mostly cuz i reuse the same piece 4-5 times
― pf smangs (San Te), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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
;)
― dayo, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
fwiw i've probably posted more about drake than j0rdan in the last month
― pf smangs (San Te), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I like how the second cat looks to be keeping watch while the ringleader commits the carnage.
― Alba, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 08:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Hi,
Under, means you can tear off with one hand.
stop that.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― cellular nekomata (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 10:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
(x-post)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 10:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Reaching over with both hands, have to swivel on seat...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 10:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Depends on where the roll is located, no?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 01:30 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Same here.
― my Bébé just cares for me (onimo), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I think public restrooms have got this right - sideways
― dayo, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dayo, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 10:56 (thirteen years ago) link
xp sideways facing or sideways away?
― hoisin crispy mubaduck (ledge), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 10:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 10:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't even begin to visualize that xp
― dayo, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 10:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― hoisin crispy mubaduck (ledge), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
It's good practice.
What for, I can't say.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 13 February 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 14 February 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
It would appear that ilxors are abnormally normal in this category.
― Aimless, Monday, 14 February 2011 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.)
― ilxor gets into jazz (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 14 February 2011 07:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I missed this poll, but you put the paper over the roll, you fucking freaks.
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Monday, 14 February 2011 07:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't know there was some other method besides "bunny ears"! How does this other method work?
― Tuomas, Monday, 14 February 2011 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Rabbit runs around the tree and into the hole, I think.
― also, that Christmas tree has a dildo on its head (Jesse), Monday, 14 February 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Under, if you don't want your children and/or cats to play spin the roll and unwrap the whole thing.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― also, that Christmas tree has a dildo on its head (Jesse), Monday, 14 February 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, is "bunny ears"/two loops the default method in Finland? That's cool!
― ilxor gets into jazz (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 14 February 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, I think I do "bunny ears" too. What is the other way?
― Alba, Monday, 14 February 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
(oh, "rabbit runs around the tree and into the hole" - hmm)
― Alba, Monday, 14 February 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
around the tree & in the hole -> http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/standardknot.htmbunny ears -> http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/twoloopknot.htm
― StanM, Monday, 14 February 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
My world has turned upside down.
― Alba, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
couldn't understand around the tree when i was a kid, gave up bunny ears when around the tree just logically occurred to me.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 14 February 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
What I'm struggling to comprehend is that the two methods produce identical knots... this doesn't seem right, but I'm quite tired
― the most cuddlesome bug that ever was borned (James Morrison), Monday, 14 February 2011 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― nickn, Monday, 14 February 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNi5cAw3tCM&feature=player_embedded
― kate78, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
omg @ Ian's Shoelace Site - Bringing you the fun, fashion & science of shoelaces
― Peter Pepsi (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
He named all the knots after himself.I would put that on the list of things that are knot humble to do.
― Peter Pepsi (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― ilxor gets into jazz (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 10 March 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Gky7j.jpg
― My life with the thrill kill McNult (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 22 April 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Click here if image doesn't show up in intended big size
― My life with the thrill kill McNult (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 22 April 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
that is glorious.
― the emancipation of disastrousness (askance johnson), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Sitting on sink counter
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link