**Author:** ![Major\_Feelgud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-rolls-front-hanging-or-back-hanging/58308/42 "2001-03-20T03:38:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by VarlosZ \* > \*\*If the TP is hanging in the front of a full roll, I either have to carefully roll the toilet paper down before tearing or else suffer the humiliation of having the toilet paper tear in my hands, yielding a piece no larger than a post-it note. Back hanging presents no such problem: just give the roll a good spin and tear. > \*\* Dummkopf! Can’t you see that you can give the roll a good spin whether it hangs front or back? Vhen the roll ist front hanging you can give it a good crisp tug with one hand because the tear will be right in front of you. Howeffer, vhen the roll ist bakk hanging, the tear ist alvays jagged becaust it alvays tears under the roll vhere you cant see itt. Understood, mein herr? ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-rolls-front-hanging-or-back-hanging/58308/43 "2001-03-20T04:09:05Z")
Forget the cat problems, wait until your toddler figures out that if you put about 2 feet of paper into the water and flush, it unwinds itself!! Good for several dozen flushes, and a roll of paper gone, in about 5 minutes! (ok, it was pretty funny) (the first time…) ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-rolls-front-hanging-or-back-hanging/58308/44 "2001-03-20T04:12:10Z")
Front hanging. Anything else is just…wrong…somehow. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-rolls-front-hanging-or-back-hanging/58308/45 "2001-03-20T04:55:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IndignantSarcasm \* > \*\*… I have discovered the true evils of the round dispencer cases mounted on the wall with the sharp metal “convenient” tearing edge where you can cut the flesh off your arm trying to reach up in there to find the end of the paper. Shouldnt those things be illegal? who’s with me! > \*\* Say it loud and say it strong! I _hate_ those suckers. Talk about technological non-advances. They managed to make the edges sharp enough to rip the veins in your arm when grouping for the end of the role but too blunt to tear the toilet paper. No matter what angle you try to yank and saw off the desired length you just end up with a few yards of messy shreds. Oh, and front hanging, definitely. It’s much more sanitary. The free end dangles for convenient grasping. ::ahem!:: Should an additional length be required, there’s no _thwacketa-thwacketa-thwacketa_ pawing at the roll. No great leaps of logic are needed regarding where the hands involved have been recently. Veb ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-rolls-front-hanging-or-back-hanging/58308/46 "2001-03-20T06:14:03Z")
**Fiendish Astronaut** said: > [@](#): > > I’m hoping this wins the most pointless question in the history of SDMBs award Hell, it isn’t even the first thread on the [subject](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=26094). To answer the question: front. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-rolls-front-hanging-or-back-hanging/58308.md?page=2)