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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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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[–] Sarcasmo@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So how's the job going?

I can't complain.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

it could be worse.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dude, this is more of an !asklemmy@lemmy.world thing. Now a shower thought.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

I think it fits because it isn't an actual question meant to be answered.

[–] Zomg@piefed.world 1 points 14 hours ago

It's not really a serious question and one of those ponderous thoughts you only care about for ~10 seconds

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Probably bitch about it.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I used to be a window cleaner, and I'd get home and my hands were "dirty" with soap. Always felt weird trying to clean my hands. Can't use soap that'll make it worse!

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

use the coldest water you can stand to rinse soap more effectively

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I would put on any Tenchi Muyo title that is not named Tenchi Universe. No force in the verse could shut my yapper after that. Ugh.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago

Probably go on lemmy and complain abo... OH MY GOD, NO

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would get so sick of complaining I’d probably start giving good advice and proactively trying to fix shit, eventually driving myself out of business. Then I’d complain about how it’s the government’s fault.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Move to pro bono I suppose

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 14 hours ago

Complain about it

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Make it political.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Start furiously punching EVERYBODY