So far we have three people that have made the same comment about not being the front view. I’m using copy comments as TP tomorrow.
It’s halfway 2024 it’s time to move on to bidets.
Based and Hygiene Pilled
I use a bidet, I still need TP to clean up after the water does the job.
I know fancy bidets exist that will blow dry your arae, but what do I look like? A rich person? We got ours from Amazon for like $20.
TP use is way down, but it’s still needed in many cases.
You use toilet paper to dry off? Why not a towel?
A bidet ain’t 100% clean. Sometimes there is small residue which you notice when you dry with toilet paper. I got a handheld bidet btw and since installing it 10y ago I really hate pooping without.
In our culture we use soap and water to clean our asses after pooping. So a bidet+soap match made in heaven.
Before bidets we use a dipper to scoop water.
In our culture we just put in a new asshole every time we poop problem solved.
I just sit there and browse Lemmy while I wait for my ass to dry out. 😀
Unless you have a cat that likes to play with them… Then the other direction.
Depends on the cat. If they’re simply going with tapping the roll to spin it, that may work for a bit. I’ve found that rolls accessible to a cat tend to morph into big balls of clawed unusable pulp.
When I was a young kid, I had a cat that was front-declawed (this was before it was well known that it’s an abusive practice - my folks didn’t know better at the time). Because he couldn’t shred the paper with his claws, he showed his spite by chewing up the roll so it looked like he’d clawed it. Didn’t matter which direction the roll was.
I loved that cat. He was so smart.
Why not just shut the door so the cat doesn’t get in there? The toilet paper being hung correctly is more important than the cat for me.
One of my cats knows how to open doors like a fucking velociraptor. We’ve baby locked several of our doors but some things like the bathroom I don’t like fucking around with extra steps when trying to get into at 3am
Oh hey, my fear. Do you have door knobs, or uh - the flat handled kind that swing down or up? I just realized I don’t know what those lever like door handles are called.
I can hear one of my cats pawing at the door knob at night, he’d be getting in places he shouldn’t if we had those flat kind.
Bank vault doors. With digital keypad entry systems. They’re really smart cats.
Because I don’t like the smell of cat shit anywhere outside the bathroom
Then teach them not to play with the TP roll.
Ah yes! “Just teach” the cat. Easy
Famously easy, like herding cats
If you spend time with them yeah it can be easy. I have two cats. They both listen to me.
You can’t expect them to just automatically know what not to do.
But people get cats so they don’t have to interact with them.
I do not condone animal abuse.
This could have saved relationships.
Why is this in c/Lemmy Shitposting?
The patent explains the intended use for that kind of paper.
TP, shitposting… You don’t see the connection?
I need TP for my bunghole!
Ass wiping tech has come a long way. Thankfully.
YUP
Not the best patent to use if you want to settle the debate. This one from Wheeler is the nail in the coffin: patent
It also shows why it was over and not under as at the time, the TP holder was a hanging wire, which kept the paper against the wall. Not protruding out like todays hangers.
Good find
Not that the over/under debate was even a thing, but this should convince those diehard lunatics not to hang their TP improperly!
I accept the wrong way if, and only if, the wrongifier has cats.
I have cats and would never have the audacity to do something as vulgar as that.
I can’t blame that cat. I been watching this for ten minutes and the roll never ends!
Agreed. My cat would never dare put the roll on the wrong way.
Toddlers do the thing too
Thats the ‘cat free house’ way.
Eh. I taught my 2 cats to not touch it. It’s not difficult.
I have had many cats and have never had a problem with them grabbing the toilet paper.
HOW‽ If I could I would
Honestly I sometimes wonder how I did it, because my cats listen to me and rarely do something I don’t want them to.
Im firm with them, never loud, never hit them or push them. Consistency might be the key. Always tell them no the same way, as many times as it takes. I’ll give them something else to play with if they’re ripping something up too.
They’re smart, if you spend the time with them.
I had cats my whole life and never had this happen.
I see we’ve got some really strong opinions going on here. Just wanna remind everyone to keep it friendly and civil.
And on that note, all you weirdos who place it behind are wrong and I will die on this hill.
Fight me.
I’m not gonna fight you. My two shitty scheming cats on the other hand…
Look I know how it’s supposed to go but I’m fighting for every square
You could just keep the door closed
Yes. Famous respecter of closed doors, our feline friends.
Ah, I see the problem. I’m afraid you’ve accidentally adopted a Velociraptor.
I stand with you this day, brother!
I stand two stalls over, but still with you!
Separate, but together, we stand… Or sit.
IDK what’s going on in this metaphor.
That’s an impressive watch, brother!
People who place it hanging against the wall stand to wipe, like children.
or this https://youtu.be/xV3zy-mCsOc
People here be discussing the wrong thing, or am I the only one thinking that patenting a roll of paper is incredibly stupid?
It’s a damn roll of paper. How much of a genius do you have to be to come up with that? People have been doing it for millennia, the only difference is that it used to be so expensive that no one would think of whipping their butts with it.
The patent was the tp roll but more so the angular serations that terminate short of the center, so a tearable roll of paper rather than a strip role that had to be torn manually or cut
So the innovation that was patented is literally “cut it partway through”.
Patents are inherently stupid and only serve to stifle progress. Change my mind or otherwise just downvote away, works as well.
They are stupid, but helped inventors recoup development costs. It gets abused now, especially with patent trolls. The invention here moved TP from a roll you had to cut or tear, to self tearing segments with enough attached at center that it pulled roll forward…smart at the time…we take this idea of perforated sheets for granted now
We actually have a nice print of that hanging in the bathroom
That’s a good idea. Maybe a wood print. I like it.
This is the one we have. I actually got it from their kickstarter years ago: https://cratestyle.com/products/no-338-toilet-paper-roll?_pos=1&_sid=908e541d0&_ss=r
Does it trouble you at all that the diagram doesn’t specify where the wall should be?
Wait… Do you not have your toilet paper just hanging in the air?
Obviously designed in a place without deadly spiders.
Can you explain why this matters, for people who don’t live with deadly spiders?
In Australia spiders like to hang out in places like where the outer layer of TP sits as it is a good hiding place for them. Especially Red Backs. Huntsmen like it too but will only kill by a jump scare caused heart attack.
I’ve never been more glad that I don’t live in Australia than right now
To be fair we don’t have bears, wolves or rabies.
The proper way to hang it, if you have cats, is the other way so they don’t bat it all off if the get access. This is why I do not have cats.
My cat has not once tried unraveling a toilet paper roll. He has stolen money before, but he steals shit, so that’s normal. But never toilet paper.
Oh, man. My mother had cats who would just attack tp or paper towels. We had them both hanging the ‘correct’ way, got tired of it and flipped em. Now, though, I stick to dogs lol
Haha mine will take coins off the table, and carry it off to her hiding spot. It’s the cutest thing. I got her a small box of toy pirate coins.
Shrödinger’s Roll
Bad design. Toilet paper not currently in use must be stored outside the bathroom so that it doesn’t become damp and musty from the humidity. As opposed to on the wet floor next to the dewy toilet. This is how you get a nasty fungal infection fyi
If you have humidity problems in your bathroom, get a small electric dehumidifier. They’re less than 30 bucks and they’ll fix it right up.
Being in the general vicinity of mold won’t give you a fungal infection unless you don’t wash. I recommend against placing toilet paper directly inside your rectum or vagina, however.
Or anyone else’s for that matter.
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I recommend against placing toilet paper directly inside your rectum or vagina, however.
I don’t understand. How do you use toilet paper?
In my case, external surfaces and creating a paper mache dong extension.
If the bathroom and toilet are “dewy” the bad design falls on the house itself.
In hot, humid climates the toilet bowl itself will have condensation that sweats down the outside in my experience. YMMV
Oooh. That makes more sense.
In less humid/hot locations, this isn’t really an issue. The outside of the bowl is cold, but rarely collects condensation.
The only way for it to get wet and create a problem is when guys have bad aim and don’t have the decency to sit down because of their bad aim.
If you use the TP after that, you get what’s coming to you.
…Is your bathroom a swamp?
LOL my god, I was gonna say. OP apparently lacks a rudimentary immune system as well. Or, is shoving that tp way, way too deep. And leaving it there.
My wife got me to install a bidet. Can’t remember to try it. Been 8-months, still forget.
You’ve had a bidet for 8 months and you have yet to experience its wonders?
I’ve had a bidet for years and never used it. The rest of my family does, but I have no interest.
It is far superior and unmeasurably more efficient.
Actually you can measure it, by the amount you save on shit tickets.
Eh, different strokes for different butts. I don’t see how having a wet/moist ass is more efficient. I have one, and don’t use it unless I’m particularly interested…in extra cleanliness. It’s not for everyone.
He lives in a hut in the rainforest maybe?
What in the terrible photoshop I looking at.
Why is there two gigantic rolls on the ground?
Heavy days?
