Wow! New feature! Now you can CHOOSE how many paper towels you grab from the roll!
Tell me you're young without telling me you're young.
Paper towels, for most of my life (I'm old AF), were as long as they were wide. Square, they were. Bounty originated select-a-size by perforating them twice as frequently, so they were half as long as wide. Others eventually followed suit and now youngsters think that's how it's always been.
To be fair to OP, they really should've stopped advertising this as a feature years ago. It'd be like if sliced bread was still advertised as "Now sliced for your convenience!" or whatever.
They still sell the square cut rolls though. This lets the buyer know it is the narrower cut.
How else am I to tell the difference between a full size and select a size? I buy full size for the garage and select a size for the house they serve two purposes so eliminating the standard size wouldn't be the solution.
Buy shop cloths my friend.
It's not a fabric product, still paper towels, just they're made for automotive/shop use. I swear by them and they have no "select-a-size" option. They're also thicker and come apart less than normal paper towels.
You're talking about the blue stuff on a roll, right?
I have some and they are select-a-size.
That's new to me. I don't think I've seen them like that.
Alright.
How is the larger size better for use in the garage?
Lol. Yeah. Young, young, OP.
And Bounty always claimed to be the most absorbent brand of paper towel, so the move was like saying "you only need half as much of our paper towel compared to other brands."
Not sure how actually absorbent they were; my family always got Brawny.
Burly Paper Towels are the best and the mascot is dreamy.
I’d let him split my wood if you know what I mean.
I'm pretty sure that's why my mom got Brawny. It was that sexy lumberjack.
Good thing those paper towels are so absorbent because I could drown a toddler in my panties right now.
I prefer my penis in one piece, thank you very much.
I saw a documentary about Burly Paper Towels once. One of their most loyal customers got to meet the mascot Chad Sexington. Turns out he was a loser and I heard he's a boozer.
Yup. I remember when we had to tear our own half sheets of paper towel. Kids today have it too soft, and absorbant.
I did that the other day
Yeah I remember when they started advertising them like that. Back when the towels were about twice as long between perforations.
It's not the same as it used to be.
The individual sheets used to be twice as big.
Yeah, kinda weird to see it on mildlyinfuriating.
Still are if you don't buy a select a size roll.
Oh to be young again. This is fairly new. The old standard size was 2 of these together, a square.
And I've seen plenty of the older square sizes still being sold, so it's still necessary to mark the different sizes
I'm always shocked when I get the old style as who the hell needs that much paper most of the time?
I do. With the select a size version, I almost always pull at least two.
They’re perforated to half the size that paper towels typically used to be. It’s common now but wasn’t in the past.
For reference, they still sell these too: Full Sheets
I want them perforated about every 12.7mm so I can truly select what I need.
That's not useful for me when I want a 6.35mm size though. We need more granularity!
more granularity!
Isn't that sand paper?
just wait for the mess to dry and sand it down
I want a bag of paper fibres I can sprinkle into the spill
.50cal paper towels
I've noticed that the sheets that are "select a size" seem to be using this to list a lower per sheet cost.
So if you're trying to compare prices in the supermarket it comes in at half the per unit pricing of normal sized paper towels while being the same size roll or smaller and costing the same or more.
It just feels like they're trying to cheat the system a little rather than trying to create a new product or be more useful.
That's silly. Compare per sq ft, not sheet size. There's no guaranteed sheet size. Same thing with toilet paper.
For reference, this is Brawny paper towels where the sheets are perforated the other direction, allowing you to actually tear a half sheet. This is what “select a size” should mean.
Oh sweet summer child, paper towels used to only come in large square sheets.
These smaller “select a size” didn’t become common until around the year 2000.
Only 3 options? Does Brawny think it's illegal to grab 3/4 of a sheet?
Or 5/4, 6/4, 7/4,...
Why only the one half? What if I want the other half?
No, you must always throw the other half away.
That's how they get ya
We should really make a law against that.
This picture clearly demonstrates that the original picture is, in fact, select-a-size since they are 1/2 size instead of full size.
That's not select-a-size. That's just tiny ass paper towels. Select-a-size towels have no perforations and you cut them with scissors.
i saw an ad for toilet paper in a 100 year old magazine, bragging: now with less splinters!
F off with that "larger select a size" crap though.
Home to all things "Mildly Infuriating" Not infuriating, not enraging. Mildly Infuriating. All posts should reflect that.
I want my day mildly ruined, not completely ruined. Please remember to refrain from reposting old content. If you post a post from reddit it is good practice to include a link and credit the OP. I'm not about stealing content!
It's just good to get something in this website for casual viewing whilst refreshing original content is added overtime.
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means: -No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
7. Content should match the theme of this community.
-Content should be Mildly infuriating.
-At this time we permit content that is infuriating until an infuriating community is made available.
...
8. Reposting of Reddit content is permitted, try to credit the OC.
-Please consider crediting the OC when reposting content. A name of the user or a link to the original post is sufficient.
...
...
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
Reach out to LillianVS for inclusion on the sidebar.
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules.