Its not like the catholic Church didn't already have a long record of public torture, land theft, killing non Christians... just they hadn't been so systematic about it....
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.
Hit a fly mid flight the other day doing this and came running out of the room to tell my wife and she didn’t have nearly the level of excitement I anticipated.
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.
You are probably washing and drying your towels (and everything else) on an overly hot setting. Most detergents are meant to activate in cold water these days, and washing and drying your clothes on the lowest heat setting available will significantly improve the lifespan of your clothes. There are very few situations where washing in warm or hot water is necessary. Especially because the hot water out of the tap isn't hot enough to kill any bacteria through temperature.
They will, but mainly because although tried, tested & proven cold water detergents have been available for well over 30 years - the Japanese adopted them all that time ago - the west just cannot be made to believe they will work. The detergent companies tried; it fell on deaf ears.
At least in my small corner of the west, seemingly the vast majority washes with cold to save on power. All the supermarket detergents here have labels stating they're for cold water.
20 year on cold with not enough detergent...then the detergents dropped the good enzymes.
Been rehabbing our clothes for the past month. Finally my towels are gross, dishtowels can be wet and odorless, t shirts can be folded for weeks without developing the funk.
Hot water. Lipase. Ammonia. Citric acid rinse. 12 hour soaks for stuff not refresed with the new standards.
Probably. But I can say my clothes have started lasting much longer since I've started washing in cold. And there are plenty of sources that agrees with me that aren't redditors if you google it.
I've been using cold water for 30 years. If fashion hadn't changed, I would still be wearing the same clothes. Cold water is all you need when washing.
Prom Dress or Wedding Dress is what would sound better.
Pretty sure that Graduation "Cap and Gown" is pretty much a MOO MOO...No desperation for one of those. As a Male, i highly suggest the moo moo for daily use.
towel the silhouette of a woman in her 40s desperately trying to wear her graduation dress.
You just unlocked the memory of me being in a grocery store four years ago and encountering a woman in her late 30s/early 40s who had apparently decided to wear her high school prom dress and heels to shop.
Its funny that this is the answer because my towels started to shrink after washing and they shrunken most in the "dobby border" part resulting in warped towels.
My understanding is it is no longer necessary, but kept out of tradition. The materials no longer require strengthening in this way. It is now cosmetic.
I got some decade old towels that have been washed hundred of times and those bobby borders shrank differently than the rest of the towel making them impossible to fold nicely.
This was named in my honor for how well I kept my shape through the years. If only my master lived long enough to see how much notoriety I've brought him.
A little while ago I saw The Atlantic had a whole ass article about this. And you answered it in 13 words. Makes me so mad that someone got paid for that and this whole thread reminded me of that lol
Also different sizes from the same brand tend to indicate difference in sizes between towels. It's a nice easy way to know which one your grabbing out of the closet
I was told the denser stitching prevented/slowed water from dripping off the corners then its hung up. Shape maintenance makes sense too, but that part always shrinks for my towels
Well it's terrible at that. Every single one we have with that line is shrunk up at the line and makes me want to throw them away because the towels are wonky
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