toilet paper over or under

you just created a thread with the potential to make the "that's where I'm a viking" look tame

anyway, over, everyone else is a disgusting savage imo

actually I'm a liar, right now I just set it on the sink counter cuz the roll is too far away.

I try to specialize in clusterfucks

over. I used to not care, whatever way it went on the holder, but Mr Veg indoctrinated me and now I'm a prisoner in the North Korean camp of "over".

no toilet roll holder can constrain my toilet paper - it is free floating

we always hang in a buffalo stance
we do the dive every time we dance

didn't one of the members of the Eagles once write his maid an angry letter about her putting the toilet paper under because it 'obviously wasn't designed with that purpose'?

mine has to be free floating (sitting on towel bar) because of cat

I don't really care or pay attention but I just checked at atm it's under.

Oh good, I thought I would have to work hard to find this link which explains why over is right through the use of science and logic and stuff, but it was the first result.

http://currentconfig.com/2005/02/22/essential-life-lesson-1-over-is-right-under-is-wrong/

Over, very definitely. And I will fix it if someone leaves the roll the wrong way.

do not understand under. it is empirically more difficult. like i understand not caring, but not preferring under.

I do not care. I save my ire for people who load my dishwasher incorrectly.

IIRC Aimless once took credit for sending in the original letter that lead to a years-long shitstorm in Ann Landers' column! Am I indeed RingC?

No no no no! I only licked the stamp.

That was back when you had to lick stamps.

The taste wasn't too great, but what could you do?

Wipe your arse with it?

^^^^^ only for people who waste tehir time wiping their ass

so do you have like a bidet or a standby colonic assistant or

he just takes a shower afterwards

these days i mostly keep the roll on top of the sink where the toddler can't reach it and unravel it, but i can't vote for option #3, over all the way

Under is wrong to me in the way that non-Euclidean triangles or Cthulhu are wrong. Just . . . wrong. So, over. (Although Mrs. Phil D. prefers option 3, just leaving the old cardboard tube on the roll while setting the new roll on the lid of the little trash can next to the terlet. She is a disgusting savage but I love her.)

Not sure there's anybody who does it under. Over is the only way I've ever seen it, and how it's advertised (thus mimicked).

The real question is whether you fold the paper after wiping, or start a new sheet every time.

NOW PERSONALLY I -

Ever since the wall near the toilet was fixed, this isn't a problem because the paper holder was never replaced, so the tank cover is where the roll is located now. I personally hate toilet paper holders, especially on cheap ones where the brackets start falling off the wall because the holder bears down on the rest of the mechanism. Some of those two-ply double rolls get heavy and aren't really designed for normal holders.

coincidentally I was reading this absurdly long article earlier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation

Over, anyway.

lol this is the most pointless poll since the seminal "which do you hate more: putting dishes in the dishwasher OR taking them out -- btw i'm a privileged white person that thinks about such things"

xp wtf me, that link is right at the top here

is there any reason why sideways doesn't exist?

that would be my vote anyway cause we usually just leave it on the toilet ...but I mean like, an actual pole sticking up like a paper towl thing...I dunno, it could be some sort of compromise for the two warring sides

also diagonal could exist - in theory.

We don't have a toilet roll holder so we just leave it lying around (except when 'er indoors puts it in the fucking cupboard and I have to lick my own arse clean)

i leave the toilet paper in the toilet

mostly cuz i reuse the same piece 4-5 times

lol this is the most pointless poll since the seminal "which do you hate more: putting dishes in the dishwasher OR taking them out -- btw i'm a privileged white person that thinks about such things"

says the white dude who spends all day thinking and talking about drake

;)

fwiw i've probably posted more about drake than j0rdan in the last month

I like how the second cat looks to be keeping watch while the ringleader commits the carnage.

Hi,

Under, means you can tear off with one hand.

stop that.

Over, but if I accidentally put it on the holder going under on first attempt I don't usually care enough to fix it.

The exception is if you have one of the holders with the flappy lid which holds the paper down, cz they only work if it goes under. (Which is kind of counterintuitive, because you think "it pushes down on the TOP, so if it goes over, the pressure will help you tear a sheet off" but no, it just stops it rolling smoothly and then the angle is wrong for the tear)

I don't know about other people, but I can tear over with one hand too. But what does it matter, unless you actually only have one hand?

(x-post)

Reaching over with both hands, have to swivel on seat...

Depends on where the roll is located, no?

Over, very definitely. And I will fix it if someone leaves the roll the wrong way.

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 01:30 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Same here.

I think public restrooms have got this right - sideways

also what's up with bathrooms in people's houses where the holder is located on the same wall the back of the toilet is facing - you have to reach alllll the way behind, possibly losing seat-to-flesh contact, just to get at it

xp sideways facing or sideways away?

Or even on the door? lean alll-the-way-forward, and fall off the seat restricted by yr trousers onto the floor!

That never happened to me tho.

I can't even begin to visualize that xp

anyway what really provokes my irrational anger are the giant metal toilet roll capsules, with a serrated edge for tearing off which never works, instead the paper rips higher up inside and then you have to reach inside and spin the roll round searching for the end like a giant roll of sellotape.

It's good practice.

What for, I can't say.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

It would appear that ilxors are abnormally normal in this category.

Didn't see this in time to vote, but it's always under for me, definitely. Makes it easy to snap off a portion without unravelling half the roll. "Wrong" it may be, but that's just the kind of disgusting savage I am.

(Tie my shoelaces wrong too - been using the "bunny ears" method since I was six.)

I missed this poll, but you put the paper over the roll, you fucking freaks.

(Tie my shoelaces wrong too - been using the "bunny ears" method since I was six.)

I didn't know there was some other method besides "bunny ears"! How does this other method work?

Rabbit runs around the tree and into the hole, I think.

Under, if you don't want your children and/or cats to play spin the roll and unwrap the whole thing.

Surprisingly, though I am a dyed in the wool "over" man and long time cat owner, none of my cats have ever played with the TP roll.

Wow, is "bunny ears"/two loops the default method in Finland? That's cool!

Wait, I think I do "bunny ears" too. What is the other way?

(oh, "rabbit runs around the tree and into the hole" - hmm)

around the tree & in the hole -> http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/standardknot.htm
bunny ears -> http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/twoloopknot.htm

My world has turned upside down.

couldn't understand around the tree when i was a kid, gave up bunny ears when around the tree just logically occurred to me.

What I'm struggling to comprehend is that the two methods produce identical knots... this doesn't seem right, but I'm quite tired

I think the reason the knots end up the same is because the only difference is that the loop is formed separately (earlier) for the bunny rather than being formed when pushed through the other lace.

I've been a bunny all my life too; it seems like it's easier to get the loops the same size this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNi5cAw3tCM&feature=player_embedded

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He named all the knots after himself.
I would put that on the list of things that are knot humble to do.

I eventually learned the popular method, and can employ it with no problem. But why should I bother, considering it takes me like 20 seconds, when I can do it the other way in half the time?

Under, means you can tear off with one hand.

I think I've pulled a muscle in my shoulder and this just became the most useful post on ILX. Well done Mark G.

ILX IS USEFUL AFTER ALL.

http://i.imgur.com/Gky7j.jpg

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that is glorious.

Sitting on sink counter