Why is this in c/shitpost?
I will not be taking questions.
Submitted 6 days ago by WarmSoda@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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rainerloeten@lemmy.world 6 days ago
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
The patent contains the intended use for that kind of paper.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
TP, shitposting… You don’t see the connection?
WarmSoda@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I need TP for my bunghole!
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 6 days ago
Warning! Normies who can't digest radical ideas, don't click further.
I keep the roll on its side (vertical, with circular face down).
Also, I don’t use it to wipe my butt. I have a handheld water shower directing device (a.k.a. health faucet) for that.VubDapple@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Beard not Mullet!
Atin@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Obviously designed in a place without deadly spiders.
TwigletSparkle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Can you explain why this matters for people who don’t live with deadly spiders?
Atin@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.
Draegur@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Beards are based, mullets are cringe.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
This could have saved relationships.
recapitated@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ooh I just got a new idea for a new patent!
Siegfried@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Why do we assume that is a frontal view?
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
I prefer the look of overhand, but the oversize rolls pull better out of my inset holder when it’s underhand
henfredemars@infosec.pub 6 days ago
Sending this to my neurotic wife. It’s going to bother her now.
WarmSoda@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Thank you. I’m glad I could help
praxis_jack@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yes, correct
paholg@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I’m finally coming around to this after decades of being steered away from it by The Simpsons (youtu.be/CQod276-7Mo?si=F5_Suzq41QAK_Wtg).
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 6 days ago
YUP
lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 days ago
It makes sense when you consider that they don’t even have ball pens in the 19th century. People back then must be very stupid.
WarmSoda@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yes… Because the people that everything we have today possible are… stupid. Right.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 days ago
Yes. Otherwise why would they register the wrong way of hanging toilet paper in the patent?
iopq@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They were very smart. Ball pens messed up my wrists. I was livid when I found out it takes no pressure to write with a fountain pen
dnick@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
- image displayed from reverse side to show overhang
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
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
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.
Whatevster@lemmy.today 6 days ago
What the fuck were they going for toilet paper before 1891?
Toes@ani.social 6 days ago
A rag on a stick, frequent trips to the river, their left hand, nothing at all and the three seashells. We’re some other options.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
We’ve still got a few years until the three seashells take over and Taco Bell wins the franchise wars.
blarth@thelemmy.club 6 days ago
This post sent me down a rabbit hole.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_hygiene
The funniest one is the Japanese “chuugi”, translated to “shit stick”.
WarmSoda@lemmy.world 6 days ago
As absolutely batshit crazy the world is right now, it’s important to reflect on what we do have. And thankfully it’s advanced beyond shit sticks.
HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Farmers almanac.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sears catalog and corn cobs. No lie.
oatscoop@midwest.social 6 days ago
Various other things like leaves, rags, sponges, or leftover paper. Failing that a bare hand works: manners dictating you wash it after.
Some cultural hangups on the left hand being “unclean” stem from those cultures using that hand for hygienic reasons.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I dunno, but it probably involved slaves.