The totally off-topic thread

[mrs.dr.ron]

You have a thingy to put the paper towel on???? Mine just lives free under the sink and on the laundry shelf.

Goodness gracious me !!! you don't have a paper towel holder !!! Give me MrLTL email address - he needs to put that on his xmas shopping list

 

[RooFlyer]

I am with you Denali.

And toilet paper should come off the roll to the back, not the front.

Did you know which way it comes off is a mark of frugality. In posh hotels you tend to see it come off the front; the hotel is saying "No limits! take as much as you want!". Lesser establishments have it coming off the back, and the message is "Watch it! this is costing us, you know."

My paper towels also live a free life, wherever they are needed in the kitchen, or elsewhere.

 

[drron]

Paper towels,toilet paper.It all ends up the same no matter how it comes off the roll.

 

[Pushka]

Yes. In my kitchen, I pull paper towels, left to right, so the photo above is incorrect installation.

Strangely, he thinks I over think it. He would be wrong.

I am with you Denali.

And toilet paper should come off the roll to the back, not the front.

Haters gonna hate.


By off the roll to the back do you mean that it comes out against the wall?

If so please don’t enter my kitchen or use the bathroom.

 

[cove]

Heard an old time saying for the very first time.
Hatch, match and dispatch......which covered births, engagements and deaths. Not sure but probably was used in the 1900 to 1950 era when everyone looked up these announcements in the newspapers.
Seems to be an ABC show as well when I googled it.

 

[rainbowgirl]

Heard an old time saying for the very first time.
Hatch, match and dispatch......which covered births, engagements and deaths. Not sure but probably was used in the 1900 to 1950 era when everyone looked up these announcements in the newspapers.
Seems to be an ABC show as well when I googled it.

I always thought this was another name for the Birth, Deaths and Marriages government register. I've heard it used a lot growing up and also recently.

I think the priest who married us used the term when he was complaining about all the paperwork we had to fill in. I think he used the term, Hatches, Matches and Dispatches which is similar to what you've got above.

 

[TomVexille]

Heard an old time saying for the very first time.
Hatch, match and dispatch......which covered births, engagements and deaths. Not sure but probably was used in the 1900 to 1950 era when everyone looked up these announcements in the newspapers.
Seems to be an ABC show as well when I googled it.

It's still used by the editor of my cricket club's rag

 

[love_the_life]

.....

And toilet paper should come off the roll to the back, not the front.

No, no, no. It should be from the front. That way I can make little folds in it like in a hotel

 

[blackcat20]

Toilet paper comes off the front, and paper towel lives wherever it was used last....

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Heard an old time saying for the very first time.
Hatch, match and dispatch......which covered births, engagements and deaths. Not sure but probably was used in the 1900 to 1950 era when everyone looked up these announcements in the newspapers.
Seems to be an ABC show as well when I googled it.

My family always referred to births, marriages and deaths this way ! It was the first thing they looked at = back page of the SMH !

 

[Milboo]

Paper towels like the picture - left to right.

Toilet paper from the back not the front - that's just how it was growing up. I have a friend who turns it the minute she visits my house - which I actually find very rude!

 

[Milboo]

My family always referred to births, marriages and deaths this way ! It was the first thing they looked at = back page of the SMH !

Same - hatches matches and dispatches!

 

[JohnK]

I heard about this a couple of months ago. I don't think it's very fair either but it's typical of what is happening with improvements to freeways. They no longer can be called freeways. There were claims that the road had been widened and improved and the tolls were paying for this.

I thought taxes and fuel levies were supposed to pay for roads.

I live in Queensland and come to SYD weekends. Today was the first time I noticed signs no eTag or ePass and have 3 days to pay toll.

I refuse to get an eTag. I refuse to use toll roads unless it is an emergency which is not often.

 

[drron]

Another family who always used hatch,match and dispatch.

 

[Milboo]

There have been signs on the M4 for ages re the toll coming back for that section - I head out that way around once a month and think it has been since about June/ July? Especially when they were doing the testing and tags would beep (but not charged) - plus they built the big toll gantries.

I have no issues paying a toll in return for no lights, good traffic flow (my trips tend to be off peak) and 90km speed limit. It means I can get out to a friend's place in Seven Hills (from the inner Inner West - 30km) in about 32 mins. In contrast it takes me 21 mins (on average) to get across to Alexandria - which is about 6.5km.

 

[whatmeworry]

I am with you Denali.

And toilet paper should come off the roll to the back, not the front.

Patent from 1891

You have a thingy to put the paper towel on???? Mine just lives free under the sink and on the laundry shelf.

My are free range.

 

[drron]

Nathan Walker first Australian in the NHL.Scores a goal on debut.
Australian Nathan Walker marks historic NHL debut with goal for Capitals

That's Ice Hockey.Erkpod could have told you.

 

[Denali]

..... I have a friend who turns it the minute she visits my house - which I actually find very rude!

Geez... Sorry!

 

[serfty]

Seems to be an ABC show as well when I googled it.

Yes, it was about a UK office of the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriage.

 

[JessicaTam]

Paper towels like the picture - left to right.

Toilet paper from the back not the front - that's just how it was growing up. I have a friend who turns it the minute she visits my house - which I actually find very rude!

Patent from 1891

My are free range.

Race you to the patent office, @Milboo!