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Showerthoughts

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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:

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[–] waitaminute@midwest.social 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Disagree. She needs to behave herself. He needs to behave himself. I want to behave myself. They need to behave themselves. We need to behave ourselves. It needs to behave itself.

So yeah. Can be done.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 12 points 20 hours ago

Those are all examples of the subject behaving themselves, not some else

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 7 points 19 hours ago

Actors aren't real they're a deep state psyop

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

"If you don't behave, I'll make you behave!" - My mom

Also the phrase "Behave your child."

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

I have never heard that phrase

[–] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 21 hours ago

Behave yourself, or I'll come over there and behave you the hard way.

[–] tychosmoose@piefed.social 4 points 21 hours ago

Per Etymonlone: In early modern English it also could be transitive, "to govern, manage, conduct."

Comport seems similar in both meaning and reflexivity.

[–] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 3 points 20 hours ago

I made sure he was well behaved

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 22 hours ago

I can also behave _my_self

[–] Sidhean@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

This has "I'll shit your pants" energy

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

In spanish it could be translated as "comportarse"

Yo me comporto Tú te comportas Ella se comporta Nosotros nos comportamos Vosotros os comportáis Ellos se comportan.

I think they are called reflexive verbs. Because they have to be conjugated with reflexive pronouns.

If not it would be.

Yo comporto Tu comportas Ella comporta ...

Which sounds weird as hell. So I suppose you are right also in Spanish.

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

I'd argue tranqilizing someone is a form of "behaving" another person