Which Way Should The Toilet Paper Hang? | QI

This is a controversial topic but we cannot stay silent.

This clip is from QI Series T, Episode 4, 'Thrills and Spills' with Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, Nish Kumar, Suzi Ruffell and Mark Steel.

[valeriehowden]

My old cat used to unroll the TP when it came off the front. I tried to outsmart him and had it unroll off the back. Well, i woke up to a perfectly shredded roll of TP. From then on, we compromised by taking it off the holder and placing the roll on the top of the tank.

[jonahship]

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[renhoeknl]

Toilet paper to the front.. This is a hill I'm willing to die on.

[BBQAndButter]

Like Alan, I also have a double roll holder with a magazine rack at the bottom. It's called a Loo Read. Quite nice looking, actually.

[steves]

1:38 Puts a new meaning to “Four sheets to the wind”

[christophermccutcheon]

No matter which way it is, i flip it the other way when I'm in someone else's bathroom

[cmputer]

A friend’s father is an hvac tech and he went to a customer’s house and he wasn’t there and so couldn’t get in the house. He was just parked in the driveway waiting for him to arrive. He had to poo and crouched behind his car, laid some newspaper on the driveway and did his business. When he was done he realized the newspaper had blown away before he started going. Then the home owner came home.

[mastermill]

I use the shells from Demolition Man so.

[TxVoodoo_]

Bidets got more popular in the US after the Great Toilet Paper Shortage during COVID!

[NewMessage]

I turn them around, no matter what side they're facing, when I go to friends houses.


I imagine I caused more than one divorce.

[Fadamor]

In the U.S. there was a nationally-syndicated advice columnist whose column was called "Dear Abby". She appeared in newspapers across the United States. One person asked her in her column about which way was the correct way to hang TP and she chose "hang from the front". It was at that point I decided she was "insane" because I preferred hanging from the rear. Of course now I hang from the front but not because of that column. I grew tired of the paper tear happening in back where I couldn't reach it.

[BOABModels]

I watched this whilst fitting a loo roll holder in the downstairs loo.

[marc.lepage]

Used to use old magazines, but now i just use an iPad.

[ObscureReference]

This must be where the phrase "three sheets to the wind" was started.

[williamjones]

This subject created the greatest surge in letters, According to Ann Landers, Toilet paper should unroll off the front. That is the way it is manufactured. If the paper is printed or embossed, the printed or the embossing is on the front side. Now, this all goes to hell if you have cats. The cat will unroll the paper if it comes off the front. My cats took great pleasure in unrolling the roll when it came off the front. Even if I caught them in the act, they would just look at me and go back at it.

[kreature]

The best solution is a holder that hangs on the wall and the roll unrolls towards said wall.
Reason is you can then, with one hand, pull off a set of sheets while applying pressure to the roll towards the wall. Your pull on the paper rotates the roll opposite from your pressure and movement of the hand locking the roll and tearing the sheet.
This is not possible if it unrolls from the front.

[JeremyKasperson]

My grandparents had an outhouse and swore by the Sears catalog.

[twocvbloke]

Ours is sideways, because of the rebellion... :P

[andrewschmidt]

I have a poem I live by: I don’t care, as long as it’s there…

[kilroy]

1:20 I'm pretty sure I saw a tilt a roll demonstrated on a late night talk show before 1999.