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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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[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My bad, I forgot there were two episodes on this, I think maybe you only saw the first one or parts of it. There was a huge wooden structure with hundreds of mirrors arranged in a concave shape that almost perfectly aligned all mirrors' reflections into one spot and absolutely nothing happened. Even with perfect mirrors and modern construction tools and techniques we couldn't recreate it.

[–] Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Our death ray doesn't seem to be working right. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

Jamie Hyneman

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

It is one of my favorite quotes from the entire series. Never before has a man painted a picture of himself as vivid as Jamie did when he delivered this line.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, that could be. Probably due to responses to their first one where they had a bunch of college students holding little mirrors and trying to aim them, and I've never watched Mythbusters regularly.