#358607 - Sun Jan 27 2008 05:25 PM
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Prolific
Registered: Mon Mar 12 2007
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Loc: Hartlepool Durham England UK
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I knew a soldier once, who told me that tale, but with a single sheet of toilet paper, not a bus ticket...
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#358608 - Thu Jan 31 2008 07:36 PM
Re: Toilet paper
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Prolific
Registered: Sat Apr 29 2006
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Loc: Brisbane Queensland Australia
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Okay - I've a story to tell about toilet paper.
There are seemingly a lot of women out there who bemoan the fact that the man (or men) in their lives are able to achieve tremendous feats of strength and engineering, however are unable to change the humble emtpy roll of toilet paper.
Case in point. My beloved son hollers at me like a redneck the other night from the smallest room in the house. Suffering from that illness known as 'selective deafness', I conveniently ignore the pleas for assistance, thinking that the 14 year old boy-child will just get off his proverbial and get his own god-forsaken toilet paper.
How wrong was I? He gets up, daks down, walks past where we keep the toilet paper stored, and says "Mum, can you get me some more toilet paper". I don't know whether to laugh (it was funny) or to beat my head against the wall. I mean, here one is, daks down, dirty bot-bot dangling in the breeze, walking about asking someone else to re-trace the steps they'd just taken in order to get them some more loo paper!
Is it a man thing? I mean, if you can figure out how to change the oil in a car (which I can do, by the way), why is it one of the mysteries of the unverse how to change a toilet roll when it is devoid of paper?
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#358611 - Fri Feb 01 2008 09:53 PM
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Multiloquent
Registered: Sat Feb 25 2006
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Loc: Adelaide South Australia
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I can't believe this thread is still going. Was wondering if it has beaten the marmite/vegimite thread yet. 
Not 'till it gets to 14 or so pages!
Or was it more...
Roofoo, use a bus ticket!
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#358613 - Tue Feb 12 2008 03:19 PM
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Mainstay
Registered: Fri Oct 26 2007
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Loc: Essex UK
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Is it a man thing?
Well, I can change the toilet paper, so I don't think that that's the issue. What it is, however, is a lazy man thing.
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#358616 - Wed Feb 13 2008 07:09 AM
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Registered: Tue Jun 10 2003
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Loc: Aylesford Kent England UK
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Here is one for you Toilet paper
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#358617 - Wed Feb 13 2008 09:59 AM
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Registered: Fri Oct 26 2007
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#358619 - Wed Feb 13 2008 12:43 PM
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Registered: Tue May 15 2001
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Loc: Australia
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Well, I can change the toilet paper, so I don't think that that's the issue. What it is, however, is a lazy man thing.
Maybe the roll doesn't want to change. Ever think of that?? 
I'm the culprit in the house I'm ashamed to say - always wait until the moment that's it's needed to get another one where the other half always has one waiting ready to go when he notices it getting low.
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#358620 - Thu Feb 14 2008 07:48 AM
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Registered: Wed Jun 07 2006
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Loc: Gauteng South Africa
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In our house I have to say it is the kids who wait till the paper has run out! Hubby usually has a stack in the medicine cabinet - just in case. LOL
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#358621 - Sat Feb 16 2008 11:55 AM
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Registered: Tue Jun 10 2003
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Loc: Aylesford Kent England UK
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I have heard called many things in the past but he must be quite agile to manage it in the medicine cabinet
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#358622 - Sun Feb 17 2008 04:02 PM
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Registered: Tue Jun 10 2003
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Loc: Aylesford Kent England UK
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I have just had a thought
Soon I will be getting my free bus pass so I will have to start buying toilet paper
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#358623 - Mon Feb 18 2008 02:16 AM
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Registered: Wed Jun 07 2006
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LOL SOTHC
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#358625 - Tue Feb 19 2008 03:22 AM
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Multiloquent
Registered: Sat Feb 25 2006
Posts: 2869
Loc: Adelaide South Australia
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I have just had a thought
Soon I will be getting my free bus pass so I will have to start buying toilet paper
Not to worry I walk down the street and see many used bus tickets just thrown on the ground. I'm sure I could find some of those... 
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#358628 - Fri Feb 22 2008 05:21 AM
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Prolific
Registered: Sat Apr 29 2006
Posts: 1549
Loc: Brisbane Queensland Australia
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Can we have a poll?
What is the gender of the person who usually changes the bog roll in your house?
How about - how many sheets to do you usually use for a number 2?
And ladies - how many for a number 1?
For me it's 3 for the 'good' stuff, and 6 for government issue - hey, I get bored at work - and we're talking about a number 1. Number 2's have a number of variables - how 'bad' it is, and how 'good' the TP is (government VS home, cheap VS expensive), etc.
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#358629 - Fri Feb 22 2008 05:39 AM
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Multiloquent
Registered: Sat Feb 25 2006
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Loc: Adelaide South Australia
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Oh the things we talk about on here  Welcome to all you new member who happen to stop by this thread and get scarred for life 1st question: All of the family in my house is female, so there is a 99.9% chance that it will be a female who changes the roll. Sheets for a No. 1 is about 4. The bad TP, probably about 7 or 8. No. 2 - It depends. I will also add a question. Folder or scruncher? I am half and half, sometimes I fold, sometimes I scrunch.
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#358630 - Fri Feb 22 2008 08:43 AM
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Registered: Sun May 18 2003
Posts: 7842
Loc: Arizona USA
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ROFLOL! You guys are too much. It's just me and hubby and it's usually me that forgets to put the new roll on and I leave him stranded. (Yesterday comes to mind...  ) I am an "almost" germophobe so the paper gets out of hand in my hand. Both for 1 and 2.
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