Posted on 01/02/2020 7:13:09 AM PST by BDParrish
If I remember, please correct me, Abby referenced the inventor of the toilet roll as being the authority on how it should be dispensed. Can’t remember which way he said it should go.
The true question is deeper than that though. If you wish to slap the top of the roll and spill out a long pile of paper onto the floor which you then gather up and partition out as needed, then you want it coming over the top, as otherwise you will whack your hand against the wall upon which the dispenser is mounted.
If however you wish to reach for the individual sheets and politely tear them off in discrete units, then you wish it to come off from behind as the fingers of the hand will hold the roll still while you tear at the perforation, and the roll itself provides the stability against which you make the tear.
Which brings me to the real question, should the paper be torn in an upward motion of the arm, or a downward motion? If you can decide that, well then the direction of the dispenser will be clear.
If visiting a home where the roll is dispensed improperly, please take the roll off the dispenser leaving the spring and bar and other parts on the floor. Hold the roll in your hand until business is concluded, and then leave the roll in the middle of the bathroom floor.
Or just grab the end of the paper and pull out a long section and tear it with a side sweeping motion leaving a bunched end for the next customer. I realize that I have not settled the burning question, but at least my advice will get you out of the water closet and back to the rest of your life.
No need to thank me.
for (i = 0; i < 10 ; i++) {
}
When you count to ten you don’t start off by saying zero - you start with one and end at ten; then you go eleven to twenty.
Let me guess - you’re an engineer? Or you write code...
I don’t have a preference; but I’ve noticed that for domesticated feline purposes of making a mess, your first ‘slap and spill’ instruction appears the most efficient.
For the obsessives among us, there’s an entire, lengthy Wiki on this (also describes clever inventions to assist in avoiding the issue altogether):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation
“It doesn’t matter as long as you hang toilet paper the right way.”
That’s funny right there.
Problem with polls anyway, WHO CARES? They should find something better to write about.
And make sure you put on a sock and a sock, then a shoe and a shoe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prRtcQz8Uqk
a decade is 10 consecutive years. The decade of the 2020s has just begun.
A decade is a ten year frame.
You can put that frame anywhere you want.
The 90s were the years with a 9 in the third position (199X)...when I want to talk about the 90s.
Went to grade school with a guy whose birth certificate listed his birth time as “midnight”, so he didn’t know which day was his birthday.
depends on what you are counting. I am counting the decade of the 2020s and I started with 2020.
I had this argument a couple of weeks ago. I know the “technical” answer. But I also know that I am not going to win against the “popular” answer.
You don’t that doesn’t mean you count. There was a theoretic year zero in the Gregorian calendar therefore the first decade was 0-9. Unless of course you think year zero was some imaginary thing
For (int x=0; x<= 9; x++)
Zero based indexing you have processed 10 when you get to nine
I prefer the other way, since it’s clear that you are iterating 10 times.
Depends on whether or not you have cats ;-)
And it's 2021!
The 2020’s start with 2020. The 3rd decade of the 21th century starts on 2021...
If the first millennium started on January 1st, 0 AD, then the first decade of that millennium started on a zero year as well.
Sure, but the tenth year is 2019, not 2020.
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