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The Unspoken Issue Threatening to Tear This Nation Apart
On Ricochet we are not afraid to tackle the tough issues, in fact we pay for the privilege, we go at it hammer and tongs debating those crucial questions which will determine the future of our nation.
Whether it be the proper manner in which to cook spaghetti, who creates the best pizza or even the quantity of pointless comments. I hesitated before publishing this, some issues may be too hot even for our sober minded community however problems are not resolved by ignoring them so I am going there.
There is only one proper way to hang toilet paper, the correct manner is over. Under is wrong, if you believe otherwise then you are wrong.
The choice is clear, over.
This question must be worked into all future debates, I need to know where the candidates stand. This is my deal breaker.
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Reminds me of the joke about the guy who got in touch with his inner child — not some spiritual awakening or anything; he just punched through the tp.
I always have my butler take care of that.
There’s a fix for that, if you get the ones that don’t have the cardboard tube in the middle of it you can hang it the right way. It doesn’t unroll without an amount of effort that a cat is generally not willing to spend on it, at least in our house…but they’re pretty old cats.
I have an app on my phone that lets me do that.
You have it completely backwards. Up from the back is the ONLY way it works properly. Better leverage to tear the sheets.
To continue, the metal over the top device is proof that extra hardware is needed to properly tear sheets and is therefore inferior.
And the triangle in the end of the role is a method hotel supervisors use to be sure housekeepers have done thei job. Another meeting is that the drain plugs are set in the closed position.
And Percival, you are correct, I am lousy at catching mice. The one time I had to was because one of our cats brought a live one inside. I killed it but did not eat it.
People with cats have no excuse for anything…..period.
I’ll stick with the ex-PM of Canada:
I don’t know if anyone has commented on the extra distance it takes to reach the roll if it’s hung under. That might be just enough for a short-armed person to throw her back out or fall off the seat trying to reach it. Why not hang the paper so that the next sheets are as close as possible?
How beautiful is that!
I hope this was after a Bama game.
Totally agree. My parents and I have this fight every time we visit one anothers’ houses. The TP is eternally switched back and forth, and the direction it is left in when the visitor leaves is the winner. Well, winner of the battle, not the war.
I think it was DocJay at Rob’s house…
Over, of course.
And single-ply. It’s cheaper, while still doing the job, and easier on the septic tank.
I know this is a two party country but there are third party supporters here who think you are an imbecile wasting brain power on even caring about something so stupid. You have been all brainwashed as supporting either stance because it does not matter they are both stances backed by corrupt parties who are in the pocket of the Toilet Roll holder lobby who control the MSTPM. It is obvious those scientific diagrams were paid for by the bathroom fixture industry therefore they are biased and can’t be trusted. It is a corrupt system were only the evil corporations who demand we use bathroom fixtures to hold something that goes in our rear ends. Because in the end it is only those greedy corporate establishment types that win because they get rich off your fighting. TP demands to be free.
This is the toilet paper I am more concerned about:
While I am sure DocJay did a lovely job at Rob’s house, this particular photo is the rolling of Toomer’s Corner after an Auburn victory. I know my school. I know the entrance to it. This is Auburn.
Just want to point out I have 5 cats. None of them touch the (properly hung) toilet paper.
And I can catch mice better than 3 of them.
Requires more soap, though.
Oh, I get it..
“Tear this nation apart…”
It’s a pun.
Thank you for your moral clarity about this, Roberto. As someone qualified to speak — seven cats — I can honestly say that never have I been tempted to hang the toilet paper the wrong way. If you’re using your cats as an excuse for doing the wrong thing, perhaps you’re not ready for the responsibility of pet ownership.*
*Says the woman who woke up this morning to an apartment full of feathers. No, it wasn’t what you’d think. Seems one of my little beasts eviscerated a down-filled duvet. My first hypothesis was that an entire flock of pigeons had flown into my apartment while I slept. No, this doesn’t mean that I no longer need to make the bed. Living with cats is no excuse to be the kind of feckless slob who hangs the toilet paper the wrong way and buys synthetic bedding.
Thanks… again… for explaining, Ryan.
An otter will take the end of the toilet paper in its mouth and run around, under and through every single passage, table leg, chair and bannister it can find in the house until the TP runs out. I speak from experience. Not my otter, though.
I just want to congratulate our PIT brother, Roberto, for breaking onto the Main Feed with this — strong work. You have secured your legacy. Many of us will think of you every time we…
Oh, never mind.
Thank Heavens! Somebody finally mentioned folding a little point on the end of the roll. It only took 28 posts… It’s absence was starting to put me on edge.
In a four-dimensional universe, the problem goes away.
Glad to see this didn’t wipe out on the Member Feed.
As an impulsive contrarian, this post makes me want to put toilet paper on the wrong way just because everyone is saying it’s wrong.
Take that, Sanitary Authoritarians!
The Koch Brothers own Georgia Pacific, one of the companies that is part of “big toilet.” The paper you are using on your fundament could very well be funding conservative causes. Better not to wipe at all than to wipe with Koch Brothers paper. – Michael Moore
This thread made my morning. Thanks for the laughs – everybody.
For the record – Roberto is correct in every single word of his post – including the subtext on the superiority of dogs.
I must now go wipe the coffee off the computer keyboard after snorting it thru my nose, mostly thanks to Percival.