• Aimeeloulm@feddit.uk
    5·
    20 hours ago

    I have been electrocuted many times by blankets, so them biting you is potentially real and believable, feckers can be viscious when they want to be 🤣

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    Never been bitten by a blanket, but i have by a magazine! (Cats bite fuckin hard when they cant see whats behind the material your hand is moving)

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      28·
      1 day ago

      Not all blankets are towels but all towels are blankets

      A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Partly because 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 vapours; 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 around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

      • dustycups@aussie.zone
        10·
        21 hours ago

        Other hitchhikers had seen fit to modify their towels in exotic ways, weaving all kinds of esoteric tools and utilities and even computer equipment into their fabric. Ford was a purist. He liked to keep things simple. He carried a regular towel from a regular domestic soft furnishings shop. It even had a kind of blue and pink floral pattern despite his repeated attempts to bleach and stone wash it. It had a couple of pieces of wire threaded into it, a bit of flexible writing stick, and also some nutrients soaked into one of the corners of the fabric so he could suck it in an emergency, but otherwise it was a simple towel you could dry your face on.