For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    2 months ago

    There’s actually a reason for the change: Modern devices are more like typesetters — what you type is kerned / not monospaced. That’s why you don’t use two spaces like you did on a typewriter. Can you imagine reading a paperback novel where every sentence has two spaces after the period?

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      I’m aware of that, but I’m fairly certain the period’s kerning is the same whether the period is at the end of a sentence, or as part of an abbreviation. Therefore I think typeface designers tend to use a shorter spacing to be safe due to the differing use cases. I actually think roughly 1.5 spaces after a sentence is ideal length, but, yeah - we were taught to use double-spaces on typewriters since they’re monospaced.