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.
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.
Yeah I remember when they started advertising them like that. Back when the towels were about twice as long between perforations.
They’re perforated to half the size that paper towels typically used to be. It’s common now but wasn’t in the past.
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.
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?
For reference, they still sell these too: Full Sheets
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.
Oh sweet summer child
No one has ever said that without sounding like an obnoxious dickhead
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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.
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
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.
F off with that “larger select a size” crap though.
This stuff happens when a market is actually healthily competitive. Marketing just makes up random bullshit because consumers are stupid.
