Unless you have a cat that likes to play with them… Then the other direction.
I will not be taking questions.
Submitted 4 days ago by WarmSoda@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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tehWrapper@lemmy.world 4 days ago
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
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
iopq@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Because I don’t like the smell of cat shit anywhere outside the bathroom
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yes but also S T E A M
If you live in a humid, much poo carries on.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 days ago
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.
alquicksilver@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
When my bois were kittens, they would play with it either way. You’re totally correct.
SaintWacko@midwest.social 4 days ago
We actually have a nice print of that hanging in the bathroom
WarmSoda@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s a good idea. Maybe a wood print. I like it.
SaintWacko@midwest.social 4 days ago
This is the one we have. I actually got it from their kickstarter years ago: cratestyle.com/products/no-338-toilet-paper-roll?…
mcqtom@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Does it trouble you at all that the diagram doesn’t specify where the wall should be?
SaintWacko@midwest.social 4 days ago
Wait… Do you not have your toilet paper just hanging in the air?
HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Sure, that’s great and so, but the creator of the Gif says the wrong way to say it so… the creator is not always right.
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Just to make sure to not take sides, I pronounce the ‘g’ as in ‘design’
mossy_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I guess it’s fine gif you want to say it like that
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Well saying it the wrong way sounds too much like gift. How often are you talking about Jiff peanut butter?
Jank@literature.cafe 4 days ago
As a choosey mom, you would be surprised how often it comes up.
~fuck you, Skippy~
wildcardology@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s halfway 2024 it’s time to move on to bidets.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
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.
wildcardology@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I just sit there and browse Lemmy while I wait for my ass to dry out. 😀
lunarul@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You use toilet paper to dry off? Why not a towel?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Based and Hygiene Pilled
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Looks like some folks don’t know how to use the three seashells.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 4 days ago
hahahahah … I can see how that can be confusing…
Darkenfolk@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Sounds painful tbh, but you do you.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 4 days ago
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Shrödinger’s Roll
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
It should be on a pivot so it always faces where youre pulling from
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What in the terrible photoshop I looking at.
Why is there two gigantic rolls on the ground?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Heavy days?
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I’ve seen these. I know people who have them.
It’s a tp holder with space for extra rolls.
It’s made if wire and it sucks.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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
GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 days ago
If the bathroom and toilet are “dewy” the bad design falls on the house itself.
constantokra@lemmy.one 4 days ago
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.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I love how everyone arguing against this mentions cats - and never toddlers.
It really speaks volumes to the types of users on Lemmy :)
harmsy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Putting the roll on backwards doesn’t stop my cats. I have to have a towel draped in front of the roll.
5too@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And my toddlers both just turned it back around!
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I accept the wrong way if, and only if, the wrongifier has cats.
zammy95@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I have cats and would never have the audacity to do something as vulgar as that.
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Agreed. My cat would never dare put the roll on the wrong way.
silasmariner@programming.dev 4 days ago
Toddlers do the thing too
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Not the best patent to use if you want to settle the debate. This one from Wheeler is the nail in the coffin: patent
WarmSoda@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Good find
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Not that the over/under debate was even a thing, but this should convince those diehard lunatics not to hang their TP improperly!
dumbass@leminal.space 4 days ago
Thats the ‘cat free house’ way.
Shou@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I had cats my whole life and never had this happen.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
We have many cats, also, no problems.
WarmSoda@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Eh. I taught my 2 cats to not touch it. It’s not difficult.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I have had many cats and have never had a problem with them grabbing the toilet paper.
IHateReddit@lemmy.world 4 days ago
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Booooooo.
OP is still right, but I hate what you’ve posted.
IHateReddit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Cano@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Objection: appeal to authority + appeal to tradition + I did the fuck with yo mama last night
/s if that’s really necessary
sfxrlz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I like this shitpost
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
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.
ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
WarmSoda@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
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
kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 days ago
Are we looking from the perspective of the user or the wall?
dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Yeah, the illustration shows nothing, we don’t know which side is which anyway.
JohnOliver@feddit.dk 4 days ago
Wait. So if this i patented but has no specification about hanging it the other way, would that mean that one could patent toilet paper again, but hanging the other way?
Papergeist@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t believe so. They will only award a new patent if yours is meaningfully different from previous technologies. I would suspect they would deem the other direction “not a meaningful difference.”
Natanael@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
You shouldn’t, but the patent office don’t care about incentive height and obviousness anymore
Stern@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They didn’t own a cat and it shows.
lengau@midwest.social 4 days ago
I’ve had cats my whole life and have never had one mess with my properly placed toilet paper.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I have four in the house and none of them screw with our tp.
You just have a cat that’s more of an asshole than usual.
SonicDeathTaco@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I see nothing that indicates that that is the front of the roll
shukufuku@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
You aren’t taking into account the patent inversion convention of 1898.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You aren’t taking into account the patent inversion convention of 1898.
Patent got filed on double reverse patent day. Draw 4.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ass wiping tech has come a long way. Thankfully.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 days ago
I like how it just looks like a log being shaved into extremely thin sheets.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
The original toilet paper was pretty much that, from what I understand.
IDK for sure, not like I’m some toilet paper historian.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They believed in a lot of stupid shit back then.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mount mine vertically so nyah
Bobmighty@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ve never paid a single bit of attention to which way it goes on. I spit into the face of this entire debate and it’s never done me any harm to do so. I’m a cat owner too. The roll goes on either way, it’s fine, and I’ll never change my mind.
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 4 days ago
The inventor also said it’s “jif”, and I ain’t saying that either. Also, the patent doesn’t indicate whther that’s the front view or the back view. It’s displaying a roll in a vacuum.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The most dangerous phrase is “we’ve always done it this way”.
clot27@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Just use water lmfao
xenspidey@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Yes this was 1.0, 2.0 improved the tech by going under instead of over. Much more convenient single hand operation as well as pet protection.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Toilet paper hanging haphazardly over the front of the roll provides a convenient place for a 3 inch spider to hide between the roll and hanging strip. The patent illustration is clearly meant as a sick joke.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
WarmSoda@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I stand with you this day, brother!
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Separate, but together, we stand… Or sit.
IDK what’s going on in this metaphor.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
People who place it hanging against the wall stand to wipe, like children.
TwigletSparkle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
or this youtu.be/xV3zy-mCsOc
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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
Halosheep@lemm.ee 4 days ago
You could just keep the door closed