How do you hang your toilet roll – over or under?
telegraph.co.ukwho joined an ongoing discussion in our letters pages about everyday markers of “commonness”.Mr Belk’s Yorkshire-born mother’s “single test” of people, he said, was “which way round a loo roll was positioned.
If the hanging sheets were adjacent to the wall, they were ‘reet posh’; if they hung away from the wall, they were ‘reet common’.”The theory was that families who didn’t have a lot of money, like her own, had outside lavatories. “If the roll was placed with sheets adjacent to the wall, they would get damp due to condensation and sometimes freeze to the wall.” To do so, then, was a sign of privilege.
And perhaps central heating.And so reopens one of the most enduring debates of the internet’s dodgy outer suburbs: over or under – what is the correct way to hang your loo roll?“Over.
Obviously,” came the first response, when I threw the question out to the masses, which means my WhatsApp contacts. “Even for rich people, what is the benefit of under?” another asked. “Over.
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