Oh… I pull out a whole ton at the end specifically to spite the people for giving me such inferior quality.. you can literally watch tv through most of the sheets I run into.
I’m a mechanical contractor, so I travel around from commercial building to commercial building. A lot of the places I go to either are too fancy and don’t like seeing a knuckle dragged like me in their bathroom, or like an apartment complex, don’t have public restrooms. Gas stations are my only option sometimes. They can be the absolute worse.
We call that "vapor deposition" toilet paper -- found in the rest areas along the interstate. The only method of manufacture to achieve that level of thinness is vapor deposition. We also believe there's a single factory somewhere where the toilet paper comes off one production line and hotel breakfast buffet bacon comes off the other.
The thin stuff doesn’t clog toilets as easily. Even if you use twice as much. Businesses know they aren’t saving money on toilet paper. They know they are saving money on maintenance.
I worked at a company (coincidentally the one pictured - Tork is a brand of essity, which used to be called SCA) that produced toilet paper, tissue paper, handkerchiefs and the like. They produce this stuff, because there is demand from restaurants and other business customers who THINK they can save money. In the end, the tissue company wins, because yes, people use more. Same thing with these terrible excuses for napkins each ice cream parlor in my country (Austria) has. Single sheet, feels like plastic, doesn't wipe, only smears. Why these are used is beyond me.
We had these at school. and some fucker would ALWAYS push the paper back in with a pen and you cant get it back out until it's fed back through the hole. And they were locked too so..... yeaah that sucked if you needed a #2
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There's one like this in my work. I just push the wee button on the bottom and open it to have free access to the roll, and can use as much as I want. I loathe these dispensers.
At some point the people waiting in line for you to finish wiping one sheet at a time, will sh*t in the hallway and the organisation who thought these dispensers were a good idea may rethink their bright idea of creating longer bathroom queues to save a couple of bucks.
As an ex cleaning guy i hated loading them, they lasted less than a week before a Gurkha put his fist through it, management were pretty scared of retaliation too, that guy was a mountain of a man
They are, don’t piss one off though, I’ve seen em chuck full grown men several feet, and I’ve been picked up by one guy with one hand, we had lots of fun
You’re not supposed to pull the TP out dummy. You spread your ass cheeks and rub your hole against the exposed paper. Then the next person in the stall disposed of the soiled paper and repeats the process. It tickles a little, but it’s a great for your hamstrings.
If people didn't piss all over the roll, they wouldn't have to do stupid shit like this. It's like complaining about expensive items behind lock and key at a drug store in an urban area.
I didn't know rogue pissers were selective based on a class system. Are there places that fall between fancy and derelict where some splash outside of the bowl, but not full bladder, is acceptable?
This is an early SUBSCRIPTION type service. If you buy their special dispenser you have to buy their roll design too. This will likely be only offered from one supplier, so they can charge higher. Maybe not a premium price, but they also don’t need to compete with typical roll manufacturers.
Lol just because the place looks nice doesn't mean nice people go there. Some people exist to do what they can to make sure people can't have nice things.
I was in hospital for a month a little while back, and the toilets had these fucks in them. Three fucking times when my mum came to visit, she somehow managed to tear the paper exactly at the entrance so there was nothing to grab onto, and of course I was in hospital so it was a huge ordeal to even get to the bathroom, only to then have to call a nurse to come fix it.
I remember just after an operation i had to go for a wee to prove i could so i could be discharged, i was in massive pain and couldn't get comfortable to do it and just when i managed to sit down to try again the nurse knocked on the door which made the whole thing stop again 😂
Whoever decided that this was a good way to dispense toilet paper stands barefoot on Lego pieces every day and so said "Fuck it, I hate everybody!" and designed it.
If a restaurant has 100 customers and lets say they each pay 20$. A single toilet paper roll is around 0.70$. Lets say that the company has a profit margin of %30. That makes a 6 dolar income for each customer, which leads us to a 600$ per day and 18000 per month. If every single customer stole 1 toilet paper roll that makes a 70$ per day 2100$ per month. That is a %12 margin loss.
I don’t know about others but it’s been years since I’ve used one, and yes it was the horrendous experience that you spoke of. I told my wise older sister about it and she said that’s why I always carry a roll with me in the trunk, if I have to go I grab it and hustle back in the store.
I think it’s mostly so people don’t use too much paper. Because every time you pull, only a small piece comes out. Although when you do a very slow pull.. you’ll get a longer one.
It's designed this way so that you can use a centre pull (no cardboard tube) roll of toilet paper - which means no need to have bins to dispose of the tube, and less wastage for needing tubes in the first place.
This may be a terrible version where it's too tight and doesn't dispense smoothly so you find it annoying to use. But there's nothing wrong with the concept.
Never ever once I have come across one of these that worked smoothly. Never. There’s a knack that kind of works sometimes but omfg I hate these so much.
These are the reason I learned pick locking. If someplace has these and I have the time I am opening all of these so maybe companies will learn we hate those.
Also my school has the plastic ones and you can open them with inserting a small key or the corner of your bank card and pushing it.
The Lego curse only works if it's a floor full of Legos. BTW, it's a good punishment for kids who don't clean their rooms. They'll learn fast, I did when I discovered this, when I was a kid.
That is a terrible design. The other main issue is location. Why do so many places mount the dispenser so it's up against your leg/knees or too low to easily reach?
I hope someday that humans get their shit together enough to evolve and look back at choices like this for it's absurdity. So much intelligence and potiential wasted to enable few in our society to gain such extravagant wealth and power that decisions like this were not only possible, but profitable. I hate it here.
I would have taken 3 at a time and put it together as neatly as possible.
It would have been like a 3 layer toilet paper, so it would have worked fine!
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u/VostroyanCommander 17h ago
Ah you see by limiting the amount of wafer thin sheets you can obtain you won't use as much. -Some guy that really didn't think it through.
I often wonder if people use more of this stuff because of how poor it is than they would if money was spent on more decent TP