this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
591 points (88.8% liked)
Showerthoughts
39066 readers
543 users here now
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
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- 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
- 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.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
So after flushing do you open it again to check or how does this work?
Yes of course
Yes. I'm not yet that feeble that the lid is too heavy to lift again.
If you need to open your toilet lid to check anything, you've got other problems that need solving beyond lid up or down.
So ... you never need to use the toilet brush? Or you just leave that to the next person that opens the lid?
I mean, I can see if I need the brush before I've flushed. Frankly, if I've taken a dump worthy of a brush, I can probably tell before I even stand up. Also, I clean the toilets in my household, so actually no I don't leave it for the next person.
Indeed, the poop knife should be used post extraction and prior to clean up.
Stop filling, stop filling, STOP FILLING, STOP FILLING, gluck, oof.