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notnmeyer06/16/20256 repliesview on HN

> The over or under toilet paper debate raged (politely) for two and a half weeks.

i found this particularly confusing because we all know that “over” is the only sane choice.


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wccrawford06/16/2025

Only if you don't have cats. If you have cats, "under" is the only sane choice.

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robocat06/16/2025

There must be a confounding variable: are you an engineer-type?

What traits are correlated with overing?

Do underers look at the world differently?

And it is a false dichotomy. Some people just don't care what direction when they replace the roll - what's a suitable name for that clade? And then there's the people who use the floor and ignore the holder.

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Volundr06/16/2025

Mine is in the under configuration, due to being near an AC vent that will sometimes unspool the whole roll in the over configuration.

bee_rider06/17/2025

Vertical seems to tear better.

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TacticalCoder06/16/2025

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