Time to settle the greatest of OCUK GD argument of all time...

[Cosimo]

No use if there is only a hole in the ground.

 

[Werewolf]

Sounds to me like you're having flashbacks Werewolf!

Lets put it this way, I keep a couple of spares hidden away (never been caught out, but I'd really rather not run up/down stairs when desperate just because there is none in the nearest loo).

 

[Angilion]

I thought that whether a plane would take off from a conveyor belt was the greatest GD argument?

How does the OPs pic solve that?

Would a model plane take off from a toilet roll and would it depend on which way around the toilet roll was positioned?

Two GD arguments in one! Special offer!

 

[arknor]

Surely the greatest gd argument of all time is whether a plane on a treadmill will take off?

don't think the tread mill can give enough resistance to stop the plane gaining forward momentum

 

[Puzzled]

Don't want to give the paper down the wall heathens hope but I would have thought the patent would have included drawings from different angles.

 

[ttaskmaster]

ttaskmaster, your signature has made me want to get the N64 out of the loft!

BBC Micro, surely?
It's a reference to Elite...

You spread jam and dollop cream, therefore the jam has to go on first to achieve the desired layering. Anything else is the work of a deranged mind.

Jam varies in consistency and may have chunky fruit bits in it.
Therefore - Big dollop of cream first, use the back of the spoon to spread it round in a shallow volcano sort of shape, then spoon the jam into that depression and the cream shall hold it all together.

For those posh types who have "Skons", I assume you all go "Hom" at the end of the day, talk on the "Fon", enjoy an ice-cream "Con", and so on, yes?

 

[Ahleckz]

What I really don't get is people who sit down whilst they wipe. I tried it, and just smeared poo all over my bum cheek. How on Earth do they do it!?

 

[Angilion]

Yes yes... I know it's a scone, you know it's a scone but for some reason some of the uneducated insist on trying to pronounce it differently to how it's spelt. Trying to be posh or something?

Regional variations, as far as I know. Etymology doesn't help because it isn't really known. There's a suggestion to the Dutch schoon broot ("fine bread"), but nothing firm.

 

[koolpc]

I always use newspaper

 

[krisboats]

Skon, if you say skowne your a pretentious *****

Jam first and a bit dollop of cream, anything else and your a heathen

Bacon

This is off topic. We're discussing the use of toilet roll while sat on the royal thron.... sorry, throne.

 

[ttaskmaster]

Regional variations, as far as I know. Etymology doesn't help because it isn't really known. There's a suggestion to the Dutch schoon broot ("fine bread"), but nothing firm.

I asked the maid in dulcet tone
To order me a buttered scone;
The silly girl has been and gone
And ordered me a buttered scone.

A lot of schollarly Oxfordy types seem to think the modern form is Scottish in origin, from the 1300s, suggesting the Scottish accent makes it sound like Sconn, or at least indistinct from Scone.

Others suggest Scone is the lower class form, while Sconn is how the upitty toffs said it.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Toilet roll was invented in 1891? What did they use before that?

The Romans used a sponge on a stick. It wasn't disposable (everyone used it)

Toilets were communal too. No cubicles between you and the guy sitting next to you!

Goose neck if you were posh, handful of straw if you weren't.

Or you did what I do when I get caught short in the middle of nowhere, head into the bushes with a handful of leaves.

What sort of animals use toilet paper?

Bidet all the way.

Wierdo. Everyone knows its for washing your football boots.