Loo Rolls - Page 6

ANNE · 24-10-2007, 23:12

Oh, dear another little peculiarity my daughter has inherited from me. I to have been known to change the loo roll round.
Mick has this bad habit of putting it the wrong way round and I have to change it.

jambutty · 25-10-2007, 16:35

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Originally Posted by steeljack

something else I have noticed over the years ....toilet paper is narrower in mainland Europe (France and Germany) than the UK or the US , suppose its one way of saving natural resources

I used to have a very old loo roll holder and as the years rolled by you could see the loo rolls getting narrower and narrower but going up in price. After all who would notice if the roll was just one eighth of an inch narrower than last week.

My current roll is 110mm wide and it would have been sliced from a great big long roll maybe 3000 mm wide to give 27 rolls with just 3mm wastage. If you reduced the roll width to 107mm you would get 28 rolls and virtually no wastage. Next year reduce the roll width by 4mm and you get 29 rolls. Who would notice?

However I have to deny the rumour that in order to contribute to the reduction of the carbon footprint Parliament is going to legislate so that users MUST use both sides.

jambutty · 25-10-2007, 16:41

Actually the loo roll, just like the toilet seat, has become a weapon in the battle of the sexes.

A few posts have pointed in that direction.

steeljack · 25-10-2007, 18:19

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Originally Posted by jambutty

My current roll is 110mm wide and it would have been sliced from a great big long roll maybe 3000 mm wide to give 27 rolls with just 3mm wastage. If you reduced the roll width to 107mm you would get 28 rolls and virtually no wastage. Next year reduce the roll width by 4mm and you get 29 rolls. Who would notice?

Thanks for taking the trouble to confirm my suspicions, since you took the trouble to measure the width of U K toilet paper I can report that once again everything in America is bigger

, just measured the stuff in my bathroom and it measures 114 mm (4 1/2 inches) .
Now we need other foriegn correspondents to report in from maybe Australia and Spain etc. to see how they measure up