To ask about loo roll...

[CarolinaPink]

Sonny sister and I have spent much time with elderly relative recently at her house as she's not well.

When I put loo roll on holder I have the 'loose' side facing me, so I can easily find the end and pull it down. Have discovered, though, that sister does it other way round, so loose bit abuts the wall.

Neither of us have discussed this but in a supremely passive-aggressive way we each keep changing it round.

AIBU to feel my sister is nuts because obviously it's easier if the loose bit faces you as you sit on loo, so it's not necessary to scrabble against wall to find the end?

Mine sits in a pine box on the floor.

Unless your sister has a cat, her way is annoying.

I don’t even have a loo roll holder

My loo roll always hangs at the back - it looks untidy at the front .

when it’s put the wrong way and touches the dirty public toilet wall which in turn has lots of fingers that has touched it.

I don't disagree about which way round but your reasoning seems very odd - most bog roll rests against the wall anyway in my experience due to the design of bog roll holders.

I don't get that? Surely, if you pull it from the front (the correct way), your dirty fingers will only touch previously-untouched bog roll, take it and use it and then flush it away. If it's on the wrong way, you end up groping the wall around it to pull paper down and germs get everywhere. Just look around light switches in dark cupboards to see the mess that gets left - and that's just everyday hand muck, not poo residue.

I used the toilets today in Asda and they had one of those awful new designs where there's what looks like a spiky anus on the front of the box-holder and it nips it off (arf!) so that you get one tiny little rolled up sheet at a time, unless you pull carefully with your hand in the right position to nobble it and keep the paper flow coming. THEY should be outlawed, IMHO.

My loo roll always hangs at the back - it looks untidy at the front .

It's a functional thing, though - it isn't meant to be an aesthetic art installation.

You could say the same about children - keep them locked in the cupboard under the stairs to keep your house looking tidier

It hangs the way that is farthest away from the wall- so that huge spiders dont hide behind it until you pull some off, then jump out and land in your pants that are half way down your legs, disappear into your Jean's and have you running out the bathroom with a wet lettuce, screaming like a banshee and tripping over your still down pants and Jean's and braining yourself on the boys bedroom doorway. Bastard spiders.

@katewhinesalot .
I lke that one , why does it give you rage ?
I agree with you @CarolinaPink your sister should be banished to the outside loo at the bottom of the garden with squares of newspaper lol

You could say the same about children - keep them locked in the cupboard under the stairs to keep your house looking tidier grin

Now why didn’t I think of that !

santa

They look pretty
But
It's a faff to change the roll. You have to squeeze and pull the centre bit in at the same time. Then it's a faff to get it back on again and position it in the correct holes.No one else ever bothers to change it either. A new roll is always balanced on top.

Give me one that you just slip the toilet roll over the arm anyday.

When I see threads about this I feel like the only person on the planet who doesn't give a shit about what way the big roll faces

Bog! Not big 🙄

@PaddingtonBrown You are not alone DP doesn't care.

I saw a program on TV once that showed the original patent for a toilet roll - and the loose edge was NOT against the wall! Ta da!

I feel like the only person on the planet who doesn't give a shit about what way the big roll faces

You might not give one, but you run the risk of getting some on your hands if you and all other users have to scrabble around with their fingers against the dirty wall to grab some paper. If everybody only ever took all the paper they'll need before putting their hands near their nether regions, you'd probably be OK; but if just one previous user has realised whilst wiping that they'll need another 'helping' of paper, that's when you're in the danger zone.

Not so much which way the bog roll faces as whither the bog roll faeces

If you use old-fashioned Izal or Bronco brand paper and hang it the wrong way around, you'll find that it completely sands the artex off the wall around it before too long.

In the Fifties (am very old), women’s magazines always recommended the loose side should be put at the back - more economical as it was more difficult to be wasteful.

If you want to be economical, just squeeze the roll to make it egg-shaped before you put it on the holder, and then it won't free-flow.

(Also Sausage - "spiky anus" - I know EXACTLY the dispenser type you mean!)

YABVVVU Loose bit to the wall! It amuses me how people change them round, including me.

Jeez who cares - I just wish SOMEONE ELSE IN THE BLOODY HOUSEHOLD would replace the roll and not leave it balanced on top of the empty cardboard tube...

Your sister will find if she ever gets patterned paper (like the snowman ones) that doing it her (wrong) way the pictures are upside down but doing it your (correct) way they are the right way up.

Facing forwards! You are sooo not being unreasonable OP.

Who wants to wipe their arse on a snowman?

Who wants to wipe their arse on a snowman?

I mean, I've only seen Frozen once, but I think I'd remember that song...!

Go NC 🤣