Toilet paper

OK, sort of d-i-y related I suppose.

I've just picked up a 12 pack of "New improved" toilet rolls.

They have been making the darn things for the last 100(?) years or so. How come they are "New improved" haven't they got it right yet?? How do you improve on a toilet roll?

Yes, I'm bored...............

Reply to
Bill
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making it a decent width, for a start.

Reply to
charles

Make it tear along the perforations.

Reply to
Frank Erskine

And have the perforations always line up.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

There is, or was recently, an advert on the TV in which peeps were interviewed on how they used toilet paper. It seems we are split into the folders and the scrunchers, it never occurred to me that there was any other way than I used.

Reply to
Broadback

That's only because someone's carelessly got the plys out of sequence!!

Andy C

Reply to
Andy Cap

And preventing ply-out-of-sequence malfunctions (obviously most common upon starting a new roll) * is * something that needs improvement. :-)

Also, note that several changes have recently been taking place to core sizes. Some are claiming they have reduced the diameter of the core to save card, reduced volume and shipping costs, etc. Others seem to have increased core diameters in order to fool you into thinking the roll is larger.

Reply to
polygonum

We are also further divided into standers and sitters.

Reply to
Huge

I posted here about toilet rolls the other day. the recent advert on the telly about do you scrunch or fold your toilet paper made me wonder quite where that was leading as they were asking people to tell them. I also note that we now have ones with like raised areas so the feel thicker but of course there is less on a roll, and as mentioned elsewhere here, some with smaller and bigger middles. What next? As has also been said, less glue at the start so it tears properly would be a great innovation. I'm actually surprised they are not selling complete toilet rolls enclosed in a plastic housing at cheap prices that only fit that companies rolls and replacement rolls are very expensive.. grin. Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

They could invent a roll that you don't have to destroy the first few sheets to get the thing started. Also what are you supposed to do with one (double ply) sheet. Scrape out your nails for five minutes afterwards.

Reply to
MCGARRY

That reminds me of a very old joke, aeroplane, wings kept falling off......

Reply to
Broadland Wanderer

Toilet roll cassettes (a Euro-Roll?) that snap into a decorative holder. All at twice the price of course.

Reply to
Bob Eager

On Wednesday 27 February 2013 09:23 Brian Gaff wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Work has some nice ones - small rolls, perhaps 50% larger diameter than domestic rolls, in a holder that holds one active and one spare. Just the right consistency, thin but strong - seems that a roll lasts forver.

The work ones I hate are those stupid ones that take a stack of individual square soft weak tissues in a plastic holder. You need such a wodge to ensure continuity and strength if dealing with a fudgy one - totally inefficient and slow. And no, a single sheet will not work except in the case of casting an ingot of the wipeless variety...

Reply to
Tim Watts

In the Infants we watched in wonderment as several huge rolls of white paper were delivered. It was 'newsprint', used a lot in schools at the time because it was cheap. Trusted kids were given the job of guillotining it into page size. But I digress. The headmistress was an immense lady, and the most immense thing about her was her backside. We speculated that it was special toilet paper for her.

I should add that at the time we cheerfully chanted 'Harold be they name', assuming it was a peon to Mr Macmillan, the PM of the time.

Bill

Reply to
Bill Wright

In message , Broadland Wanderer writes

First heard at the firm's annual dinner and dance around 1965.

Reply to
Tim Lamb

(In case you don't know) that's cured by taking the upper ply and unwinding it for one revolution: the two plys will then match up.

J.

Reply to
Another John

At first I couldn't comprehend this. Then I remembered: in the Good Old Days of Izal and Bronco, you *had* to scrunch the sheets, in order to make them "take" the - er - stuff off your bum.

God: what a long way we've come! Hoorah!

John

Reply to
Another John

Yes - indeed. That would always work.

By the way (and this is not mean to get at you, John, but yours happened to be a post which demonstrated the issue) - is there a universal move towards making plurals of words ending in "-y" simply "-ys" rather than the traditional change to "-ies"? And any other word-ending-changes such as verbs. I ply, he/she/it plys, ...

It seems to be very common.

I remember coming across this in 1970/80s computerised things where this was done in constructing limited vocabulary systems to make searching possible or more efficient. But that was very limited.

Reply to
polygonum

I one filled in a questionnaire that wanted to which way round I hung the roll.

Reply to
Graham.

Except when it doesn't due to manufacturing isues. Usually on the cheaper stuff.

MBQ

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Man at B&Q

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