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:
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I had a friend who pretty much only eats because he knows if he does not he will die. He is perpetually underweight. He just does not enjoy eating at all. Even foods he enjoys he hates to eat.
Meanwhile, I am over here knowing I am full and standing in the fridge to see what I can make to eat.
Felt. I like the taste of certain foods, but like I do feel like it’s a chore a lotta days
I felt like this when I was bulking and eating healthy. Eating 5k Calories of healthy food a day is a fucking chore.
I know someone who has an issue with his sense of taste that most things are bland to him, so he doesn’t really enjoy eating.
I worked with a guy who had neck surgery that severed the nerves to his taste buds. We worked overnight shifts, and we'd save the old coffee for him because he didn't mind the flavor of burnt coffee. There was always a pot of fresh coffee brewing and a pot of stale coffee set aside for Matt.
I know the guy probably didn’t mind and waste not want not, but god that just sounds so mean at the same time.
I know, the first time someone said it, he wasn't there, and I was like... wait, are we just fucking with Matt? And everyone said no, he is a dad of young kids who does shift work. He drinks a lot of coffee (we all did, the coffee machine was perpetual employee of the month), and he prefers to have it room temperature because he won't feel it burn his mouth. So any time a pot sat on the burner for more than a few hours, we'd dump it into Matt's pot and let it cool.
I always wondered if it fucked up his stomach, because I know stale coffee always gives me heartburn, but we weren't close enough to have those conversations.
Happened to me with COVID, lucky i recovered in a few days and can smell and taste normally after.
I’m glad you got your taste back! One time I had chewed cinnamon gum all day and I guess inadvertently burned my taste buds. I couldn’t taste anything for a month or two!
I am always thinking about food. It's horrible. I love eating. I quite enjoy cooking and baking. I'd love to trade him some of my love for his hate so we could both just have a boring healthy feeling towards food!
I always think to myself.....
"Cats are weird, because cats are weird. But they all have different personalities. Yet you kind of understand what a cat will or won't do. A cat will never starve itself, because he just doesn't like the concept of food. It may eat less than another cat. I've had a fat cat, and a skinny cat. The skinny cat liked eating some food when it wakes up. Then it would save half the meal until later. Well what the fat cat would do is eat all of her half, and then wait for the skinny cat to walk away. Then she'd eat the skinny cats remains. We had to start locking up the skinny cats leftover food, and put the fat cat in the bathroom before we gave the skinny cat the other half.
Then one night the skinny cat wouldn't eat. At all. She was sick. She died that same night. It wasn't because she varied from other cats in her willingness to eat food. It was because she knew she was going to die.
But then you look at humans. Humans are weird, because WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SPECIES??? Some of them are 80lbs as adults, and you can count their ribs, and they refuse to eat because they think they're too fat.
Then there's others who are 700lbs, and eating whole turkeys by themselves, and afterwards claiming they're still hungry.
And thats just food. Humans are weird in every single way.
One time in 2006 I was waiting outside best buy for a Wii. It's 2am, negative 5 degrees outside, store doesn't open until 10am.
Guy in front of me had a tent, and an extension cord, and a tv, and a vcr, and a microwave. He had a tent apartment basically.
So this guy is watching Jurassic Park in his tent. I can't see it, but I can hear it. Ilove that movie. Favorite movie, and I can "see" it, just by hearing it.
He gets to the T-Rex paddock breakout scene. THE iconic scene of the whole franchise. An iconic scene in cinema all around.
He stops the movie there. He STOPS the movie!!! And instead plays Seinfeld episodes.
Humans are weird.
For me eating is just a chore. Yeah I'm under weight
Money or health issue?
Not the person you’re replying to but I’m the same as them. For me it’s neither of those options. There just isn’t anything I go out of my way for. I mean sure, I have preferences like anybody else but I’m the person that can eat the same thing 10+ times in a row and that’s totally fine. It’s more or less all the same to me.
Nothing tastes good and never hungry
If you watch the clip of David Lynch explaining why he eats the same thing every day, basically that, I just can't be bothered
Right there with you. I can't wait to be able to take all my nutrition in a pill form.
I like the one about people having floppy teeth that get hard when they see good food.
All the biological processes are like that. pooping. sex. you think about sex without being horny and its like. I do that?!
One of the strategies for long term weight loss is to swap from an interesting and tasty diet (which are often high calorie density) to one as bland and uninteresting to you as possible diet (often low calorie density). Idea being you will eat less if you are only eating to survive rather eating to enjoy, you will leave more on the plate.
Personally I say fuck that, as life is hard enough as it is.
I tried this with potatoes. It's miserable and I broke after four days.
just eating potatoes for every meal?
Yep. Only potatoes and salt, plus multivitamins to make up for the massive nutritional defecit, for 5 days. I was already experimenting with an elimination diet due to food allergies and a friend mentioned this week long potato diet to help reduce food cravings. Potatoes were a safe food so I thought I'd give it a try.
It was awful. Day 4's dinner was an entire pizza.
Yeah that's not the same thing as a bland food diet, that's up there with the cabbage diet for how awful it is.
Mine is: Scrambled eggs made with cottage cheese + porridge for breakfast Chicken, salad (no dressing) and rice for lunch Chicken, vegetables and rice/sweet potatoes/lentils for tea
No sauces, just dry herbs/spices as a rub.
Snacks are two protein shakes, naked bar (counts as a one a day of fruit/veg allowance), banana.
Repeat for past two years. Before that it was lentils, avo, boiled egg, before than goats cheese salad for lunch.
Its boring as fuck when you do it for months at a time but it works for me. Controlling
Based on context clues, you’re British… isn’t the food bland enough already? I kid, I had great food over there. But, you know, take the shot when you see it.
Yeah we stole all our good food from our former colonies and improved on them, see curry.
The only strategy to a long term weight loss is a diet you can maintain and only eating bland food is not it. That would work if no other food was available but that is not the case.
Literally everything is weird in the wrong context.
For reference just look at animals and consider octopus sex, snail sex, baby deer pooping, etc
Also, it's not just eating, but the mouth itself is horrific with no context. We have a wet textured hole that we use often and casually insert metal spikes into, that sits right next to out most sensitive organ (eyes) and most critical organ (brain) and to add horror to it, we also casually grow rocks in our hole to grind and rip anything we insert into it, also we early on lose these rocks just to grow bigger ones, but only once. Also we have 4 extra rocks that we really don't want or need but we still grow them a decade or two after we are done growing rocks, and all they do it hurt us.
Hey some of my favorite things are wet textured holes
⬆️ this guy holes
Reading how Rocky eats in Project Hail Mary got me thinking on that! I wonder if aliens would find our eating disgusting or if it's the most common way to get energy. Pretty much every life form on Earth chews food with their face then shoves it down.
Pretty much every life form on Earth chews food with their face then shoves it down.
The vast majority of life forms on Earth have neither a mouth nor a face.
There's no good reason to think aliens would be similar to animals. they could be like plants or fungus, or something entirely new.
Depends on how far a species advances, I'd guess. It wouldn't surprise me if advancements set us (and other potential life out there) on a trajectory where it's possible to just get most nutrition needed via passive intravenous implants, maybe only with a requirement to drink water to maintain fluid balance. Or we just get to the full cyberpunk cyborg option and all you need is an occasional battery recharge or something.
With the resources available today, mankind has the ability to solve world hunger, but that still keeps the dependency we have on various global supply lines for food. Few nations are truly agriculturally independent. Lenin once said that society is no more than three missed meals away from chaos, and I believe the only permanent solution to that issue would be if a society no longer needs to eat.
Imagine having to force yourself to chew and swallow substances because you will die otherwise.
How would it be different than breathing then? I don't get actual pleasure out of breathing, but its not a chore either. If I don't breath, I will die.
We get good chemicals when we get enough air. I'm quite addicted myself.
Here's what's even weirder: imagine what you're saying, but for sex instead.
Honestly that's me all the time. I do it for several reasons but I don't necessarily get crazy enjoyment from it. I don't hate it either, it's just not like the best thing ever, y'know? And it's not my partner, this has been my whole life. My body gets "enjoyment" as in, I can orgasm, but mentally I'm just like, meh.
I guess we evolved to enjoy eating; those that didn't enjoy it didn't live as long
Which reminds me... I'm too depressed to have energy to eat, survival is a struggle.
Somebody please shoot me lol
My two takes on this:
I can and do subsist on a basic and bland diet if necessary. Food is a way to preserve my existence, so I have to eat. And when hungry I will eat anything for the sole sake of keep myself functioning. Some exceptions do apply.
That is why sugary food and more simply fruits and berries appeal so much to us: it's sweet, it tastes good, it's nice.
We actively seek enjoyement in eating. When this no longer happens, worry yourself. Even old people enjoy eating.
It is weird when you eat food you hate just because it's all that is available and you're hungry AF. I don't have to imagine this; it's happened to me IRL.
Whenever some fundie says something about sexual education, replace it with food in the argument.
Nutritional education should be a private matter between a parent and child.
Teaching about food in school encourages kids to eat more food.
We don't make this sort of argument about literally any other subject. The very fact that they make these arguments shows they are putting sex in a special place, and will be completely incompetent at actually talking to their kids about sex.
I feel like the point of evolution is to stop this sort of thing from happening tho.
Evolution is about making babies before you die, and those babies grow up and make babies before they die.
“Purpose” is largely irrelevant, unfortunately.
