Well…lots of stuff.
And yet, somehow, the employees at this office in Edmonton still can’t quite make TP happen. (Maybe wrestling grizzlies is more their forte?)
Perhaps a visual aid (like this one from a Los Angeles apartment share) would be helpful?
Or maybe just a bit more encouragement would push someone over the edge?
(Probably not, though.)
related: Five approaches to TP maintenance
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#1
pony girl
I don’t know. After witnessing truly horrific public bathrooms with vomit and feces all over the place and no toilet paper nor paper towels to be had, I’m just happy when there is clean, dry toilet paper available and I can use the toilet without getting someone else’s bodily fluids on me.
ps – Please feel free to correct the grammar, syntax etc. in the above sentence. I live to learn.
Sep 30, 2010 at 7:43 pm rating: 24
#2
ju-lez
i couldn’t even read the second and third notes. all i can think of is my sudden, incredible urge to sharpen three pencils at once.
Sep 30, 2010 at 7:43 pm rating: 72
#3
Seitan
There are many directions which are ‘parallel to the wall’ which would not work. This may just be a case of faulty directions…”compressing the cylinder along the axis of rotation” would resolve your imprecise instructional problem.
Sep 30, 2010 at 8:00 pm rating: 4
#4
anglophile
To tell you the truth, I’m kind of happy to have something to do like changing the roll. Which works out rather well, since my SO’s engineering degree apparently didn’t cover the mechanics of tp changing.
Sep 30, 2010 at 8:23 pm rating: 9
#5
Quite Contrary
Note 1 gets an A+ for layout, font use, bullet points all mixed with the absolute perfect amount of snark.
Sep 30, 2010 at 8:35 pm rating: 22
#6
M L
These notes? Are amazing. All of them.
They represent, like, the entire continuum between “direct and brilliant” and “intensely passive aggressive, but also brilliant.”
Sep 30, 2010 at 8:36 pm rating: 11
#7
T.
This is too funny! I know a few people that could use that diagram
lol
Sep 30, 2010 at 8:48 pm rating: 2
#8
Kay
I swallowed 9 lightbulbs once. Yeah, I know what they’re saying. Ten would be hard.
Sep 30, 2010 at 8:55 pm rating: 13
#9
b'ar trapper
shouldn’t that be “rasslin’?”
Sep 30, 2010 at 9:00 pm rating: 5
#10
Canthz_B
Los Angeles is now in an Orange Level terror alert due to new rolls of toilet paper happily blowing themselves up.
Sep 30, 2010 at 9:16 pm rating: 8
#11
Canthz_B
Yes, we are all thankful that steps 7, 8 & 9 were not included in the “How to use toilet paper” diagram.
Sep 30, 2010 at 9:26 pm rating: 16
#12
ashmeadow
I feel like Sue Sylvester much nicer sister wrote the first note.
“You think this is hard? I’m passing a gallstone as we speak. That’s hard!”
Sep 30, 2010 at 9:36 pm rating: 5
#13
Sesquipedalian
I absolutely love the second note. The personified paper rolls, the “light of glory” radiating from step six, the insertion of step four on the side after the author/artist realized that nothing should be left implicit for these morons—it’s perfect! The artist has created something so masterfully PA that the reader doesn’t even realize it’s PA until long after. I stand in awe of this anonymous genius.
Sep 30, 2010 at 9:40 pm rating: 13
#14
JetJackson
I feel sorry for the fresh toilet roll in the second note. That truly is the smile of naive optimism. It obviously did not see the look on the face of the used roll before it went in the bin and has no idea of what is yet to come.
Sep 30, 2010 at 9:45 pm rating: 30
#15
oi
The 4th step of the 3rd picture is some kind of illusion. How can you grab the tp roll with a spanner?
Sep 30, 2010 at 9:46 pm rating: 3
#16
JetJackson
To note number one I would have to stir them up and leave a post it note…
“You know what’s even less difficult than replacing the toilet roll… not giving a fuck!”
Sep 30, 2010 at 9:48 pm rating: 5
#17
lrs
In exhibits 1 and 3, at least the person who used up the last roll appears to have gotten out a new one and put it in the stall, even if he/she didn’t actually put it on the dispenser. It could have been worse. . . .
Sep 30, 2010 at 10:09 pm rating: 3
#18
Alex T. Valencic
I owned a custodial business for a couple of years, and was always surprised how often our clients had empty rolls of toilet paper in the bathrooms. Even more surprising was when they would call me in the afternoon to complain that the roll was empty. We always left spare rolls near the toilets (often on the back) so that they could change them, since we only cleaned once a day (or sometimes every other day or even just once a week), and always in the evening.
People just seem to be incapable of changing the rolls on their own!
Sep 30, 2010 at 10:48 pm rating: 3
#19
Janellionaire
Even my 2 year old knows how to change a toilet paper roll, which actually takes care of this issue in my house, because she keeps stealing the cylinders off the holders.
Oct 1, 2010 at 12:10 am rating: 3
#20
VerityBrown
I got a different kind of roll holder for the bathroom the males in my house primarily use. It’s kind of like a long hook–you just slide the roll on and off over the end. It has improved toilet-paper-roll-changing compliance.
Oct 1, 2010 at 1:11 am rating: 8
#21
Nack
Team Ordered List. That note rocks. PA or not! I’d frame that sucker!
Oct 1, 2010 at 2:07 am rating: 3
#22
TippingCows
That first note is classic. I am jealous that I did not write it.
But the talking T.P. is hard to beat. I feel like it wants to break out into song.
Oct 1, 2010 at 3:39 am rating: 4
#23
Savannah
I always replace the toilet paper roll. It’s not because I’m especially considerate. I just get bored sitting there with nothing else to do. I’m probably the only person in the world with ADD so bad that using the restroom gets boring.
Oct 1, 2010 at 8:37 am rating: 8
#24
Neeners
Thank God, finally a comprehensive ‘how to’ on how to change the toilet paper roll and for those who can’t read a schematic diagram. If they are used in conjunction with one another this knowledge could be dangerous. This is long overdue!
I also love that this person also knows how to spell trekking properly.
Oct 1, 2010 at 10:42 am rating: 2
#25
berge
I love all of these notes also. I’ll call em high-class passive aggressive. No highlighting. No bad grammar or misspellings.
But ultimately, you have to admit, the drawings and notes aren’t gonna get the non-tp-changers to change.
I am guilty of the “setting the roll on top of the holder” and no note, however incredible the drawing, will make me less lazy.
Oct 1, 2010 at 11:02 am rating: 0
#26
Dee
I love the first note.
My thoughts exactly, changing the TP roll is one of the easier things you will ever have to do in your life, people who leave it irritate me to no end.
Oct 1, 2010 at 11:21 am rating: 2
#27
GhostWriter
While the notes are mildly amusing, these are far from the most interesting bathroom stall pics available on the internet.
Oct 1, 2010 at 11:52 am rating: 1
#28
Jbomb
Wow, I think the illustration is better than the letter.
Oct 1, 2010 at 1:20 pm rating: 0
#29
aaa
You know what’s really difficult? Reading that note in tiny font when I’m trying to crap. Looking at that makes my eyeballs hurt. I can’t crap and have my eyeballs hurting at the same time. It just can’t be done.
Oct 2, 2010 at 11:15 am rating: 3
#30
Naoyusimi
I need to print this first one out and put it in the bathroom.
Where’s the “Print Preview” button?
Team-”You!”-writer.
Oct 3, 2010 at 10:58 pm rating: 0
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