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.
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.
I just sit there and browse Lemmy while I wait for my ass to dry out. 😀
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.
Scoop water from where‽
From a big bucket near the toilet.
Thank you for clarifying. My mind immediately jumped to “scooping water from the toilet bowl”. Glad this was not the case.
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
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
I love how everyone arguing against this mentions cats - and never toddlers.
It really speaks volumes to the types of users on Lemmy :)
Putting the roll on backwards doesn’t stop my cats. I have to have a towel draped in front of the roll.
And my toddlers both just turned it back around!
Another proof that children do have ingrained morals
Sure, that’s great and all, but the creator of the Gif says the wrong way to say it so… the creator is not always right.
Just to make sure to not take sides, I pronounce the ‘g’ as in ‘design’
Well saying it the wrong way sounds too much like gift. How often are you talking about Jiff peanut butter?
As a choosey mom, you would be surprised how often it comes up.
~fuck you, Skippy~
I like this shitpost
Unless you have a cat that likes to play with them… Then the other direction.
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
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.
The cat listens to me. It understands nothing, though
Well, then teach it to understand. Do you think dogs just automatically understand everything too?
Why are all of the people in here getting animals if they don’t want to spend time with them? They’re not magic beasts.
Shrödinger’s Roll
It should be on a pivot so it always faces where youre pulling from
What in the terrible photoshop I looking at.
Why is there two gigantic rolls on the ground?
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
…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.
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.
We actually have a nice print of that hanging in the bathroom
That’s a good idea. Maybe a wood print. I like it.
Looks like some folks don’t know how to use the three seashells.
hahahahah … I can see how that can be confusing…
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
Maybe this invention revolutionised how we clean our butts, or maybe it was utterly trivial and 20 different ways of cutting paper rolls were patented that same year (note that present day rolls don’t even use this method).
But that’s irrelevant to the point that seems to be implied here that patents somehow contributed to it’s success. They don’t, an invention will be useful or not based on its own merits, not on the fact they’re patented.
They exist to ensure whoever registered it makes a profit, which is why they’re being exploited way past the point of making up for any good they were supposed to bring…
Yep, i agree. patents are stupid, but not everyone is convinced of open sourcing everything
Why is this in c/Lemmy Shitposting?
TP, shitposting… You don’t see the connection?
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.
Yes… Because the people that made everything we have today possible are… stupid. Right.
Yes. Otherwise why would they register the wrong way of hanging toilet paper in the patent?
They didn’t own a cat and it shows.
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.
I’ve had cats my whole life and have never had one mess with my properly placed toilet paper.
