The one and only correct orientation for the toilet paper roll

[Recursion]

I will die on this hill

[soothsayer]

1. Ha

Got me

[BootinUp]

2. Yes but you have to move around it

A little slower.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Perfect! This makes it possible for the cat to run off with the whole thing

and unroll and shred it all over the house instead of being limited to the bathroom.

[MLAA]

4. I've heard this orientation referred to as 'The Lazy-Ass Man' orientation

😬

[Ptah]

5. Not so fast, sir.

[Recursion]

6. Gah! Foiled!

Just when I thought I had achieved peace in our time

[Harker]

14. Wave a bit of that over your head. n/t

[5X]

7. That's the way ours is. n/t

[Wicked Blue]

8. Bidets for everyone!

For peace in our time.

(ps I don't have one but considering it)

[Maraya1969]

9. I say get one. Now I have that little facet sprayer that hooks onto the toilet

tank. I love it and I hardly use any toilet paper.

[Wicked Blue]

10. This could wipe out the historic TP controversy nt

[Maraya1969]

12. And save trees!

[Harker]

17. Do you have a floor drain and a big squeegee, too? n/t

[Maraya1969]

19. Haha NO

[Recursion]

20. We had that in India

Along with a drain in the floor and a big squeegee.

I can't say I ever got used to it, though I recognize it's the greener option.

[Maraya1969]

21. Here you just spray yourself while you are still sitting on the toilet.

The water goes into the toilet.

But I think I know what you are talking about.

[Recursion]

22. May I ask where "here" is?

(I was going to be all cool and guess from the chakra/mani in your sig but I failed.)

I try to keep current with all the best butt-washing technologies of Asia. Those Japanese toilets still scare the hell out of me though.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Do you want to spoil the fun of thousands of cats everywhere?

[Wicked Blue]

13. Think of the money to be made

from selling cat toys that look like tiny rolls of TP

[Harker]

15. Yes.

Why give a cat a cheap real one when one could spend $15 on a plushy toy?

It's the American way that's at stake here.

[Wicked Blue]

16. Easier to clean up, no shreds everywhere nt

[Harker]

18. I'm pretty sure Muffins is going to see through your logic

and pee in your closet.

[In_The_Wind]

23. ... over the top

[Recursion]

24. Oh yeah

[In_The_Wind]

25. yup

If it isn't right, I fix it.

[3catwoman3]

26. As long as there is some available, I don't care...

...which way the roll is put on.

[NightWatcher]

27. Right there where you need it.

You'll get a pass for it being the way too fluffy stuff, but otherwise I agree.

[csziggy]

28. You realize there is a Wiki article for this question?

An excerpt:

In one local election in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, new voting machines were given a trial run by asking the question, "Are you in favor of toilet paper in all public washrooms being installed with the loose end coming up and over the front of the roll?" The answer was yes: 768 to 196, or 80 percent over. It was thought to be a question "which carried no political association".[45] Yet one teenager's science project at the Southern Appalachian Science and Engineering Fair, and a favorite of the fair's coordinator, was a survey concluding that liberals roll over while conservatives roll under.[46]

Noted preferences

Advice columnist Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer) was once asked which way toilet paper should hang. She answered under, prompting thousands of letters in protest; she then recommended over, prompting thousands more.[47] She reflected that the 15,000 letters made toilet paper the most controversial issue in her column's 31-year history,[48] wondering, "With so many problems in the world, why were thousands of people making an issue of tissue?"[47]

In November 1986, Landers told the Canadian Commercial Travellers Association that "Fine-quality toilet paper has designs that are right side up" in the over position.[48] In 1996, she explained the issue on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where 68 percent of the studio audience favored over; Oprah suggested that under uses more paper.[49] In 1998, she wrote that the issue "seems destined to go on forever", insisting, "In spite of the fact that an overwhelming number of people prefer the roll hung so that the paper comes over the top, I still prefer to have the paper hanging close to the wall."[45] On the day of her last column in 2002, Landers wrote, "P.S. The toilet paper hangs over the top."[50] Her published commentary on the issue has even continued after her death. 2005 saw the premiere of a one-woman play written by David Rambo: a character study of Ann Landers titled The Lady with All the Answers. Toilet paper comes up once again, and the actress surveys the audience for their opinions.[51]

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation