Ravenwood - 08/09/05 08:00 AM
I always wondered what caused the pee shivers. After reading this, I'm still not sure. According to the bathroom habits survey, only 45% of people even experience them. And I'm a member of the only 18% of people who insist on hanging toilet paper around the front of the roll rather than the back. Strange.
82% hang the paper off the back?
For easy access, the loose flap of paper must be in the front, otherwise one must waste critical time searching for the end. I thought everybody but my wife knew that.
Still waiting for an actual scientific explanation of the shivers, though...
Check out the comments section of the bathroom study. Even though they all appear to be written by the same person, they are awfully funny.
Posted by: roger at August 9, 2005 7:35 AMAnother problem with toilet paper hanging off the back is that it drags along the wall if it's still a full roll. Do you really want years of "stuff" collecting on the paper that you wipe on sensitive delicate areas? I think not.
Posted by: Da Goddess at August 9, 2005 8:34 AMThe only time that the paper should be hung "down the back" is if you have cats or small children. Otherwise, it should always be over the top.
Posted by: Nick Bourbaki at August 9, 2005 10:05 AMOnly guest toilet paper goes on a roll. The real toilet paper sits unhung atop the towel rack.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at August 9, 2005 11:55 AM...pissing ice water...
*lines up to collect the grant money*
Posted by: Steve Scudder at August 9, 2005 12:06 PMThe front of the roll is the way TP should be rolled - it's the way God intended for TP to be rolled.
Besides, you can't get a good yank & tear motion on the TP when it's rolled around the back, you have to use 2 hands to tear it or risk pulling off half the roll.
Posted by: Chublogga at August 9, 2005 12:40 PMOnly guest toilet paper goes on a roll. The real toilet paper sits unhung atop the towel rack.
Or, it simply sits on top of the water tank. The only thing in our toilet paper thing is an empty cardboard tube that once held toilet paper - five years ago when we moved into our house.
Posted by: countertop at August 9, 2005 3:54 PMNever heard of or experienced "the shivers".
If I see a roll going backwards, I always fix it to come over the top. Even if I'm at someone else's house. It's just not civilized....
Posted by: The Other Mike S at August 9, 2005 7:33 PMI can't believe so many people sit down to wipe, but still so many people are "Inspectors". Don't you people ever get crap smeared all over your ass and the seat doing it like that, or what? Until I joined the USMC, I didn't even know people sat and wiped. It's just weird and ineffecient. The hell do you do with your other hand? Are you afraid to touch your own ass?
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