When eating a loaf of bread, the piece from the front end crust should be: eaten last, as it is crusty and undesirable. but not good crusty, soft, bagged-bread kind of crusty. it is best to leave it and hope someone else eats it. if you live alone, you can either feed it to ducks, make croutons, or put half a jar of peanut butter on it. these are your only options.
This piece of bread is called: on bagged bread, it is called the end piece. on a nice loaf of homemade or bakery bread, it is called the heel.
and as for bathroom behaviours, the sooner we women learn that men can't be taught ANYTHING about toilet paper, the better. to them, toilet paper barely exists. they only use it once every day or so. I can't even convince the men in my house to PURCHASE toilet paper, let alone put the damn roll on the dispenser. the dispenser thing i have abandoned as a lost cause, as everyone here claims it is placed awkwardly and is therefore hard to reach. I disagree, but i have learned to pick my battles.
like where we keep the recyclables! (i.e. NOT dirty on the kitchen counter)
I'm neutral on the toilet paper issues, in the sense that I acknowledge them as impolite but don't think they're unacceptable, but I do need to comment on the third option. In particular, I've noticed some very, very politeness / cleanliness / orderliness -conscious people who are guilty of this. They've generally been other people's uptight parents, so I'm not going to ask them, but... why? Is this one of those many bathroom superstitions, that actually doing the change puts you at risk of debilitating bathroom diseases? Or what? It's not laziness / apathy, because these are not that kind of people.
hmm....nostalgia? Well, I can still fall back on the first reason, that I never really thought of the roll as being much more useful because it was on the holder. There are all kinds of ways to get the paper off a free roll, like the "toss 'n catch," the "freestyle," the "mummy," and even the fabled "dirty frenchman......"
I almost checked the "leave one measly sheet" option, except that if you're doing it on purpose then it's not ok.
finishing the roll of toilet paper and not replacing it is sucky but I understand how one gets kind of on autopilot regarding bathroom habits and can forget to replace the roll. Perhaps counterintuitively, I feel that if you keep your toilet paper stashed somewhere other than the bathroom (I've lived in places where there was not suffient storage space in the bathroom) that increases your responsibility to replace it cuz otherwise it sucks that much more ass for the next person.
Getting out a new roll and setting it near the toilet (or far away) is TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. Jesus Christ people. If you can be bothered to get out a new roll, you can take the whopping 15 seconds or so to put it on the holder. This is a pet peeve of mine, which fortunately I don't encounter much these days.
I'll do #3 in another person's bathroom if I don't know my way around it well. I once broke a paper dispenser because it was the same type as at my place, but thiers had a problem and they had jury rigged a solution and I unknowingly messed it up. Also, some people are picky about which way the roll faces and ..well, who knows? People can be particular about thier bathrooms and, especially if the person is high strung, they could have wierd quirks that I don't want to know about.
At my NY apartment people kept taking the TP off the shelf and putting it on the roll when they used my bathroom. I only had one bathroom so the cat and I shared it. TP on the roll meant they had just made a fun cat toy for Triskele and a giant mess for me. I had to train my friends to always do #3.
I hate options.. anyway, my little unwarranted input. I actually like the 'ends' of the bread (and thats what I generally call them actually, although a lot of people around me call them heels). Theyre not all that bad in certain sandwhich forms, and to me, they make great one slice bread sandwhiches or rolled toats. But, I was ridiculed for not waiting til the end by one of my friends mother. I was thinking I was doing them a favor, getting rid of the unwanted part, but no, not to them.
As far as the toilet paper thing is concerned.. Im actually really critical about it, far more than a 'typical' guy. But I am in a lot of other things as well. I near always put in a new roll on the dispensor, or if its looking like its running out, I'll get one out and put it on, thinking that the next person will go through the diminishing roll. The second one is generally very rare. I actually avoid going to the bathroom in another persons house, unless I know the house/them very well, so I avoid the problem of otherwise. In the dorms though, I actually hoard my precious toliet paper, so I just carry it from my room to the bathroom, and back out, avoiding the entire mess.
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Date: 2004-12-05 07:59 pm (UTC)This piece of bread is called: on bagged bread, it is called the end piece. on a nice loaf of homemade or bakery bread, it is called the heel.
and as for bathroom behaviours, the sooner we women learn that men can't be taught ANYTHING about toilet paper, the better. to them, toilet paper barely exists. they only use it once every day or so. I can't even convince the men in my house to PURCHASE toilet paper, let alone put the damn roll on the dispenser. the dispenser thing i have abandoned as a lost cause, as everyone here claims it is placed awkwardly and is therefore hard to reach. I disagree, but i have learned to pick my battles.
like where we keep the recyclables! (i.e. NOT dirty on the kitchen counter)
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Date: 2004-12-05 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-06 12:22 pm (UTC)I tried to put it all here, but it was just too much, too important to leave alone......
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Date: 2004-12-06 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-06 02:34 pm (UTC)Well, I can still fall back on the first reason, that I never really thought of the roll as being much more useful because it was on the holder. There are all kinds of ways to get the paper off a free roll, like the "toss 'n catch," the "freestyle," the "mummy," and even the fabled "dirty frenchman......"
Or maybe we're lazy.
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Date: 2004-12-05 11:35 pm (UTC)finishing the roll of toilet paper and not replacing it is sucky but I understand how one gets kind of on autopilot regarding bathroom habits and can forget to replace the roll. Perhaps counterintuitively, I feel that if you keep your toilet paper stashed somewhere other than the bathroom (I've lived in places where there was not suffient storage space in the bathroom) that increases your responsibility to replace it cuz otherwise it sucks that much more ass for the next person.
Getting out a new roll and setting it near the toilet (or far away) is TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. Jesus Christ people. If you can be bothered to get out a new roll, you can take the whopping 15 seconds or so to put it on the holder. This is a pet peeve of mine, which fortunately I don't encounter much these days.
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Date: 2004-12-06 12:04 am (UTC)In defense of option 3
Date: 2004-12-06 02:30 am (UTC)At my NY apartment people kept taking the TP off the shelf and putting it on the roll when they used my bathroom. I only had one bathroom so the cat and I shared it. TP on the roll meant they had just made a fun cat toy for Triskele and a giant mess for me. I had to train my friends to always do #3.
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Date: 2004-12-06 12:56 am (UTC)Also, I ticked none of those behaviours are acceptable but I've been guilty of them all in my lifetime. I just know that they were bad and wrong.
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Date: 2004-12-06 11:34 am (UTC)As far as the toilet paper thing is concerned.. Im actually really critical about it, far more than a 'typical' guy. But I am in a lot of other things as well. I near always put in a new roll on the dispensor, or if its looking like its running out, I'll get one out and put it on, thinking that the next person will go through the diminishing roll. The second one is generally very rare. I actually avoid going to the bathroom in another persons house, unless I know the house/them very well, so I avoid the problem of otherwise. In the dorms though, I actually hoard my precious toliet paper, so I just carry it from my room to the bathroom, and back out, avoiding the entire mess.