Top or Bottom?
by Elyse Holladay - January 31, 2008 / 5:34pm View more articles
Clearly my first post on the iMarc blog needed to be something important. I spent a long time looking over cool new links and articles I found, debating if they were worthy of my first blog. Today, though, I stumbled across a pressing question that must be answered: Do you prefer your toilet paper to roll over the top or from underneath?
After doing a quick study of all the bathrooms in the office, I discovered that the bathroom by Nils and Karin has top-rolling toilet paper, as does the "women's" slash purple slash developer-bane bathroom downstairs. The upstairs developer's bathroom, though, has for a few rolls been consistently rolled from underneath.
Also, there seems to be little hearts on the developer's bathroom toilet paper, but nowhere else. Who knew our developers were such sweeties?
How do you like your toilet paper?
After doing a quick study of all the bathrooms in the office, I discovered that the bathroom by Nils and Karin has top-rolling toilet paper, as does the "women's" slash purple slash developer-bane bathroom downstairs. The upstairs developer's bathroom, though, has for a few rolls been consistently rolled from underneath.
Also, there seems to be little hearts on the developer's bathroom toilet paper, but nowhere else. Who knew our developers were such sweeties?
How do you like your toilet paper?
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You know when sometimes the roll starts rolling by itself and empties all over the floor...you know how easy it is to roll it back up when it's loaded from the bottom? It's almost impossible to roll it back up when it's loaded from the top.
shutdown.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lzcVvTHZlQo
Dan, those are called "cats".
Don't put it on the dispenser at all. Unloaded is the best. You get it all, freedom of movement, ease of use, and the rolls are hella easy to replace!
On a scale of 1 to 10 it's a 2, but losing an entire roll of toilet paper to cats is a 1.
Ellyse, great first post.
However, bottom is the only way. Cats, underpants gnomes, sub-atomic vaccuums, whatever the cause the roll goes to the back.
@McGillicuddy (probably an alias), Who pulls "up" when tearing TP? According to physics the same inertial force is applied to cny circular rotatio in all cases, the pull of gravity versus the vector force of angular acceleration is miniscule at best. Newton's basic laws state "An object at rest tends to stay at rest" So unless your TP is constantly spinning in reverse and you manage to grab the loose end as its going around you are applying the same tearing force no matter which direction you pull from.
*inhale*
What happened? I sort of blacked out, is it over, did we win? ~Frank the Tank.
I have noticed, though, that in many different bathrooms the toilet paper will be indented in to the wall (in particular, the one I have at home). If this is the case, bottom feeding is worse. You have to sneak your hands between the wall and the paper, and often times, this is much more of a hassle than you are interested in. Over the top will naturally create space between walls and the paper, allowing easy access for pullage and tearage.
An excellent first post, by the by, kudos to you.
I'm loving the physics discussions going on here. Now, does anyone actually have a clue? Can we put the next roll on from the top plz?