The debate is so over.
Toilet paper on roll under or over.
It seems the correct direction to hang toilet paper over or under has been hotly contested in american households for decades.
A detailed graphical look at the science and history of a pressing modern debate.
And as it turns out there is a right and wrong way.
How do you roll.
Take the conversation surrounding toilet paper.
Advice columnist ann landers said that the subject was the most controversial issue in her column s history and at 15 000 letters in 1986 provoked the highest.
The study also found that some over the roll people feel so strongly about the orientation of their toilet paper that they actually admitted to flipping the roll over if they come.
An old clip of the former grand dame of daytime recently surfaced unearthing yet again the great toilet paper debate once more.
There are two ways to hang toilet paper.
According to google patents drawings filed by wheeler back in 1891 show rolls of toilet paper hanging over not under while wheeler didn t definitively come out and say which way is correct it s safe to say that the illustrations.
Poll a room full of people about whether the toilet paper should hang over when the loose end of the paper drapes over the roll toward you or under when the loose end of the paper hugs the wall behind the roll and you ll get surprisingly strong opinions.
A pull of toilet paper from the front provides allows more pressure to be placed on the perforated section and thus a clear tear is achieved.
Some people hold strong opinions about which is better.
Toilet paper has two possible orientations when the roll is parallel to both the wall and the floor.
Armatures and oblivious folk may attribute a poor pull to happenstance when in fact it was due to the incorrect placement of the toilet paper roll.
The age old argument about whether toilet paper should go over or under has been apparently been settled by an 1891 patent unearthed by one writer.
Charmin created a toilet paper roll for millennials that lasts up to 3 months seth wheeler the inventor of the toilet paper roll seems to agree.
The science of toilet paper orientation.