Do you put a new roll of toilet paper on the spool? Or do you just leave it on the sink and wait for your spouse/partner/roommate to do it for you?
Take the poll. Also, what does this man have to do with toilet paper?
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The real question is: Do you prefer the spool to dispense from the top or bottom of the roll? If you’re a Virgo like me, this is a crucial detail.
(and no Gannon jokes either!) 😛
And this Sag with a triple Virgo is just as picky!
the answer is to dispense from the top. They didn’t give an explanation as to why. My husband is a bottom dispenser kind of person but he is also lazy and vary rarely refills the toilet paper dispenser so I get my way 95 percent of the time. I also use the toilet paper more so the probability of the toilet paper running out while I am using it is far greater as well.
for me, it does not matter in the least, just as long as there is toilet paper!…:o) That can become diasterous if not there!!!!!….;o)
–grounds for child welfare workers taking custody of your children, in The Simpsons.
They must live in a red state.
Another Virgo here…
from the top, for four main reasons:
My two eurocents. 😉
I should’ve guessed it was you posing this type of question ;^). Out of necessity, I’m a reformed “topfeed” gal.
Thirteen years ago, when our cat was but a mere hairball of her current self – she devised numerous ways to communicate her unhappiness in having been left alone. One of the schemes involved shredding the entire roll of toilet paper as it sat in the spool (unattended and defenseless).
We tried switching to the “underfeed” method, and for some reason it worked. Either Buddy couldn’t get any traction, or she may have lacked the cognitive skills to figure out how to shred the roll from the new position. Or perhaps she had simply moved on to something equally as mischievous. (Although I must admit – the new method didn’t leave a piece of toilet paper fluttering over the top, tempting her each time she walked by.)
We’ve now been using the underfeed method for so many years it’s become a habit – resulting in many shame-filled, public scoldings when I change a roll of toilet paper during visits with relatives. . .
I have no idea what this is about but I have been receiving some emails regarding voter rights activists being jailed in Cuyahoga County. They filed a complaint against Petro and was jailed the next day. I have not been following this story at all so if anybody knows about this, please tell me more. The website they refer me to is Erie Voices.
Have we sunk to this level, really?
Okay, okay, I let someone else put it on the spool, and, of course, they let someone else, too. So more often than not I put it on the spool. Such is the important work of my life.
And, the TP must dispense over the top of the roll. This is a rule in my house and I don’t trust anyone who says otherwise.
Sunk to this level? Relationships have ended over less. Whole dynastic empires have been undermined from within.
Bottom feeders are insidious.
absolutely true. Now let’s talk about other relationship-enders such as
*chewing with mouth open
*wearing socks with sandals
*farting during sex
*ear hair
*squeezing the tube from the middle
*halitosis
*nasty yellow toenails
*sweaty hands
*that little bit of foamy spit that collects at the corner of your mouth and you refuse to wipe it off
*putting kepchup on eggs
I could go on ad nauseum…
and do. Ask my husband.
Note to self: stop being so picky
that all of these symptoms are caused by aging.
Now go take on the day!
obviously I forgot one:
*aging
OMG! Talk about laugh out loud – priceless.
Next up: the toilet lid, an up or down vote.
…let me tell you that in the night time travels to the head, when one falls into the brink of watery nightmares, one has to experience the lid left up to appreciate this one…..;o)
else said, as a woman, i tend to use it more. but it still makes me mad! just like the garbage… it’s overflowing, but no one seems to notice it could stand changing! i could go on and on! but i also insist on having it go over… i can’t breathe when i go in and it is on the wrong way! even in someone else’s house, i will sometimes fix it! i have gotten better about that though. somewhat. i know… i need help!
….do they call that obsessive /compulsive behavior????……;o)..wink, wink….
Those overflowing garbage cans are a challenge.. can I fit just one more thing in the mound at the top before it all topples over …. we are masters of balance in my house…
as the garbage overflows… you just try to let it go to see if someone will friggin change it… its a real sore spot with me… especially when i see boxes put in there that haven’t been broken down so they don’t make me have to change it faster! if other people ever changed the garbage, i bet they wouldn’t be putting boxes in there like that!! GRRRR!!!!
to show you. They are very practical and many of their bathrooms are always equipt with a long toilet paper holder where you can store 5-6 rolls on it. It is so convenient and they keep birthday calendars in the room so you will never miss a birthday and you have something to read in case you forget to bring in a book or magazine.
They sell those at Ikea, stainless steel. My daugher got one so she would never have to, um, duck-walk over to the linen closet.
so very funny sight in my mind here….ribs hurt from laughing so hard and yours takes the cake!!!!!!!!!!
a pile of Reader’s Digests to read on a table/cabinet next to the toilet.
I have a photo of myself, probably age 1 1/2 or thereabouts, sitting on my potty seat at their house with R.D. in hand. I was a very precocious child and learned to toilet-read early.
I just steal McDonald’s napkins…
might as well use sandpaper. ouch!
What’s toilet paper?
They’re working on extending Daylight Savings Time by starting it earlier and ending it later.
This of course would require history’s largest distribution of a Microsoft patch so that its Windows operating system can correctly reset computers’ clocks. We should probably found a new blog to discuss the bugs that will be unleashed by this patch.
But it’s not nice to fool Mother Microsoft. Readers will recall the Clinton Administration pursuing Microsoft for anti-competitive practices, upon which time Microsoft released Government 2000, an updated version of government that doesn’t crash no matter how people abuse it, and gives businesses greater freedom than any competitors’ versions.
because I’m a nerd:
coconut shells, corncobs, frayed end of an anchor cable?!!
These people were terminally unhappy, as well as not very comfortable when sitting, no?
At least you have given me an idea on how to use the 800 pages of Wm. Bennet’s book of virtues.
Pages from a book? Hmm, Ann Coulter comes to mind.
Lace???
With all the holes???
Yich.
British translation is “Loo Rolls”, or toilet paper… very punny, BooMan… “absolutely sharmin'”, he says crapulously…
and not even a Brit, at that.
Good Job. I didn’t get that. I love that Sharmin comment as well.
a tou-pee of course…<groan>
Dood, you are on a roll today.
What market segment of the Internet are you going after these days?
Anyhow …
I have been well trained: I put new rolls on the dispenser; I leave the seat down; I take the trash out; I wash dishes when it is my turn; house cleaning is a joint affair.
ATinNM. The perfect spouse. Bows
or I’ll put you in charge of coming up with Frivolous Friday topics and polls 🙂
I don’t have time to compose a witty and snappy retort.
I have to perform my “husbandly duties” … and fix the washing machine. (Lest our clothing offend by a stench in the nostrils of the just and the unjust, alike.)
To avoid hundreds of thousands of people through-out the our interconnected world wandering through the day, fretting, and unable to function due to worry and concern about our ability to -> Automatically <- wash our clothes – as opposed to going down to the river & beating them with a rock – I hereby wish to announce:
Even as I type the little whirl-a-giggy is whirling, the water is draining, and the clothes (towels, actually) are coming cleaner than clean.
(And if that isn’t a frivolous waste of bandwidth I don’t know a frivolous waste of bandwidth and my experience with frivolous waste of bandwidth includes a marketing person in Irvine California informing everybody in the company, including offices in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the UK, and Italy the network printer, in Irvine California, was out of paper. Of course everybody in the US, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the UK, and Italy then responded to everybody in the US, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the UK, and Italy calling the aforementioned marketing person an idiot, telling him there was little they could do about a network printer out of paper in Irvine California when they were in: Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the UK, or Italy, or indulged in a “witty” response. Everybody responded to that, and then to that. Various accusations and insults started flying ’round about the 5th iteration, by the 7th iteration the schmucks in Human Resources intervened — and poured gasoline on the fire. After Round 20 the President and CEO sent out a memo telling to everyone to knock it off.
And we all had to take a ‘How to Write and Respond to E-Mail in a Corporate Environment’ class.
But I digress…)
Anyway, the washing machine is fixed.
Under the You-can-make-art-out-of-anything category:
At the San Francisco museum of modern art, an artist had made an exhibit by stacking the cardboard toilet paper rolls he used over a 5-10 year period. I can’t remember the exact amount of time. But in any case, it was a shockingly small collection for the time period given. I think the real exhibit might be to record people’s reactions. Clip after clip of people saying “You mean that’s all the TP he used in xxx years!
I had a brother in law that insisted no one needed more than three sheets per dump. I do the refilling of the spool because I couldn’t get the cat to do it…he’s so lazy. I live alone so have sworn at myself several times for forgetting and been caught with my pants down…pun intended.
At the BBC called Religion and Ethics. A lot of the breaking blog stories are there.. Lots of News.