According to the patent (US465588A) it should be over.
If it’s under spiders can make a nest between the toilet paper and the wall so you’re wiping your ass or coochie with that.
Well great. New fear unlocked.
I mean, you were given eyes for a reason. Also, how often do you go to the bathroom that warrants enough time for a spider to build a web??
It’s not quite the same, but … I swear, literally this morning while doing my business one of my bathroom spiders snuck under my slightly raised heel just to chill. If I’d put my foot down that’d be the end of that creature, but by luck I moved my foot instead to find a quarter-sized spider just hanging out where my bare foot had just been.
Side-note: This particular spider is called Hex because it’s missing two legs. I believe I found those legs right by the toilet a few weeks before I met my new pooping pal. I’ve always wondered how it lost them.
one of my bathroom spiders
I’m sorry, what? You have multiple bathroom spiders?
Yup! We live in a basement and have this deal with the spiders that they’ll be left alone as long as they stay off the furniture. For some reason we basically only see them in the bathroom but the occasional time they’ve been bad, they get exiled to the laundry room.Usually there are 3-5 out that we can see at any given time. Most are very tiny ones that chill in webs, but a few are hunters that are much more mobile. Those that stick around or do something notable get named after a while. Other than Hex there’s been …
Peeping Tom who lived in a web in front of the toilet and just watched you. Sometimes, usually after someone showered and there was condensation in the room, he’d take a little jaunt around his “porch”. He disappeared one day under mysterious circumstances. While hoping for his safe return I took the opportunity to clean around his home and accidentally sucked it up with a hand vacuum.
Marina, who was originally named Mario as I rescued her from the sink - the name was changed when I suspected her to be a girl due to her looking like a bigger version of a species we sometimes see. She was my fave as she was always up to something and was very active. We think she was huffing caulking as after we redid it she loved to sit on the new caulk, leading us to childishly say she was “addicted to caulk.” We were genuinely concerned about her addiction though as it seemed unhealthy. I once saw her awkwardly chase down a pill millipede. You wouldn’t think it possible for something a few mm across to look embarrassed, but I swear she did after she bit it in the ass and it ran off unphased. I think she was too tiny to pierce its exoskeleton. She’s recently disappeared and I’m legit sad and hoping she’s just off on one of her adventures.
I then recycled the name Mario for one who I had to quickly scoop out of the sink when I was running the water and hadn’t noticed because he was so tiny. I was proud of myself as, despite what you may think I’m slightly arachnophobic. (I was very arachnophobic before we started keeping them as free-range pets / housemates.)
Big Bertha, who lived in parts unknown but would often show up in the bathroom at night. She had a habit of temporarily stealing the webs of the resident spiders for a few hours before departing. Usually the other spider would fuck off and watch from a distance, but once I saw her in there just staring down the owner. To my knowledge, she never hurt them though.
It’s possible that Hex is actually Big Bertha, as he/she/it (I’m sure I’m misgendering the hell out of them all) has a similar personality.
Can you possibly tell that we cannot currently get pets due to our living situation? We’re making do with what the basement provides for companionship.
Do you not take vacations and work from home in your one bathroom place?
Uh, huh? I take some trips here and there, don’t work from home, but I’ve never had spiders make up a web between the tp and wall, and I live in the mountains where those dudes are everywhere.
You’ll get spiders in your coochie!
https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/b5d27b27-dc13-49ac-9805-4ae90fb434ca.jpeg “Ohh, I don’t have one of those”
If their web can catch a fly, it can catch my shit. Extra strength TP!
+0.5 ply
Are we really beholden to the past like that? Things change, and hopefully improve. I know most people say over but my argument for under is that it can do everything over can… But, due to the extra friction, I can also tear it one-handed by ripping fast and the roll won’t continue spinning.
What did they do before 1891?
Three seashells?
Poop knife.
Did you know there is poop knife merch?? I now have a poop knife shirt from Amazon
lmao they don’t know how to use the three seashells
In the days of old when knights were bold and toilet paper wasn’t invented, they’d wipe their ass with a piece of grass and walk away contented.
Your hands or water or a sponge that is then cleaned in water. It’s actually really interesting, and I encourage you and everyone else to read up on it.
or water
Also known as a bidet, or washlet. It’s the only way to fly.
I have a cheap bidet and I can confirm it is the way to go. I wish I could afford one of the good ones that warms the water and shoots out hot/cool air to dry you afterwards, but the cheap one is still leagues above tp or wipes.
Let’s just say that swans didn’t enjoy the human use for their necks.
Discarded corn cobs and pages from the Sears Roebuck catalog. At least in midwestern USA.
Wipe their ass with newspaper?
And before newspaper?
Town criers?
This is why i like it here!! The other place doesn’t get quality comments like this!!
They had it roll the other way
Under, but fold the beginning of the paper over itself, so it appears to be over until your unsuspecting victim tries to grab some paper. Then they realize the true nature of your depravity.
how can I delete someone else’s comment?
Better yet, how do we get this person screened for psychopathy?
Psychopathy is a boon in my line of work.
How do you find working at psychopaths’R’us?
Where can I claim the money that is equal to the number of upvotes of my comments?
If you put in a little extra unroll/reroll work, you can make it mysteriously change direction mid-roll and you’ll be long gone.
You’re a sick son of a bitch
Over unless you got a cat or little kids
Or unless you have a weird roll holder that is super prone to overfeeding.
It can be highly dependent on if you own a cat.
When I am not a cat owner: Over
When I am a cat owner: Under, most definitely.
Case in point:
My cat does this, while also ripping it up, so doesn’t matter if it’s over or under
I understand a lot of cat owners have this happen, but my cats have never done it other than once and then never again after I redirected them with a cat toy.
Over, to prevent the spread of bacteria by touching the wall. Under is acceptable if you have a cat, who will fuck with the roll.
The toilet paper drags against the wall either way though?
Yes, but the paper is clean, your hands are dirty. If the paper hangs over, you can grab the paper directly. If the paper hangs under you may have to touch the wall to be able to get at the paper.
Ahh I see, that makes more sense :)
hands touching the wall
My cats never cared about toilet paper, so over all the way.
Beard, not mullet.
Came here to say this exact thing! lol
mashed into a thick paste and applied liberally to the anus
Ah, I think I’m going to need a few visual aids for that plan…
Wow, I bet that would stick to the roof really well (with enough force)
Do you have kids or pets that like to play with the toilet paper roll?
If yes, then Under.
If no, then Over.
Usenet had like a 10 month discussion about this after which it was considered definitively proven and agreed upon that this is the answer. Everyone ITT can rehash the discussion if they want but they are only rejecting science.
Thank you.
Rejecting science, no good.
You have the science, good!
A few years ago I chose to stop thinking about it. I just refill the roll and don’t worry about it. When I realized it didn’t matter, it was a weight lifted off my shoulders. Same with trying to stop the gas pump on the nearest dollar or setting the tv volume to an even number.
I don’t know why I felt such a relief when I let go, but I did and now I’m free!
You animal.
Over. The end is most likely to be visible at all times.
Over has always been more effective, also to take it with one hand
Be chaotic like me and just put it on whichever way it’s facing when you put the new roll on.
Some people just want to watch the world burn
My toilet paper is sideways.
Same, on a vertical spike.
As a warning to other toilet paper rolls.
Even potentially sentient toilet paper rolls aren’t safe from Vlad the Impaler.
… Left or right?
Front side faces the person currently shitting.
3D printer went brrrr, so I got myself a bona fide sideways toilet roll holder
It’s because of the way the toilet is facing. I would actually rather not have toilet paper, I didn’t grow up with it and the only reason I have it now is because the place is made to have guests.
I have a ledge above my toilet or a commode next to the toilet. Who needs this weird holder in the first place?
