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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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

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              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.

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                  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.

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      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

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          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.

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              I’ve had a bidet for years and never used it. The rest of my family does, but I have no interest.

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                  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.

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          Honestly I sometimes wonder how I did it, because my cats listen to me and rarely do something I don’t want them to.

          Im firm with them, never loud, never hit them or push them. Consistency might be the key. Always tell them no the same way, as many times as it takes. I’ll give them something else to play with if they’re ripping something up too.

          They’re smart, if you spend the time with them.

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    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.

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      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

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        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.

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          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

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            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…

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              Yep, i agree. patents are stupid, but not everyone is convinced of open sourcing everything