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Ignatius J
Citizen
Username: Ignatius_j
Post Number: 125
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 14, 2003 - 8:11 pm: |     |
Which way is the toilet paper supposed to go on the spool??? I say it rolls over the top but my wife always puts it on the other way so it pulls out from the bottom and rolls toward the wall. We got dinner riding on this :-) |
aquaman
Citizen
Username: Aquaman
Post Number: 161
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 14, 2003 - 10:00 pm: | |
Roll it from the bottom so the dinner doesn't spill off.
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vermontgolfer
Citizen
Username: Vermontgolfer
Post Number: 207
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 14, 2003 - 10:25 pm: | |
from the bottom, you lose ignatius j! |
us2innj
Citizen
Username: Us2innj
Post Number: 902
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 7:03 am: | |
The rule of thumb we go by here is that if the TP holder is in front of you, or off to either side, then the paper comes out from the bottom. It seems more natural in having the paper tear without wrenching your arm in the upward motion. If the dispenser is behind you, then the paper comes over the top, since you already have to reach behind you to retreive it.
If you TP holder has one of those chrome lids that rides on the top of the roll, then you would need to thread it over the top in order for the flapper to tear it.
Just US2's opinion.
Here is a link to an article on the subject:
TP debate
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loliva
Citizen
Username: Loliva
Post Number: 6
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 9:33 am: | |
Over the top - its easier to grasp the end. |
oots
Citizen
Username: Oots
Post Number: 101
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 10:20 am: | |
bottoms up! |
luv2cruise
Citizen
Username: Luv2cruise
Post Number: 124
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 2:46 pm: | |
Use your hand.
There's nothing like being on the ocean! |
jab
Citizen
Username: Jab
Post Number: 149
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 5:05 pm: | |
Buy a roll with a pattern (like hearts) that only goes in one direction. I think you will find that the answer is over the top. |
sac
Citizen
Username: Sac
Post Number: 781
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 6:32 pm: | |
This is not going to be resolved here ... it is a perennial argument with no consensus answer.
(In my house we are "over the top".) |
monster
Citizen
Username: Monster
Post Number: 50
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 9:58 pm: | |
Why use a holder?
Just set it down and pick it up when needed, pull and unroll and rip. |
luanda
Citizen
Username: Luanda
Post Number: 125
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 11:22 pm: | |
tear the paper out from the BOTTOM of the News-Record. |
1-2many
Citizen
Username: Wbg69
Post Number: 602
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 11:55 am: | |
I thought it was a sign of personality traits. i.e., those who prefer it over the top are more dominant or something like that. the surprisingly thoughtful (only surprising due to the subject-matter, not the poster) analysis provided above, which is location-based, is the only one of its kind I have ever seen. |
NRL
Citizen
Username: Nrl
Post Number: 312
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 1:40 pm: | |
I like it on top and my wife likes it on the bottom.
Are we still talking about Toilet Paper? |
gemini
Citizen
Username: Gemini
Post Number: 221
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 3:27 pm: | |
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mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2261
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 17, 2003 - 3:56 pm: | |
I tend to alternate. Change is good! |
ajc
Citizen
Username: Ajc
Post Number: 2188
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 1:45 am: | |
Up and down doesn't matter much if it's soft and wet. Handi-wipes are the best... |
vor
Citizen
Username: Vor
Post Number: 109
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 8:56 am: | |
We seem to have the "nobody wants to change the roll syndrome" in our house. So the little cardboard tube stays on the roller and the toilet paper sits on the back of the toilet and as monster says above, "Just set it down and pick it up when needed, pull and unroll and rip"
This is one of those "mexican standoffs" that appear in many households. Not to swipe the thread (there's a joke there, I think), but do you have any "test of wills" scenes in your house? |
ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1639
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 2:33 pm: | |
mem- you're so AC-DC!!
I'm an on top gal, and I am also the tp changer, so ha! On top, I win.
If it rolls from under, then you have to fight with the wall to get at the paper, and this is just yucky if you're not in your own clean home. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2271
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 2:39 pm: | |
ffof,
Lol! AC-DC means swing both ways, and I'm afraid my toilet paper doesn't do this. You see, if it swings enough in one direction, it will end up right out the window.
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ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1641
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 5:13 pm: | |
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Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1128
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 9:17 am: | |
People ask Miss Manners from time to time, and she responds by saying something to the effect that it's a silly question to a very trivial issue. Then she says that the traditional method is over the top.
When my ex-wife moved out, I changed the direction, just because.
Tom Reingold
There is nothing
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bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 3890
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 2:00 pm: | |
Boring - We at the K house just use last seasons Sears catalogue in our outhouse by the bay. |
Earlster
Citizen
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 69
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 11:46 am: | |
Over the TOP. Makes it easy to reach, no fumbling under the damn roll, and easy to rip with a quick pull down. If I try to rip it after my wife put it in, my quick pull ends in half of the roll on the floor, but still attached.
Check the professionals, hotels have it over the TOP. |
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