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I am not personally turned off by the hygiene of toilet paper rolls, but I think any rational adult's Overton Window should accommodate those who are. Your cond

by gavmor 1y ago

I am not personally turned off by the hygiene of toilet paper rolls, but I think any rational adult's Overton Window should accommodate those who are. Your condescension is grossly unwarranted. You don't have to be Adrian Monk to recognize that toilets are unsanitary.

ffsm8 1y ago
Eh, it got a chuckle and eye roll outta me so I didn't mind. And fwiw, I don't really care either wherever people use them for whatever they want, I am just still confused why people would want to use paper (sourced from leftover toilet utensils), which is notorious for being basically un-cleanable... as food storage, but to each their own. I'm surprised how many people hate me for such (imo) mellow statement though
- sarchertech 1y ago
  I definitely wouldn’t want to he any kind of un-cleanable surface as long term food storage. But I don’t think most people are using gridfinity as food storage.
  - ffsm8 1y ago
    I just contextualized it around food storage too, as jot's link has pictures of such (the comment that started this thread). But the article/video we're commenting on doesn't do so, so that's fair I guess?
- function_seven 1y ago
  This isn't a food storage thing, but I think I see where you got that idea from the photos in the link. He's showing the types of paperboard that work with his system. Old cereal boxes, coffee filter boxes, etc.
- Spunkie 1y ago
  > notorious for being basically un-cleanable I don't really think anyone other than OCD/germaphobes thinks about toilet paper rolls in that way and it's certainly not "notorious". I'm pretty sure the general sentiment is that it's a perfectly benign material, often given to kids to play and craft with. The same thing happened with that episode of mythbusters about the toilet ploom from flushing. A bunch of OCD/germaphobes lost their minds and have not stopped thinking about it since. Meanwhile the rest of society gave a collective shrug and couldn't even be bothered to move their toothbrush brush to another room or close the toilet lid while flushing.
VBprogrammer 1y ago
I'm not sure where you got condescension from - I was going for genuine concern. Being irrationality concerned about hygiene is a warning sign for conditions like obsessive compulsive disorder.

by gavmor 1y ago

ffsm8 1y ago

Eh, it got a chuckle and eye roll outta me so I didn't mind. And fwiw, I don't really care either wherever people use them for whatever they want, I am just still confused why people would want to use paper (sourced from leftover toilet utensils), which is notorious for being basically un-cleanable... as food storage, but to each their own. I'm surprised how many people hate me for such (imo) mellow statement though

sarchertech 1y ago
I definitely wouldn’t want to he any kind of un-cleanable surface as long term food storage. But I don’t think most people are using gridfinity as food storage.
- ffsm8 1y ago
  I just contextualized it around food storage too, as jot's link has pictures of such (the comment that started this thread). But the article/video we're commenting on doesn't do so, so that's fair I guess?
function_seven 1y ago
This isn't a food storage thing, but I think I see where you got that idea from the photos in the link. He's showing the types of paperboard that work with his system. Old cereal boxes, coffee filter boxes, etc.
Spunkie 1y ago
> notorious for being basically un-cleanable I don't really think anyone other than OCD/germaphobes thinks about toilet paper rolls in that way and it's certainly not "notorious". I'm pretty sure the general sentiment is that it's a perfectly benign material, often given to kids to play and craft with. The same thing happened with that episode of mythbusters about the toilet ploom from flushing. A bunch of OCD/germaphobes lost their minds and have not stopped thinking about it since. Meanwhile the rest of society gave a collective shrug and couldn't even be bothered to move their toothbrush brush to another room or close the toilet lid while flushing.

VBprogrammer 1y ago

I'm not sure where you got condescension from - I was going for genuine concern. Being irrationality concerned about hygiene is a warning sign for conditions like obsessive compulsive disorder.