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Fireflies Fri 18-Aug-17 12:03:36

PLease help settle this argument for me... I recently had a good friend come to stay and immediately noticed that everytime I nipped to the loo, the roll had been changed round on the hanger so that the end of it fell at the back of the roll, near the wall, instead of resting over the top (if you see what I mean). I realised it was her doing it and we had a good laugh about it - but we both insist our way is the 'right' way! What does everyone else think? Are there other things like this when you just 'know' you're right grin

grandMattie Sat 19-Aug-17 09:51:39

Martha Stewart says that the sheets should fall towards the front... Who am I to argue with her? grin

MawBroon Sat 19-Aug-17 09:45:33

How about the myriad real issues of life, such as round or square teabags, milk in first or second, bath or Barth, and what you call your evening meal?
Who says older people aren't up with the crucial issues of the day?
gringrin

I WAS joking hmm

AlexG Sat 19-Aug-17 09:42:54

We have two bathrooms and I tend to always use one and my husband used the other. My toilet paper hangs the 'right' way, ie over the top and he always puts his roll on the other way. I have a constant fight with myself not to change it in his bathroom but sometimes I lose and it gets moved. On next visit he moves it back but never says a word!

meandashy Sat 19-Aug-17 09:41:02

Definitely over the top.... I wouldn't dream of changing somebody else's though ?

Tessa101 Sat 19-Aug-17 09:38:23

Over the top.

maryhoffman37 Sat 19-Aug-17 09:37:21

Yes, absolutely rolling forward.

ajanela Sat 19-Aug-17 09:20:29

In hotels the carefully folded end is resting on the top.

absent Sat 19-Aug-17 07:41:02

I hang the loo roll so that the end is at the front. However, I cannot imagine being so rude as to change its position in someone else's house. Nor do I go through their kitchen cupboards turning cans so that the labels show the fronts or the coffee mugs so that the handles all face the same way. I don't check whether their ovens are clean either.

Greyduster Sat 19-Aug-17 07:16:01

Round - the sort I drink only comes in a round bag;
Milk second;
Bath (DH says barth)
Dinner.

rubysong Sat 19-Aug-17 06:01:08

Jam first
Milk first
Don't care what shape the tea bags are
Paper hangs in front of roll
Bath
If there is gravy on the plate it is dinner regardless of the time of day, (I hope I never have 'Christmas lunch')

M0nica Fri 18-Aug-17 19:25:42

No preference
First
Barth
Supper

Cherrytree59 Fri 18-Aug-17 19:15:18

I nice little wind-up is a small bit of origami on the last untorn sheet.
I can only fold a sailing boat.
My friend can do birds and lovely flowers.smile

Auntieflo Fri 18-Aug-17 18:59:18

Who'd a thought it, U and Non U loo roll households. I must be Non U then, but I also give a new roll a squeeze, so that it doesn't run away if yanked.

Kittye Fri 18-Aug-17 18:52:31

Forgot the scones..butter, jam then cream

Kittye Fri 18-Aug-17 18:51:13

Square
Second
Bath
Dinner

Tizliz Fri 18-Aug-17 18:48:51

Teabag?! Not allowed in my house whatever shape

MamaCaz Fri 18-Aug-17 18:16:48

Teabag - whatever shape/brand is best value when I buy them.
Milk second, so i can add right amount to make it the right colour.
Bath, obviously, as the only arse Rs in it belong to me or DH.
Tea, as dinner was always a midday meal where I grew up. Even when packed lunches started being used in schools, we still had dinner ladies.
As for jam and cream, it has to be jam first for me. A scraping of jam and a dollup of cream, which is quite difficult to do in any other order grin

devongirl Fri 18-Aug-17 17:27:41

Are you Cornish, lemongrove?

devongirl Fri 18-Aug-17 17:27:17

..but I have to disagree about the scones: cream first then jam smile

devongirl Fri 18-Aug-17 17:26:35

Definitely true about the sweaters smile

Devorgilla Fri 18-Aug-17 17:00:14

Devongirl, it is a fun activity at a dinner party provided you don't tell them why but it can lead to explosive debates about the differences. The explanation given in the textbook was that women protect their face while men during the war protected the flame so the enemy couldn't see them. But perhaps it is just to do with the wind blowing. Men who had served in the wars rarely took the third turn to light their cigarette when in the trenches as the first one marked you out, the second one the enemy got you in their sights and the third one........

DameJudyClench Fri 18-Aug-17 16:57:30

I'm just glad if I haven't run out at an inopportune moment - nothing elegant about staggering around my flat with my knickers around my ankles looking for anything absorbent (and praying that I've remembered to buy some kitchen roll) It could be hanging from my shower curtain for all I care grin

I did, however, have a work colleague whose friend used to actually steal borrow her bog roll.....

Smithy Fri 18-Aug-17 16:44:15

Teabags - don't mind either as long as its good tea
Milk -second
Bath
Tea (I'm a northern girl but my southern daughter calls it dinner)
As for loo rolls - I must have male hormones

lemongrove Fri 18-Aug-17 16:34:47

Men take their sweaters off differently too!

lemongrove Fri 18-Aug-17 16:34:10

But it is important Mawbroon as are the other issues that you raised.I also put jam on my scone first and clotted cream on top of the jam.shock