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.
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
Oh hey, my fear. Do you have door knobs, or uh - the flat handled kind that swing down or up? I just realized I don’t know what those lever like door handles are called.
I can hear one of my cats pawing at the door knob at night, he’d be getting in places he shouldn’t if we had those flat kind.
Bank vault doors. With digital keypad entry systems. They’re really smart cats.
That comes in handy when a girl comes over over, too
The flat/lever kind, can get them open first try from either side of a door it’s impressive. He’s way too smart for his own good and I suspect he could work a round style one if it had enough texture on it. The menace certainly gets into everything else in the house
Yes but also S T E A M
If you live in a humid, much poo carries on.
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
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.
Famously easy, like herding cats
Depends on the cat. If they’re simply going with tapping the roll to spin it, that may work for a bit. I’ve found that rolls accessible to a cat tend to morph into big balls of clawed unusable pulp.
When I was a young kid, I had a cat that was front-declawed (this was before it was well known that it’s an abusive practice - my folks didn’t know better at the time). Because he couldn’t shred the paper with his claws, he showed his spite by chewing up the roll so it looked like he’d clawed it. Didn’t matter which direction the roll was.
I loved that cat. He was so smart.
When my bois were kittens, they would play with it either way. You’re totally correct.
What the fuck were they doing for toilet paper before 1891?
I dunno, but it probably involved slaves.
This post sent me down a rabbit hole.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_hygiene
The funniest one is the Japanese “chuugi”, translated to “shit stick”.
As absolutely batshit crazy the world is right now, it’s important to reflect on what we do have. And thankfully it’s advanced beyond shit sticks.
Imagine getting an asshole splinter?
No. No I will not imagine that, thank you very much. Kittens are cute. Kittens are cute.
Farmers almanac.
Sears catalog and corn cobs. No lie.
Smart. One for the front, and one for the back.
Various other things like leaves, rags, sponges, or leftover paper. Failing that a bare hand works: manners dictating you wash it after.
Some cultural hangups on the left hand being “unclean” stem from those cultures using that hand for hygienic reasons.
A rag on a stick, frequent trips to the river, their left hand, nothing at all and the three seashells. We’re some other options.
We’ve still got a few years until the three seashells take over and Taco Bell wins the franchise wars.
Sending this to my neurotic wife. It’s going to bother her now.
Thank you. I’m glad I could help
Toilet paper hanging haphazardly over the front of the roll provides a convenient place for a 3 inch spider to hide between the roll and hanging strip. The patent illustration is clearly meant as a sick joke.
Well, that spider is in for a hell of a ride.
Weeeeee
If it’s hanging from the other side, there’s even more space for a spider to hide outside of view.
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 were very smart. Ball pens messed up my wrists. I was livid when I found out it takes no pressure to write with a fountain pen
Beards are based, mullets are cringe.
They believed in a lot of stupid shit back then.
I accept the wrong way if, and only if, the wrongifier has cats.
Toddlers do the thing too
I have cats and would never have the audacity to do something as vulgar as that.
Agreed. My cat would never dare put the roll on the wrong way.
I can’t blame that cat. I been watching this for ten minutes and the roll never ends!
Ooh I just got a new idea for a new patent!
Yes this was 1.0, 2.0 improved the tech by going under instead of over. Much more convenient single hand operation as well as pet protection.
Beard not Mullet!
Objection: appeal to authority + appeal to tradition + I did the fuck with yo mama last night
/s if that’s really necessary
We actually have a nice print of that hanging in the bathroom
Does it trouble you at all that the diagram doesn’t specify where the wall should be?
Wait… Do you not have your toilet paper just hanging in the air?
That’s a good idea. Maybe a wood print. I like it.
This is the one we have. I actually got it from their kickstarter years ago: https://cratestyle.com/products/no-338-toilet-paper-roll?_pos=1&_sid=908e541d0&_ss=r
You aren’t taking into account the patent inversion convention of 1898.
You aren’t taking into account the patent inversion convention of 1898.
Patent got filed on double reverse patent day. Draw 4.
What if it was accepted on a triple dog backwards day though?
Uno.
Crap. I’m sorry. I don’t know French.
Are we looking from the perspective of the user or the wall?
Yeah, the illustration shows nothing, we don’t know which side is which anyway.
