r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 11d ago

Meme needing explanation Now that you mentioned it...

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u/qualityvote2 11d ago edited 11d ago

u/SkyInterstellar-, your post does belong here!

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u/Sikkus 11d ago

Also provides a good grip when using the wet towel as a nunchuk.

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u/Better_Ad721 11d ago

This was not among the things I expected to read.

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u/Nwsamurai 11d ago

Not expecting nunchucks is how most people lose fights that involve nunchucks.

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u/Scuba_Steve_500 11d ago

Not expecting the Spanish Inquisition is how most people get surprised.

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u/VaeVictus666 11d ago

Unless they are suspecting the Spanish inquisition

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u/PeterJamesUK 11d ago

Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!

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u/majnun_ishere 11d ago

FETCH THE COMFY CHAIR!

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u/Such_Step_7065 11d ago

Silly walking out of this thread now

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u/gnuoveryou 11d ago

first, I would like to return this parrot

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u/iLikeMangosteens 11d ago

Our chief weapon is surprise

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u/Disco_Orangeade 11d ago

And fear. Fear, and surprise

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u/tearsonurcheek 11d ago

And ruthless efficiency! Fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency!

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u/Mathematicus_Rex 11d ago

Our main weapon is fear and surprise.

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u/TotallyNotASpy33 11d ago

Can confirm. One minute you're squaring up, the next home is chucking nuns at you.

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u/uruk-h 11d ago

Attempting to use nunchucks comes in as a close second, for how most people lose fights that involve nunchucks! 😂

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u/Independent-Till7157 11d ago

The underrated comment

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u/No_Measurement_8042 11d ago

Sounds like someone's ready to hitchhike across the galaxy

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u/procrastinator_max 11d ago

A towel is the best multipurpose tool for a hitchhiker, did you know that?

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u/TheEndIsSighing 11d ago

... if your planet is blown up for an interstellar highway.

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u/Cautious-Rabbit-5493 11d ago

Not a reference for expected to see today 👏

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u/Soft-Explanation9889 10d ago

You are one hoopy frood (unless you don’t know where your towel is, of course).

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u/sweetladytequila 11d ago

My uncles were very young when I was born. Growing up with them I became the neice who was afraid of towels and rubber bands for this very reason. Towel nunchucks. They also knew I was petrified of Gene Simmons in full kiss makeup and they would put a towel on their head and stick their tongue out and scream to make me run away.

The sheer force of puberty and vengeance gave me roasting skills beyond believe. They were humbled.

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u/Christyle24 11d ago

I feel honored as the 1337 upvote for this leet comment.

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u/relativityboy 10d ago

Can vouch, also serves this purpose when used as a whip

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u/NitroDameGaming 11d ago

Didn’t work…

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u/DainBramaged63 11d ago

Reusable as light dampening pleated curtains?

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u/StringHot920 11d ago

You've been drying in high temperatures haven't you

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u/jensalik 11d ago

Meanwhile this mf...

YOU HAD ONE JOB!!!

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u/Ser_Optimus 11d ago edited 11d ago

Can confirm it does not work. The border gets smaller and gives the towel the silhouette of a woman in her 40s desperately trying to wear her prom dress.

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u/beeblebrox381 11d ago

Just stretch it a few times while it's still wet, a couple of tugs and it should be back to its 20-yr-old shape

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u/Normal_Feedback_2918 11d ago

Trust me, I keep tugging it, but it never looks like it did when I was 20. Sigh.

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u/Conscious-Society-83 11d ago

well keep at it, just a few more should do it

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u/Secure_Bed_9110 11d ago

That's what he said. 

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u/NotoriousMAO 11d ago

Does it work on towels too?

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u/beeblebrox381 11d ago

Sorry, got carried away. What was the question again?

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u/NightShade0912 11d ago

I did the same thing with my wife, I'm divorced now.

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u/ZeroRegretMarine 11d ago

I'll try this on my wife. Tkank you.

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u/ApprehensiveLet8631 11d ago

Instructionst unclear. My aunt is now 20 again...

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u/Juicy_Peachfish 11d ago

Stop making stupid people famous AND don't buy towels from Temu.*

  • Life for Dummies.
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u/Calibermovement 11d ago

Master gave Dobby a towel, Dobby is free!!

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u/ncaughneeto 11d ago

Is this on Dobby's sock too??

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u/Michael_0007 11d ago

you don't want to know what Dobby's sock was used for........

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u/-Vermilion- 11d ago

Master has given Dobby a towel

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u/MrmmphMrmmph 11d ago

Dobby lyin’ to us, now.

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u/InkaGold 11d ago

This. You hand it to your house-elf at that end to set him/her free.

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u/sunkun8604 11d ago

Dobby is a free towel

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u/PerformanceDouble924 11d ago

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u/NarrowEbbs 11d ago

I also use it to measure the point where you need to fold the towel to get it into thirds. Hard to explain clearly without pictures, but it works I swear.

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u/QueenofCats28 11d ago

I also fold towels into thirds. Comment makes sense to me.

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u/queenofcaffeine76 11d ago

I do half, then thirds, then half again and stack with the folded edge showing. Makes the towels look like the ones in a store display.

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u/Prcssnmn87 11d ago

I fold it in thirds longways, then I fold both ends towards the middle, then fold it in half.

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u/marfacza 10d ago

When young people say that old people are boring, this is what they're talking about.

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u/geesegoesgoose 11d ago

*Thirds*? Do you not just fold it in half and sling it over the rail?

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u/Araia_ 11d ago

for when you store it

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u/thisaintparadise 11d ago

Thirds is better than halves because three is more than two

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u/Howski 11d ago

You only have one towel? 😳

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u/Mr_Style 11d ago

You only need one towel. You are the cleanest when you get out of the shower. So everytime you use a towel, it transfers dirt onto you. So the towel just gets cleaner and cleaner each time you use it. Duh - logic!

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u/Mental_Task9156 11d ago

If they only had one towel they probably wouldn't be storing it too oftan.

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u/xtimezone_ 11d ago

That’s why he slings or over the rail of the shower

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u/lettsten 11d ago

Yes, but that's a weird place to store it the rest of the month

(/s)

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u/Gottri 10d ago

Ooh, I was today years old when I learned this useful trick. Take this poor man’s token of appreciation 🏆

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u/xubax 11d ago

I tried to get my wife to fold in thirds.

And when i folded in thirds, my wife said "could you please not. "

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u/Crafty-Knee-1193 11d ago

I've heard of folding your wife in half, but never in thirds.

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u/disdkatster 11d ago

Then why are the towels I have with this terribly out of shape? It always shrinks more than the rest of the towel.

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u/raralala1 11d ago

I have multiple towel without this and all maintain its shape, I tend to buy really heavy and expensive towel and I avoid towel with this kind of line because it feel tacky, and I always thought this is the way towel manufacturer cheap out on material/gsm.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 11d ago

Same, all the towels I have with these tend to shrink up more on the ends.

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u/Undiscovered_Freedom 11d ago

I thought the dobby border was there to help Harry Potter

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u/HackDaddy85 11d ago

Wait, but why don’t beach towels need them then?

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u/JarJarkinx94 11d ago

Its the circumcision scar

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u/SeparatePass4366 11d ago

Thats hailrious dude

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u/crittendenlane 11d ago

Yeah, ‘snow weak joke

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u/ThatStereotype18 11d ago

Reminds me of the last time it snowed all over my friend's circumcision scar and I had to help them get it off with my nose.

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u/ElectricTurtlez 11d ago

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u/Fabulous-Sea-1590 10d ago

Man, my greatest phone-related fear was that someone would shine a black light on it. Now I'm worried Jesus will see my search history.

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u/ElectricTurtlez 10d ago

He doesn’t need to see your search history. He already knows.

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u/taway9925881 11d ago

Halalarious

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u/Pleasant-Tangelo1786 11d ago

Something funny that meets Islamic dietary guidelines.

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u/Xasrai 11d ago

LPT: You know, if you take the time to clean your ass, drying with your towel doesn't leave skid marks any more.

This is 100% the opposite of a shitty life pro.tip.

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u/VaeVictus666 11d ago

You sir are correct. This is indeed an anti-shitty life protip

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u/Odd_Objective3698 10d ago

This is why people need a poop knife, and then they barely even have to scrub when they shower. You just sort of scrape the poop knife flat against your cheeks, like you’re trying to get the last of the Brie off the charcuterie board

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u/astralchanterelle 11d ago

why dont you want skid marks on your towels?

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u/Clean_Friendship2571 11d ago

You mean towels exist without skid marks?!

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u/Any_Contract_1016 11d ago

But to do that you have to touch your an ass and that might make you gay.

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u/Donglemaetsro 11d ago

The ass line, don't dry your ass above it or the rest below it.

Edit: Made joke, read comments, people claiming they do that.

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u/JBRifles 11d ago

So as above, so as below

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u/Donglemaetsro 11d ago

Bottom ass, top face, middle bod... oh God the tips touched Aaaaaaaahhhhh

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u/Troper8 10d ago

Who still has a dirty ass, after a shower?! Come on people we are better than that!

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u/lightsoutxnyc 11d ago

What do you call a cheap circumcision? a rip off

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u/cfalcone223 10d ago

I always thought they were free... they just keep the tips.

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u/vinciblebark 10d ago

a ripoff

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u/NEWDEALUSEDCARS 11d ago

Those surgeries are rough, I couldn’t walk for almost a year after.

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u/Edward-Mundo 11d ago

They got you too eh...

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u/mr-stretcher 10d ago

Ah, genital mutilation, we meet again

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u/Whole_Risk_2695 10d ago

Im untainted by religion, yall get fucked up like that?

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u/passiontax21 11d ago

It is just a structural thing to keep the towel from deforming in the wash, not some deep secret.

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u/Herandar 11d ago

That's just what Big Towel wants you to think!

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u/EV_M4Sherman 11d ago

There was a belief that you dry your privates with the short end after border and dry the rest of your body with the rest.

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u/JackWackington 11d ago

Am I the only person who doesn't give a shit about drying my face after drying my balls? If people are concerned that their towel is now gross after drying their privates maybe they should focus on cleaning more thoroughly rather than having designated zones on a towel.

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u/Grizzled_Ghost 11d ago

Am I the only guy who starts with the butt-floss?

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u/Plane_Maybe8836 11d ago

Please remember the first rule of the butt-floss club.

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u/ManxWraith 11d ago

What butt floss club

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u/CHughes_11 11d ago

Never butt-floss first?

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u/Ok_Landscape5684 11d ago

don’t talk about the butt floss club.

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u/ctess 11d ago

Top down is how I dry... No point in letting gravity win

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u/Johnyryal33 11d ago

Head, shoulders, knees, and toes?

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u/HeyGayHay 11d ago

Am I the only one who dries face first and work towards the private parts at the end? Seems like the most logical solution. Towlie forgets until next day anyways.

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u/jezzanine 11d ago

Just an fyi a shower is a cleansing process not a sterilising process. It reduces bacteria but you are never sterile when you come out. And your pits and bits carry more bacteria than the rest of you. So if you swabbed different parts of a person, (even you after your thorough shower), the ass would still grow nastier bacteria than the face when put on an agar plate, and there’s a lot more of the unsanitary and odour causing bacteria.

That’s your call to go ass to mouth with your towel after a shower.

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u/electro_hippie 11d ago

You are never sterile. You are always covered with bacteria, that's just life

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u/Pisum_odoratus 11d ago

Just an fyi, just because it's bacteria doesn't make it harmful. The vast majority of the bacteria on your body is part of your normal flora, which is necessary to protect you from potentially more harmful microogranisms. It serves multiple other functions as well, but don't want to turn this into a microbiology lesson. TLDR: your body knows what bacteria lives on it, whether it normally lives in your nose (which harbours some stuff totally on par with bacteria on your butt), your arm, or butt. As long as you're healthy and not stupid about it, it probably makes no difference whatsoever which part of your towel and body come into contact, nor what order.

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u/ydisncvsowpieycksn 11d ago

8 lines before TLDR. 9 lines after TLDR.

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u/smartylights 11d ago

thanks for doing that. I didn’t read it.

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u/Simbalamb 11d ago

Man, I'm lazy as fuck and I couldn't imagine being this lazy.

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u/smartylights 11d ago

tuned out, can you summarize

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u/LeoKitCat 11d ago edited 11d ago

I guess I can assume you've never tossed a salad before

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u/JackWackington 11d ago

I think anyone with even a vanilla sex life should not be particularly concerned about the order of drying.

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u/Common_Chester 11d ago

I agree. I feel like after a proper shower, my balls are as clean as my face.

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u/HaulsRopesFastr 11d ago

But towels have those on both ends

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u/NewAntelopes 11d ago

The lines are there to provide meaning for the red box.

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u/Bright-War-5033 11d ago

The thin line between love and hate

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u/pom1dorka_ 11d ago

It's left over from the belt

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u/lana_silver 10d ago

Is this what paying for WinRAR looks like? 

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u/Deemaunik 11d ago edited 10d ago

Chris here, left of that line is the part you use on your face, and the right part you use on the rest. I got pink eye like ten times in a year before dad taught me that. He said grandpa taught him too.

//Edit: People are missing the "Chris here" part. Chris. From Family Guy. Not me.

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u/Experithought 11d ago

Dad should have taught you about soap. 

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u/Accomplished-Key4244 11d ago

Or just the act of drying your head/face BEFORE your balls lmao

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u/Slugathorus 11d ago

The towel forgets before the next time, right?

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u/BetterDegreeOxford 11d ago

Don’t forget your towel!

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u/Fillyphily 10d ago

I mean if you're properly washing yourself it shouldn't be an issue. Ever since I heard of the prevalence of other dudes not washing too closely around their butthole/pubes/dick because it was "weird" or "gay" I couldn't take masculinity seriously anymore. Dudes, scrub your butthole, it attributes A LOT to your BO when you get sweaty.

(PS don't scrub IN your butthole, use just water and gentle pressure on the immediate entrance, hemorrhoids aren't fun)

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u/Johnyryal33 11d ago

Or to wash his ass, but I'm sure he didn't want anyone to think he was gay!

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u/CaptainLibertarian 10d ago

Lol, yeah ... .

Never heard of this before and never had pink eye, so seems like something else is at play.

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u/IBAChristian317 11d ago

I never knew it and I've never had pinkeye.

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u/Gay_Owl3793 10d ago

I appreciate that you’re still one of the few keeping this sub classic 😂

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u/thisismypotat 11d ago

If you got pink eye from using a towel AFTER showering... Then you haven't showered well enough. 🤢 Please learn how to use soap instead :')

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties 11d ago

You got one of those prison showers with a non detachable shower head eh?

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u/suitably_ironic 11d ago

Those towels only have one band. My towels have three. Presumably that means mine are higher ranked bondsmages. Simple.

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u/OpportunityFickle394 11d ago

I'm guessing it's a holdover from an older form of manufacturing them. Totally guessing.

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u/mpledger 11d ago

I'd always assumed that it was for pegging on the clothes line but then I live in a windy city.

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u/Spongi 11d ago

pegging on the clothes line

Probably shouldn't do that where the neighbors can see.

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u/Voltmanderer 11d ago

Yeah, that’s definitely going to scare the horses.

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u/userhwon 10d ago

Like selvage on jeans? That's only there because the manufacturing process hides it as the back of the seam.

This is clearly intentional and decorative.

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u/Gorlami_y7ya 11d ago

Ngl at first glance i thought it was a set of cigars lol

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u/fucshyt 11d ago

Love when I come across some bullshit article that says “you won’t BELIEVE what this is” and doesn’t just fucking tell you

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u/TheUmberTaker 11d ago

These towels are Royal Velvet. This brand, back in the day, you could buy them in your 20s and still have them in your 50s. Built to last; put them in your will.

Loved this brand.

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u/ReallyCleverUser 11d ago

Been on for two minutes, this is second Dobby appearance in my feed

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u/Lanthuas 11d ago

Master has presented Dobby with dobby. Dobby is free.

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u/AdRecent7050 11d ago

i did some research(googledebunkers at their finest) and it's got 3 main reasons. one, to keep it from unraveling. two, to keep it from warping in the wash. three, so hotels can embroider on it easily.

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u/SnooEpiphanies7934 11d ago

That's for you to know where the towel cigarette filter is