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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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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
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I'm not sure I'm understanding the principle, here. So presumably the shower is off, there's no moving water, and somehow the shower head is acting as a kind of resonating instrument..?
On another note, I've found that talking in to a spinning fan is fun, as it produces a sort of "Cylon Warrior" effect.
It is on ("max pressure", although "max" depends, don't get your face blasted off). Same shower head as on the current community banner, actually. Water particles bounce around and make stuff vibrate, while sound is just vibration. How it vibrates depends on shape of what it hits. Change mouth shape, different sound. Can't do some things like the French rolling R since that's not a mouth sound, however.
I guess I'll have to try it to find out. Seems like I'd almost start choking on the water trying to do that, but maybe it doesn't work that way.
The water hits the outside of your cheek if I'm understanding correctly
It won't choke you, same reason people and other animals can open their mouth underwater without drowning.
Funny how one can get competent in another language (I'm assuming OP is a native German-speaker communicating in English), and it can actually make communication *more* difficult at a certain stage of the learning process.
I am not German, although I would consider that as compliment. I was just looking for an instance that
It just so happened that this one in Germany meets all 3 requirements. It not being in the US is a bonus. I was on lemmy.today previously.
Just to clarify, English isn't my native language either, but I am so online that I speak it better than my native and have to machine translate some terms back.
Ohhhh... hey, OP! 😅
I hope I didn't offend you with my comment. (oof, I guess I didn't, hopefully?)
It's just that I couldn't understand very well the logistics you described in terms of how to aim the shower nozzle towards one's mouth. As in-- from the front or from the side? Or in some other way...
Your English is certainly good IMO, but at a certain point, it's also common for a learned language to not be "up to scratch" in terms of certain precise communications. Again, I intend no insult or critique whatsoever.
For example, I can understand castellano & français, but I'm a complete mess trying to write or orate that way. If one of those is your native language, I'd be interested in hearing you describe the shower-head technique in your own language.
I hope this stock picture explains it enough
Oohhhhhh.....!!
(and btw, try talking in to a spinning fan sometime; it's fun!)