Why is toilet paper made out of individual squares?
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Cute kittycat:)\n\nIt is because it is easier to tear when it is perforated. The toilet paper that is not is annoying as heck! \n\nWell, Gunther doesn't seem to think so, he has a hayday with it while I am at work. LOL! At least he is out of the phase of eating it. :S
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I generally go through a roll every other day.\n\nI am a pretty hefty guy and eat a lot, so I guess maybe I need a bit more toilet paper than the average.
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Technically, with only the single requirement it is a rectangle. A square has the additional requirement that all sides be equal. Thus, all squares are also rectanlges - but not all rectangles are squares.
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All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
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because poop is brown
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Paper is insoluble  in water.\nPaper is made from wood - plant fiber.
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A bidet has a pair of water sprays in there to help cleanse the pubic and anal areas.\n\nNot as problemantic as toilet paper and some of the bidet toilets have a lot of incredible functions.
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plenty of toilet paper
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None of those are "planes".\n\nA plane is drawn as a square simply because of the limitations of a sheet of paper.\n\nA plane is infinite in two directions.  It has no start or end point on the xy axis.  A sheet of paper of course does have start end end points.  Usually 8x11\n\nNone of rectangels, squares, or triangles are planes.  They are all subsets of them.  And darned small ones at that.\n\n-Dio
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I use the book pages for toilet paper!! :)
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Yeah, paper is paper.
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There are a whole slew of reasons why manhole covers are round.  The covers are made of cast iron and so are very heavy.  By making them round they can be rolled rather than carried from place to place on the job.  The tunnels leading to the covers are almost always round, for structural as well as ease of digging reasons.  Since the tunnels are round it made sense to make the cover round.  If the covers were square, rectangular, etc. the cover would have to be in a particular orientation in order to fit the hole.  In addition the cover could fall into the hole if it were square or rectangular (or any other shape than round).  Finally it may boil down to "that's the way they always been made" kind of thinking.  Someone started making them round when they first started and everyone else followed
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Hey Man Stop Hogging the toilet paper....pass it over here!
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Paper, thin sheets of compressed vegetable cellulose fibers. Paper is used for writing and printing, for wrapping and packaging, and for a variety of special purposes ranging from the filtration of precipitates from solutions to the manufacture of certain types of building materials. Paper is a necessity in modern civilization, and the development of machinery for its high-speed production has been largely responsible for the increase in literacy and the raising of educational levels of people throughout the world.\n\n\nThe basic process of making paper has not changed in more than 2,000 years. It involves two stages: the breaking up of raw material in water to form a suspension of individual fibers and the formation of felted sheets by spreading this suspension on a suitable porous surface, through which excess water can drain.\n\nIn making paper by hand, the raw material—straw, leaves, bark, rags, or other fibrous material—is placed in a vat or trough and is pounded with a heavy pestle or hammer to separate the fibers. During the first portion of this operation, the material is washed with running water to remove impurities, but after the fibers have been sufficiently broken up, they are kept in suspension, and the water in the vat is not changed. At this stage the liquid material, called half stuff, is ready for the actual process of papermaking. The chief tool of the papermaker is the mold, a reinforced sheet of metal mesh having either a square mesh pattern, called a wove pattern, or a pattern of more widely spaced longitudinal wires held together with smaller transverse wires, called a laid pattern. The mold pattern imprints itself on the finished sheet of paper, and thus handmade papers that are not given special finishes are identified as wove or laid papers, depending on the style of mold that is used in their making.\n\nThe mold is placed inside a removable wooden frame called a deckle, which forms a low rim around its edge. The papermaker dips the mold and deckle into a vat containing the half stuff; when the mold and deckle are removed from the vat, the surface of the mold is coated with a thin film of fiber-water mixture. The device is then shaken forward and backward and from side to side. This shaking has two effects; it distributes the mixture evenly on the surface of the mold and causes the individual fibers to interlock with those adjacent, giving strength to the sheet. While the device is being shaken, much of the water from the mixture drains out through the mold mesh. The device, with its formed sheet of wet paper, is then laid aside until the paper is sufficiently cohesive to permit the removal of the deckle.\n\n\nAfter the deckle has been taken from the mold, the mold is turned over and the sheet of paper is laid smoothly on a sheet of woven woolen cloth, called a felt. Another felt is laid over the sheet of paper, and the process is repeated; the process of placing the paper between two felts is known as couching. When a number of sheets of paper have been interleaved with felts, the entire pile, called a post, is placed in a hydraulic press and subjected to a pressure of 100 or more tons, expelling most of the water remaining in the paper. The sheets of paper are then separated from the felts, stacked, and pressed. The process of pressing the stack of paper is repeated several times, and each time the stack is built up in a different order with the individual sheets in different positions relative to one another. This procedure is called exchanging, and its repetition improves the surface of the finished paper. The final stage in papermaking is drying. The paper is hung, in groups of four or five sheets, over ropes in a special drying room until its moisture has almost completely evaporated.\n\nPapers that are to be used for writing or printing with ink require additional treatment following drying, because without such treatment the paper would absorb ink and yield fuzzy lines or impressions. The
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My psycho mother used to go bezerk if we put the toilet paper facing the wall rather than the user growing up. To that I say who the heck cares what way toilet paper goes on the roll? It all goes down the same place anyways...
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LOLOL thats kinda nasty. And I personally use normal toilet paper & do have a juicy booty lol......
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the butt holds our rectum together. When we poop, it cushions our bodies from injury. \n\nHow disgusting.