hanging
I always have to have the toilet paper hanging over the front of the roll as it sits on the holder thing. If it's the wrong way round (as I always seem to find it) I have to throw away a couple of sheets and put it the right way. I guess it's something to do with it touching the wall or something.
( JojoThe3rd They WILL wear lapel pins., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:52, 12 replies)

No
That's just the right way to have it. There is no reason.
(BearWithLittleBrain, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:53, closed)

Abolutement. It's as plain as the reason the handle goes on that end of the spoon.
The back-to-front loo roll thing contributed to one ex being asked to return her key. She was a nice girl too - but with a flaw like that she had to go.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:01, closed)

when i lived with my ex
She always had the paper hanging down the back whereas I had it down the front, it was a constant battle trying to have both toilets the same.
(Kip, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:09, closed)

Hanging down the back is just wrong wrong wrong.

( sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:21, closed)

although
My misses now has no preference apparently, I've seen it both ways round, if It's wrong, I change it and it stays like that. Happy days.
(Kip, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:42, closed)

Yep...
...me too. It justs seems so wrong to have it touching the wall.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:00, closed)

I think...
...that it is a girl boy thing. For lads it tends to hang over the front because it makes more sense that way, for girls and their seated toilet habits it is easier to reach from underneath. This I have observed over the decades and bar a couple of exceptions is almost always the case.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:16, closed)

Er, no.
Men generally sit down to take a shit. And generally have very few other uses for toilet paper in the bathroom.

I grew up in houses with woodchip/anaglypta/artex walls in the smallest room, or houses with no heating in there.

So the toilet-paper-over-the-top thing is a simple way to avoid getting chilly or scraped knuckles.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:55, closed)

My sister....
My sister is a 'down the wall' kind of girl, she actually changes other people's toilet paper should it be facing the wrong way when she visits...

Me, I'm an over-the-front kind of guy....
(FF_Sam is currently on call...., Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:49, closed)

and here we are, a bunch of guys??
Talking about bog roll!
(Kip, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 18:30, closed)

I started
I started reading the replies to this QOTW, thinking "Oh - there's nothing I can contribute to this."

And then I read this, and you're absolutely right - it *has* to be down the front.

However I have recently found a flaw in this. If it's a new roll, and it's down the front, and the holder is small (i.e. the axle is close to the wall) and you pull it, then the bulk of the roll actually moves backwards on the axle, and chafes against the wall as you pull.

If it's all the above, but at the back, when you pull it the whole roll moves away from the wall and turns freely.

It is a most distressing situation...
( Boot I want to know what you meant, Sat 3 Jul 2010, 8:46, closed)

http://b3ta.com/questions/prejudice/post684401?highlight=answers-post-684408
gordonjcp's answer is still one of the funniest I've read on QOTW
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Sun 4 Jul 2010, 23:28, closed)