July 31st, 2009 / 1:38 pm
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question about toilet paper
What is the correct way to hang a roll of toilet paper? I have seen it both ways. What do you prefer and why? Edited to add: Are there more creative ways of hanging toilet paper?
Tags: tiolet paper
I read somewhere that men tend to hang it over while women tend to hang it under.
I keep mine in the medicine cabinet because the cat will unroll the entire thing if I hang it from the dispenser.
I can’t believe I’m actually commenting. Ryan Call wins again.
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July 31st, 2009 / 1:57 pmRyan Call—
so its a matter of gender?
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July 31st, 2009 / 1:59 pmMatthew Simmons—
Apparently.
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July 31st, 2009 / 2:01 pmRyan Call—
im going to ask my wife when she gets home
July 31st, 2009 / 3:42 pmAaron—
yeah, it’s definately a gender thing. every woman i have every lived with has corrected my hanging procedure and told me to flip it around. then, like magic, i realized their way was actually more practical. but like the toilet seat, when i’m single, i do it the dumb way.
actually, i often just set the roll on the floor — that’s switzerland’s toilet paper moved
July 31st, 2009 / 3:46 pmBlake Butler—
i’m confused then: what is the benefit for females of it being more difficult to get the paper off?
is it just that females like everything more difficult in general? ;)
1st picture
so the shit doesnt unroll all over the floor etc
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July 31st, 2009 / 1:57 pmRyan Call—
makes sense. i find i dont like reaching the extra couple inches for the end of the paper in the second picture
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i hang it over. it bugs me if it’s under. i posed this quandary to my wife when we first got together and she said that it doesn’t really matter to her, but that when she worked in a hotel they were trained to always hang it over. i figured that alone was a win for my obsessive sensibilities.
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I am British. So I have a butler to hold my toilet paper for me. And the toilet itself is made of wood, and regularly cleaned out by small Victorian urchins.
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July 31st, 2009 / 2:50 pmRyan Call—
is it ‘loo paper’ over there?
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July 31st, 2009 / 4:49 pmVaughan Simons—
No, only ‘common people’ use ‘loo paper’. Posh people use the faces of common people for wiping their arses. And the rest of us just use torn-off pages of the Daily Mail, since shit smeared on shit won’t notice.
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August 1st, 2009 / 6:38 pmCatherine Lacey—
good show, my dear.
Over. Otherwise your wipe hand will most likely touch the wall in your attempt to grab the edge of the paper, which if people wipe more than once eventually leads to pee wall, which is icky, as is my reasoning behind my choice of over over under. Ha this made my day.
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July 31st, 2009 / 4:39 pmRyan Call—
so wait, you get urine on your hand when you wipe? do you bunch or fold?
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What a great post. Real Americans choose over.
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July 31st, 2009 / 4:39 pmRyan Call—
thanks drew.
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One time I hung it under when and my brother told me if I ever did it again he’d kill me.
Hanging it over makes it easier to tear at the perforation. You can use the friction of the roll.
Ryan, is that your bathroom?
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July 31st, 2009 / 4:39 pmRyan Call—
it is thebathroom in my apartment. i will have different bathrooms once we finally move into the new house.
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As someone who works as a janitor for his summer job, you just have to make sure it’s not empty (even though there are TWO of them). Otherwise, people will whine.
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July 31st, 2009 / 4:40 pmRyan Call—
yeah, i think the industrial rolls in public bathrooms raise a completely different issue: it’s not how it hangs, but whehter or not there is a cutting blade to help it tear correctly.
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I hang it whichever which way it falls, and then my wife comes along and changes it to over if I screw it up. Best part about having a wife.
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the final word on this matter is from my wife:
“Picture one. And I’ve changed it when you’ve done it incorrectly before.”
thanks everyone for comments. everything feels more real to me now.
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my thoughts on toilet paper (because i have thought about this before):
the over-the-top method of hanging (OTT), is, i believe, the best way to hang the toilet paper. it allows for the shortest distance for the hand to travel and the easiest way to grab the toilet paper. the paper is hanging in plain view, and so the grabber is less likely to miss on first grab.
however, the OTT method has its drawbacks. first, if the roll is too close to the toilet, then it may be uncomfortable to have it hung OTT. the paper may brush against the skin, causing goosebumps and strange sexual fantasies, which are usually fun while pooping, though maybe not for everyone, so ok. also, depending on the strength and width and thickness of the paper and the paper-holder, the OTT is prone to tearing. the down-the-bottom (DTB) method of hanging generally eliminates tearing when tearing is not wanted due to forces beyond the author’s comprehension (read: basic physics probably).
that being said, the author usually prefers the OTT method to the DTB, except in rare cases, which he already went over, yes he did.
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yeah DTB method is best if its a public restroom because it does accidentally tear (like if you pull too fast or if its a full roll and it can’t, you know roll) and then the floor gets covered in little bits of tp. also for other who have done the public restroom cleaning thing, whose is dirtier Men’s or Women’s?
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I have my staff separate the individual squares of tissue at the perforations and lay them neatly on a silver tray.
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