Gbazz

You know how you live with an awesome bunch of people, but they always do one little thing that annoys you?

For months now, I’ve been moaning over the fact that whenever we reach the end of a roll of toilet paper, someone puts a new roll in the bathroom. Now, I’m happy that a new roll gets brought in, but the housemates don’t actually take the empty roll out like you should, instead they leave the bare cardboard roll hanging there and put the new roll of toilet paper on the counter, where it will stay for a couple of days until I can’t ignore it anymore and place le papier hygiénique in the holder.

Today I was astonished to find out that people in the house are now actually placing new toilet paper rolls into the holder on the wall! Unfortunately it seems that we have yet to graduate from the next level of bathroom etiquette; How to Hang the Toilet Paper Roll.

Now as far back as I can remember, my family has always hung our toilet rolls with the paper coming out over the top (also known as overhang). It just makes sense that way. On more than one occasion  I’ve used someones bathroom and corrected their toilet paper placement method. Incorrect toilet paper positioning is an abomination unto the Lord.

A Google search on how to hang TP shows that this is a very hot topic, and since the blogs taking a pro-Overhung (hehe) stance have nicer pictures, they obviously are correct.

See? Chris Rugen at Current Config blogs some very valid points on why Overhung is better than Underhung.

Any article that is this well illustrated must be correct.

There you go, proof.

So remember: Be Good, Be Overhung.

Earlier this afternoon, while at my cousin’s house,  I was nursing a hangover from a party the night before. I also kept falling asleep on the couch every three minutes or so. Sometime between 2PM and 5PM, one of my nephews started screaming about Mario Galaxy, which woke me up.

Since I didn’t have anything better to do, I started browsing Google Reader’s recommended feeds, and stumbled across a blog post where the author had taken empty toilet paper rolls and cut these intricate designs into it.

Then of course, since I’m a regular Martha Stewart, I decided to try to make one when I got home.

After obtaining an empty toilet paper roll (all that paper really makes a mess), I then proceeded to cut little designs into it with a scalpel. As you can see in the picture above, they’re not that intricate, but the whole thing is damn well beautiful.

The lesson to take away from this is that everything can be beautiful. Except for your face. But that’s not your fault, so it’s ok.