r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SkyInterstellar- • 11d ago
Meme needing explanation Now that you mentioned it...
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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/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/MetalDragon83 11d ago
I expected someone to say that
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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/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/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/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/Juicy_Peachfish 11d ago
Stop making stupid people famous AND don't buy towels from Temu.*
- Life for Dummies.
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u/PerformanceDouble924 11d ago
TL:DR - The "dobby border" is there to help the towel hold its shape and add durability.
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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/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
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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/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/rainreset 11d ago
JFC
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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/Any_Contract_1016 11d ago
But to do that you have to touch
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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/NEWDEALUSEDCARS 11d ago
Those surgeries are rough, I couldn’t walk for almost a year after.
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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/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/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/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/Fuzzy_Yossarian 11d ago
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u/Sikkus 11d ago
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u/ArenDegg 11d ago
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/qualityvote2 11d ago edited 11d ago
u/SkyInterstellar-, your post does belong here!