If the bacteria on toilet rolls was an actual problem, toothbrushes would be a much bigger issue than storage tubs.

Usually you don't use your toothbrush while fondling your genitals...

You don't know what you are missing but to each their own i guess.

Got a proper chuckle, TU

… do you.. use a toilet paper roll for that?

Modified wooden toilet roller? Wow. Just wow.

I think maybe I've been on fark too long. https://m.fark.com/comments/6611712/Woman-discovers-boyfrien...

I was shocked that this might have been a recent thread on fark, but the time stamps reassured that fark is part of the past still

It's still alive and well, unless you could demographics aging like Japan's is.

..how else would you possibly wipe them?

There are way more bacteria in your mouth than on your genitals

I feel like invoking the zeroth law of thermodynamics here.

There is an equal amount of bacteria in your mouth and on my genitals.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

> 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.