Definitive Priuschat Poll: Over or Under?

First off, if yer careful you won't "mark" the walls. Second, I have no preference other than that the TP is available.

 

My vote goes for over. My eldest daughter, in her perverse rebelliousness, has recently decided it should go under. I'm not about to disown her for it, but it certainly is annoying to sit in the dark in the middle of the night and spin the roll, wondering why it's not working.

We used to have a problem with people not replacing the roll when it ran out. So, I made one of those arbitrary house rules that whoever used the last of the toilet paper should get a new roll. So, of course, the kids never use the last square. <_<

 

I can see reasons for having it either way.

The argument for over the roll is that it is easier to initially grab the leading edge of the roll, rather to than reach to the opposite side underneath the roll.

But the argument for under the roll is that once you have pulled out the amount of TP that you wish to tear off, it is easier to do this with one hand without the roll unravelling more unwanted TP.

I agree with tripp though, don't care as long as it's there.

 

In Spain it was quite common to have the roll on a vertical post. that eliminated the need to mess with that thing that goes inside the roll and fits into the holder. And it eliminated the over/under problem, though you of course had to decide between clockwise and counterclockwise.

And who was it who decided which way clocks should go, anyway? I once knew a girl whose brother had modified all the clocks in the house so they ran backwards. You wouldn't believe how confusing that can be.

 

As an online forum grows larger, the probability of a poll querying the correct orientation of toilet paper approaches 1.

-Ken

 

Good question. And I'm hardly an expert and haven't done a search for the answer but I will speculate.

While medieval monks did invent the alarm clock....there have been water clocks built by the ancient Greeks and Romans. So I'd lay the blame with them. I'm sure there's a good reason for "clockwise". Probably something to do with the gears and parts they used already having that orientation because they were borrowed from another existing "thing".

Oh...well that was a fast search.

Why do clocks run clockwise?

What a simple answer:

Are you ready?

"Before there were clocks time was measured by hourglasses and sundials. Since the civilizations that were using these timepieces were all in the northern hemishere, the sun was always at least slightly to the south at all times. So sundial needles were all designed to cast shadows northward onto the sundial face. Since the sun always rises in the east, the shadow it would cast would start on the west side, which is the left side when facing north. As the sun moved westward during the day, the shadow would move to the right, in a "clockwise" direction. So the first clock "hands" determined what "clockwise" would be, and when mechanical clocks were developed they naturally followed the established direction."

 

HA HA HA!!!

what a claim to fame that is... i inspired the TP poll. :lol:

i voted for OVER because i hate it when DH changes the roll and puts it UNDER and i can't for the life of me get any paper off of it!

but what's with all the bathroom polls lately...?

 

LOL.. so if anyone in my house ever states that rule again, i'll be sure to mark the last square with " i left some for you" in pen

 

That is just like when I was growing up and we kept a bottle of water in the fridge.. You had to fill it up if you used the last... You would not believe (I guess you would), how many times there was an 1/8th of an inch of water on the bottom!

 

hmm. i get that all the time too... <_<

 

two dispensers side by each the left one is mine and don't touch it and I won't touch the other, that said, over.

 

You realize of course, Sufferin', that this is your defining topic. At PC gatherings for years to come it'll be 'oh yeah, you're the toilet paper dude. Over or under man! Yeah!' :lol:

 

Where do you get a Sears catalogue that comes in rolls???
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Oh, yes I would. But in our house there was only one person that did that....my brother. So whenever it happened my mother knew exactly who to jump on.

I always enjoy a good floor show. Sometimes it was even dinner theater.

 

Yeah, but Free Word Association didn't have the word 'definitive' in the title field. Definitive, defining... oh never mind.

 

over


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don't know how this got here...