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Overon
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 Posted: 07/25/05 - 12:00 Post subject: Which is the correct way to hang toilet paper?
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So, what is the correct way?
Closest to you, as in .. the paper hangs down on the outside .. or closest to the wall, as in .. the paper hangs down on the inside
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motherface
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 12:04 Post subject:
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I thought about making this poll 3 days ago. Odd.
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kemble
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 12:04 Post subject:
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repost.
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Leilu
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 12:19 Post subject:
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Why would anyone pick closest to the wall. That's just ass backwards.
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Owyyn
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 12:21 Post subject:
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Where's the option to have the toilet paper sitting vertically on top of the roll?
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Jakanden
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 12:39 Post subject:
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| Leilu wrote: | | Why would anyone pick closest to the wall. That's just ass backwards. |
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1337/b3/d3d/f00l
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 12:57 Post subject:
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Doesn't really matter. Either way, my ass isn't getting wiped, regardless.
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motherface
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 14:28 Post subject:
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| 1337/b3/d3d/f00l wrote: | | Doesn't really matter. Either way, my ass isn't getting wiped, regardless. |
Nasty.
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Overon
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 14:29 Post subject:
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Ok so who said closest to the wall? 
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Someone
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 15:35 Post subject:
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There is really no wrong way to hang toilet paper. There is the standard I love America and justice way (the sheets are closest to the user) or the I am a terrorist supporting scumbag (sheets face opposite side of user).
Personally I love America and justice, but I guess it's all relative.
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Overon
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 15:40 Post subject:
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| Someone wrote: | There is really no wrong way to hang toilet paper. There is the standard I love America and justice way (the sheets are closest to the user) or the I am a terrorist supporting scumbag (sheets face opposite side of user).
Personally I love America and justice, but I guess it's all relative. |
omg
they should put cameras in everyone's bathroom
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sinrakin
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 16:01 Post subject:
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| Overon wrote: | | Someone wrote: | There is really no wrong way to hang toilet paper. There is the standard I love America and justice way (the sheets are closest to the user) or the I am a terrorist supporting scumbag (sheets face opposite side of user).
Personally I love America and justice, but I guess it's all relative. |
omg
they should put cameras in everyone's bathroom |
I believe that's in the next version of the Patriot Act.
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kemble
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 16:11 Post subject:
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| sinrakin wrote: | | Overon wrote: | | Someone wrote: | There is really no wrong way to hang toilet paper. There is the standard I love America and justice way (the sheets are closest to the user) or the I am a terrorist supporting scumbag (sheets face opposite side of user).
Personally I love America and justice, but I guess it's all relative. |
omg
they should put cameras in everyone's bathroom |
I believe that's in the next version of the Patriot Act. |
They aren't waiting.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/23/security.cameras.ap/index.html
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Saturday, July 23, 2005; Posted: 11:45 p.m. EDT (03:45 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Pressure is building for greater use of video cameras to keep watch over the nation's cities -- particularly in transportation systems and other spots vulnerable to terrorism -- after the bombings in London.
The calls have come over the last few weeks as British investigators released surveillance footage of the bombers in the deadly July 7 attacks and then put out frames of suspects in Thursday's failed attacks.
"I do not think that cameras are the big mortal threat to civil liberties that people are painting them to be," Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony A. Williams said Friday.
He's not alone. While privacy advocates question their effectiveness, Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton called for New York City subway officials to install more cameras, even though officials said some 5,000 cameras are already in use across all modes of city travel.
In Stamford, Connecticut, Mayor Dan Malloy said it's time to revisit a 1999 ordinance that limited cameras to watching traffic.
In many other spots around the country, cameras already are in place.
"In general, I think we're getting used to cameras. Hey, that's just the way the world is," said Roy Bordes, who runs an Orlando, Florida-based security design consultant firm.
Consider these recent developments:
• Chicago, Illinois, now has at least 2,000 surveillance cameras across its neighborhoods, after leaders last year launched an ambitious project at a cost of roughly $5 million. Law enforcement says they've helped drive crime rates to the lowest they've seen in 40 years.
• In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the city has increasingly relied on video surveillance, cameras caught an early morning murder that ultimately led to the capture of a suspect. Police say the accused is now a suspect in an unsolved murder from 1998.
• Homeland Security officials last week announced they would install hundreds of surveillance cameras and sensors on a rail line near the Capitol at a cost of $9.8 million, months after an effort by local officials to ban hazardous shipments on the line.
In most cases prior to the last few years, street crime -- not terrorism -- was the driving factor behind the cameras.
There has also been a boom in traffic-monitoring cameras, and huge reliance on surveillance cameras in private business, especially in retail establishments like convenience and department stores.
Security experts say that technology hasn't yet caught up with hopes for the equipment, however.
They point out that despite London's huge network of cameras, the bombings weren't prevented. In those two cases, the cameras have only helped in the investigations.
One significant weakness is that the images caught by camera can't automatically link to a list of known terrorist suspects -- not that that would have helped in London, as men identified as bombers weren't on any watch lists.
"I haven't heard of anything being successful that allows us to prevent something by flashing up on a screen somewhere a positive identification of someone on a terrorist database," said Jack Lichtenstein with ASIS International, a Washington-based organization of security officials.
Still, "that's where we're headed," he said.
Privacy advocates say the London bombings should persuade policymakers to stay away from surveillance rather than invest in it. It doesn't prevent terrorism, and at best only encourages terrorists to shift their target, they argue.
"Let's say we put cameras on all the subways in New York City, and terrorists bomb movie theaters instead. Then it's a total waste of money," said Bruce Schneier, author of "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World."
It's not much more likely to catch a terrorist than the random searches that New York officials have begun conducting on subways, he said. Better to spend money on intelligence resources to prevent attacks and emergency training to respond to them, he said.
But in Stamford, a city on a train line that runs to New York, Mayor Malloy said potential targets like trains, hospitals and water reservoirs should all be monitored, with regulations to guard against snooping on private homes, parks and other unlikely targets. |
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motherface
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Posted: 07/25/05 - 16:18 Post subject:
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I think Giuliani started that shit long before 9/11. It's worked real well!
| Quote: | Surveillance
Even before September 11th, New York City was a heavily surveilled city: in 1998, the New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) counted and mapped out the locations of exactly 2,937 surveillance cameras installed in public places in Manhattan. This landmark project was initiated in response to then-Mayor Giuliani's July 1997 decision to allow the New York Police Department to install permament surveillance cameras in such public or city-controlled places as Washington Square Park, City Hall and several Housing Authority projects, including Ulysses S. Grant and Lillian Wald in Manhattan, the Albany Houses in Brooklyn and the South Jamaica Houses in Queens. (The NYPD hadn't been allowed to use always-operating surveillance cameras in public places since the early 1970s, when it was found that these cameras weren't cost effective: they didn't stop or solve any serious crimes, and yet cost a great deal of money to install, maintain and operate. With regards to cost-effectiveness, nothing has changed since then, despite great advances in the technologies of video cameras and wireless networks: the cameras still don't deter or solve serious crimes, and they still cost a great deal of money to operate on a 24-hour-a-day basis.)
Since 1998, the total number of public cameras (which can be operated by either the police or private security firms) has grown dramatically. In Times Square, for example, the number of cameras has tripled since 1998. If we assume that Times Square is representative of the city as whole, then the total number of cameras in Manhattan is probably approaching 9,000. This number translates into an average of 4 cameras per city block, or one camera per street intersection. Such surveillance -- easily the heaviest in the United States -- not only violates the constitutionally protected rights to be left alone, to be free from unreasonable (televisual) searches and seizures, but it also destroys the very thing that New Yorkers and tourists love about the city: its great crowds of people, in which it is possible to be anonymous (no matter how striking-looking or famous you are), in which it is possible to disappear and then re-appear as someone else.
Keep in mind that such an estimate (9,000 total cameras) is conservative: there are, no doubt, a number of public cameras in operation that can't be seen because they are too small, too high up, or located on things that move (ships, vans, helicopters and spy planes). Also keep in mind the facts that very few of these 9,000-plus cameras are part of the so-called "war on terrorism," and that most of them were installed during the prior "war," that is, the one on "drugs." The post-September 11th effect -- at least where the video surveillance of public places is concerned -- has only just begun.
Though the New York ACLU didn't follow-up on the map it made back in 1998, its pioneering efforts created an intellectual environment in which it has been possible to condemn public surveillance without appearing to be ill-informed, alarmist or paranoid. In the last 5 years, two other groups -- the Institute for Applied Autonomy and the Surveillance Camera Players, of which I am a member -- have undertaken to put the old ACLU map to good use and to make new, up-dated maps of Manhattan. As a result of the combined efforts of these groups, New York City is at the forefront of the just-emerging anti-surveillance/pro-privacy movement in America. Nowhere else are maps available. For example: at the University of Texas (UT), the student newspaper has found it necessary to sue UT in court to force it to release such basic information as the cost, number, locations and technical abilities of the cameras in use on campus. The University had refused on the grounds that such a release would compromise "national security." As a result, the Attorney General of Texas has gotten involved -- and on the side of the student newspaper, not the University.
(Written by Bill Brown and published in the "Genesis" issue, May 2003, ANIMAL New York |
http://www.notbored.org/animalnewyork.html
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Manuva
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Posted: 07/26/05 - 04:14 Post subject:
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Mine is always closest to the wall.
f**k you all
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atarom
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Posted: 07/26/05 - 05:49 Post subject:
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me too.
overhand TP is for rednecks who buy 400 rolls of charmin double ultra plush and store them in the garage to save $0.0005 per square foot.
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Ishmael
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 08:41 Post subject:
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I refuse to hang mine, and whenever I go to another persons house I just take theirs off. That said, I voted closest to the person.
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Okami
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 10:21 Post subject:
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I do closest to the wall.
Due to having cats that like to unravel it if its hanging the other way.
Half the time, the roll is just sitting on the window sill.
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Banzai
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 12:38 Post subject:
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only f**s hang toliet paper
real men put it on top of the can
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Overon
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 12:40 Post subject:
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| Banzai wrote: | only f**s hang toliet paper
real men put it on top of the can |
real men also love wiping their ass with wet toilet paper ...
... oh yeah
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Plat4PoP
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 13:32 Post subject:
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| Owyyn wrote: | | Where's the option to have the toilet paper sitting vertically on top of the roll? |
2nd that...
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ATM Banana
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 13:34 Post subject:
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i always wipe with a couple 20 dollar bills, then flush em down.
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sinrakin
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 13:43 Post subject:
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| Banzai wrote: | only f**s hang toliet paper
real men put it on top of the can |
I assume the question meant "how do you want the housekeeper to hang the toilet paper"; it's not like you're going to do it yourself.
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Bait Masterson
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 14:31 Post subject:
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| Owyyn wrote: | | Where's the option to have the toilet paper sitting vertically on top of the roll? |
The correct way is to not hang it and just sit the roll within reach of the toilet 
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Wasabi
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 14:50 Post subject:
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| Okami wrote: | I do closest to the wall.
Due to having cats that like to unravel it if its hanging the other way.
Half the time, the roll is just sitting on the window sill. |
Also, if you accidently roll out too much after you tear some off all you have to do is run your hand down the side closest to you, and voila it is back to normal.
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Overon
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 14:58 Post subject:
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| Wasabi wrote: | | Also, if you accidently roll out too much after you tear some off all you have to do is run your hand down the side closest to you, and voila it is back to normal. |
wow .... that is a good point
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Leilu
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 15:15 Post subject:
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Or you can just hang it the right way and run your hand up the side closest to you, and voila it is back to normal.
And non hanging is more difficult than hanging because it takes 2 hands to roll out enough to wipe with.
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Ishmael
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 17:05 Post subject:
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| Leilu wrote: | Or you can just hang it the right way and run your hand up the side closest to you, and voila it is back to normal.
And non hanging is more difficult than hanging because it takes 2 hands to roll out enough to wipe with. |
I don't know how to roll it out though on a roller, do you roll it out and fold it or some shit? I can just wrap it around my hand really fast and slide it out, and tada. Please teach me 
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Leilu
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 17:21 Post subject:
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I normally just use my left hand with excessive force to get the roll spinning. Once it's rolled out to what I've deem the proper amount for the job, I rip it off, grab both ends and wrap around my hand. That way it's like double coated.
Keep in mind I have twice as much wiping experience as most of you (sans Frehya, Cele, Tam, Gal, etc.).
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Ishmael
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 17:23 Post subject:
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| Leilu wrote: | I normally just use my left hand with excessive force to get the roll spinning. Once it's rolled out to what I've deem the proper amount for the job, I rip it off, grab both ends and wrap around my hand. That way it's like double coated.
Keep in mind I have twice as much wiping experience as most of you (sans Frehya, Cele, Tam, Gal, etc.). |
I will try this next time I arrive at a place where theirs is hung, but if all else fails I'll just take it off for them. Thanks!
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