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The one that lists sheets is at least using a verifiable metric. It's better than the "right rolls of unspecified size are more than 39 different rolls of unspecified size".
Still silly because no one knows how many sheets they use before changing the roll, but at least it's reasonable silly.
Isn't it the same problem tho, since they can make the sheets smaller and say there's more without actually offering a longer roll?
We need legally defined toilet paper roll standards.
Helps that they tend to be square-ish, there's a subsection of people who would notice immediately if you can't fold perfect paper cranes from a single sheet while you're pooping.
Oh, totally. It's by no means a good measurement, it's just the only one that's in some way tied to anything tangible. "8=39" doesn't mean anything.
This is such bullshit. Pointless manipulation of product offerings to hide the true cost, and thereby manipulate prices. I’ve been doing paper towel math like this for years and it drives me nuts. Grocery stores’ profit model is now almost entirely based on price manipulation and nothing else.
yknow what’s great? unit pricing laws
tldr: in australia businesses must display “unit price” on labels: price per 100g, per 100ml, per sheet, etc for every product so that packages are comparable
I use unit pricing every time I shop. I am so thankful the accc made it required.
Toilet paper making is an ART! No other industry manages to create a half-ply so transparent that you can read your newspaper through it, while still delivering the tactile experience of an 80 grid industrial sandpaper.
Brother, just spend the few extra bucks and buy name brand, the extra money ain't gonna kill ya. Meanwhile, the TP you seem to buy now might have you bleeding to death from your ass.
That's not my toilet paper, but one I recently had to endure on a non-private toilet. I was just amazed that they can actually produce such a paper. I'm quite attached to my ass and it's wellbeing, so sure I buy the better stuff for me and my family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html
One of the most vivid arithmetic failings displayed by Americans occurred in the early 1980s, when the A&W restaurant chain released a new hamburger to rival the McDonald's Quarter Pounder. With a third-pound of beef, the A&W burger had more meat than the Quarter Pounder; in taste tests, customers preferred A&W's burger. And it was less expensive. A lavish A&W television and radio marketing campaign cited these benefits. Yet instead of leaping at the great value, customers snubbed it.
Only when the company held customer focus groups did it become clear why. The Third Pounder presented the American public with a test in fractions. And we failed. Misunderstanding the value of one-third, customers believed they were being overcharged. Why, they asked the researchers, should they pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as they did for a quarter-pound of meat at McDonald's. The "4" in "¼," larger than the "3" in "⅓," led them astray.
America: Failing 2nd grade math since the 1980s.
In fairness, the people they surveyed grew up breathing lead. I wonder if a modern audience would handle that test better
Wait till you hear about women's clothing sizes.
Super mega rolls, now with pockets!
I just look at the area of paper on the bottom. That's what it boils down to, right? Using standard rolls as some benchmark is meaningless.
All this effort to communicate the idea of bigger or smaller rolls instead of just giving us the total surface area. But then, this isn't about informing the consumer it's about making it seem bigger. If they just gave us a total measurement in sq ft that would make it too easy to compare prices.
It's like guys measuring their dick, they aren't terribly concerned with the validity of the measurement as long as the result sounds good.
Given the information here, I believe that:
1 Giant Roll = 2.25+ Rolls = 2250+ Sheets
1 Double Roll = 2 Rolls = 2000 Sheets
1 Super Mega Roll = 6 Rolls = 6000 Sheets
1000 Sheets = 1 Roll = 0.5 Double Roll = 0.444 Giant Roll = 0.166 Super Mega Roll
1 Super Mega Roll = 2.666 Giant Roll = 3 Double Roll = 6 Roll = 6000 Sheets
Use a bidet. A single roll lasts me several months. It's mostly for spot checks on days where I've had especially greasy meals.
I wish they sold them by shits instead of by sheets. "This package is good for 100 regular shits or 50 creamy shits."
This would be incredibly unreliable. I'd rather want the hard facts: how many sheets per roll and how many plies
Go by weight. If you have two bundles that have the same number of rolls, the heavier one either has more or thicker squares.
all you need to know is how much the package weighs
Less, every year.
Every toilet paper related thread ever:
Jokes about paper quality
Americans describing their upgrade to a bidet like its the second enlightenment
Europeans feeling superior that they've been using bidets for a couple hundred years
The one random Asian trying to figure out where did humanity regress and perma downgrade from water to ass scratch material in the western world
No explanation as to how water users seems to magically dry themselves without tp, heat or air, yet watching a new user come out looking like it rained in the bathroom
And on rare occasions:
I just get my TP for free from the office
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime... that's why I steal his toilet paper and make it mine.
I wondering how a "super mega" roll will fit on a standard roll holder.
I wish toilet paper math worked on my bank account.
Best part is when you go to different store and they got from per sheet to square foot or some nonsense.
Is this unshittification?
That's usually what I use my toilet paper for
I’d bet 72 sheets of toilet paper that these calculations were made by the AI in Excel
Actually, I have very simple math when it comes to TP. Will it be smooth and soft, and not annoy my ass? If yes = buy. Me and cushelle have a love hate relationship. In that my ass loves it, but my wallet hates its fucking guts.
In Canada at the bottom of the package they will tell you the dimensions of the sheet and sheets per roll or length I can't remember.
You still have to do math but the actual numbers are there for you to do it.
The real answer is just go to Costco and buy one of those giant packs with the massive sheets and don't think too much about it.
I switched to Bamboo toilet paper. Renewable, saves old growth trees, and when bought in bulk online is as cheap as Walmart.
Almost all paper comes from byproducts if the lumber industry or recycled. Its the processes of papermaking that have huge impacts to the environment.
Holy sheets
