@cinoclav very true, if there’s not full nudity it doesn’t count.

@cinoclav @digerifoo2 That’s what the towel is for.

@cinoclav @digerifoo2
/showme Towel with a lot of holes in it and “R” logo sewn into corner.

@Alereon some bamboo is preferred if you want higher-end. Bamboo is softer and more absorbent

@Alereon @troy “Bamboo” is just rayon, processed with all sorts of nasty chemicals. Bamboo is just the raw material for the rayon, there’s nothing left of the bamboo in the final product.

@blaineg: Bamboo is just the raw material for the rayon, there’s nothing left of the bamboo in the final product.

I dunno… I gotta say, that doesn’t sound logical.

@Alereon @blaineg @troy they could probably save money by using something other than bamboo if there’s no bamboo left at the end. They could even use nothing and it would be free.

@haydesigner
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/a35604410/bamboo-eucalyptus-fabric-false-labeling/

@Alereon @blaineg @troy

To be fair, it might be the viscose process but either way yep. The cellulose feedstock is digested in fun acids and reconstituted into useable fiber. My biggest issue with these is the necessary huge amount of water wasted in the process and potential pollution by bad actors in the industry. Reconstituted cellulose, whether from bamboo or other sources, is not worth the negatives that far outweigh the positives. Give me 100% cotton and/or flax any day

@haydesigner @SnDMommy Welp, that made my decision easier!

@haydesigner

I dunno… I gotta say, that doesn’t sound logical.

Marketing logic, and very successful.

Which would you buy, rayon or “bamboo”?

@blaineg @haydesigner No; it isn’t quite true - the rayon did come from the bamboo, but there nothing about that rayon that would allow you to identify its source.

Suppose you dried the bamboo out, capturing and condensing the water vapor. Would you call the resulting H2O bamboo?

@rpstrong

Suppose you dried the bamboo out, capturing and condensing the water vapor. Would you call the resulting H2O bamboo?

PRECISELY!

@Alereon @blaineg @troy @warpedrotors They use bamboo because it grows like grass.

@Alereon @blaineg @rpstrong @troy @warpedrotors

it grows like grass.

That’s because it is grass.

@Alereon @blaineg @troy @warpedrotors @yakkoTDI Uh . . . duh?

@rpstrong @werehatrack

Would you call the resulting H2O bamboo?

Oooh, major business opportunity here! All natural Bamboo Water!

Profit?

@blaineg @rpstrong @werehatrack A local higher-end grocery store here captures the condensate from maple syrup production, bottles it, and sells it as “maple water” for ridiculously high prices every spring. I haven’t tried it, but knowing how distillation works from middle school science class, I can’t imagine there’s a whole lot of maple left in the water, so they’re basically selling water.

@blaineg @kodiak55 @rpstrong My daughter works for a whiskey distiller, and I got a tour of the (tiny) plant a while back. The alcohol coming out of their distillation vessel has zero of the nature of the grain mash that was fermented. It is by far the most palatable vodka I have ever encountered. It becomes whiskey by virtue of the casks in which it is aged. (And as I had come to suspect, I never want to get stuck with a bourbon or other whiskey that didn’t get finished in port wine casks.)

@blaineg @kodiak55 @rpstrong @werehatrack
Actually more than just the alcohol is captured in the distilling process. There are other volatiles that will affect the flavor. That’s why different grain combinations give different resulting alcohol flavors. It’s not only the cask that imparts the flavor.
Here’s a good example of that point being made.

@mcemanuel Cage match, only one emerges alive?

@mcemanuel So if one wants to concede, d9 they throw in their own towel or the other guy’s?

@mcemanuel gross, that is not an image I want to image. But how about Mr. pillow (Mike Lindell) vs Mr Blubber( TACO DonOLD tRUMP In a Vegas cage match…who would win? Whoppers for the Winner, loser gets the bottom of the fry’s cooking fryer after the oil is to be changed!

@werehatrack A pillow fight cage match?

@MrGoodGuy I’m sure you don’t need wool dryer balls; What they really should have said is don’t use dryer sheets because they reduce towels’ absorbency. (And they’re unhealthy and they stink!)

@Kyeh @MrGoodGuy and any fabric softener is bad for towels anyway.

@ironcheftoni @Kyeh @MrGoodGuy I have some towels in which the care symbols denote that it’s line dry only.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@ironcheftoni @MrGoodGuy @narfcake And do you? I don’t think I would.

@ironcheftoni @Kyeh @MrGoodGuy It went in the dryer. Still seems kind of ridiculous for a towel IMHO.

@ironcheftoni @MrGoodGuy @narfcake I agree!

@ironcheftoni @Kyeh @MrGoodGuy @narfcake No, that’s a “dry flat” symbol.

@ironcheftoni @Kyeh @MrGoodGuy @narfcake @rpstrong
Since virtually everything I do is line drying that’s not a problem for me.

@chienfou @ironcheftoni @Kyeh @MrGoodGuy @narfcake Line Drying is not Flat Drying - click here to see the Sekret Kodes.

@chienfou @ironcheftoni @MrGoodGuy @narfcake @rpstrong Expecting you to dry towels flat is even more ridiculous! I wonder if it’s a mistake on the tag?

@chienfou @ironcheftoni @Kyeh @MrGoodGuy @narfcake Draping over a drying rack is also permitted under the ‘Flat’ mode. The goal is to avoid stretching the fabric if only held by the corners.

[No, I’ll never own any.]

@ironcheftoni @Kyeh @MrGoodGuy @narfcake @rpstrong
Yep. A towel you can’t hang on a towel rack would suck!!

@chienfou @ironcheftoni @Kyeh @MrGoodGuy @narfcake And where do you suppose it would end up?

@chienfou @ironcheftoni @Kyeh @MrGoodGuy @rpstrong This was pulled off Samsung’s site (across the pond):

Vertical bar, line dry. Horizontal bar, flat dry.

Still doesn’t absolve the absurdness, however.

@Kyeh @MrGoodGuy I will note that in particular, the Downy brand is currently advertising that their stench lingers for an entire week, as though this is a feature.

@ironcheftoni @Kyeh @MrGoodGuy @narfcake

/showme floating color

@chienfou @ironcheftoni @Kyeh @MrGoodGuy @narfcake @rpstrong Ah, the universal symbols that mean exactly nothing in all known languages.

@MrGoodGuy I’ve got some croquet balls, will they work?

@blastit
You have a pillow guy?

@blastit I had to look it up too. I was instantly concerned Meh but now relieved

@Tadlem43 For sure! That’s a tiny bath towel.

@Tadlem43 Indeed. That was my first concern and it was well founded. Need a bigger towel.

@Dark00Wolf @Tadlem43 Maybe you get 4 so you can sew two of them together to get your bigger towel?

@Kidsandliz Hahaha That is an excellent idea, if only I could sew.

@Dark00Wolf @Kidsandliz Sewing thick terry is a bit of a pain, anyway.

@thechinglish Occasionally the price is mistakenly launched at our intended daily deal price and we correct it like it was here, but that’s not always the case - we’re not prohibited from raising price or holding price. At $59.00 I think “4-for-the-price-of-1” is a deal regardless if you saw it live for a very brief period at 59.99 over a week ago – as always, vote with your wallet but don’t come a whinin’ if we’re sold out tomorrow

@troy Congrats to you guys if you sell out, but the latest scrape google did of morningsave shows it as $59.99, and I’m just being your target audience - a cynical, albeit an asshole, customer

@thechinglish They aren’t on MorningSave but are on SideDeal – Google appears to be out of date as the price was updated on November 7th. But I get it! It’s not the best look

@robson I understand though that the servants all quit because you spent all your money on meh and so didn’t pay them.

@blaineg
/showme Person wrapped in 40 foot by 80 foot towel.

@mediocrebot What?!?!? What is George Clooney doing in this show me?

@blaineg a cursory search does indeed show that the standard bath towel is 30”x58”.

/showme 30’x58’ people using 30”x58” towels

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Your mother and I are very disappointed in you, @mediocrebot

@mediocrebot /showme 30"x58" people using 30’x58’ towels

@haydesigner @mediocrebot as a bot, mediocrebot doesn’t have a mother, but she’s still a whore

@blaineg I had the same thought. I was mildly interested until I read the dimensions. These are sized like cheap hotel towels.

@blaineg The AI product pic suggests these are dinner towels.

@cfg83

40 foot by 80 foot towel

Sign me up!

@DavidChurchRN better than the Costco fluffy towels by Turkish?

@rustyh3 Considering it’s Mike Lindell selling this crap, the fabric is likely homophobic as well as hydrophobic.

@phelmurh oh, my wife and I are Peter and Gabrielle, so that would have worked! But, sold-out, I don’t like super-soft towels (hydrophobic as we learned about) and from MyInsurrection guy.

@phelmurh @pmarin
Those are actually MY initials. Got to admit I toyed with the idea of getting monogram towels. Then I thought “nah… that’s too rich for my blood”!

@phelmurh @pmarin

from MyInsurrection guy

No, no - some other guy who chose a very unfortunate name. See below:

@mweb202 No, it’s a different company, which was discussed earlier in this thread.

@Kyeh @mweb202 BAD company marketing then! I just saw an interview of Anthony Hopkins talking about his movies. They should have made “soft as the silence of the lambs” brand.

Famous part at 1:30

@mweb202 @pmarin I wonder if this guy originally wanted people to think he was that other pillow guy, to steal some of their customers before Lindell went public with his politics?

@bmajazz So, a different kind of crazy?

@OnionSoup 9 units of navy left for sale at 3pm EST, but otherwise sold out

@spiffchili Fast is at midnight, eastern time. There were LOTS of them available.

But read back thru the comments, people were saying these were on the small side and that’s not even mentioning the rayon bamboo thing!

PS there were 9 navy units only held back for 4:00

@avenable Did you write into support about this? I’m curious to see a picture if you can post one here