Most Boring Thread

I just got back from having my teeth cleaned.

 

Im bored at work, someone save me...

 

So you turned to this thread for advice?

 

So this thread isn't about off-shore drilling?

 

My car batteries keep going to "pink" really fast. Dealership says they are fine. 42 mpg max all summer.

 

I didn't cook last night (nor most other nights). But this morning I replaced the rubber sweep on our screen door after 5 years of it swinging freely.

 

Today is trash day, I almost forgot to take the trash to the curb.

 

I had Indian food for lunch today

 

I just cleaned my fish tank.

 

I need to clean the gravel and change the filter in my tank. Maybe tomorrow...

 

Back to toilet paper!

I just found out that rolling off the bottom is an advantage in a house with cats. Cats seem to unroll from the top only. If you set up for a bottom unroll, they can't empty the roll onto the floor. This is the only permissible reason to install toilet paper in this manner.

 

We're back from our cruise. I'm doing laundry and uploading photos.
Where the hell is the waiter?!?!

 

I prefer rolling off the top. but when our children were young we had it roll off the bottom. Cats and small children like to spin it and they usually spin it top to bottom. Then were were empty nested and went back to top. And now we have small grandchildren so we're back back to the bottom.

 

I bet the toilet paper on Rae's cruise unrolled from the bottom. I hope she took pictures.

 

Oh dear, I might have just learned something useful that will be applied to my life in the near future from the so-called "boring" thread. I was all adamant about rolling off the top, but I have a toddler in the house and she'll certainly learn the joy of rolling the TP all onto the floor if I don't switch to bottom-rolling ASAP!

 

No! Wait! Wait! First you have to make sure you have a full top roller inserted and the camera ready/handy. Maybe even a couple if extra rolls, toilet paper and/or film if not digital, handy for quick refilling. Then you can switch after you get some good keepers.

 

The stateroom steward installed the TP correctly for general usage: roll off the top.
However, there was a chrome TP guard over the roll, to prevent "patting" the paper off, and to facilitate a clean tear.

And, always, a fresh roll nearby, just in case.

 

Does that make it a "No Spin Zone"?

 

Well then clearly that particular toilet paper dispenser was designed for toilet paper to roll off the top.

But with regular home toilet paper dispensers, it's better to roll off from the bottom/under/inside, which Ichabod's toddler is now teaching him.

According to Wikipedia, Seth Wheeler of Albany, NY invented and patented modern toilet paper -- rolled around a tube and perforated -- along with mounting brackets to hold the roll.

I wonder what kind of guy Seth was -- whether he liked his toilet paper to unroll from the bottom or from the top. I guess I could find out by looking at his patents' diagrams.

 

Yeh! It used to be "Do I tear from the front or the back of the Sears catalog"?