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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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There is, you have two sets of numbers for each hour marking like this:
or like this:
This requires no change to the time mechanism, so you can pretty easily modify the face of any standard analog clock to be like this.
That first one having "24" is making my eye twitch.
Having a 0'o'clock is something that delights me to no end. I'm from the US but moved a bit ago and I get unreasonably excited to see my clocks showing all 0s
Not much of an improvement over the standard design. I already know that the clockhand pointing to 1 means that it's either 1 am or 13 o'clock/1 pm, but it still doesn't tell me unambiguously which one it is.
Well yeah, functionally it is the standard design. In terms of making a readable clock, this is probably the most practical. Anything more would require some major changes to the mechanism.