I will not be taking questions.

Unless you have a cat that likes to play with them... Then the other direction.

I see we've got some really strong opinions going on here. Just wanna remind everyone to keep it friendly and civil.

And on that note, all you weirdos who place it behind are wrong and I will die on this hill.

Fight me.

We actually have a nice print of that hanging in the bathroom

Sure, that's great and all, but the creator of the Gif says the wrong way to say it so... the creator is not always right.

Looks like some folks don't know how to use the three seashells.

It's halfway 2024 it's time to move on to bidets.

I accept the wrong way if, and only if, the wrongifier has cats.

Not the best patent to use if you want to settle the debate. This one from Wheeler is the nail in the coffin: patent

It also shows why it was over and not under as at the time, the TP holder was a hanging wire, which kept the paper against the wall. Not protruding out like todays hangers.

Thats the 'cat free house' way.

Objection: appeal to authority + appeal to tradition + I did the fuck with yo mama last night

/s if that's really necessary

I like this shitpost

The proper way to hang it, if you have cats, is the other way so they don't bat it all off if the get access. This is why I do not have cats.

Are we looking from the perspective of the user or the wall?

Wait. So if this i patented but has no specification about hanging it the other way, would that mean that one could patent toilet paper again, but hanging the other way?

You aren't taking into account the patent inversion convention of 1898.

I see nothing that indicates that that is the front of the roll

Ass wiping tech has come a long way. Thankfully.

They didn't own a cat and it shows.

I like how it just looks like a log being shaved into extremely thin sheets.

I mount mine vertically so nyah

What the fuck were they doing for toilet paper before 1891?

Just use water lmfao

Beard not Mullet!

They believed in a lot of stupid shit back then.

Beards are based, mullets are cringe.

The most dangerous phrase is "we've always done it this way".

Why is this in c/Lemmy Shitposting?

This could have saved relationships.

I prefer the look of overhand, but the oversize rolls pull better out of my inset holder when it's underhand

Sending this to my neurotic wife. It’s going to bother her now.

Yes, correct

YUP

Obviously designed in a place without deadly spiders.

Ooh I just got a new idea for a new patent!

I'm finally coming around to this after decades of being steered away from it by The Simpsons (https://youtu.be/CQod276-7Mo?si=F5_Suzq41QAK_Wtg).

• image displayed from reverse side to show overhang

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.

The inventor also said it's "jif", and I ain't saying that either. Also, the patent doesn't indicate whther that's the front view or the back view. It's displaying a roll in a vacuum.

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.

People here be discussing the wrong thing, or am I the only one thinking that patenting a roll of paper is incredibly stupid?

It's a damn roll of paper. How much of a genius do you have to be to come up with that? People have been doing it for millennia, the only difference is that it used to be so expensive that no one would think of whipping their butts with it.

I've never paid a single bit of attention to which way it goes on. I spit into the face of this entire debate and it's never done me any harm to do so. I'm a cat owner too. The roll goes on either way, it's fine, and I'll never change my mind.

Why do we assume that is a frontal 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.