A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1))
Make sure you remember your lock combo before locking your belongings up when you take a shower. I came back to my locker and couldn't open it once. No phone, no glasses, just flip flops in a towel. Not a fun experience. Thankfully I remembered the code before too embarrassingly long.
Classically "Showerthoughts" were more along the lines of the Philosoraptor meme topics. I even found one that both fits this description and the literal comm name. However, people in this comm tend to take the concept super literally. Incidentally, a trend that seems to pervade most humor these days, too.
32 Comments
limer@lemmy.ml · 86 pts · 200d
Just because:
Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1))
princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 200d
There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 200d
A hoopy frood
dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 199d
Everybody beat me to it. So long!
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 199d
...and thanks for all the fish 😜 🐬🐬🐬
tuck182@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
Hey, you sass that hoopy limer?
presoak@lazysoci.al · 12 pts · 200d
The first useful thing we invented was the pointed stick.
Second was string.
Third the towel.
The towel hits a sweet spot. It's got development history. It's got archetypal grounding. It's the Zeus of inventions.
Deebster@programming.dev · 9 pts · 200d
Only 116 days until Towel Day
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 200d
Make sure you remember your lock combo before locking your belongings up when you take a shower. I came back to my locker and couldn't open it once. No phone, no glasses, just flip flops in a towel. Not a fun experience. Thankfully I remembered the code before too embarrassingly long.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 199d
If the Internet has taught me anything, it's that a Masterlock can be easily opened with another Masterlock.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 199d
But you need the code to THAT masterlock to use it to open the first masterlock.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 199d
Alternative pro tip: forget to go to the gym, have towel
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 200d
I've forgotton a towel when I went swimming before. Ended up using my shirt as a towel and dressing in just my sweater.
tyrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d
Yeah I ended up using gym t shirt that was fairly clean since I didn't do cardio. It all worked out in the end
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 199d
You trained without a towel?
tyrant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
Yeah, I don't really sweat when I lift. If I'm doing cardio I'll bring a little sweat towel with me
Krauerking@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 199d
That is like the exact opposite of the thought you want to have in the shower.
Perfect.
tyler@programming.dev · 4 pts · 200d
I’ve done that before. It sucked cause it was also 14°F out. So I had to drive home in the cold while wet.
gigachad@piefed.social · 3 pts · 200d
Did you drive naked?
tyler@programming.dev · 1 pts · 199d
No, but I did go in shorts and a t shirt. So I had to leave in those clothes too.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d
Wanna go get hiiiiiiiigh?
Agility0971@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
Just use the curtains
presoak@lazysoci.al · 2 pts · 200d
Maybe you could squeegee yourself on the funky floor tiles
Mesophar@pawb.social · 1 pts · 199d
Do you usually just walk back from the shower to your locker dripping water everywhere?
tyrant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
My gym has separate little shower/changing rooms
Mesophar@pawb.social · 2 pts · 199d
That is much more understandable xD also, a little jealous, that sounds nice
SolidShake@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 200d
This is a Facebook thought imo
tyrant@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 200d
I don't have Facebook though. And I was all wet. Seemed appropriate
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 200d
I don't think 90% of the people who post on this comm have any idea how Showerthoughts works.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
How does this one go against the community description...?
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 199d
Classically "Showerthoughts" were more along the lines of the Philosoraptor meme topics. I even found one that both fits this description and the literal comm name. However, people in this comm tend to take the concept super literally. Incidentally, a trend that seems to pervade most humor these days, too.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
That may be what reddit said they were, but this is not reddit. Most of the ones that people complain about fit the community description just fine.