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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Wouldn't you just, like not do it each day, then?
Worse hell would be the day after you got severe burns, or something like that.
You will encounter every day people asking you, why you are not on the plane.
The colonoscopy on a plane?
As Samuel L Jackson once said;
"I have had it with these motherfucking colonoscopies, on this motherfucking plane. ".
Verbatim, Of course
What is a verbatim colonoscopy?!
No just the bowel prep!
Answered the wrong post I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh no
The bowel prep I had was taken before going to bed as well as the morning of the day before. so I was thinking more along the lines of waking up with that urgency and subsequent hours of toilet torture that follow.
True enough you could skip sachet B though and save yourself the afternoon.
I don't know what other preps are on offer (or even what the one I had is called) I've been fortunate enough to only have to have the one colonoscopy, so I can only draw from that one experience; I'm definitely not a prep expert or anything like that.
Edit: now that I think about it more, I think I might be misremembering; and the subsequent sachet is taken the morning of the colonoscopy rather than the day before... It was a while back, and I was going through a cancer scare at the time, so the specifics of the prep are fuzzy. But I do think you're right, Im probably thinking of the day of the colonoscopy, rather than the day before. You would be able to skip the procedure (which honestly isn't a big deal anyway, providing anaesthetic is used ofc), but not the prep you've already induced the night before (which is a big deal, and will likely ruin both your underwear, and your morning).